The presence of a translocation between two chromosomes in the I3-I5 (D) group does not usually give rise to any phenotypical abnormality and may be relatively common in the population (Hamerton, Giannelli, and Carter, I963). Such translocations have, however, been reported in a patient with XXY Klinefelter's syndrome (Lejeune, Turpin, and DeCourt, i960), and Hamerton et al. (I963) describe a f...

By Laman Amin -ZaKI (Baghdad), The Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 1971. 

Wael Khamas1*, Mohamed Al-Tikriti2, Mohanad Albayati3, Suzana Tkalcic1 and Curtis Eng4 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 2College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Veterinar...

1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to A.M. Al-Abbassi: [email protected]). Received: 26/06/02; accepted: 15/09/04 ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. This paper documents the clinical a...

The research used the satellite image (Landsat 7 ETM ) within the thermal infrared sixth band (TIR6) and geographic information system (GIS) to determine the air pollution and its relationship with the land cover (LC) and land use (LU) of Baghdad city. Concentration of total suspended particles (TSP), lead (Pb), carbon oxides (CO, CO2), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) were obtained from 22 ground mea...

1Department of Community Medicine, Saddam College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Chest and Respiratory Diseases Institute, Baghdad, Iraq. 3National Tuberculosis Programme Manager, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT In a prospective cohort study in Iraq, schoolchildren with a positive tuberculin skin test during the nationwide survey in 2000 were followed up in 2002 to determine prevalenc...

1National Tuberculosis Programme Manager, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Department of Community Medicine, Saddam College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. 3Chest and Respiratory Diseases Institute, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study was made of 500 patients and 500 health care workers randomly selected from 250 primary health care centres throughout Iraq to evaluate knowledge, atti...

In 2007 there was an epidemic of cholera in Iraq with 4667 cases. The first case in Baghdad was diagnosed on 19 September 2007 and the last case on 13 December 2007. In all, 136 cases were reported (2.9% of the country total) in 6 of the 13 districts of Baghdad. The median age of the cases was 11 years (range = 0.3-71 years). There were 3 deaths giving a case fatality rate of 2.2%. Bacteriologi...

Assist. Lect. Nada Najeel Kamal * Assist. Prof. Dr. Loay E. George Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of Technology College of Science, University of Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq Baghdad, Iraq Abstract— A License Plate (LP) is a rectangular metal plate contains numbers, characters and words, fixed on the car body and is used to identify the vehicles. In recent y...