Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Thousands of workers are employed in textile industries under different job categories including dyeing, printing, finishing, cutting, weaving and spinning. The textile industry workers are exposed to a number of chemicals including dyes, solvents, optical brighteners, finishing agents and numerous types of natural and synthetic fibre dusts which affect their health. In this paper an attempt ha...

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

a condensed, concise, yet clear and complete manner. The matter in the book in other hands might well have expanded into several volumes, for this relief the reader should be thankful, and indeed in spite of compression the searcher for information will seldom or never be disappointed. ' The book does not purport to be a laboratory manual, and all but the necessary details of such work are righ...

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

AIDS is the final stage of the disease caused by HIV. It attacks the defense cells of the body, leaving the body vulnerable to all kinds of diseases. Therapeutic agents are divided according to their mechanism of action, nucleoside or nucleotide transcriptase inhibitor, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, fusion inhibitor, entry inhibitor and integrase inhibito...

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Free-living amoebae of the genus Naegleria have been recognized as etiologic agents of amoebic encephalitis, keratitis, otitis, lung lesions and other skin infections mainly in immuno-compromised individuals. Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of primary amoebic meningo-encephalitis (PAM), a rapidly fatal disease of the central nervous system. The disease is generally acquired while swimm...

Preventive Medicine and Public Health