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A cross-sectional study of isolates from sputum samples from bacterial pneumonia patients in Trinidad

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
We determined the frequency of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus, and Gram-negative enteric bacteria (GNEB) in pneumonia patients, determined the antibiograms of these pathogens, and investigated the relationship ...
Nabeetha A. Nagalingam, Abiodun A. Adesiyun, William H. Swanston, Maria Bartholomew   +3 more
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of drivers towards road traffic regulations in Trinidad, West Indies

, 2020
Poster presented at the 2020 National Health Research Conference held from 19th-20th November 2020.Conference Sponsors: Ministry of Health; University of the West Indies, St.
Dwarica, D (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Sa, Dr. B (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Ferguson, M (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Felix, M (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Ellis, H (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Fernades, J (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Foncette, K (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Dookie, S (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago), Dorset, M (The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences,Centre for Medical Sciences Education, Trinidad and Tobago)   +8 more
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Evaluation of Susceptibility Results from the Liofilchem Antifungal Multodiscs and the VITEK® 2 Susceptibility Tests for Candida Species Causing Bloodstream Infections at the University Hospital of the West Indies

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Determination of local Candida species susceptibility profiles is imperative in establishing empiric guidelines for candidemia, given the associated high mortality rates. Whilst broth dilution methods (eg. microdilution) are considered the “
Mrs Rochelle Charvis, Dr Glendee Reynolds Campbell, Dr Neil McKnight, Mrs. Alrica Bruce-Mowatt   +3 more
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Rickettsia africae in the West Indies

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Rickettsia africae is the agent of African tick-bite fever, a mild but common disease of local persons and tourists in Africa. The major vector of this spotted fever group rickettsia is most likely Amblyomma variegatum, the tropical bont tick, which has ...
Patrick J. Kelly
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

A healthy patient with positive mantoux test but negative quantiferon Gold assay and no evidence of risk factors – to treat or not to treat?

IDCases, 2019
A 56-year-old woman who vaccinated as a child with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), now tests positive to the tuberculin skin test (TST) but test negative to the Quantiferon Gold assay.
Lazara Karelia Montane Jaime, Patrick E. Akpaka, Sehlule Vuma, Angel A Justiz-Vaillant   +3 more
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing online learning readiness and perceived stress among first year medical students during COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country study

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021
Md Anwarul Azim Majumder, Damian Cohall, Nkemcho Ojeh, Mike Campbell, Oswald Peter Adams, Bidyadhar Sa, Katija Khan, Russell Pierre, Helen Trotman-Edwards   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source