During 3 years of a monitoring programme, 522 samples of fresh apples, six brands of fruit purées and various types of fruit baby food prepared from these materials were analysed. Each sample was examined for the presence of 86 GC amenable pesticide residues. The reporting limits of the procedure employed for sample analyses were in the range 0.003-0.01 mg kg(-1). Pesticide residues were detect...

The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera Aphididae), is one of the most important sap sucking pests in many cotton-growing areas world-wide. In this study, the efficacies of seven insecticides [organophosphate (Fenitrothion & Pirimiphos-methyl), carbamate (Carbosulfan & Aldicarb), pyrethroid (Lambda-Cyhalothrin & Deltamethrin) and imidaclopride (Confidor)] were determined against four...

The presence of insecticide in the environment, due to extensive use in agriculture is of potential toxicological concern for fish. Histotoxicological studies have been widely used as biomarkes in the evaluation of the health of fish exposed to the pesticides studies. In the present study the hazardous effect of the organophosphate insecticide, Fenitrothion on the histology of the fresh water f...

Larvae of 26 strains of Aedes albopictus were tested for susceptibility to 5 organophosphate insecticides. The recently collected geographic strains included 13 from the USA, 5 from Brazil, 3 from Southeast Asia and 5 from Japan. The greatest amount of variability was seen among U.S. populations, ranging from quite susceptible to potentially resistant. Brazilian samples were generally quite sus...

PURPOSE To investigate and compare the biocompatibility of two types of Ferrara intracorneal ring segment: with and without chondroitin sulfate coating by clinical and histopathological evaluation. METHODS A randomized experimental study was carried out on thirty right-eye corneas from 30 Norfolk albino rabbits allocated into two experimental groups: Group G1 - implanted with Ferrara intracor...

BACKGROUND During the last 20 years the rate of CS has increased in Sweden as it has in many other countries. The proportion of pregnant women suffering from a high BMI has also increased rapidly during the same time period. It would therefore be of interest to study both how and if these two observations are related to each other. The aim was therefore to study trends in mode of caesarean sect...

Purpose This study aims to investigate changes in contrast sensitivity (CS), visual acuity (VA), central retinal thickness (CRT), and vision-related quality of life in subjects with recalcitrant diabetic macular edema switched from long-term ranibizumab treatment to aflibercept. Patients and methods In this prospective, investigator-masked, single-center study, 40 patients with persistent flu...