Mass redistribution of the Earth causes variable loading that deforms the solid Earth. While most recent studies using geodetic techniques focus on regions (such as the Amazon basin and the Nepal Himalayas) with large seasonal deformation amplitudes on the order of 1-4 cm due to hydrologic loading, few such studies have been conducted on the regions where the seasonal deformation amplitude is h...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of the ML Flow test as an additional, serological, tool for the classification of new leprosy patients. DESIGN In Brazil, Nepal and Nigeria, 2632 leprosy patients were classified by three METHODS : (1) as multibacillary (MB) or paucibacillary (PB) according to the number of skin lesions (WHO classification), (2) by slit skin smear examination, and (3) by serolo...

On smallholder farms in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal, fungi of the Fusarium graminearum clade cause Gibberella ear rot of maize and contamination with the 8-ketotrichothecenes nivalenol and deoxynivalenol. Previous DNA marker analyses of the F. graminearum clade from maize in Nepal found a high level of genetic diversity but were limited in detail or scope. The present stud...

Pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality are much more prevalent among adolescents than adults, particularly in low-income settings. Little is known about risk factors for pregnancy among adolescents in Nepal, but setting-specific evidence is needed to inform interventions. This study aimed to describe the prevalence, and identify factors associated with pregnancy among adolescents in Nepal be...

A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles...

Chest X-rays of 1057 potential Gurkha recruits from East Nepal and 964 from West Nepal were examined. Seventy-four X-rays from Eastern Nepalis showed changes suggestive of past or present tuberculosis (including 18 with calcified primary complexes) but only 34 (five with calcified primary complexes) from Western Nepalis suggesting that there is a higher tuberculosis infection rate in men from E...

Brucellosis is an abortifacient zoonotic disease which remains prominent in third world countries like Nepal. Brucellosis possess a public health concern, the incidences of which in livestocks can present substantial economic and health burdens for herders and health professionals. In Nepal, several cases of bovine including human brucellosis have been reported. This paper aims to evaluate the ...

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Chest X-rays of 1057 potential Gurkha recruits from East Nepal and 964 from West Nepal were examined. Seventy-four X-rays from Eastern Nepalis showed changes suggestive of past or present tuberculosis (including 18 with calcified primary complexes) but only 34 (five with calcified primary complexes) from Western Nepalis suggesting that there is a higher tuberculosis infection rate in men from E...

After publication of this article, it came to light that the authors did not have the ethical approval required to conduct this study according to Nepalese research regulations. The ethics statement on the article states, "The research was approved by ethical committee of Nepal Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal." However, we were notified by officials at the Nepal Health Research Counc...