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Tuberculous peritonitis in an endemic area

Digestive and Liver Disease, 2003
Tuberculous peritonitis is a fatal disease if not diagnosed in time.To identify the clinical, laboratory, and diagnostic features of tuberculous peritonitis in Iranian patients.Included in the study were all cases of tuberculous peritonitis with a definite diagnosis confirmed by pathology in four referral University Hospitals in Tehran between 1989 and
R, Sotoudehmanesh   +3 more
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Neurobrucellosis in an Endemic Area of Brucellosis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003
Central nervous system involvement occurs less than 5% of patients with brucellosis. A prospective analysis of 73 patients with brucellosis identified 13 (17.8%) neurobrucellosis cases from February 2001 to May 2002. 10 patients had chronic meningitis and 3 acute meningitis. Two patients had only psychiatric disorders.
Hürrem, Bodur   +5 more
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Nodding Syndrome in Onchocerciasis Endemic Areas

Trends in Parasitology, 2016
High prevalence of nodding syndrome (NS) and other types of epileptic seizures have been reported in many onchocerciasis endemic regions in Africa for decades. To improve quality of life of affected patients and families, there is an urgent need to unravel the relationship between these epileptic disorders and onchocerciasis, and to design treatment ...
Colebunders, R.   +2 more
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Area and Endemism

The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1994
There are three major difficulties encountered by those dealing with the phenomenon of endemism: a semantic problem, the absence of a clear conceptual framework, and an analytical problem. First, the terms endemic and endemism are used in the literature in unclear or contradictory ways.
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Squamate areas of endemism in Cuba as determined by parsimony analysis of endemicity

Cladistics, 2018
AbstractCuba, the largest island in the Greater Antilles, hosts a high diversity of native squamate reptiles and is characterized by a complex geological history. The island has undergone repeated submergence and emergence, positioned on the dynamic border between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates.
Christopher M, Murray, Brian I, Crother
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Management of Hyperparathyroidism in an Endemic Goiter Area

World Journal of Surgery, 1998
AbstractIn an endemic goiter area patients with hyperparathyroidism (HPTH) frequently also have thyroid abnormalities. In a retrospective study of 95 patients with HPTH we assessed the diagnostic accuracy of imaging techniques (ultrasonography or radionuclide scanning) for preoperative localization of parathyroid adenomas.
P J, Klingler   +7 more
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On the Identification of Areas of Endemism

Systematic Biology, 1994
Methodological developments in cladis? tic biogeography have mostly focused on converting taxon-area cladograms into area cladograms and on obtaining general area cladograms (Nelson and Platnick, 1981; Wiley, 1988; Page, 1990; Nelson and Ladiges, 1991).
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[Endemic zoonosis in Mediterranean area].

Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia, 2013
The Mediterranean is historically considered an area of high concentration of zoonoses. Mediterranean countries socio-economic features have favoured, over time, the onset of different types of zoonosis. Many of these may affect many occupational categories, first of all farmers, people working in abattoirs and processing products of animal origin. New
FENGA, Concettina, PUGLIESE, Michela
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Schistosomiasis in an Endemic Area in the Dominican Republic

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1952
Summary A study was made of the endemic area of schistosomiasis mansoni at Hato Mayor in the Dominican Republic. Australorbis glabratus, the snail host for Schistosoma mansoni, seems to have a very restricted distribution in the vicinity of Hato Mayor. Numerous A.
L, OLIVIER, C M, VAUGHN, J R, HENDRICKS
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum in a Trachoma Endemic Area

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 1994
Chlamydia trachomatis can be directly transmitted by sexual or perinatal contact and indirectly transmitted by flies or fomites. Whether distinct epidemiologic forces among human populations or biologic characteristics of the organism are responsible for the different routes of transmission is uncertain.To determine if ophthalmia neonatorum and ...
Datta, P   +7 more
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