Background Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) is the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. Since January 2009, a Sentinel Surveillance System for Severe Acute Respiratory Infections has been established based in a Northern Province of Vietnam (Hai Duong province). The purpose of this program is to describe the epidemiology and identify the viral etiol...

We evaluated the statistical power of single-indicator latent growth curve models (LGCMs) to detect correlated change between two variables (covariance of slopes) as a function of sample size, number of longitudinal measurement occasions, and reliability (measurement error variance). Power approximations following the method of Satorra and Saris (1985) were used to evaluate the power to detect ...

The attributable fraction (AF) of influenza virus detection to illness has not been described for patients in different age groups or with different HIV infection statuses. We compared the age group-specific prevalence of influenza virus infection among patients with influenza-like illness (ILI) or severe acute or chronic respiratory illness (SARI and SCRI, respectively) with that among control...

abstract [1]   background and objective: the recent studies showed that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and neurological soft signs in aggressive persons and murderers are more than general populations. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of prisoners’ neurological soft signs (nss) and its association with crime subgroups in rudsar prison. methods: in a cross sectional ...

BACKGROUND Considering the controversial results of previous reports on awareness of bill of patients' rights in different regions, as well as the fact that no report is available on the awareness of patients of their rights in teaching hospitals of Sari, we conducted the present study. MATERIALS & METHODS This is a cross-sectional Study conducted in teaching hospitals of Sari in 2011. The st...

In their work on spreading models in Banach spaces, Dilworth, Odell, and Sari [4] introduced the notion of a Suslin lower semi-lattice, a seemingly slight weakening of the notion of a Suslin tree. They posed several problems of a set theoretic nature regarding their notion. In this paper, we make a systematic study of the notion of Suslin lower semi-lattice, answering some of the questions rais...

BACKGROUND Despite widely available data about childhood asthma, there are limited data about the prevalence of asthma among young adults in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms among medical students in the city of Sari in Northern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms was studied using a standa...

BACKGROUND To assess the epidemiology and seasonality of influenza in Uganda, we established a sentinel surveillance system for influenza in 5 hospitals and 5 outpatient clinics in 4 geographically distinct regions, using standard case definitions for influenzalike illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI). METHODS Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal specimens were collected from...

Background: The SARI (Stigma Assessment and Reduction of Impact) project was designed to measure and then reduce the burden of the stigma of leprosy. Since there is no valid and reliable Persian version of this tool in Iran, this research aimed to translate this tool and study its psychometry. Methods and materials: After determining the face and content validity, construct validity was determi...

Background In recent years, the situation of dangerous infectious disease has developed more complex. Some emerging infectious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), avian influenza tend to globalization. In Central Vietnam, a lot of infectious diseases circulating every year caused serious consequences such as SARI, VE, DF/DHF, etc. For SARI, except influenza virus which ha...