Nadeem ur Rehman MBBS Faran Emmanuel MBBSMSc Saeed Akhtar PhD Country Office for Pakistan, UNODC; Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan; Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait Correspondence to: Saeed Akhtar Email: [email protected]...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infectious diseases of humans, with Escherichia coli being responsible for >80% of all cases. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) occurs when bacteria colonize the urinary tract without causing clinical symptoms and can affect both catheterized patients (catheter-associated ABU [CA-ABU]) and noncatheterized patients. Here, we compared the vir...

It is important to note that my presentation was a summary of our work and that a paper with a fuller description of procedures and detailed tables and risk estimates will be published in another journal (1). One questioner asked what factors determined "no exposure" and what proportions of the cases and controls had no exposure? For each place of residence or work, the following factors could ...

This paper discusses the study of Abdullah Saeed's contextual interpretation by using a philosophical-contextual approach. Departing from two major camps in understanding Qur'an, namely textualist and contextualist camps, this is present to discuss how views, methodology, application interpretation. thinking on idea approach that he offers result influence his predecessor, Fazlur Rahman with do...

The American Board of Urology (ABU) has a very distinct mission that is often misunderstood by urologists in the community. In addition, there is an enormous number of acronyms associated with the ABU. In this paper, I will attempt to explain the workings of the ABU and to define and explain the acronyms. The mission of the ABU is to act for the benefit of the public to insure a high quality, s...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Medical Campus, Jalan Sultan Mahmud, 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, UniSZA, Gong Badak Campus, 21300, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. 3 Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, 16150, Kubang Kerian,...

Abdullahi Rabiu Abubakar, Nordin Bin Simbak, Mainul Haque Masters Student, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FPSK), Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. 2 Professor and Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FPSK), Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Kampus Kota, Jalan Sultan Mahmud 20400, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. 3 Prof...

BACKGROUND Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is common and often leads to unnecessary antimicrobial use. Reducing antibiotic overuse for ABU is therefore an important issue for antimicrobial stewardship. We performed this study to investigate the appropriateness of ABU management and to evaluate physicians' knowledge and practice regarding ABU. METHODS We reviewed all urine cultures of ≥10(5) cf...

30 An Evidence-Based Approach to the Use of Social Media to Promote Political Literacy among Youth in the Sultanate of Oman; Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Salim Said AlKindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts an...

Title: Cellular adaptation through fitness-directed transcriptional tuning Authors: Peter L. Freddolino, Jamie Yang, and Saeed Tavazoie Affiliations: Department of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York City, NY, 10032, USA *Correspondence: Saeed Tavazoie, [email protected] † Current address: Department of Biological Chemistry, Univ...