Jin-Long Yang 1, 2, Ren-Yong Jia 2, 3, An-Chun Cheng 2, 3* and Ming-Shu Wang 2 1 Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Chongqing, 402460, China. 2 Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Yaan 625014, Sichuan Province, China. 3 College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan 625014, Sichuan Province, China. *e-mail: yjlfir...

BACKGROUND Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accurate data on causes of death were not available, the Deputy of Health in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME) established a new comprehensive system for death reg...

The Basin and Range province is a broad, highly extended terrane embedded within the North Ameri-can western Cordillera that extends from Canada, through the western United States, and across much of Mexico. The province roughly occupies the space between the Cascade Ranges and Rocky Mountains in the north and the Sierra Nevada and the Colorado Plateau in the middle, and it engulfs the Sierra M...

* Corresponding author: Office of Communicable Diseases Control. Region 3 CHONBURI 2000, Thailand. Tel: 66-38-277057-8 Fax: 66-38-27486 spread of Leprosy into the community. The McKane Leprosalium was the first place that established in Chiengmai province, it was run by the American Missionary. The Prapadeang hospital run by the government of Thailand was later established in Samutprakarn provi...

Districts Samut Songkhram Province is a valuable architectural market. The lifestyle of the community's relationship with the living space and the relationship between the architectural style of the area's residential waterfront communities of Bangnoi Floating Bangkhonthi Districts Samut Songkhram Province, which deserves to be preserved. Therefore, this research it helps to know the value of t...

With an increase in sexual activity among young adults in Vietnam and associated risks, there is a need for evidence-based sexual health interventions. This evaluation of three sexual health programs based on the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) was conducted in 12 communes in Ha Noi, Nha Trang City, and Ninh Hoa District. Inclusion criteria included unmarried youth 15-20 years residing in se...

BACKGROUND The HIV epidemic among former plasma donors (FPDs) in rural Central China in the early-mid 1990s is likely the largest known HIV-infected cohort in the world related to commercial plasma donation but has never been fully described. The objectives of this study are to estimate the timing and geographic spread of HIV infection in this cohort and to demonstrate the impact of antiretrovi...

Description of a new Atractides species, Atractides reinhardi n. sp., from Burdur Province of Turkey is given. Water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 have been found in all biogeographical regions except for Australia and Antarctica, most of the 297 species described so far are known from Northern Hemisphere: 56 species have been found in the Oriental Region, 47 species have been found ...

BACKGROUND Foreign migrant workers with work permits in Thailand are given once a year 300 mg diethyl-carbamazine (DEC) for bancroftian filariasis, and 400 mg albendazole (ABZ) for helminthiasis. Treatment effectiveness, tolerability, and safety of two treatment arms, DEC + ABZ and DEC alone, had never been fully documented. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the tolerability of the two treatment arms and an...