The etiology of reptilian viral diseases can be attributed to a wide range of viruses occurring across different genera and families. Thirty to forty years ago, studies of viruses in reptiles focused mainly on the zoonotic potential of arboviruses in...
Background: While people with severe mental illness have been found to be more overweight and obese in Western nations, it is unknown to what extent this occurs in Middle Eastern nations and which eating behaviours contribute to obesity in Middle Eas...
Jensen, Jan L.;Blanchard, Ian E.;Bigham, Blair L.;Dainty, Katie N.;Socha, Doug;Carter, Alix;Brown, Lawrence H.;Craig, Alan M.;Travers, Andrew H.;Brown, Ryan;Cain, Ed;Morrison, Laurie J. BACKGROUND: Many health care disciplines use evidence-based decision making to improve patient care and system performance. While the amount and quality of emergency medical services (EMS) research in Canada has increased over the past two decades, t...
Background Acute lower respiratory infections are the commonest cause of morbidity and potentially preventable mortality in Indigenous infants. Infancy is also a critical time for post-natal lung growth and development. Severe or repeated lower airwa...
Background: Molecular phylogenetic studies on scleractinian corals have shown that most taxa are not reflective of their evolutionary histories. Based principally on gross morphology, traditional taxonomy suffers from the lack of well-defined and hom...
Background: With increasing rates of chronic disease associated with lifestyle behavioural risk factors, there is urgent need for intervention strategies in primary health care. Currently there is a gap in the knowledge of factors that influence the ...
Background: The Health Improvement and Prevention Study (HIPS) study aims to evaluate the capacity of general practice to identify patients at high risk for developing vascular disease and to reduce their risk of vascular disease and diabetes through...
Cantacessi, Cinzia;Campbell, Bronwyn E.;Young, Neil D.;Jex, Aaron R.;Hall, Ross S.;Presidente, Paul J.A.;Zawadzki, Jodi L.;Zhong, Weiwei;Aleman-Meza, Boanerges;Loukas, Alex;Sternberg, Paul W.;Gasser, Robin B. BACKGROUND: The disease caused by Haemonchus contortus, a blood-feeding nematode of small ruminants, is of major economic importance worldwide. The infective third-stage larva (L3) of this gastric nematode is enclosed in a cuticle (sheath) and, once ...
Mazigo, Humphrey D.;Waihenya, Rebecca;Lwambo, Nicholas J.S.;Mnyone, Ladislaus L .;Mahande, Aneth M .;Seni, Jeremiah;Zinga, Maria;Kapesa, Anthony;Kweka, Eliningaya J.;Mshana, Stephen E.;Heukelbach, Jorg;Mkoji, Gerald M. Background Malaria, schistosomiasis and intestinal helminth infections are causes of high morbidity in most tropical parts of the world. Even though these infections often co-exist, most studies focus on individual diseases. In the present study, we ...
Background Appendicitis is a frequent surgical emergency worldwide. The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV, and the association of infection with clinical, intraoperative and histological findings and outcome, among patien...
