The seroprevalences of Chlamydia trachomatis and rubella IgG antibodies were measured in women with full-term deliveries (n = 198) and with abortion (n = 79) in a hospital in Baghdad city, Iraq. Positive rubella antibody titres were found in 42.9% of mothers with full-term deliveries and 34.2% with abortion. C. trachomatis infection was found in 13.6% of mothers with full-term deliveries and 6....

Abstract The performance assessment of a 5 kWp On-Grid Mon-crystalline silicon photovoltaic( PV) solar system is the subject present paper. This PV located in Baghdad city, Al-Mansour company. observed during 2018. current system’s yearly daily averages for array yield final yield, and reference are 4.65 kWh/kWp, 4.5 5.9 respectively. yield’s energy 1613.8 kWh/kWp. year’s electrical output from...

The current study aimed at monitoring, exploring and identifying pollution levels in the Tigris River by studying seasonal variations of physical chemical characteristics river water Baghdad. Monthly samples were collected from four locations along Baghdad for 12 months period. studied included surface temperature, pH, turbidity, salinity, electrical conductivity, total suspended solids, dissol...

Background: The quality of drinking water is directly related to community health. Therefore, improving the reflects positively on health situation in general. studies that deal with city Baghdad terms chemical or microbial content are very scanty.
 Objective: current review highlights most important and research articles concern water, both bottled tap biological contamination chemophysic...

Cancer chemotherapy has been practised from time immemorial and Rhazes, a Baghdad surgeon, introduced chemistry into “physic” in the ninth century A.D. In 1894 W. B. Coley used the toxins of streptococcus pyogenes and bacillus prodigiosus to treat twelve patients with inoperable bone sarcoma, and disappearance of the tumour occurred in three cases. Johnston (1962), in a carefully controlled tri...

A 33-year-old male patient presented to clinic with a tender, discharging wound at mons pubis area. Three months before, he was a victim in a blast injury and received lifesaving emergency laparotomy at a field hospital in Baghdad, where shrapnel was removed from the abdomen and he was subsequently discharged. We present this unusual case of chronic wound from an undiscovered injury that was no...

Although Baghdad was only 50 years old in the 9th century, it was at the peak of its political power, a powerhouse of learning and the leading medical centre of the time. It was there that many important Greek works were translated into Arabic, including Dioscorides's Materia medica, which formed the basis for Arabic pharmacology. While Islamic physicians revered Greek medicine and seldom quest...

Iraqi cities, particularly the capital Baghdad, have great historical and cultural value, embodied in their centers’ distinctive architectural urban character. Baghdad experienced multiple wars political conflicts that led to severe neglect, combined with an absence of clear strategies rehabilitate its city center. These circumstances accelerated decay deterioration buildings fabric, even...

Background: Overbite value is important in treatment of various malocclusions; the aim of this study was to investigate the relation between the overbite and facial, maxillary and mandibular dimensions. Materials and methods: The sample of this study included 80 pre-treatment digital true lateral cephalometric radiographs of Iraqi subjects aged 18-25 years, collected from the files of the subje...