Background and objectives: Dental technicians are in indirect contact with patients. Microorganisms find their way to dental labs through dental impressions. Infection control is a critical procedure to prevent the spreading of diseases. The objective of this study was to evaluate the levels of infection control knowledge and practice and the factors affecting them, in DLs in Yazd – Iran. Meth...

  Even though intervertebral disc degeneration can be found in the natural course of alkaptonuria, detection of the disease by black disc color change in a patient without any other presentation of alkaptonuria is an exceptionally rare condition. We have reported a very rare case of alkaptonuria presented with low back pain and steppage gait in a 51-year-old male with a complaint of chronic low...

INTRODUCTION The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are infectious diseases that principally impact the world's poorest people. They have been neglected for decades, initially as part of a general disregard for the developing world, and more recently due to the intensity of focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. SOURCES OF DATA Primary research and review articles were selected for incl...

Mitochondria harbour some of the most critical functions of life [1–3]. As the site of ATP synthesis by oxidative phosphorylation, they are the primary energy-generating system in almost all eukaryotic cells and are central to programmed cell death. Mitochondria also play major roles in a broad range of other key processes such as the synthesis of amino acids, haem, nucleotides and lipids, ion ...

A SURVEY of British literature leaves the impression that otomycosis has never held a prominent place among ear diseases in this country. Dismissing the condition in a few lines, most authors suggest that it occurs infrequently and that treatment is a simple matter of applying some wellknown preparation. It is, however, apparent in most clinics that the discharging ear still presents unsolved p...

The name neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) covers a range of diseases that cause disability, early death, and slowed physical and mental development. The first two in entries Table 1 are diseases that cause blindness. These diseases of neglected and impoverished peoples maintain a cycle of poverty and delayed development of the populations affected. The diseases themselves have been neglected ...

Endemic zoonoses are found throughout the developing world, wherever people live in close proximity to their animals, affecting not only the health of poor people but often also their livelihoods through the health of their livestock. Unlike newly emerging zoonoses that attract the attention of the developed world, these endemic zoonoses are by comparison neglected. This is, in part, a conseque...

We have developed several improved techniques because standard reduction software was inadequate for the Treasury Project on η Carinae. Though adapted specifically to HST/STIS/CCD data, some of these methods can be useful for images obtained with other instruments. For instance, our subpixel modeling technique reduces some of the evil effects of marginal sampling, i.e., in images where the pixe...