UNLABELLED Leptospirosis is a commonly encountered type of zoonosis, especially in tropical regions. There is insufficient data regarding its frequency in non-tropical regions such as Turkey. Although leptospirosis presents with a mild icteric form in nearly 90% of cases, it can lead to Weils disease characterized by fever as well as fulminant hepatorenal and respiratory failure, in approximate...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?Our attention has been drawn to a sentence W our article in the last number of your journal (p. 59o, 3rd para). This sentence appears to be susceptible to misinterpretation. It was not our intention to sugg^st that our colleagues at the Medical College in particular had missed cases, because we were aware that at leas* two other cases had been diag...

Talei GR1, Sheikhian A2,Mousavi Z3 1. Assistant professor, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University medical sciences 2. Assistant professor, Department of Immunology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University medical sciences 3. B.Sc of laboratory sciences, Lorestan University medical sciences Abstract Background: Leptospirosis is known to be an emerging ...

We demonstrate that human fibroblasts of the rare Pk phenotype lack globoside, which was identified as the blood group P antigen, and that p cells possess neither globoside nor trihexosyl ceramide, which was identified as Pk antigen. Our investigations indicate also that these glycosphingolipid patterns are most likely caused by inherited preferential biosynthetic pathways in the abnormal pheno...

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