The burden of serious ocular injury.

The burden of serious ocular injury.

Burden of serious fungal infections in Ukraine.

Ukraine has high rates of TB, AIDS and cancer. We estimated the burden of fungal disease from epidemiology papers and specific populations at risk and fungal infection frequencies. HIV/AIDS cases and deaths (2012) and tuberculosis statistics were obtained from the State Service of Ukraine, while chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cases were from M. Miravitlles et al., Thorax 64, 863-8...

Burden of Serious Fungal Infections in Jordan

OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of fungal infections in Jordan for the first time. MATERIAL AND METHODS Population data was from UN 2011 statistics and TB cases from WHO in 2012. Fewer than 100 patients with HIV were recorded in Jordan in 2013. Approximately 100 renal transplants and eight liver transplants are performed annually. There were 12,233 major surgical procedures in Jordan in 2013...

Burden of serious fungal infections in Belgium.

We aimed to estimate the total number of serious fungal infections occurring yearly in Belgium. The number of cryptococcal infections was retrieved from the National Reference Center for Mycosis. Populations at risk and fungal infections frequencies in these populations were used to estimate incidence or prevalence of other fungal infections. The Belgian population consists of 11.10 million peo...

Burden of serious fungal infections in China

IntroductionThe number of fungal infections occurring each year in Austria is not known. We have estimated these based on populations at risk, supplemented with existing dataMethodsAll published epidemiology papers reporting fungal infection rates from Austria were identifiedResultsOf the 8.22M population, 14.5% are children (0-14 years) and 18% of population are >65 yea...