An epidemiological cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the endemicity of malaria among the Orang Asli population of Raub, Pahang. Malaria endemicity was measured in terms of the prevalence of parasitaemia and splenomegaly. A total of 520 Orang Asli were examined. The point prevalence of malaria was 24.2% (95% CI 20.7-25.1), with Plasmodium falciparum (67.5%) being the predominant ...

Background: The association between diet quality and risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) or heart failure (HF) in postmenopausal women is uncertain. Objective: This study aimed to determine whether a conventional index [Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)] or a novel index [Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Index (DMI)] of diet quality was associated with the risk...

1. A method has been outlined by which the enzymes of hemolytic streptococcus may be extracted with comparative ease. 2. The peptolytic enzyme is active between pH 4.4 and 8.7 with an optimum action at pH 7.2. It is destroyed in neutral phosphate solution at a temperature of 57 degrees C. continued for 10 minutes and at pH 5.0 deteriorates slowly at 37 degrees C. Concentration experiments with ...

Background Thrombotic complications are the most considerable etiology causing morbidity and mortality in patients with philadelphia (Ph) negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). There many studies evaluating association of JAK2 mutation risk thrombosis MPN inconclusive results. We also investigated relation between all Ph thrombosis.
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Sulfite dehydrogenases (SDHs) catalyze the oxidation and detoxification of sulfite to sulfate, a reaction critical to all forms of life. Sulfite-oxidizing enzymes contain three conserved active site amino acids (Arg-55, His-57, and Tyr-236) that are crucial for catalytic competency. Here we have studied the kinetic and structural effects of two novel and one previously reported substitution (R5...

the relation between serum osmolality, glucose, sodium, bicarbonate, arterial ph, bun and level of consciousness was studied in 189 patients with diabetic ketoacidosis (dka). there was much overlap between all laboratory values among various groups, even when there was a statistically significant difference. to find a better predictor, we defined a new factor as serum osmolality/arterial ph. th...