Background: The best approach to reduce the burden of stroke remains prevention. The large majority of epidemiological data available focus only on western countries. A better knowledge of stroke patients characteristics in Middle East and African communities will help to promote tailored campaigns by health care authorities and medical societies. Objectives: to determine the characteristics of...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to identify and prioritize the risky behaviors and explore the newly emerging pi related to Egyptian habits that may lead to HCV transmission. METHODS From January 2011 until January 2012, a case control study matched on socio demographic factors was conducted comparing 540 hepatitis C patients and their contacts who were HCV serologically negative (102 su...

Background Cholestatic jaundice in infancy is always pathologic and mainly caused by biliary atresia (BA), and neonatal hepatitis (NH). The early discrimination of both conditions is critical for the outcome of BA. We aimed to assess different non-invasive diagnostic tools in differentiating BA from NH. Materials and Methods Forty infants (25 boys, 15 girls) with cholestatic jaundice and final...

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by blood flukes (Trematodes) of the genus Schistosoma (S.). It is well documented that schistosomiasis haematobium was endemic in Ancient Egypt. Infection was diagnosed in mummies 3000, 4000 and 5000 years old. Scott was the first to describe the pattern of schistosomiasis infection in Egypt. Schistosomiasis haematobium was highly prevalent (60%) bo...

north of Laos: the occurrence and implications of the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (pfcrt) gene haplotype SVMNT. Trop Med Int Health. 2005;10:1267–70. DOI: 10.1111/j.13653156.2005.01514.x 8. Miller RL, Ikram S, Armelagos GJ, Walker R, Harer WB, Schiff CJ, et al. Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infections in mummies using the rapid manual ParaSight-F test. Trans R ...