Mathias W.R. Pletz,*†1 Randolph V. Fugit,‡1 Lesley McGee,* Jeffery J. Glasheen,§ Darcie L. Keller,¶ Tobias Welte,† and Keith P. Klugman*# *Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ‡Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA; §University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA; ¶Univ...

This original study describes the intra-urban distribution of cases of leprosy in residents under 15 years old in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; the study also identifies the environment in which Mycobacterium leprae is being transmitted. The cases were distributed by operational classification, clinical forms, type of contact and the addresses were geo-referenced by neighborhood. Between 2007 and 20...

SUMMARY Different degrees of neurological and psychological problems are observed in endemic goiter inhabitants. To determine the effect of iodine deficiency on IQ, we checked the IQ and size of the thyroid of 194 students of an endemic goiter area and compared with that of 224 students of a non-endemic goiter area in Kohkiloyeh & Boyer Ahmad province. The average IQ of students in endemic goi...

In order to investigate goiter prevalence in Boyer-Ahmad, an Iranian tribal province, 87 families were randomly selected in Yasuj township and Doruhan county. Clinical examination of the subjects disclosed 95% of females and 87% of males over 6 years of age to be goitrous. Grade 2 goiter had the highest prevalence among females. In males grade 1 b was the most prevalent. Hormonal studies o...

BACKGROUND In tuberculosis (TB) endemic parts of the world, patients with pulmonary symptoms are managed as "smear-negative TB patients" if they do not improve on a two-week presumptive, broad-spectrum course of antibiotic treatment even if they are TB microscopy smear negative. These patients are frequently HIV positive and have a higher mortality than smear-positive TB patients. Lack of acces...

this checklist aims to reviews and summarize the results of the systematic and zoogeographical research on the iranian inland ichthyofauna that has been carried out for more than 200 years. since the work of j.j. heckel (1846-1849), the number of valid species has increased significantly and the systematic status of many of the species has changed, and reorganization and updating of the publish...

Current recommendations for tuberculosis control are to screen high risk populations and provide chemoprophylaxis for those infected. In Edmonton, Alberta, one strategy has been to identify and provide TB skin tests to newly arrived immigrant school age children from TB endemic areas. The difficulty has been in identifying these children in the school population. This article describes a proces...

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The aphid genus Aspidophorodon Verma, 1967 is reviewed, with descriptions of three new species from China, namely Aspidophorodon (Aspidophorodon) cornuatus Qiao sp. nov., Aspidophorodon (Aspidophorodon) musaicus Qiao sp. nov., and Aspidophorodon (Aspidophorodon) obtusus Qiao sp. nov.. Aspidophorodon sinisalicis Zhang, 1980 and Trichosiphonaphis lijiangensis Zhang, Zhong & Zhang, 1992 are consid...