OBJECTIVES a) To identify possible risk factors associated with rural accidents in women, b) to describe women's knowledge about zoonosis, c) to describe women's risk perception about farming, d) to describe mothers' risk perception about children's activities in rural settings, e) to estimate the initial age of exposure to the rural setting and its dangers, and f) to identify possible risk fac...

AIM To determine the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) among pregnant greenhouse workers in Italy and to identify risk factors related to the non-use of appropriate preventive measures. METHODS A structured questionnaire was administered by trained interviewers, to Italian female greenhouse workers regarding their use of PPE and the occurrence of adverse pregnancy outcomes in their f...

objective: barberry root extract contains various alkaloids that are considered as antioxidants. beneficial effect of aqueous extract of berberis integerrima root (aebir) was evaluated for renal function in diabetic rats induced by stz. material and methods: diabetes was induced by i.p. injection of streptozotocin (65 mg/kg bw) to rats, after 15 h of fasting. diabetic rats were randomly grouped...

background: dna immunization with plasmid dna encoding bacterial, viral, parasitic and tumor antigens has been reported to trigger protective immunity. objective: to evaluate the use of a dna immunization strategy for protection against anthrax, a plasmid was constructed. methods: the partialsequence of protective antigen of bacillus anthracis, amino acids 175-764, as a potent immunogenic targe...

Some anti-phosphocholine antibodies protect mice against challenge with certain, but not all, pneumococcal types. We found that both their isotype and reactivity with the cell wall C-polysaccharide of encapsulated pneumococci, as measured by immunodiffusion, were important in predicting the protective activity of anti-phosphocholine antibodies. We propose that the specificity of the protective ...

results the mean age and work experience of workers were 31.39 ± 5.6 and 4.35 ± 2.5 years, respectively. among the exposed-to-noise personnel, 7.35% used hpds constantly; 75% used hpds for only short periods of time (less than four hours) and 17.65% did not make use of them at all. regarding the sound intensity and the level of noise reduction of hpds, among the 112 workers who used such device...