Acanthamoeba, a free-living amoeba, is widely distributed in the environment, water sources, soil, dust, and air. It can cause keratitis in contact lens wearers with poor hygiene and also fatal granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) in immunocompromised hosts. The aim of this study was to gain some insights into the distribution and genotypes of the potentially pathogenic species of Acanthamoe...

BACKGROUND In Kenya, detailed data on the age-specific burden of influenza and RSV are essential to inform use of limited vaccination and treatment resources. METHODS We analyzed surveillance data from August 2009 to July 2012 for hospitalized severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and outpatient influenza-like illness (ILI) at two health facilities in western Kenya to estimate the burden of...

Jafari-Shakib Reza, Rafiei Alireza, Ansari Mostafa, Khalilian Alireza, Hajilooi Mehrdad Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rasht Medical School, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht; Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Sari Medical School, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari; Department of Internal Medicine, Ekbatan Hospital, Medical School, University of...

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan Medical School, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, IR Iran Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Sari, IR Iran Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sc...

1. Dept. of Traditional Persian Medicine, School of Medicine, Student Research Committe, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2. Dept. of Traditional Persian Medicine, School of Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran 3. Center for Communicable Disease Control (CDC), Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran 4. Traditional and Complementary ...

1 Molecular and Cell Biology Research Center, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. 2 Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Advanced Medical Technologies, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Science, Hamadan, Iran. 4 Cancer Research ...

Since 2009 pandemic, international health authorities recommended monitoring severe and complicated cases of respiratory disease, that is, severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We evaluated the proportion of SARI/ARDS cases and deaths due to influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infection and the impact of other respiratory viruses during pandemic and postpa...

BACKGROUND Human enteroviruses (EV) have been associated with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) in South Africa. OBJECTIVES We aimed to describe the molecular epidemiology of EV serotypes among patients hospitalized with SARI during 2009-2011. PATIENTS/METHODS Study samples from patients were tested for the presence of enterovirus using a polymerase chain reaction assay. RESULTS 8.2...

This paper presents two metaheuristic algorithms, namely taboo search and simulated annealing, applied to the control of a flow rack automated storage retrieval system (AS/RS). These metaheuristic algorithms are developed to control the retrieval machine of the AS/RS in order to minimize the retrieval cycle time. Results of these metaheuristic algorithms are compared to classical heuristics and...

BACKGROUND Surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in sentinel hospitals is recommended to estimate the burden of severe influenza-cases. Therefore, we monitored patients admitted with respiratory infections (RI) in 9 Berlin hospitals from 7.12.2009 to 12.12.2010 according to different case definitions (CD) and determined the proportion of cases with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 (p...