Road traffic accidents are a major health problem in developing countries. Saudi Arabia is no exception to this worldwide dilemma. The increase in per capita income in the last two decades has made automobile available for alJ households. This increase along with other reasons has put the traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities at an alarming figures. This paper presents the various traffic...

1 King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2 Beni-Suef University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Beni-Suef, Egypt 3 King Abdulaziz University, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 4 Cankaya University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Comput...

Cutaneous myiasis infestations are normally found in South and Central America but increasing travel has resulted in their spread to non-indigenous countries with increasing frequency. We report two cases of cutaneous infestation by Dermatobia hominis in Taif, Saudi Arabia. There was no history of travel outside Saudi Arabia. The source of infection appears to be domestic cattle indicating that...

1 Jagiellonian University, 31007 Krakow, Poland 2AGH University of Science and Technology, 30059 Krakow, Poland 3Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia 4Earth Science & Engineering and Center for Numerical PorousMedia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, S...

1 Red Sea Research Centre, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, King Abdelaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 3 Marine Science Department, Faculty of Marine Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt 4 Departm...

The ant genus Carebara of the Arabian Peninsula is revised. Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 is synonymized under Carebara arabica Collingwood & van Harten, 2001. Carebara arabica is redescribed and a Neotype is fixed based on a specimen collected from southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A new species, C. fayrouzae sp. n. is described from Saudi Arabia based on queens, major and mi...

According to recent estimates, the kingdom ranks the highest second country in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region for Leishmaniasis (L. major) infection, with more than 4,000 reported cases; and the third country for Hookworm infection in the region, with 0.4 million reported cases. Lymphatic filariasis also has been reported in Saudi Arabia [9]. Accurate estimates of the NTD’s cases in...

Cupping Therapy Simulation Course; A Pilot Study Assessing Self Reporting of Confidence, Expectations/Satisfaction and Performance Tamer Aboushanab, Mohammed Khalil, Ahmed El-Olemy, Saud Alsanad 1 National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt....

This new species (Phthiria sharafi sp. nov.) represents the first record of the subfamily Phthiriinae (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Saudi Arabia. The species was collected from Garf Raydah Protected Area, Abha, Asir Province, south-western part of Saudi Arabia, using a Malaise trap erected in a site rich in olive, cactus and Juniper trees. The type locality has an Afrotropical influence, with the...

Eric Johlin,1,* Nouar Tabet,2 Sebastián Castro-Galnares,1 Amir Abdallah,3 Mariana I. Bertoni,1 Tesleem Asafa,2 Jeffrey C. Grossman,1 Syed Said,2 and Tonio Buonassisi1,† 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 2King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia 3King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Center of Research Excelle...