this is an account of the whole work of the institut pasteur de i'iran on rabies: insufficient efficacy of standard method of treatment in the cases of severe bites, particularly of head bites done by rabid wolves: epidemiological and statistical evidences. efficacy of the treatment with the new concentrated antirabies sera, combined with the standard treatment: epidemiological evidences. defin...

ACCURACY and PRECISION. Accuracy is the extent to which a measurement reflects the true value. It is the tendency of test measurement to center around the true value. "Precise" means sharply defined or measured. Data can be very precise, but inaccurate. It would be precise but inaccurate to say that a meter equals 29.3748 inches. It would actually be more accurate to say that a meter equals a l...

The use of information on malaria vector behaviour in vector control is discussed in relation to the area of Southeast Asia comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The major vectors in the region are Anopheles dirus, An. minimus, An. maculatus and An. sundaicus, of which An. dirus is the most important. Options for vector control and the biological features of mosquitoes, whic...

UNLABELLED India has a large geriatric population of 77 millions, comprising 7.7% of its total population. One of the major handicaps in the elderly is loss of teeth, affecting their mastication, dietary intake and nutritional status. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The present study was planned to assess the level of edentulousness, cause of edentulousness, denture wearing and denture needs of the middl...

epidemiological indices of 39 subjects with autoimmune hepatitis and their response to treatment in iran

Background Lack of available epidemiological studies and circulation of unverified and unsubstantiated scientific information contributed to the uncertainty regarding the onset, causes and epidemiological developments in Romania. This paper aims to formulate epidemiological considerations on evolution of HIV infection based on a retrospective and prospective epidemiological analysis of 2 groups...

Research on mapping diabetes-susceptibility genes is dependent on several factors, including the existence of a single major gene for susceptibility, genetic homogeneity, and the existence of appropriate clinical material. The power to detect susceptibility genes is dependent on the risks in relatives and the distance of genetic markers from the susceptibility genes. For insulin-dependent diabe...

Epidemiological studies often produce false positive results due to use of statistical approaches that either ignore or distort time. The three time-related issues of focus in this discussion are: (1) cross-sectional vs. cohort studies, (2) statistical significance vs. public health significance, and (3), how risk factors "work together" to impact public health significance. The issue of time s...