OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (25(OH)D) <50 nmol/L among recently arrived immigrants from Africa and Asia in Oslo, and to explore 25(OH)D levels according to origin, gender and age. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING Primary healthcare unit in Oslo, Norway, offering family immigrants, asylum seekers, United Nations (UN) refugees or individuals granted as...

introduction: esophagus cancer is most common gi malignancies in zahedan. this investigation was undertaken to define the epidemiology, and prognostic factors relevant to patients withesophagus cancer in this region. methods : we did a retrospective review of 175 patientswith esophagus cancer who presented to ali ebne abitaleb hospital and khatam alanbia hospitalin 2005-2010. data analysis was ...

a World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. b Department of Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Jai P Narain (email: [email protected]) The South-East Asia (SEA) Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), home to 26% of the world popul...

Background. Screening of children who are household contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases is universally recommended but rarely implemented in TB endemic setting. This paper aims to summarise published data of the prevalence of TB infection and disease among child contacts in South East Asia. Methods. Search strategies were developed to identify all published studies from South East Asia of house...

Partial 1D gene characterization was used to study phylogenetic relationships between 17 serotype O foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) viruses in Ethiopia as well as with other O-type isolates from Eritrea, Kenya, South and West Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America. A homologous region of 495 bp corresponding to the C-terminus end of the 1D gene was used for phylogenetic analysis. This stu...

two new species of the genus duvalius delarouzã©e from south west iran and one new perileptus schaum from south east iran are described. duvalius koeni sp. n. was collected in khuzestan and duvalius mohammadzadehi sp. n. in fars. the species are compared with d. hetschkoi matilei deuve. perileptus jelineki sp. n. was collected in baluchestan and hormozgan, and compared with other perileptus spe...