Pneumonia, defined as infection of lung parenchyma, is associated with severe complications especially in the very young and old patients. It is the world's leading cause of childhood mortality. The World Health Organization (WHO) classification and guidelines are commonly used in Sudan in the diagnosis and management of pneumonia patients. A group of 224 patients at Gaafar Ibn Oaf Children's H...

1Centre for Science and Technology, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. 2Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine, University of Juba, Juba, Sudan. ABSTRACT A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among displaced people in Khartoum state to determine risk factors associated with malaria. Data were collected from 856 households about sociodemographic ...

1Centre for Science and Technology, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. 2Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine, University of Juba, Juba, Sudan. ABSTRACT To find the determinants of malaria mortality among displaced people, a cross-sectional descriptive study using verbal autopsy was carried out in 2 camps in Khartoum state, Sudan. The heads of 856 households...

Objective: This retrospective descriptive study to, assess the expression of Her-2 in endometrial carcinoma & to correlate the results with other known clinic pathologic features in Sudanese patients . Material and Methods: Twenty three (23) paraffin-embedded formalin-fixed tissue blocks of endometrial carcinoma were stained by immunoperoxidase stains for Her-2/neu (DAKO, Denmark), collected wi...

We assessed the clinical and epidemiological features of severe malaria cases before admission, management in hospital and outcome and associated factors in 4 hospitals in different areas of Sudan over a 5-month period in 2000. There were 543 children admitted representing 21% of all paediatric admissions. Median age was 36 months. Treatment at home was the first action taken by 57.5% of famili...