نتایج جستجو برای: tropical countries

تعداد نتایج: 319594  

2010
Francesca F. Norman Ana Pérez de Ayala José-Antonio Pérez-Molina Begoña Monge-Maillo Pilar Zamarrón Rogelio López-Vélez

BACKGROUND The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to the growth in international travel and immigration, NTDs may be diagnosed in countries of the western world, but there has been no specific focus in the literature on imported NTDs. METHODS Retrospective study of a cohort of immigrants and travelers diagnosed with one of the 13 core N...

2018
Vincenza Gianfredi Nicola Luigi Bragazzi Daniele Nucci Mariano Martini Roberto Rosselli Liliana Minelli Massimo Moretti

Aim According to the World Health Organization (WHO), communicable tropical and sub-tropical diseases occur solely, or mainly in the tropics, thriving in hot, and humid conditions. Some of these disorders termed as neglected tropical diseases are particularly overlooked. Communicable tropical/sub-tropical diseases represent a diverse group of communicable disorders occurring in 149 countries, f...

2017
Viroj Wiwanitkit

1. Shrivastava SR, Shrivastava PS, Ramasamy J. 2015 outbreak of Zika virus disease declared as Public Health Emergency of International Concern: Justification, consequences, and the public health perspective. J Res Med Sci 2016 29;21:55. 2. Armstrong N, Hou W, Tang Q. Biological and historical overview of Zika virus. World J Virol 2017;6:1‐8. 3. Wiwanitkit S, Wiwanitkit V. Afebrile, asymptomati...

Journal: :PLoS Medicine 2004
Stephen M Maurer Arti Rai Andrej Sali

Tropical diseases affect more than 500 million people, one tenth of the world’s population.1 Malaria, for example, kills more than one million people each year.2 And yet, only about one percent of new drugs treat tropical diseases.3 For diseases prevalent in rich countries, patent incentives and commercial pharmaceutical houses have created health innovation systems that are the envy of the wor...

Journal: :Rural and remote health 2009
K Kibadi

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease, commonly called Buruli ulcer (BU), is a neglected and emergent tropical disease. Buruli ulcer is endemic in the rural wetlands of the tropical countries/regions of Africa, The Americas, Asia, and Australia but is uncommon in non-African countries. Infection with M. ulcerans often leads to extensive destruction of skin and soft tissue with the formation of large u...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1993
G Kuno

Many research workers, to save time, rely entirely on either on-line or off-line databases offered by an increasing number of information services. The characteristics of eight databases, including five on-line services, were analysed in the present study concerning the retrieval of information on dengue, the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of humans. Differences in the rate of retr...

Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Aziz Kassani, Gholamreza Sharifirad, Hedayat Abbastabar, Mohammad Ebrahimipour, Mohsen Shaterian, Rostam Menatid,

Background & Aims of the Study: Parasitic infections are common in many countries, especially in developing countries and tropical areas. People who deal with foods can be a threat to health of communities. This meta-analysis study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of parasitic infections, such as Ascaris lumbricoides, Entamoeba coli, Entamoeba histolytica, and Giardia...

Journal: :The Journal of infectious diseases 1998
B K Mandal P P Mukherjee C Murphy R Mukherjee T Naik

In the industrialized countries of the West, varicella is largely a childhood disease, whereas reports from tropical countries indicate a significant incidence of varicella among adults. High ambient temperature, epidemiologic interference from other viruses, and race have been blamed. We tested our hypothesis that less exposure to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) during childhood in rural areas ac...

2013
Sanne-Meike Belderok Guus F. Rimmelzwaan Anneke van den Hoek Gerard J.B. Sonder

To assess the attack and incidence rates for influenza virus infections, during October 2006-October 2007 we prospectively studied 1,190 adult short-term travelers from the Netherlands to tropical and subtropical countries. Participants donated blood samples before and after travel and kept a travel diary. The samples were serologically tested for the epidemic strains during the study period. T...

Journal: :Animal reproduction science 2000
O B Smith O O Akinbamijo

Reproductive well-being and performance of farm animals is largely dependent on their nutritional status, which is often less than optimum in developing tropical countries. More often than not, they are malnourished, particularly with regards to micronutrients. Evidence was presented to show that because these micronutrients are involved in such functions as intracellular detoxification of free...

نمودار تعداد نتایج جستجو در هر سال

با کلیک روی نمودار نتایج را به سال انتشار فیلتر کنید