Canine rabies can be eliminated, as has been demonstrated in North America, western Europe, Japan and many areas in South America. During the last two decades, a significant reduction in human rabies associated with dog rabies has been achieved in Mexico, South America and the Caribbean by the programme for the elimination of canine rabies initiated and coordinated by the Pan American Health Or...

BACKGROUND Depression in pregnancy increases the risk of complications for mother and child. Few studies are done in ethnic minorities. We wanted to identify the prevalence of depression in pregnancy and associations with ethnicity and other risk factors. METHOD Population-based, prospective cohort of 749 pregnant women (59% ethnic minorities) attending primary antenatal care during early pre...

Plasmodium vivax is the geographically most widespread human malaria parasite. To analyze patterns of microsatellite diversity and population structure across countries of different transmission intensity, genotyping data from 11 microsatellite markers was either generated or compiled from 841 isolates from four continents collected in 1999-2008. Diversity was highest in South-East Asia (mean a...

For the first time for CORDEX-South Asia, a high-resolution regional earth system model (ROM) is adopted to assess impact of horizontal resolution (0.22° and 0.11°) in simulating Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) underlying spatiotemporal variability. ROM at both resolutions bears close resemblance observations mean precipitation climatology compared other climate models (RCMs) participated...

In the past decade, many countries in Asia, in particularly in East Asia, are experiencing a progressive rise in the incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Improved physician awareness and diagnostic methods are unlikely to fully account for this rapid increase. This epidemiological shift is likely to relate to industralization, westernization of lifestyles and changes in...

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period through subclinical or mild infection occurring sporadically. In order to understand how the virus infection recurs in the temperate epidemic zone, a hypothesis has been presented by Fukumi3 that the virus may survive through infections occurring sporadically in the tropical virus-reservoir zone. Several virological and epidemiological studies have been published on influenza in Thailand...