BACKGROUND The Ibadan Knee/Hip Osteoarthritis Outcome Measure (IKHOAM) was developed for measuring end results of care in patients with knee or hip OA in Nigeria. The purpose of this study was to validate a Hausa translation of IKHOAM in order to promote its use among the Hausa populations of Nigeria and other West African countries. METHODS Sixty-seven patients with knee OA, literate in Haus...

The Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West project investigates changing levels of socio-economic segregation in 13 major European cities: Amsterdam, Budapest, Vienna, Stockholm, Oslo, London, Vilnius, Tallinn, Prague, Madrid, Milan, Athens and Riga. The two main conclusions of this major study are that the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities ...

Plant biomass allocation between below- and above-ground parts can actively adapt to the ambient growth conditions and is a key parameter for estimating terrestrial ecosystem carbon (C) stocks. To investigate how climatic variations affect patterns of plant biomass allocation, we sampled 548 plants belonging to four dominant genera (Stipa spp., Cleistogenes spp., Agropyron spp., and Leymus spp....

This paper describes the development of settlements and roads in Southeastern Zagreb Foothills from 13th to 16th century. The are a microregion bordered by river Sava south, west, Medvednica north, Zelina east. In High Late Middle Ages early modern period, this was located eastern parts County did not have any specific name, unlike today, when it is colloquially known as Sesvete Foothills, or A...

pasteurellosis of cattle and buffalo named as hemorrhagic septicemia (hs) is an acute and fatal disease causes by pasteurella multocida serotypes b2 and e2 in different countries. hs is occurred in all parts of the world except australia. economic importance of disease in asia is more than africa. bovine pasteurellosis is endemic in northern areas (gilan and mazandaran), west and east azarbayja...

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A case of West Nile virus (WNV) infection was reported in the Algarve region, Portugal, in the first week of September 2015. WNV is known to circulate in Portugal, with occasional reports in horses and birds (2004 to 2011) and very sporadically human cases (in 2004 and in 2010). Here we present the clinical and laboratory aspects related to the first human case of West Nile neuroinvasive diseas...

Entomological, veterinary, and human surveillance systems for West Nile virus (WNV) infection have been implemented in Italy since the first detection of the virus in 1998. These surveillance activities documented a progressive increase of WNV activity and spread in different regions and the emergence of new WNV lineages and strains. Italy is a paradigmatic example of the complex epidemiology o...