Blastocystis is a common intestinal micro-eukaryote found in both humans and non-human hosts and known to be genetically very diverse. It has been divided into numerous subtypes (STs), nine of which have been identified in humans to date. Surveys of ST prevalence have started to emerge over the past few years but to date no data are available for any African country except Egypt and Tanzania. I...

To The Editor: I had the privilege of teaching in Garyounis Medical University and then Al Arab Medical University at Benghazi during its golden period from 1980 to 1990. During that period the university had eminent teachers of great caliber from India, United States of America and the United Kingdom. Around 150 to 200 students were admitted to the course. The medium of instruction was English...

UNLABELLED Medical research and publications are the back-bone for advancing the medical field. We identified the Pubmed medical publications that are affiliated with Libya to shed some light on the contribution of this country's medical community to the PubMed database. All publications affiliated with Libya in the PubMed were counted over a five year period ending December 2006. We also used ...

Salem Sati IT Factuality, Misurata University, Libya Email: [email protected] Abubaker Alhutaba Department of Electronic Engineering, CIT Factuality, Libya Email: [email protected] Ibrahim Abutalag Department of Electronic Engineering, CIT Factuality, Libya Email: [email protected] Mohamed Eshtawie Department of Electronic Engineering, CIT Factuality, Libya Email: e...

Soil organic carbon is important for sugarcane production as it plays a significant role in the development of soil aggregates and improvement any agricultural soil, hence increasing health. Increasing matter encourages aggregation slows rate breakdown. act nuclei stabilization with time. It improves attributes by content enhances physical properties that favor water infiltration retention. How...

More importantly in Libya, HD patients seem to have a higher prevalence of the disease compared to other more developed regions. Research from Libya on this issue although scant, is available, as evident by a relatively recent publication on the matter, a study by Daw et al, conducted in Tripoli from 1999 to 2001 [3]. The study showed a 20.5% prevalence of HCV among HD patients, which is of sim...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology of diabetes and Ramadan fasting was reported from many Muslim countries, but not from Libya. METHODOLOGY We interviewed 493 consecutive diabetic patients at Benghazi Diabetes and Endocrine Center for the potential complications of fasting during Ramadan. RESULTS We found 70% of diabetic patients completed the 30 days of Ramadan fasting. Hypo- and hyperglycemia wa...

T he emergence of multidrug resistant bacteria is a global health problem (1Á3), affecting the management and outcomes of a wide spectrum of infections particularly in hospitals. Resistance contributes to mortality and compromises the healthcare security of nations. Moreover, resistant pathogens are spread between countries by human travel (4Á8), including the medical transfer and evacuation of...

This paper examines the impact of E-learning and the ICT in the Higher Education (HE) in Libya and UK. A comprehensive analysis of the problems linked to the use of e-learning and ICT in Libyan institutions is performed. It is obvious the pronounced information technology (IT) gap between Libya and the developed world due to social, political and economic conditions in an Arab country where the...

rotavirus is a common infection causing 450,000 deaths annually primarily in children 5 years and below. despite the high burden of disease, little is known about the epidemiology of rotavirus in libya. the aim of this study was to estimate the rotavirus disease burden among libyan children.a cross-sectional study was carried out prospectively among children 5 years old and below between august...