It is a dull day when there is not at least one media report of a claim that research has identified some new environmental cause of disease. Such claimed causes concern a wide range of supposed hazards including medical interventions such as the measlesmumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, the thimerasol (mercury) preservative in other vaccines, dietary factors of many different kinds (coffee, alcohol,...

"Personality has different meanings for theologians, philosophers and sociologists, and in psychology it has been used in many ways" wroteGW Allport some 50 years ago.' Writing today, he might well have included epidemiologists amongst those challenged to develop their own approach to the problem of personality. Popularly, personality is understood largely in terms of traits or types using cate...

vulvovaginal candidiasis (vvc) is a common disease among women worldwide, therefore, accurate and rapid diagnosis of causative agents based on molecular techniques utilizing amplification of target dna is highly recomendad for epidemiological purposes and for effective treatment. the aim of this study was to identify clinically candida species from vvc patients by restriction fragment length po...

conclusions the results indicate a rapid increase in the number of hiv/aids cases in east azerbaijan, necessitating immediate attention and strategies to combat the rapid spread of the disease. development of provincial and national hiv/aids strategies demands more accurate and comprehensive hiv/aids surveillance. background this study was performed in response to the rapid propagation of hiv/a...

OBJECTIVES Epidemiological investigations of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks rely on the rapid identification and typing of clinical and environmental Legionella isolates in order to identify and control the source of infection. Rapid bacterial whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is an emerging technology that has the potential to rapidly discriminate outbreak from non-outbreak isolates in a clinical...

Introduction. The emergence of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has led to a rapid spread novel infection (COVID-19) worldwide. Since February 1, 2021, date, more than 103,989,900 cases and 2 million deaths have been reported globally. incidence death rate among medical staff worldwide, as well in Republic Moldova continues be very high, whereas preventive measures prevent infections remains im...

abstract        typing of bacteria is an important part of epidemiological studies on nosocomial infections. bacterial identification methods have dramatically improved in recent years, which is mainly due to advancements in the field of molecular biotechnology. in many cases, molecular techniques have replaced phenotypic typing methods. currently, a wide range of bacterial typing techniques is...