Years of endemic infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A subtype H5N1 virus in poultry and high numbers of infections in humans provide ample opportunity in Egypt for H5N1-HPAIV to develop pandemic potential. In an effort to better understand the viral determinants that facilitate human infections of the Egyptian H5N1-HPAIVvirus, we developed a new phylogenetic algorithm base...

BACKGROUND Salmonella is one of major causes of foodborne outbreaks globally. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence, typing and antibiotic susceptibilities of Salmonella enterica serovars isolated from 41 broiler chicken farms located in Kafr El-Sheikh Province in Northern Egypt during 2014-2015. The clinical signs and mortalities were observed. RESULTS In total 615 clinical sam...

This paper describes the collection and classification of a multi-dialectal corpus of Arabic based on the geographical information of tweets. We mapped information of user locations to one of the Arab countries, and extracted tweets that have dialectal word(s). Manual evaluation of the extracted corpus shows that the accuracy of assignment of tweets to some countries (like Saudi Arabia and Egyp...

BACKGROUND A 2006 avian influenza (AI) outbreak resulted in mass removal of chickens in Lower Egypt, which decreased the household supply of poultry. Poultry, a key animal-source food, contains nutrients critical for child growth. This paper examines determinants of stunting between 2006 and 2008 in children 6 to 59 months of age within the context of the AI outbreak. METHODS The 2005 and 200...

The paper investigates the influence of corporate board and dissemination a separate sustainability report on disclosure (CSD) level corporations listed Egyptian index from 2016–2018. This study used score-weighting scheme assigned by Stock Exchange (EGX) to evaluate, list, rank companies in terms their CSD. Empirical results reveal that boards with higher independence larger size generate CS...

Mohamed Meshref1*, Nihal ElShazly2, Mohamed Nasr3 and Rehab AbdElhai4 *Correspondence: [email protected] 1Departments of Clinical Oncology Kasr El Eini cancer centre – Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Al-Saray street, El-Manial, Cairo 11956, Egypt. 2Department of Clinical Neurophysiology– Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Al-Saray street, El-Manial, Cairo 11956, Egypt. 3Department o...

The genus Macroocula Panfilov in Egypt is reviewed. Seven species were previously recorded from Egypt: M. magna (Invrea, 1965), M. mahunkai Argaman, 1994, M. morawitzi (Radoszkowski, 1888), M. nigriventris (Invrea, 1960), M. nitida (Bischoff, 1920), M. savignyi (Klug, 1829) and M. sinaica (Invrea, 1963). Macroocula brothersi Gadallah & Soliman, sp. nov. (Egypt, Wadi Shab, Red Sea) and M. salehi...

doi: 10.3967/bes2015.128 This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 25460532 and 26.04912) to Tadashi S. from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. 1. Department of Bacteriology, Mycology, and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh 33516, Egypt; 2. Laboratory of Food Microbiology and...

Received: 21 July 2017 Accepted: 19 September 2017 c © 2017 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Agha HM, Hamza HS. Incomplete ...

A. S. Shawali, M. A . A bdallah , and M. E. M. Z ay ed Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, Giza, Egypt Reprint requests to Dr. A. S. Shawali. E-mail: [email protected] Z. Naturforsch. 55b, 546-552 (2000); received February 4. 2000 Ring-Chain Tautomerism. Heterocyclic Ring Transformation, 1,3,4-Thiadiazoles The synthesis and antimicrobial activity of a s...