OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of thrombocytopenia as a diagnostic marker for malaria. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Medicine, 1 Mountain Medical Battalion (Bagh, Azad Kashmir) from July to September 2013. METHODOLOGY Adult patients presenting with a short history of fever without any localizing symptoms or signs were included. Exclusio...

“Not in My Back Yard”; people shout this when they feel something deleterious and nonlocal will be sprung into existence in their territory by top-down powers. Some believe that NIMBY syndrome provokes parochialism, but parochialism itself can bring many beneficial consequences. Danesh Pedestrian and Bicycle Path- a recent project established on the south rim of Bagh-e-Sib (a vast hist...

IntroLinezolid, an oxazolidinone antibiotic, was introduced early in 2000 as a new therapeutic option against gram positive cocci including vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE). People are using linezolid alternative VRE due to which resistance is increasing rapidly leading failure of VRE. So the aims and objectives present study determine prevalence linezolid-resistant (LRVRE) clinical isola...

ner, " the enormous extent to which the skull may be fractured without an immediately fatal issue." It happened, in September last, at a place called Kala-Bagh, on the Murree and Abbot-, tabad road, where I was then stationed, and I regret I am unable to supply fuller details respecting the conditions of the puise, respirations, and temperature, as the book containing these is not now in xnv po...