The authors present the epidemiological status of brucellosis in cattle and small ruminants in Syria from 1990 to 1996, based on laboratory findings at the Brucellosis Centre, Damascus. Initial investigations using the Rose Bengal plate test, the complement fixation test and a miniaturised variant of the slow agglutination test were conducted throughout the country in 1990 and 1991, revealing a...

Damas médiévale et ottomane. Histoire urbaine, société et culture matérielle The End of an Era Pre-Reform Damascus in the 1820s La fin d'une époque : Damas au temps de la pré-réforme des années 1820 The text is a facsimile of the print edition.

A single daily oral dose of polyethylene glycol (PEG) Ð a tannin-binding agent Ð has been shown to substantially improve feed intake and ef®ciency of utilization by sheep and goats consuming tannin-rich forage. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of supplementing 10 g/day of PEG on the performance of does grazing on Mediterranean woodland and scrubland. The experiments were carried...

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of HLA polymorphism in the susceptibility to tuberculosis in Syria. METHODS We used the polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primer method to study the DRB1* locus in 147 Syrian patients with positive sputum smear or sputum culture for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis strains, and 209 Syrian healthy matching individuals with negative tuberculin skin test. Pa...

The purpose of this study was to determine the atropine and scopolamine content in different parts of Datura plant, (Datura metel L.), growing wild in Syria. These alkaloids were separated and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with diode-array detector (DAD), and fluorescence detector (FLD), using a reversed phase Eclipse C18 column and employing a mixture of w...

This article addresses the shift of power that occurred in Ottoman Damascus as a result establishment its electricity and tramway network started operating 1907. The company, which ought to have been public, ownership Ottoman-Syrian investors, ended up being owned by Belgian consortium. central argument is Damascene elite families rationally refrained from risk establishing Electricity Company ...