Deterioration in reproductive health and family food sufficiency leading to increase marital crisis or divorce, arising from sexual dysfunction infertility amongst spouses Nigeria is alarming. An investigation was carried out find the causes, signs symptoms of Adamawa State, Nigeria. Respondents were purposively selected with use questionnaires for oral interviews, observations discussions. One...

Ileal loop replacement is often the only possible treatment for extensive bilharziasis of the ureter. Experience with 5 such cases is presented and the special problems arising from the nature and extent o f the lesion are discussed. In bilateral cases, attempts should be made to preserve as much renal tissue as possible. Non-functioning kidneys in 3 cases were not removed and a degree of funct...

In this paper, the evaluation of two features in predicting the outcomes of patients with bilharziasis bladder cancer has been investigated using an RBF neural network. Prior to prediction, the feature subsets were extracted from the whole set of features for the purpose of providing a high performance of the network. Throughout the analysis of the prognostic feature combinations, two features,...

The organo-phosphorus compound Dipterext (trichlorphon; OO-dimethyl-2,2,2,-trichlorethyl phosphonate) has attracted considerable attention during the past few years. Besides its use as an insecticide, an attempt has been made to employ this substance for the treatment of intestinal parasites (Beheyt, Lebrun, Cerf, Dierickx, and Degroote, 1961 ; Cerf, Lebrun, and Dierickx, 1962). Schistosomiasis...

W. D. MALHERBE, A clinico-pathological study of bilharziasis in sheep. Onderstepoort]. vet. Res. 37 (1), 37-44 (1970). Six healthy sheep were artificially infested through skin exposure with graded doses of cercariae of Schistosoma mattbeei Veglia & LeRoux, 1929. By means of laboratory tests the development of lesions due to the disease could be monitored at weekly intervals, so as to shed ligh...

Of all the patients attending a department of genitourinary medicine during a 10-month period, about 2% (1 out of 50) presented with haematuria, or haematuria was discovered on initial examination. In about 25% of cases, the haematuria was due to Escherichia coli infection of the lower genitourinary tract. Gonococcal infection was the next commonest cause; one patient with gonorrhoea presented ...