1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to A.M. Al-Abbassi: [email protected]). Received: 26/06/02; accepted: 15/09/04 ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. This paper documents the clinical a...

Wael Khamas1*, Mohamed Al-Tikriti2, Mohanad Albayati3, Suzana Tkalcic1 and Curtis Eng4 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 2College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Veterinar...

1National Tuberculosis Programme Manager, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Department of Community Medicine, Saddam College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. 3Chest and Respiratory Diseases Institute, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study was made of 500 patients and 500 health care workers randomly selected from 250 primary health care centres throughout Iraq to evaluate knowledge, atti...

1Department of Community Medicine, Saddam College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Chest and Respiratory Diseases Institute, Baghdad, Iraq. 3National Tuberculosis Programme Manager, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT In a prospective cohort study in Iraq, schoolchildren with a positive tuberculin skin test during the nationwide survey in 2000 were followed up in 2002 to determine prevalenc...

In 2007 there was an epidemic of cholera in Iraq with 4667 cases. The first case in Baghdad was diagnosed on 19 September 2007 and the last case on 13 December 2007. In all, 136 cases were reported (2.9% of the country total) in 6 of the 13 districts of Baghdad. The median age of the cases was 11 years (range = 0.3-71 years). There were 3 deaths giving a case fatality rate of 2.2%. Bacteriologi...

Assist. Lect. Nada Najeel Kamal * Assist. Prof. Dr. Loay E. George Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of Technology College of Science, University of Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq Baghdad, Iraq Abstract— A License Plate (LP) is a rectangular metal plate contains numbers, characters and words, fixed on the car body and is used to identify the vehicles. In recent y...

1Department of Community Medicine, Iraqi College of Medicine, Kadmiya, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Directorate General of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT We assessed the effect of community participation on treatment outcomes for tuberculosis patients undergoing directly-observed therapy, short course (DOTS). From February to December 2001 172 newly diagnosed patients in Ba...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to characterize injuries, deaths, and disabilities arising during 11 years of conflict in Baghdad. METHODS Using satellite imagery and administrative population estimated size for Baghdad, 30 clusters were selected, proportionate to population size estimates. Interviews were conducted during April and May 2014 in 900 households containing 5148 person...

Five Iranian native silkworm groups: Baghdad, Khorasan Orange, Guilan Orange, Khorasan Pink, Khorasan Lemon, and 107 and 110 commercial lines (12 families from each breed) were randomly selected and reared during 2003-2005 (five generations in spring and autumn). In each family, 30 male and 30 female cocoons were individually recorded for weight, shell weight and shell ratio. From among the nat...