OBJECTIVE To determine how much influenza contributes to severe acute respiratory illness (SARI), a leading cause of death in children, among people of all ages in Bangladesh. METHODS Physicians obtained nasal and throat swabs to test for influenza virus from patients who were hospitalized within 7 days of the onset of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) or who consulted as outpatients ...

Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Department of Basic Sciences and Nutrition, Health Sciences Research Center, School of Public Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Science...

1. Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, I.R.Iran 2. Immunogenetics Research Center, Faculty of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, I.R.Iran 3. Research Center of Traditional Medicine and History of Medical Science, Babol University of Medical Science, Babol, I.R.Iran 4. Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medic...

Before 2004, nearly all GRB afterglow data could be understood in the context of the external shocks model. This situation has changed in the past two years, when it became clear that some afterglow components should be attributed to the activity of the central engine; i.e., the central engine afterglow. We review here the afterglow emission that is directly related to the GRB central engine. S...

GUNAY, Aytekin, Ulgen GUNAY, and Abdülkadir ORMAN, 2011. Effects of retained placenta on the fertility in treated dairy cows. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 17: 126-131 The objective of this study was to evaluate an effect of the retained placenta on reproductive performance of 222 multiparous cows. The animals with retained placenta (RP) were divided into three treatment groups (TI; n=65, TII; n=47, TI...

Knowledge Management and Growth in Finnish SMEs Sari Salojärvi, Patrick Furu and Karl-Erik Sveiby Journal of Knowledge Management Vol. 9 No. ?, 2005 Research paper

BACKGROUND There is limited information about the epidemiology of influenza in Africa. We describe the epidemiology and seasonality of influenza in Morocco from 1996 to 2009 with particular emphasis on the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 influenza seasons. Successes and challenges of the enhanced surveillance system introduced in 2007 are also discussed. METHODS Virologic sentinel surveillance for in...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) is one of the leading causes of death among children worldwide. As different respiratory viruses exhibit similar symptoms, simultaneous detection of these viruses in a single reaction mixture can save time and cost. The present study was done in a tertiary care children's hospital for rapid identification of viruses causing SARI ...