| Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a major infectious disease among cattle, other farm animals, and human population. It results from infection ofMycobacterium bovis.A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1000clinically suspected bovine animals (435 cows and 565 buffaloes) of smallholder dairy farms in five towns i.e., Bin Qasim, Gaddap, New Karachi, Korangi and Super highway of Karachi, Pakistan...

Analysis and Visualization of Dynamic Networks Name: Faraz Zaidi, Chris Muelder, Arnaud Sallaberry Affil./Addr. 1: College of Computing and Information Sciences, Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (KIET), Karachi, Pakistan [email protected] Affil./Addr. 2: Computer Science department, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, U.S.A [email protected] Affil./Addr. 3...

Presenting a case study of enclavisation in Karachi (Pakistan), this thesis addresses conceptual, theoretical and empirical gaps in literature on enclaved urbanism so as to present an analysis of enclavisation and violence as inter-relational processes. By taking into account the politics of navigating enclaved urbanism in Karachi, this project contributes to the agenda of developing a critical...

Demographic transition in Pakistan produced an annual growth rate of over 4% in urban areas as compared to 3% for Pakistan as a whole with lower mortality and higher marital fertility in urban areas and rural to urban migration. Primarily, the data of the project "Metropolitan Women's Productive Choices" were utilized along with findings of the Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey (PCPS) o...

INTRODUCTION Comparability and Quality Control in Cancer Registration remains an essential component of standardisation of cancer incidence data. The information provided by registries is used as a base-line data for cancer control and cancer research. As such misleading information will encourage fictious cancer patterns with over or under registration of some cancer sites. METHODOLOGY The r...

objective: to find out the effect of physical activities and obesity among ramadan fasting hypertensive patients of karachi. methods: 117 hypertensive patients were selected conveniently from the staff and faculty members of dow university and other locations of karachi. the inclusion criterion was the hypertensive patients with at least 20 days of fasting. the investigators visited three times...

Relative frequency of neurologic diseases in Karachi, with special reference to inflammatory disorders has been estimated by using the comprehensive data from the Deptt. of Neurology, Dow Medical College, Karachi, The incidence of subacute scierosing pan encephalitis has been estimated to be approx. 10 per million. Figures for multiple sclerosis appear comparable to those from India, Turkey and...

A survey was conducted to determine the number and the species of mosquitoes which transmit diseases in Karachi with special reference to possible vector of Japanese encephalitis virus-Culex tritaeniorhynchus. This species has been found throughout Karachi. Four other species mosquitoes were also identified. With detection of 5 serological probable cases of JE in the larger study, the next ques...

OBJECTIVE To identify the awareness regarding noise pollution and its adverse effects on human health in the people of urban areas of Karachi. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Urban areas of Karachi, from September to October 2012. METHODOLOGY A survey was conducted with 50 selected subjects of urban areas of Karachi with their informed consent. The questio...

1Pulmonary Section, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. 2Memon Diabetic and Diagnostic Centre, Karachi, Pakistan. 3World Health Organization, Pakistan. ABSTRACT In a densely populated urban area of Karachi, Pakistan, a questionnaire survey was made of the knowledge and practices of 120 private general practitioners about the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB). The majority knew th...