BACKGROUND Landmines can cause death, injury and disability in addition to many indirect public health consequences. This study aimed at understanding the trends, demography and other epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized landmine injured patients in Erbil governorate. METHODS The case records of landmine injured patients who had been admitted to the Emergency Management Centre in E...

Background Transfusion-transmitted malaria is undoubtedly a potential health hazard for blood recipients. Egypt is still on the prevention of reintroduction phase of malaria control program. Fayoum Governorate is considered one of the high-risk foci in Egypt due to its geology. However, no studies have been reported to evaluate the current status of subclinical Plasmodium infection based on sen...

Blood samples were acquired from 60 women aged 20 to 44 years having decreased fertility, infertile or with uterine tumors in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. A pilot experiment was performed to determine alpha radionuclides in powder blood. The concentrations of alpha emitters in powdered blood ranged from 0.0036ppm in Eiskan to 0.0096 ppm in Halabjay–Kon in Sulaymania Governorate, with average (0....

Background and Aims: End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) has various causes that differ according to patient’s country. In Egypt it is a huge health problem with high prevalence in El-Minia governorate as 308 per million population suffer from it. The aim of the work is to investigate the possible causes of ESRD with an unknown etiology in El-Minia Governorate. Methods: A total number of 216 patient...

Wuchereria bancrofti, Dirofilaria immitis, and Dirofilaria repens are filarial nematodes transmitted by mosquitoes belonging to Culex, Aedes, and Anopheles genera. Screening by vector dissection is a tiresome technique. We aimed to screen filarial parasites in their vectors by single and multiplex PCR and evaluate the usefulness of multiplex PCR as a rapid xenomonitoring and simultaneous differ...

The current study aimed to use Coagulase gene polymorphism to identify methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) subtypes isolated from nasal carriers in Minia governorate, Egypt, evaluate the efficiency of these methods in discriminating variable strains, and compare these subtypes with antibiotypes. A total of 400 specimens were collected from nasal carriers in Minia governorate, Egy...

During 1994 a cross-sectional survey was carried out on a sample representative of the population in Qena Governorate, Upper Egypt, to investigate the relationship between intestinal helminthic infection among children and a wide range of variables (demographic, behavioural, cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental). Data were collected by direct observation and by administering a questionnai...

The head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme expressed alarm at reports of the use of highly toxic chemicals in an attack in the Syrian Arab Republic on 5 April. At least 70 people died and hundreds more were affected in Khan Shaykhun in the governorate of Idleb, according to United Nations Health Cluster partners who were treating patients – many of them women...

Fifty buffaloes(healthy and mastitic udders) were milked aseptically from separate regions of Kaliobia governorate .California mastitis test (CMT) and bacteriological examination were achieved .Upon susceptibility testing (12) antibiotics were used to explain different susceptibility patterns of the isolated bacteria The objective of this study was the detection of oxytetracycline, sulphadimidi...

BACKGROUND Globally, blindness is associated with old age and being female. Other sociodemographic and socioeconomic status characteristics associated with blindness have included educational attainment, and occupation. These factors reflect exposure to specific risk factors for blinding eye diseases and utilisation of preventive and curative services by specific sectors of the population. ME...