1Department of Paediatrics; 2Department of Internal Medicine; 3Department of Infection Prevention and Control, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Correspondence to Z.A. Memish: [email protected]). 4Department of Microbiology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 5Department of Microbiology, Qatif Central Hospital, Qatif, Saudi Arabia. ...

CONTEXT Respiratory physiotherapy plays a key role in the management and treatment of patients with respiratory diseases worldwide, yet this specialty is not well established in Saudi Arabia. AIMS To profile the attitudes among physicians and nurses toward physiotherapists working in respiratory care settings in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of living in Saudi Arabia on expatriate employees and their families' behavioural cardiovascular risk factors (BCVRFs), and to examine the association between changes in BCVRFs and metabolic syndrome (MetS). A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1437 individuals, aged ≥ 18 years, from King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We used the Worl...

OBJECTIVE The risk of transmitting hepatitis B virus from donors who are positive for hepatitis B core antibody but negative for hepatitis B surface antigen has been a major concern in liver transplantation. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the overall prevalence of hepatitis B core antibody among the general population was reported to be very high indeed. The purpose of this study is to establis...

In December, 2015, Saudi Arabia reported a US$98 billion budget deficit (about 15% of gross domestic product [GDP]) in 2015 with no improvement projected for 2016. Saudi Arabia has been resilient during oil price fluctuations in the past, so the new government budget came as a surprise. The new spending plan reflects several measures to curb subsidies, raise revenue, and improve healthy lifesty...

From the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Address correspondence to: Dr. Mohammed Y. Hasosah, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs, PO Box 8202, Jeddah 21482, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel/Fax. +966 (2) 624000...

Here we report the first full-length genome sequence of dengue virus serotype 3 (DENV-3) from a strain isolated from a patient in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2014. The genome consists of 10 635 bp and shows close similarity to circulating genotype III isolates from Singapore, suggesting possible importation, most probably during religious pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia.

86 Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Architecture in Cloud Data Management; Mohammed A. AlZain, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia Alice S. Li, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Ben Soh, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Mehedi Masud, College of Computers and Informa...

This paper contributes to the issue of mGovernment implementations by exploring the government’s policy on ICT and e-Government in Saudi Arabia, and sheds light on the role of mGovernment applications for enhancing information and service delivery to citizens. This also describes the results of a survey on the available mGovernment applications, and provides an overall evaluation of them in Sau...

Safaa M. EL-AGEERY*, Howayda N. Mahran 1 Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt; Medical Laboratories Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Medical Laboratories Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia; Medico-legal Department, Ministr...