The authors made a 3-year retrospective study of cases of tubo-ovarian abscess surgically treated in KK Women's and Children's Hospital. In the period studied (1998 through 2000), there were 36 such cases. A total of 11 patients underwent laparoscopic treatment while 25 patients underwent laparotomy. The study demonstrates the differences in the patient profile and the short term morbidity in e...

3. Given BW. Latent Fingerprints on Cartridges and Expended Cartridge Casings. Journal of Forensic Sciences 1976;21:587-594. Over the five year time period spanning from 1998 – 2002 there was an approximate 30% increase in firearm associated crime in the UK (as reported by the Metropolitan Police). The Home Office reported that gun crime had increased from a reported 4,903 offences in 1997/8 to...

The term “New Economy’’ refers to a golden, or at least gilded, age in the late 1990s that was driven by optimism about the financial prospects for information technology (IT). There were three back-toback investment shocks during this period: telecommunications deregulation in 1996, the “year 2K’’ problem in 1998-1999, and the “dot.com’’ boom in 1999-2000. These events stimulated significant i...

This paper quantifies the effects of shocks in political relations on merchandise goods exports to China for the’Quad’ countries, namely Australia, India, Japan and USA, between 1998 2018. Using a vector auto-regression approach, our estimates suggest that deteriorating only have short- long-run India's aggregate export growth over this period; there are none. A time-disaggregated analysis 5-ye...

Until early 1998 the presence of Aedes albopictus had never been detected in Argentina. During April of the same year, few individuals of this species were recorded in 33 breeding sites found in 25 out of 161 inspected houses in the city of Eldorado, Province of Misiones. The homogeneous spatial distribution of the proliferation foci suggests the existence of a generalized infestation in this l...

The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) population in the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria over a 5-year period (1998 to 2002) was marked by shifts in the circulation of pandemic clones. Here, we investigated the emergence of high-level mupirocin resistance (Hi-Mup(r)). In addition to clonal spread, transfer of ileS2-carrying plasmids played a significant role ...

Introduction Dengue is endemic in Singapore, with epidemics of increasing magnitude occurring on a six-year cycle in 1986/7, 1992, 1998, 2004/5, 2007 and 2013. The incidence per 100,000 population ranged from 87.2 to 105.6 in 2009-20121, and surged to 410.6 in 2013. The mean weekly number of dengue cases over a five-year period provides an indication of the baseline level. We illustrate an adju...

A three (3) year prospective macroscopic autopsy study of cardiomegaly, heart size ≥400grams, was conducted at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Mortuary between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2000. Cardiomegaly constituted 12.2% of the autopsy series over the 3-year period. The causes of cardiomegaly were essential hypertension in 55% of cases and hypertension of renal origin in 23.4% of cases. C...