The prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin sensitiveStaphylococcus aureus (MSSA) carriage among poultry and poultry farmers in Malaysia is largely unknown.In the current investigation, chickens and chicken farmers from 30 chicken farms were screened for MRSAand S. aureus carriage. The genetic characteristics of the isolates were determined through multi...

Issues pertaining to the diagnosis and management of inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) in Malaysia included low awareness of atypical and variable presentations in IEMs leading to delayed diagnosis or treatment, absence of reliable population data on IEMs and involvement of multiple siblings in the same family due to consanguinity. The importance of careful family history taking and genetic cou...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Relationships of Zn Between Centella Asiatica and Geochemical Fractions of the Habitat Topsoils: Implications of Biomonitoring of Zn Chee K. Yap, Hishamuddin Omar, Rosimah Nulit, Ghim H. Ong, Alireza R. Bakhtiari, Ali Karami and Salman A. Al-Shami Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Inti International Univ...

Recently, the use of Christia vespertilionis (L.) Bakh. f. decoction as anti-cancer agent has gained a lot of attention in Malaysia as an alternative medicine to the modern treatment [1]. This plant has been distributed and formulated as tea throughout Malaysia by traditional practitioners. It has gained a huge popularity among Malaysians, not only the cancer patient’s but researchers in Malays...

gender equality, equity and women`s empowerment are the essential factors for integral human development and also key factors for all countries to achieve economic, political and social development. the main goal of this paper is a comparative study on women`s status in malaysia and iran as two developing countries, which are similar from different aspects. the method used in this research is c...

Address for correspondence* Siti Asmaa Mat Jusoh Department of Hematology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. Email: [email protected]

In recent years, Risk Management in respect of Enterprise-Wide Risk Management (EWRM) has become more important and highly critical to major corporations worldwide including Malaysia. In fact, it is interesting to note that when the Government of Malaysia passed the Code of Corporate Governance in the year 2000, most of the Public Limited Companies (PLCs) in Malaysia was struggling to implement...

this paper is a comparative study of legal aspect of islamic securities (sukuk), between iran (as shia fiqh) malaysia (as the first country that issued sukuk based on sonni fiqh) and england (as a chief western country in sukuk). results indicate many similarities between iran and malaysia rules despite specifications with england rules. different in definition of contract, asset valuation, lim...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, including Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out among 262 female undergraduate students in University Putra Malaysia using a validated questionnaire which was developed for this study. RESULTS The mean age of respondents was 22∓2.3 years. Most of them...

*Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. **School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, No. 20 & 22, Jalan PJS 11/5, Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya. Received for publication: December 19, 2007. Reprint request: Shamala Devi Sekaran, M.D., Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Unive...