OBJECTIVES To verify the frequency of oral and facial involvement in diagnosed leprosy patients. STUDY DESIGN This study was performed on 100 leprosy patients (62 male, 38 female, mean ages 51.86±6.1). After explaining the study design, we studied descriptive information including: patient' s sex, age, job, place of birth, familial history of leprosy, types of disease (lepromatous, borderline...

La investigación Evaluación del comportamiento productivo de tres híbridos Café arábigo (Coffea arábiga) en distanciamientos siembra desarrollada la finca Andil, Universidad Estatal Sur Manabí, carrera Agropecuaria, tuvo como objetivos identificar el híbrido mayor producción café y establecer rendimiento oro. metodología permitió utilizar un diseño experimental parcelas divididas, evaluando cer...

Herpes simplex virus infection is almost universal.this virus has two types:HSV1 and HSV2 infect about 500/000 persons annually in the united states,and its prevalence rate has increased during the past decade.Usually HSV1 spreads through kissing or casual contact and HSV2 through sexual intercourses.HSV1 is more frequently associated with oral infection and HSV2 can cause recurrent genital ulc...

The recent report on ‘‘Oral manifestations of dengue viral infection’’ is very interesting. Fernandes et al. noted on ‘‘uncommon oral manifestations’’ in dengue. In fact, dengue is a highly endemic infection in many tropical countries. In tropical Southeast Asia, this infection is very common. I would like to share the experience from Thailand, a Country with extremely high prevalence on dengue...

Existen elevadas concentraciones de mercurio vaporizado más allá lo permisible en zonas del departamento Madre Dios, producto la minería aurífera, se estima que este produce el 70% oro artesanal país, las amparan Ley N° 27651 Formalización y Promoción Pequeña Minería Artesanal su Reglamento Decreto Supremo 013-2002-EM; pero ocasionan problemas ambientales salud mineros artesanales usan para ama...

Reseña de Celsa Carmen García Valdés, ed., Antología la literatura burlesca del Siglo Oro. Entremeses burlas.

The study was carried out in 25 mentally retarded children and compared with equal number of normal children. They were subjected to detailed psychiatric evaluation and dental examination. The dental anomalies were corroborated with cephalometric analysis of lateral cephalograms. It was concluded that all mentally retarded children had some dental abnormality in them in form of dental malocclus...

We report on an unusual case of oro-rhinocerebral disease caused by mucormycosis and aspergillus co-infection in a 54-year-old insulin dependent diabetic patient. Although she was successfully treated with parenteral amphotericin B followed by oral posaconazole, she was left with irreversible blindness of the right eye and multiple cranial nerve palsies.