Mr. President and Gentlemen,?Malta, the principal island of a small group called the Maltese Islands, which comprises Malta, Gozo, and Comino, is situated some 50 miles south of Sicily, which can easily be seen on a clear day, and some 200 miles east of the African mainland. The main geographical fact to be noted is that Malta, subject as it is to visitations of cholera, lies in a direct path o...

Cory White and Daniel Hiranandani Computer Science Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Christopher S. Olstad Marine Resources Development Foundation, 51 Shoreland Drive, Key Largo, Florida 33037 e-mail: [email protected] Keith Buhagiar Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta, M...

The aim of this paper to describe what Transcultural Psychiatry is. It attempts to describe stigma in Malta and how it comes about that the Mental Hospital in Malta is named for Our Lady of Mount Carmel and finally attempt to put Mount Carmel Hospital and its dedication within Maltese Culture and the culture of the Mediterranean. The paper demonstrates that to understand this, it is necessary t...

Count Sir Luigi Preziosi (1888-1965) was a famous ophthalmologist from the island Republic of Malta. He received his ophthalmic training in Rome and the United Kingdom. He practiced ophthalmology in Malta for 45 years and was a professor at the University of Malta. Like many physicians in Malta, he was active in the politics and governance of his country, serving as president of the Senate, pre...

Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurology & National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London,WC1N 3BG, Department of Neurosurgery, Essex Centre for Neurosciences, Queen’s Hospital, Romford, Essex, RM7 0AG, UK, Department of Anatomy,Genetics & Cellular Biology, University of Malta, Msida, MSD.06, Malta and Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Ume ,...

Correspondence Professor Giuseppe Di Giovanni, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta and Neuroscience Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK. Tel.: +356 23402776 Fax: +356 21310577 E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected] Received 24 August 2015; revision 15 October 2015...

We report the first documented cases of sandfly fever virus infection in travellers returning from Malta to Switzerland in autumn 2011. These cases illustrate the importance of considering sandfly-borne viral infection in the differential diagnosis of febrile patients from the Mediterranean island Malta. Raising awareness among physicians is relevant especially now at the beginning of the summe...

Malta has one of the highest incidences of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Europe. However, there is only limited typing data available. In order to analyse the local situation, forty-five isolates from the Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta, were characterised using diagnostic microarrays. The most common strain was ST22-MRSA-IV, also known as UK-EMRSA-15 (30 isolates). S...

By using a methylcellulose clonal assay, we cultured peripheral blood erythropoietic precursors (BFU-E) from an adult couple whose child had HbF Malta-I(gamma 117 His leads to Arg), a G gamma variant, and measured the synthetic rates of HbA, HbF, and HbF Malta-I. Hemoglobin was labeled with 14C-amino acid in culture, separated by slab gel isoelectric focusing technique, and quantitated by autor...

1Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Greek Agricultural Organization Demeter, 14123 Athens, Greece 3Department of Food Studies and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida ...