Adults aged >or=65 years comprise the fastest-growing segment of the United States population, and older adults experience greater morbidity and mortality due to infection than do young adults. Although age is well established as a risk factor for infection, most clinical investigations of infectious diseases in older adults focus on microbiology and on crude end points of clinical success, suc...

Serum complement is valuable tool in determining the health status of fish. This study was conducted to examine in vitro activity of serum complement as an indicator of innate immunity in four sturgeon species, Acipenser stellatus, A. baeri, A. nudiventris and Huso huso (Chondrostei: Acipenseridae). The Effects of different temperatures, concentrations and volumes of serum on alternative comple...

BACKGROUND The low uptake of tetanus vaccine and its resultant high burden of tetanus in Nigeria suggest the need to improve routine and booster vaccination in children and adolescents. However, epidemiological evidence for vaccination in the adolescent age group needed for effective strategy and policy formulation is lacking. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of protective...

There is a famous saying in Upanishads called SARVESANTU NIRAMAYA means may no one suffers from illness. Medical plants can prevent and cure many diseases also boosts immunity which very essential COVID era. Indian farmers are suffering poverty, debt traps, health nutritional issues. Rural by growing medical promote nutrition status of the entire population as well their own socio economic stat...

This study allows understanding the course of process tissue regeneration in pathology nervous and endocrine systems. These systems are closely interconnected. The integrity their pathogenic actions on body is called neroendocrinopathies. They affect tissues especially skin epithelium, independently causing dystrophies changing healing rate wounds received during disease. wound depends many fac...

In this era of emergence of superbugs, one is in dire need of treatment modalities that treat a patient without hampering the microflora and immunity status. Traditional medicines like herbal by-products are currently being researched over and reintroduced in the commercial market as old wine in new bottles. This paper highlights the use of such plant products in dentistry, short-termed as “Phy...

201 blood samples were collected by cluster sampling from 7-11 years old children and measles antibody titer was measured by hemagglutination inhibition test. despite testing all the sera, the results were analysed on the 139 samples that had documented vaccination records and no history of measles. among 139 children 44 had received 2 doses of vaccine one dose before 12 and one after 15 months...

Strebel et al. misinterpreted the authors' paper on the role of schools in measles transmission. As Strebel et al. noted, the main reason for the outbreak was low vaccine coverage among children aged 5-14 years, together with a marked reduction in the incidence of measles over the past 10 years. Because of the high measles vaccine coverage in younger age groups, many children in Niakhar have ...