The study aims at describing the achievements and challenges of Leprosy control in Kaduna State using appropriate indicators. The study was a five year (2004-2008) retrospective review of the Leprosy records and annual reports of all the twenty three LGAs in Kaduna State. Various Leprosy indicators were calculated and presented in different graphic presentations. Focus group discussions were or...

practicable, so that in a few cases the diagnosis is purely clinical. For the sake of comparison an abstract of two other sets of cases has been prepared. One is taken from the statistics of the Madras General Hospital published by Captain Niblock, whose interesting paper will be found in the Indian Medical Gazette of May 1902. The other series is taken from the annual reports of St. Thomas's H...

Prevalence of cysticercosis among cattle and pigs slaughtered in the Lublin province in the years 2009-2012 was evaluated. The study draws its data from annual reports of the Veterinary Inspectorate in Lublin. Cysticercus bovis was detected in 1038 animals (0.19%) out of 542,963 heads of cattle in the Lublin province, whereas Cysticercus cellulosae was found in 150 (0.0044%) out of 3,367,444 ex...

INTRODUCTION. IN March, 1959, the Belfast Hospitals Management Committee appointed a fulltime research mycologist, and subsequently a routine mycological diagnostic service was established at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Since then a series of annual reports in this journal (Mackenzie and McArdle, 1960; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Bell, 1961; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Rusk, 1962, 1963) have described f...

We report a new measurement of the cosmological Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) diminution of ∆T ' −(750 ± 200) μK at 10.55 GHz with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope towards the A 2218 cluster of galaxies. We also report and analyse the X-ray observations of the A 2218 cluster of galaxies with the ROSAT satellite. The position and the strength of the measured SZ diminution are in excellent agreement...

In a recent Letter, Berghöfer & Bowyer rediscussed the analysis of BeppoSAX LECS data of the cluster of galaxies Abell 2199 as presented by Kaastra et al., in particular the detection of a soft X-ray excess. Berghöfer & Bowyer stated that their analysis method is better suited and does not show evidence for a soft X-ray excess. Here we find it necessary to publish a rebuttal, because it can be ...

We aimed to examine progress in global road injury mortality since the initiation of Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. We examined annual percent changes in age-adjusted road traffic mortality using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Association between changes in road traffic mortality and legislative efforts in individual nations was explored usin...

We have investigated factors affecting the probability that a woman with breast cancer participating in a mammographic screening programme will be diagnosed by the screen. Data from a large American case-control study, with subjects drawn from women participating in an annual screening programme, were used. During the screening programme, 409 cases were identified, the mode of diagnosis being s...

In this paper, we present the results of comparing the angular distribution of Abell clusters with Galactic HI measurements. For most subsamples of clusters considered, their positions on the sky appear to be anti-correlated with respect to the distribution of HI column densities. The statistical signiicance of these observed anti-correlations is a function of both richness and distance class, ...