VV. AA - Libros y biografía

UTI is an important cause of morbidity in pediatric population; early diagnosis and appropriate treatment is essential in order to avoid long term com- plications. Therefore this study was done to estimate...

Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria is associated with various infections in humans. Isolation of Aeromonas sobria in patients with gastroenteritis is not unusual. We describe a case of Aeromonas veronii...

Owing to the inability of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to distinguish between signals originating from viable cells and DNA released from dead cells, (i.e. it can detect dead cells) a risk...

Cryptococcal meningitis has become the most common lethal opportunistic fungal infection in people with HIV and AIDS. Prompt treatment depends on awareness of the common symptoms. The purpose of this...

Afatoxin exposure has been shown to cause cell-mediated immune suppression and enhance HIV viral replication. Such immune suppression from afa- toxin can impair resistance to both infectious diseases...

Prevalence of group B streptococcus in pregnant women attending a tertiary hospital in Ghana in 2001.

Hypersensitivity to Anisakis species is a worldwide medical problem. The aim of this study was to detect the immunological response in experimental mice, through measurement of Immunoglobulin E (IgE)...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed on a total of 253 [203 shiga toxin- producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and 50 non-STEC] Escherichia coli isolates from difer- ent raw meats, RTE meat...

Over the past decade, an increasing trend in vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) levels for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive S. aureus has been...

The WHO estimates that almost 2 billion people are infected with one or more of these soil transmitted helminths, accounting for up to 40% of the global morbidity from infectious diseases, excluding...

A 24-year-old man, injection drug user (IDU) and HIV-positive was admitted to the Infectious Department of Imam Khomeini Hospital in February 2010, with a history of two months of malaise, night sweating...

‘Paraphilia’ refers to behavioral phenomena concurrent with sexual arousal to objects and situations that are not part of normative ways of stimulation within a particular cultural or historical context....

Cancer is second only to Coronary Artery Disease in overall mortality in the United States. Amongst all the cancers, lung cancer is the most common and is associat- ed with the highest cancer related...

The 11th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Virology Association (RMVA) was held Sept. 23-25, 2011 at the forestry extension campus of Colorado State University (Pingree Park). RMVA (www.RockyMountainVirologyClub.org)...

Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leucoen- cephalopathy (CADASIL) is a genetic disease that is usually considered a disorder of young or middle age adults. However,...

This study investigated whether parental behavior can have long term infuences on children’s brain and mental development. To investigate the long term efects of parental behavior, a questionnaire was...

This post-marketing study aimed to assess the efcacy of memantine on the psychiatric and behavioural symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and associated caregiver distress.

A 47-year-old white male with a background history of chronic left sciatic pain developed a lump on the left thigh. Muscle MRI showed changes consistent with myotome L5 hypertrophy, while a lumbosacral...

The 11th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Virology Association (RMVA) was held Sept. 23-25, 2011 at the forestry extension campus of Colorado State University (Pingree Park). RMVA (www.RockyMountainVirologyClub.org)...

Several epidemiological studies suggest that traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk fac- tor for dementia, particularly for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), although a signifcant as- sociation has not always...

Several congenital malformations such as craniofacial and digital abnormalities, and less commonly, cleft lip and palate have been reported with phenobarbital. According to our knowledge, it is the...

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is a neuropeptide mainly synthesized in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei in the hypothalamus and released from the posterior pituitary when physiological demands are...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is one of the most worrisome side efects associated to narcoleptics treatment (1, 2). Repetitive and patterned movement characterizes this condition. The most typical form of TD...

Lassa virus is the cause of Lassa fever with high morbidity and mortal- ity. Molecular evolution was studied through virulence diversity through to provide insight as to despite circulating antibodies...

Metal toxicity represents a signifcant public health concern and contributes to many toxic metal-exposure related diseases. In particular, toxic metals promote the oxidative stress in stem cells and...

Isolated unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy (HNP) is uncommon with only a few case reports and two case series in literature. Our study is the largest case series including 12 patients. Till date isolated...

The gap between basic research and its practical application is ever widening. Translational research promises to bridge this gap with the added potential to accelerate product R&D in both pharma...

Malaria is a life threatening disease caused by Plasmodium spp that are transmitted to people through the bite of infected mosquitoes. This study was undertaken to determine malarial infection among...

We present the frst case of ocular futter related with amphetamine intoxication and discuss the physiopathology of this interesting syndrome and the biochemical diferences between OF and OC. A-15-years-old...

Severe mental disorders like schizophrenia are a leading cause of disability in people in the prime years of their lives (aged 15 to 44 years). Relapse is a primary contributor to schizophrenia disease...