The genus Micatagla Argaman (Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae) is reviewed from Egypt, based on specimens collected from Wadi Allaqi (Aswan, Southern Egypt) and Kom Osheim (Fayoum) and those deposited in Egyptian insect collections as well as recorded data from the literature. A single species, Micatagla klugi (André), was previously recorded from Egypt. Micatagla allaqiensis sp. n., Micatagla ez...

BACKGROUND A 2006 avian influenza (AI) outbreak resulted in mass removal of chickens in Lower Egypt, which decreased the household supply of poultry. Poultry, a key animal-source food, contains nutrients critical for child growth. This paper examines determinants of stunting between 2006 and 2008 in children 6 to 59 months of age within the context of the AI outbreak. METHODS The 2005 and 200...

Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia: Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, Founding Elections. By Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 255p. $120.00 cloth. - Volume 20 Issue 4

Mohamed Meshref1*, Nihal ElShazly2, Mohamed Nasr3 and Rehab AbdElhai4 *Correspondence: [email protected] 1Departments of Clinical Oncology Kasr El Eini cancer centre – Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Al-Saray street, El-Manial, Cairo 11956, Egypt. 2Department of Clinical Neurophysiology– Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Al-Saray street, El-Manial, Cairo 11956, Egypt. 3Department o...

The genus Macroocula Panfilov in Egypt is reviewed. Seven species were previously recorded from Egypt: M. magna (Invrea, 1965), M. mahunkai Argaman, 1994, M. morawitzi (Radoszkowski, 1888), M. nigriventris (Invrea, 1960), M. nitida (Bischoff, 1920), M. savignyi (Klug, 1829) and M. sinaica (Invrea, 1963). Macroocula brothersi Gadallah & Soliman, sp. nov. (Egypt, Wadi Shab, Red Sea) and M. salehi...

Through bioactivity-guided fractionation, eight phorbol diesters, including five new ones (1-5), were isolated from the seeds of Croton tiglium collected in Egypt. 12-O-Acetylphorbol-13-decanoate (6) and 12-O-decanoylphorbol-13-(2-methylbutyrate) (4) potently inhibited the HIV-1-induced cytopathic effect on MT-4 cells (IC100 values of 7.6 ng/ml and 7.81 micrograms/ml, and CC0 values of 62.5 mic...

Nermin El-Halawany , Abd-El-Monsif A. Shawky , Ahmed F.M. Al-Tohamy , Lamees Hegazy , Hamdy Abdel-Shafy , Magdy A. Abdel-Latif , Yasser A. Ghazi , Christiane Neuhoff F and Dessie Salilew-Wondim , Karl Schellander F A Department of Cell Biology, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt. B Avisina Group, Benha, Qalubia, Egypt 13776. C Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture. Cairo Un...

the aim of this study was to identify and prioritize the risky behaviors and explore the newly emerging pi related to egyptian habits that may lead to hcv transmission.from january 2011 until january 2012, a case control study matched on socio demographic factors was conducted comparing 540 hepatitis c patients and their contacts who were hcv serologically negative (102 subjects). they were ran...

1 Laboratory of Neurogastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 2 Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, Sadat City University, Sadat City, Egypt 3 Department of Psychiatry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 4 Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Irelan...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV), was first identified in 1989 [1], it is a spherical, enveloped, single stranded RNA virus belongs to Flaviviridae family and having humans and chimpanzees as the only species vulnerable to its infection [2,3]. There are at least 7 genоtypes and more than 67 subtypes of HCV were identified, the different HCV genotypes have different distribution [4]. HCV Genotype 4 is th...