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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe emergence of antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae is an international health problem. Apart from South Africa few data on pneumococcal resistance are available for sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWith the global upsurge in tuberculosis (TB), fuelled by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, and the increase in multidrug-resistant TB, the condition has become a serious occupational hazard for health care...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, methods for the identification of the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus and its vector, blackflies of the Simulium damnosum complex (S. damnosum sensu lato (s.l)), based on the amplification of parasite...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn a community study during a reference period of 1 year, 192 cases of jaundice were detected in an urban population of 69440 in Alwar, Rajasthan. Detected by paramedics and confirmed by physicians, these cases gave an...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed[Alpha].sub.1]-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency, also known as [Alpha].sub.1]-antiprotease inhibitor deficiency, is a disease caused by genetically determined AAT deficiency. It occurs as a result of inheritance of two...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA total of 19 annual or biannual audits were performed over a 12-year period by an independent microscopist on randomized subsamples of Kato slides examined for Schistosoma mansoni eggs by Kenyan microscopists from the...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe effect of different water discharge patterns from the artificial Oyan Reservoir in Ogun State, Nigeria, on water level fluctuations and on schistosomiasis transmission was investigated between August 1990 and March...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn the global effort to eradicate dracunculiasis guinea-worm disease) one of the main tools is the use of filters for filtering unsafe drinking-water The expensive and high-quality monofilament nylon filters, which for...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedInformation on cause of death among adults in sub-Saharan Africa is essentially nonexistent Published sources provide statistics on both cause-specific and overall rates of mortality, but closer examination reveals that...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis study examines the efficiency of EPI cluster sampling in assessing the prevalence of diarrhoea and dysentery. A computer was used to simulate fieldwork carried out by a survey taker. The bias and variance of...