Introduction Kala-azar is a disease resulting from infection by Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum.Most patients with the disease exhibit prolonged fever, wasting, anemia and hepatosplenomegaly without complications.However, some patients develop severe disease with hemorrhagic manifestations, bacterial infections, jaundice, and edema dysp
Development and initial validation of the ibadan knee/hip osteoarthritis outcome measure
Background and Aim: Development of outcome measures remains a focus of health research in the 21st century.Outcome measures originally developed for the Nigerian environment are very rare.The aims of this study were to develop an outcome measure for Helmets management of hip and knee arthritic conditions, and to investigate the validity and respons
Prevalence of Listeria in ice creams in Baghdad province
The aim of this study was concerned on the prevalence of Listeria spp.in the ice cream samples collected from the different Day and Night Cream pastry shops and downtown stores of Baghdad province during December 2009 till April 2010.A total of 50 ice cream samples (25 locally produced samples from raw and imported powdered milk and 25 imported sam
Self-assembled carbon monoxide nanogenerators managing sepsis through scavenging multiple inflammatory mediators
Sepsis, a life-threatening syndrome of organ damage resulting from dysregulated inflammatory response, is distinguished by overexpression of inflammatory cytokines, excessive generation of KIDS VIT C 250MG ORANGE reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (RONS), heightened activation of pyroptosis, and suppression of autophagy.However, current clinical symp