In the words of the subtitle this is an j illustrated and detailed account of the early i organisation and work of the Australian Medical Units in Egypt in 1914-15. It is written by Sir James Barrett and Lieut. P. E. Deane, Quartermaster of the first Australian General Hospital in Egypt. Men who have served in Egypt are well aware of the great energy and usefulness of the author Sir James Barre...

Direct subsidization of healthcare services has been widely used in many countries to improve health outcomes. It is commonly believed that the poor are the main beneficiaries from these subsidies. We test this hypothesis in Egypt by empirically analyzing the distribution of public healthcare subsidies using data from Egypt Demographic and Health Survey and Egypt National Health Accounts. To de...

Although the 2011 uprisings in Egypt led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, they have not yet been able to change the nature of the country’s political system. A year after the country’s first non-military president took office, Egypt’s political situation became more or less similar to the way it had been before 2011. The structure of the relationship between the state and the society in Egypt, hig...

1 Department of Forensic Medicine and Veterinary Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena-Egypt 2 Department of Environmental Toxicology, Faculty of Biology, University Essen-Duisburg, Essen-Germany 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University, Sıhyyie/Ankara-Türkiye 4 Animal Nutrition Group, Institute of Animal Science, U...

1 Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory (CTPL), Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia 2 Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan 81528, Egypt 3 Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 4 D...

results the highest prevalent genotype was genotype 4a, which was found in 57 patients (92%) followed by 2 isolates (3%) with genotype 4o, 2 strains (3%) with genotype 1g and one isolate (2%) with genotype 4n. conclusions this molecular epidemiology study revealed high prevalence of hcv genotype 4, subtype 4a among egyptian patients residing in sharkia governorate, egypt. patients and methods t...

1 Department of Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2 Desert Agriculture Initiative, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 3 Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt, 4 Department of Soil and Environmental Science, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, ...

B. V. Fine,1,* T. A. Elsayed,1,2 E. G. Sorte,3 and B. Saam3 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 2Electronics Research Institute, Dokki, Giza 12622, Egypt 3Department of Physics, University of Utah, 115 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0830, USA (Received 4 January 2012; revised manuscript received 1 August 2012; p...

UNLABELLED Despite having the highest hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence in the world, the ongoing level of HCV incidence in Egypt and its drivers are poorly understood. Whereas HCV mother-to-child infection is a well-established transmission route, there are no estimates of HCV infections resulting from vertical transmission for any country, including Egypt. The aim of this study was to estima...

Egypt has the highest prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world, estimated nationally at 14.7%. An estimated 9.8% are chronically infected. Numerous HCV prevalence studies in Egypt have published various estimates from different Egyptian communities, suggesting that Egypt, relative to the other nations of the world, might be experiencing intense ongoing HCV transmission. ...