This study describes a seroepidemiological survey on Rift Valley fever (RVF) among small ruminants and their close human contacts in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. A total of 500 small ruminants (126 local, 374 imported) were randomly selected from the sacrifice livestock yards of Al-Kaakiah slaughterhouse, in the holy city of Makkah, during the pilgrimage season 1432 H (4-9 November 2011). In addition,...

Objective The study aims to determine the prevalence of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii in Aseer Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods This study evaluated the antibiotic susceptibility of ninety-four (n = 94) clinical isolates of A. baumannii. The isolates were collected from the south region of Saudi Arabia, and notably Aseer Region, during the period from 15 October 2014 to 15 January ...

Department of Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 (D.-H.O., M.D.); Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus Program), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660–701 South Korea (H.H., S.Y.L., D.-J.Y., H.J.B.); Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801 (H.J.B.); and School of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 2...

1 Department of Forensic Medicine and Veterinary Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, 83523 Qena-Egypt 2 Department of Medical Laboratories, Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University, Sıhyyie/Ankara-Türkiye 4 Division of Cerebral Circuitry, N...

Badr Saad T. Alkahtani 1 and Abdon Atangana 2,* 1 Department of Mathematics, Colleges of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 1142, Riyadh 11989, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] 2 Institute for Groundwater Studies, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +27-51-401-3744; Fax...

1Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine, Malabe, Sri Lanka. *2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. 3Hussain Ebrahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi, Pakistan. 4Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi ...

Filariasis, a parasitic infection endemic in parts of India, Myanmar, islands of the South Pacific, West and East Africa and Saudi Arabia can be diagnosed from various types of cytopathological specimens. This case documents the detection of filarial infection from hydrocele fluid cytology in a 30-year-old Myanmar migrant worker in Malaysia.

Ming Song, Zhengrong Liu, Anjan Biswas Department of Mathematics, Shaoxing University Shaoxing 312000, China Department of Mathematics, Yuxi Normal University Yuxi 653100, China [email protected] Department of Mathematics, South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640, China [email protected] Department of Mathematical Sciences, Delaware State University Dover, DE 19901-2277, USA D...

P. MASEMOLA1, A.H. KARA1, A.H. BHRAWY2, A. BISWAS3,4 1School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa 2Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt 3Department of Mathematical Sciences, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901-2277, USA E-mail: [email protected] 4Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaz...

The complete genomes of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) viruses recovered in Libya and Saudi Arabia in 2013 are described here. These viruses belong to an FMD virus lineage (Ind-2001, topotype Middle East-South Asia, serotype O) which is normally endemic in the Indian subcontinent. A contemporary virus sequence from Bhutan is also reported here.