Paediatric Salmonellosis—Differences between Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions of Queensland, Australia

Infective Causes of Stroke in Tropical Regions

Vascular diseases of the brain are the second reason of the death and the first cause of morbidity and disability worldwide. In tropical areas stroke has some particular features related to the nature of torrid zones. There are some special causes of the stroke, mainly infectious, although some of them are non-infectious. The most important etiologies are malaria, tuberculosis, cysticercosis, s...

Identification of carbohydrate degrading bacteria in sub-tropical regions.

Several bacteria from the islands of Puerto Rico, Vieques and Trinidad were isolated for their carbohydrate degrading activities. These terrestrial and marine bacterium were collected from pineapple agricultural lands, tropical rain forests, coastlands and mangrove swamps. Organisms were screened for activity using chromogenic substrates (AZCL Megazyme International Ltd., Ireland). The media co...

Diversity of gyrodactylids from some marine fishes in tropical and subtropical Queensland, Australia.

The Gyrodactylidae is a diverse family of predominantly viviparous monogeneans (for familial status of oviparous genera see Boeger W.A, Kritsky D.C, Belmont-Jégu E. 1994: J. Helminthol. Soc. Wash. 61: 34-44) found on a wide variety of fish taxa globally. Gyrodactylids are thought to be more common in high latitude environments and conversely less common in low latitude environments such as the ...

Influenza in Tropical Regions

April 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 4 | e89 The global burden of infl uenza on morbidity and mortality is considerable, with an estimated 1 million annual deaths worldwide [1]. In temperate regions, there are clear seasonal variations in the occurrence of infl uenza, with a marked peak in cold winter months [2]. In contrast, seasonality is less defi ned in tropical regions—here, there is high backgro...

Memoranda on Medical Diseases in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Areas