Xerophthalmia—a potential epidemic on our doorstep?

Penicillium marneffei : the pathogen at our doorstep.

Streptococcus pneumoniae, Brooklyn, New York: Fluoroquinolone Resistance at our Doorstep

To examine the resistance rates and epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Brooklyn, New York, isolates were collected during two boroughwide surveillance periods in 1997 and 1999. Of 138 isolates, 67% were susceptible to penicillin and 34% to ciprofloxacin. Susceptibility rates to ciprofloxacin decreased dramatically from 1997 to 1999 (47% to 16%, p=0.0003). Five isolates (3.6%) were resi...

On Australia's doorstep: gold, rape, and injustice.

The Tropics on Our Doorstep *A paper given by invitation to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on 10th February, 1954.

tfisp0rt *nca, to spend some time bathing in delectable limpid freshwater pools, to ,:?f"K.elfon a sandy beach, to rest under shady trees, to enjoy green salads and many otuS at. a Picnic lunch and to return home the same night incubating, among lapsin? f6r ln^ections, the malarias, the dysenteries, typhoid and typhus fevers, reS^ePin C-Ver' bookworm disease, bilharzial infections of the bladde...

The asthma epidemic and our artificial habitats

BACKGROUND The recent increase in childhood asthma has been a puzzling one. Recent views focus on the role of infection in the education of the immune system of young children. However, this so called hygiene hypothesis fails to answer some important questions about the current trends in asthma or to account for environmental influences that bear little relation to infection. DISCUSSION The m...