In 1981, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI) set global dental health goals for the year 2000 within the global strategy of health for all. In 1999, a team of experts drew up new goals to be achieved by 2020, which aimed to facilitate specific oral health policy development for each country. These goals are more general and have to be a...

A DSP-based implementation of an instantaneous current control for a three-phase shunt hybrid power filter S. Rahmani a,c,∗,2, Ab. Hamadi a,1, K. Al-Haddad a,b,1, A.I. Alolah d a Canada Research Chair in Energy Conversion and Power Electronics CRC-ECPE, École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame, Montréal, Québec H3C 1K3, Canada b Alfaisal University, College of Engineering, Al Maather, R...

*Corresponding author: Mohamed Gharbi, DVM, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Parasitology, National School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Manouba, 2020 Sidi Thabet, Tunisia. Tel: +216 71 552 200 E-mail: [email protected] Foundation Project: supported by Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Information, Technology and Communication, Tunisia and the Deutsche...

1,001 faecal samples were obtained from 89 sheep (lambs and adult), 184 goats, 190 horses, 178 rabbits, 110 camels, 200 broiler chicken and 50 turkeys housed in farms from different localities in Tunisia. All samples were analysed for Cryptosporidium oocysts by microscopic examination of smears stained by modified Ziehl Neelsen technique. The parasite was detected in ten lambs and adult sheep (...

Background: Toxoplasma gondii, as an important food-borne protozoan parasite, occurs widely in humans and animals including domestic poultry throughout the world. The goal of this survey was to determine prevalence rate of T. gondii in free-ranging chickens sold in Tunis, Tunisia. Methods: In the present study, the prevalence of T. gondii in 40 free-range chickens (Gallus domesticus) marketed ...

Two years after the uprising that forced President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali into exile, Tunisians are slowly coming to grips with the reality of politics in a pluralist system where opposition is real and the outcome of political contestation is not predetermined. The process is slow and somewhat uncertain, and it would be premature to conclude that Tunisian politicians have fully embraced not o...

Epidemiologic investigation of our case-patients that included questioning relatives, patients, and butchers found that eating raw horse meat imported from Canada (patient 1) or Brazil (patient 2) was the most likely source of the parasites. The geographic origin of the horse meat eaten by patient 3 is unknown. Moreover, an atypical T. gondii strain was isolated after mouse inoculation with hor...

We report, for the first time, serologic evidence of Rickettsia felis and R. aeschlimannii infections acquired in Tunisia from 1998 to 2003. We found that most patients with antibodies against both R. conorii and R. typhi had serologic evidence of R. felis infection.

Current WHO methods were employed to estimate the prevalence of toothbrush possession, tea drinking, tobacco habits, fluorosis, dentofacial anomalies, periodontal diseases, dental caries as well as treatment needs in schoolchildren in Tunisia, the smallest country in North Africa. Fluorosis was endemic in some regions. Dentofacial anomalies were more frequent than in the other countries of the ...

The Gafsa mining basin district in Southwestern Tunisia is one of the most important producers of phosphate in the world. The exploitation of this district started at the beginning of the twentieth century a few years after the first discovery of this valuable resource. The over-exploitation of groundwater to wash the phosphate caused water-level decline in the main aquifers and the corollaries...