esophageal lymphoma is a rare condition, accounting for less than 1% of all gastrointestinal lymphomas. primary extra nodal esophageal lymphoma constitutes less than 0.2% cases of the total esophageal lymphomas. the definition of primary gi lymphoma has differed among authors. the etiology of the disease is unknown, with the role of epstein-barr virus being controversial. the common symptoms of...

BACKGROUND In Kinshasa, an average of less than 50 new cases of Human African Trypanosomiasis was notified, per year, between 1969 and 1995. The situation of endemic sleeping sickness suddenly worsened in 1996 with 254 new cases identified thanks to passive detection. No study dealing with conceptions relative to sleeping sickness was ever listed to date. The objective of this study was to dete...

BACKGROUNDS Malaria is one of the major public health problems in Southeast Asia including Nepal having relatively high burden of malaria. Jhapa and Morang districts are malaria endemic plain area of South-eastern part of Nepal. OBJECTIVES The evaluate the recent epidemiology of malaria situation in Jhapa and Morang districts, which are the districts in eastern Nepal with high transmission of...

Ageing of the population is the most important demographic change facing many countries around the world. The speed of demographic ageing in Latin American and the Caribbean, however, will be unprecedented in comparison with Western European and North American countries. This demographic change will generate populations with large numbers of elderly who at some time in their lives have been exp...

Iodine is an essential trace element whose only confirmed function concerns the formation of thyroid hormones. Our knowledge of the disorders caused by deficiencies in the dietary supply of many trace elements has markedly increased only during the last decade. Iodine is one exception to this rule. The role played by iodine deficiency in the etiology of disorders of the thyroid gland and in par...

Penicillium marneffei is a thermally dimorphic fungus that causes severe human immunodeficiency virus-related opportunistic infection in endemic areas of Southeast Asia and has rarely been reported in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. We report here the case of an Australian renal transplant patient who presented with disseminated P. marneffei infection shortly after a 10-day holiday to ...

n line with its Vision 2020 initiative, the World Health Organization adopted a resolution to eliminate blinding trachoma by 2020. To achieve this goal, WHO recommends the SAFE strategy (Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness and Environmental improvement) for countries implementing tra-choma control programs. Australia is the only developed country of the 57 trachoma endemic countries listed...

Sheep and goat pox, peste des petits ruminants and Rift Valley fever are important diseases of small ruminant livestock. Sheep and goat pox, along with peste des petits ruminants, are endemic throughout most of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Whereas Rift Valley fever is endemic in Africa, outbreaks in the Middle East have been reported over the past decade, including the Arabian Peninsula. S...