Amir I. Mohamed, Mona I. A. El-Assal, Mohamed A. Kassem, Osama A. A. Ahmed a Medical services Department, Cairo, Egypt. b Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science & Pharmaceutical industries, Future University, Cairo, Egypt. c Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. d Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ki...

Affiliations 1 Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany 2 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 3 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt 4 Department of Radiology, University Hospital Cairo, Egypt 5 Department of Otolaryngology, Univers...

Egypt has the highest prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and seropositivity worldwide, and it has been proposed that this enhanced susceptibility to HCV is related to coinfection with schistosomiasis. Although currently, there are no studies regarding the actual prevalence of both human schistosomiasis and schistosomiasis/HCV coinfection evidences strongly support that elim...

Optimal nutrition is critical to the attainment of healthy growth, human capital and sustainable development. In Egypt, infants and young children face overlapping forms of malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies, stunting and overweight. Yet, in this setting, little is known about the factors associated with growth during the first year of life. A rise in stunting in Lower Egypt fro...

Rasmussen, D. Tab, Storrs L. Olson, and Elwyn L. Simons. Fossil Birds from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, number 62, 20 pages, 15 figures, 1986.—^Fossils from fluvial deposits of early Oligocene age in Egypt document the earliest known diverse avifauna from Africa, comprising at least 13 families and 18 species. Included ...

Conjunctivitis is the commonest eye disease in Egypt, where it presents a major problem of public health. The chief menace of acute infective conjunctivitis lies in the corneal complications which may cause blindness. Since the late 1930s, the gonococcus and KochWeeks bacillus have been regarded as the most common causes of this condition in Egypt (Wilson, I935; Lyons and Amies, I949), but othe...

In Egypt, avian influenza A subtype H5N1 and H9N2 viruses are enzootic in poultry. The control plan devised by veterinary authorities in Egypt to prevent infections in poultry focused mainly on vaccination and ultimately failed. Recently, widespread H5N1 infections in poultry and a substantial increase in the number of human cases of H5N1 infection were observed. We summarize surveillance data ...

break of 1883 in Egypt, but will be strictly limited to an endeavour to explain the origin of the outbreak, yet it will not, I trust, fail in creating an interest among the members of the Society. If it does this, it will have served the purpose for which it was written. Egypt is a very extensive country. It extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Equator. It is not, however, this vast countr...

1President, 2Researcher 1Egyptian Society of Oral Implantology, Alexandria, Egypt; Faculty of Dentistry, BPP University, London, United Kingdom 2Department of Periodontology, Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University, Egypt Corresponding Author: Ahmed Halim Ayoub, Sporting Omar Lotfy Street, 178 Second Floor, Alexandria, Egypt, Phone: +201222205513...

The genus Micatagla Argaman (Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae) is reviewed from Egypt, based on specimens collected from Wadi Allaqi (Aswan, Southern Egypt) and Kom Osheim (Fayoum) and those deposited in Egyptian insect collections as well as recorded data from the literature. A single species, Micatagla klugi (André), was previously recorded from Egypt. Micatagla allaqiensis sp. n., Micatagla ez...