Background Lipid transfer proteins (LTP) and profilins are the most relevant panallergens in the clinical management of patients with allergy to pollen and plant food (mainly fresh fruits and tree nuts) in the Mediterranean countries. Knowledge of the prevalence of sensitization to these allergens in the population would be useful in clinical practice. In this study we analyze the frequency of ...

Background Lipid Transfer Proteins (LTP) and profilins are the most important panallergens in the clinical management of patients with allergy to pollen and plant food (mainly tree nuts and fresh fruits) in the Mediterranean countries. Knowledge of the prevalence of sensitization to these allergens in the population would be extremely useful. In this study we analyze the frequency of sensitizat...

In the early twentieth century, the therapeutic use of radon gas became an accepted medical practice. "Radium emanation" plants were established in many parts of North America to supply radon seeds to physicians. In Canada, these plants were usually established as part of state-supported cancer programs, creating concern among the medical profession, which had hitherto directed cancer treatment...

BACKGROUND Early HIV diagnosis and initiation onto antiretroviral therapy may prevent ongoing spread of HIV. Risk Tracing Snowball Approach (RTSA) has been shown to be effective in detecting new HIV cases in other settings. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of RTSA in increasing the rate of newly identified HIV cases among high-risk populations. Our second object...

Good drug trials in leishmaniasis with carefully controlled groups are rare. Recently Ballou et al1 were able to establish that 20mg Sbv/kg body wt for 20 days was more efficacious in closing leishmanial ulcers due to Leishmania braziliensis panamensis than lOmg Sb¥/kg/body wt for a similar period. Conditions for this trial were much more favourable than those where we work namely field clinics...

Africa is the birthplace of modern humans, and so our species has lived longest—200,000 years—on that continent. As a result, Africans have had more time to accumulate changes in their DNA than humans elsewhere. But until now, researchers have barely scratched the surface of the rich diversity in Africans' nuclear DNA. Most genetic studies of Africans and African-Americans are based on data fro...

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Potyviruses (genus Potyvirus; family Potyviridae) are widely distributed and represent one of the most economically important genera of plant viruses. Therefore, their accurate detection is a key factor in developing efficient control strategies. However, this can sometimes be problematic particularly in plant species containing high amounts of polysaccharides and polyphenols such as yam (Diosc...