نتایج جستجو برای: tropical countries

تعداد نتایج: 319594  

2017
Jeyachandran Dhanapriya Thanigachalam Dineshkumar Ramanathan Sakthirajan Natarajan Gopalakrishnan Norbert Lameire

Acute kidney injury (AKI) in tropical countries is strikingly different from that in countries with a temperate climate. Tropical regions are characterised by year-round high temperatures and the absence of frost, which supports the propagation of infections that can potentially cause AKI. The aetiology and presentation of AKI reflects the ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, and ecological condit...

2013
Jean-Etienne Touze Laurent Fourcade

Background: Cardiomyopathy is the main cause of heart failure in developing countries, mainly in Africa. In those areas the concept of “tropical cardiomyopathy” is still used to design all unexplained cardiomyopathy. The primary aim of this review is first to review the main etiologies of cardiomyopathies observed in tropical countries and second to gain a better understanding of the nosologica...

2013
Ben Phalan Monika Bertzky Stuart H. M. Butchart Paul F. Donald Jörn P. W. Scharlemann Alison J. Stattersfield Andrew Balmford

Expansion of cropland in tropical countries is one of the principal causes of biodiversity loss, and threatens to undermine progress towards meeting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. To understand this threat better, we analysed data on crop distribution and expansion in 128 tropical countries, assessed changes in area of the main crops and mapped overlaps between conservation priorities and cult...

Journal: :Ecotoxicology 2010
Michiel A Daam Paul J Van den Brink

Despite considerable increased pesticide use over the past decades, little research has been done into their fate and effects in surface waters in tropical regions. In the present review, possible differences in response between temperate and tropical freshwaters to pesticide stress are discussed. Three underlying mechanisms for these differences are distinguished: (1) climate related parameter...

2010
Yaobi Zhang Chad MacArthur Likezo Mubila Shawn Baker

BACKGROUND Neglected tropical diseases are widespread, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting over 2 billion individuals. Control of these diseases has gathered pace in recent years, with increased levels of funding from a number of governmental or non-governmental donors. Focus has currently been on five major 'tool-ready' neglected tropical diseases (lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasi...

2013
Aaron D. Storms Maria D. Van Kerkhove Eduardo Azziz‐Baumgartner Wing‐Kei Lee Marc‐Alain Widdowson Neil M. Ferguson Anthony W. Mounts

BACKGROUND Seasonal influenza activity varies with geography and time of year. OBJECTIVE To describe how pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 [A(H1N1)pdm09] activity varied during the 2009-2010 pandemic. METHODS We analyzed influenza virological data compiled by the World Health Organization from June 2009-August 2010. We calculated weekly proportions of A(H1N1)pdm09-positive specimens out of all...

Journal: :The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2001
J L Gallup J D Sachs

Malaria and poverty are intimately connected. Controlling for factors such as tropical location, colonial history, and geographical isolation, countries with intensive malaria had income levels in 1995 of only 33% that of countries without malaria, whether or not the countries were in Africa. The high levels of malaria in poor countries are not mainly a consequence of poverty. Malaria is geogra...

2013
Somsri Wiwanitit Viroj Wiwanitkit

Dear Editor, Stroke is an important medical problem that requires good management. In medicine, stroke is the most common cause of disability around the world. The recent report on infective stroke is very interesting. 1 pointed out many interesting issues and mentioned a large number of tropical infections that can cause infective stroke. According to this report, malaria, tuberculosis, cystic...

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