the rate of listeria abortion in tehran was investigated. abortion samples (200) were cold enriched at 4°c and subcultured on selective culture media containing acriflavin, nalidixic acid and potassium thiocyanate. sera of patients were tested serologically (if method) for screening, and results were confirmed by culturing the positive samples. antibody against l. mollocytogelles was obtained i...

BACKGROUND In Uganda, abortion is permitted only when the life of a woman is in danger. This restriction compels the perpetuation of the practice in secrecy and often under unsafe conditions. In 2003, 294,000 induced abortions were estimated to occur each year in Uganda. Since then, no other research on abortion incidence has been conducted in the country. METHODS Data from 418 health facilit...

Women of advanced maternal age are considered to be at a substantially increased risk of spontaneous abortion. The increased spontaneous abortion rate in older women rnight be associated with a defective vascular response to placentation, which rnight lead to fetal ischaemia and fetal dead. Doppler velocirnetry of the uterine artery allows non-invasive assessment of uteroplacental hemodynamics....

BACKGROUND Tanzania has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world, and unsafe abortion is one of its leading causes. Yet little is known about its incidence. OBJECTIVES To provide the first ever estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion in Tanzania, at the national level and for each of the 8 geopolitical zones (7 in Mainland plus Zanzibar). METHODS A nationally represen...

OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of abortion in Ecuador from 2004 to 2014 and compare the prevalence between the public and the private health care systems. METHODS This is a cross-sectional analysis of the overall mortality and morbidity rate due to abortion in Ecuador, based on public health records and other government databases. RESULTS From 2004 to 2014, a total of 431,614 spont...

CONTEXT Nearly half of unintended pregnancies and more than one-fifth of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion. No nationally representative statistics on abortion incidence or on the universe of abortion providers have been available since 1996. METHODS In 2001-2002, The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) conducted its 13th survey of all known U.S. abortion providers, collecting ...

BACKGROUND Nepal government has approved medical abortion and manual vacuum aspiration for early first trimester pregnancy. Both the procedures have been approved by World Health Organization for use in early first trimester. OBJECTIVES The study aims to compare efficacy and safety of medical abortion with surgical abortion in a district hospital of rural eastern Nepal. METHOD An observatio...

BACKGROUND Induced abortion has been legal in India on a broad range of medical and social grounds since 1980s. Often, induced abortion is resorted to as a means for contraception, and has a potential to be misused for sex selective feticide. We assessed the rates, trends, causes and determinants of induced abortions from 2008-12 in a rural community of northern India. METHODS Present study i...