Johannes F.E. Mann, MD; Roland E. Schmieder, MD; Leanne Dyal, MSc; Matthew J. McQueen, MD; Helmut Schumacher, MD; Janice Pogue, PhD; Xingyu Wang, PhD; Jeffrey L. Probstfield, MD; Alvaro Avezum, MD, PhD; Ernesto Cardona-Munoz, PhD; Gilles R. Dagenais, MD; Rafael Diaz, MD; George Fodor, MD, PhD; Jean M. Maillon, MD; Lars Rydén, MD; Cheuk M. Yu, MD; Koon K. Teo, MD; and Salim Yusuf, DPh, MD, for t...

  Corona disease has killed at least 5 million people globally since it started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2021). The disease is caused by SARS-COVID-19, and is transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets (Baladia et al., 2020, Ejaz et al., 2020). Although the early symptoms of COVID-19  include fever, weariness, headache, sore throat, cough, d...

the potential sources of cr (vi) are various effluents from metallurgy, electroplating, leather tanning, textile dyeing, paint, ink, and aluminum manufacturing industries. these industrial effluents can contain cr (vi), in the concentration range of 10 to 100 mg/l (nakano et al 2000), which is much higher than the standard limit; 0.5 mg/l in industrial wastewater (epa). in aqueous systems, chro...

how to cite this article: tonekaboni sh, mollamohammadi m. neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation: an overview. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 1-8. abstract objective neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (nbia) is a group of neurodegenerative disorder with deposition of iron in the brain (mainly basal ganglia) leading to a progressive parkinsonism, spasticity, dystonia...

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Hong and colleagues [1] for their interest in our work [2]. We agree that the T-SPOT.TB test is likely to be less affected by lymphocytopenia or immunosuppression than the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFTGIT) test. It is possible that the extremely low number (n = 3) of negative results contributed to their finding that lymphocytopenia or ground glass opacity (GGO) on com...

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Cunnington et al [1] for their constructive criticism. They acknowledge that " [n]umerous studies have confirmed the association of parasite sequestration with fatal malaria " but offer an alternate hypothesis, " that extensive sequestration is simply a consequence of endothelial activation and microvascular dysfunction " [1]. However, if sequestration is simply an epiphe...