We determined the seroprevalence of latent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection among young and elderly adults to test for a change in seroprevalence with increasing age. Thirty-two young and 32 elderly adults were tested for antiCMV IgG, T-cell subgroup analysis, mental status and daily life activity. There was no significant difference in the seroprevalence of CMV infection between the two groups ...

Objective: The present study was done to find out the frequency of malignant tumors of bone and to categorize the prevelence of various histological types of osseous malignancies with respect to age, sex and site of origin. Setting: This study included consecutive cases of malignant bone tumors, which were diagnosed in the department of pathology at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi dur...

HIV/AIDS as a global epidemic has exerted its terrifying influence for quite some time now. Currently, a vaccine for its prevention appears to be near impossible. HIV has spread across the globe without deference to gender, race, religion, or socioeconomic status. Despite a growth in HIV awareness and interventions, there are perplexingly different prevelence rates in different countries with s...

Aim. Cervical cancer is one of the most common female malignancy with high mortality rates in developing countries. Our purpose is to present cervical cytologic abnormalities and the detection rate of epithelial abnormalities by cervical cytology (CC). Method. A total of 8972 conventional pap smear tests collected between August 2010 and August 2012 from Çankırı State Hospital were retrospectiv...

Chromium is a first row transition element in the periodic table. It may resembles the group 16 elements of the oxygen group but only in the acidity of the trioxide and in its covalent nature. Cr(III) with its d configuration forms thousands of inert complexes; an important characteristic of these complexes, in aqueous solutions, is their relative kinetic inertness. The radius of Cr(III) is 0.7...

Specimen data in taxonomic literature are among the highest quality primary biodiversity data. Innovative cybertaxonomic journals are using workflows that maintain data structure and disseminate electronic content to aggregators and other users; such structure is lost in traditional taxonomic publishing. Legacy taxonomic literature is a vast repository of knowledge about biodiversity. Currently...

Rhizoctonia solani is considered a destructive and widely distributed soil borne pathogenic fungus causing black scurf on potato tubers globally. Morphological, microscopic characteristics virulence studies were done ten R. isolates isolated from four districts of Maseru, Thaba-tseka (Mantsónyane), Quthing Berea representing three agro-ecological zones; the mountains, lowlands Senqu river valle...

BACKGROUND Poor diet, characterized by a low diet quality score, has been associated with greater prevelence of obesity and hypertension. However, the evidence is inconsistent across diet quality scores and by sex. The aim was to investigate the relationship between diet quality and obesity and hypertension. METHODS Adults (n = 4908; age 45.2 ± 0.24 years) were included from the cross-section...

Today, Chinese people rely heavily on Electric Two-Wheelers (E2W), both the scooter and the bike styles (Cherry and Cervero, 2007), thus the production keeps growing (Asian Development Bank, 2009). This phenomenon coincides with a high rate of E2W rider mortality. However, reviewing the literature indicates a dearth of publications related to the characterization of E2W driver behaviors. In Eur...