Mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. Vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for Japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. There are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and West Nile virus infection. In this articl...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the study were to study the seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among health college students (HS) and health care workers (HCWs) in the Najran Region of south-western Saudi Arabia and to study the students' knowledge of occupational exposure to blood-borne viral infections. METHODS A cross-sectional study of a represen...

conclusions upon our results, tattooed people even with a small size of tattoo on the body are more at risk for hcv, hbv, and hiv infection. results among the 63 patients with tattoos (21% female, 79% male, age range:16 to 79-years-old), four patients (6.3%) tested positive for hbsag and pcr-hbv, seven patients (11%) tested positive for hcv, and five (7.9%) tested positive for hiv. the last gro...

Background: Infectious diseases are major public health problems, among which blood-borne ones are the most important infections. Patients who undergo orthopedic surgery are at higher risk of transmitting infectious diseases from and to others, due to repeated blood examinations and injection, drains secretion and receiving blood products. Accordingly, in this study we determined prevalence of ...

mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

1 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, University of Cagliari, Policlinico Monserrato, S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy 2 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Room Ee 1714a’s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 UMR190, Emergence des Pathologies Virales Aix-Marseille Universite, Institut de Reche...