K. R. Islam, Ray R. Weil
Douglas F. Levinson, Peter Holmans, Claudine Laurent, Brien P. Riley et al.
Reports of substantial evidence for genetic linkage of schizophrenia to chromosome 1q were evaluated by genotyping 16 DNA markers across 107 centimorgans of this chromosome in a multicenter sample of 779 informative schizophrenia pedigrees. No significant evidence was observed for such linkage, nor ...
Elisabeth Njamkepo, Nizar Fawal, Alicia Tran-Dien, Jane Hawkey et al.
Together with plague, smallpox and typhus, epidemics of dysentery have been a major scourge of human populations for centuries1. A previous genomic study concluded that Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), the epidemic dysentery bacillus, emerged and spread worldwide after the First World War, with no...
Madhukar Pai, Prashant Yadav, Ravi Anupindi
Whether it is mobile phone service or vacation travel, good businesses know that success depends on providing a complete and customer-centric solution. Should patients with tuberculosis not be offered a complete solution that is patient-centred? After all, millions are affected1WHOGlobal tuberculosi...
Kay M. Calavan, Ray R. Weil
Abstract The advantages of intercropping a cereal with a grain legume are often limited by the dominance of the cereal, which severely inhibits the legume. A field experiment was conducted in 1983 and 1984 in southern Maryland to determine the effects of within‐row corn ( Zea mays L.) spacing on a p...
Weilin Liu, Xianlei Huang, Li-Guo Dou, Qianglong Fang et al.
ABSTRACT Controllable gas adsorption is critical for both scientific and industrial fields, and high-capacity adsorption of gases on solid surfaces provides significant promise due to its high safety and low energy consumption. However, the adsorption of nonpolar gases, particularly noble gases, pos...
Rayeed Anan Surontee, M M Hoque, Md Rajilur Rashed, Subrata Kumar Buswas et al.
Leptospirosis is a common zoonotic infection in tropical countries due to contact with water contaminated by the spirochaete Leptospira. Here, we present four different and unrelated cases of patients presenting with leptospirosis. A23-year-old pregnant woman hailing from Savar presented with asepti...
Rayeed Anan Surontee, M M Hoque, Tahsina Tasneem, Md Fariduzzaman et al.
Leptospirosis and scrub typhus are common zoontic illnesses in tropical countries. Leptospira, a spirochaete, can cause leptospirosis when a patient comes in contact with contaminated water. Following a period of bacteraemic illness, leptospirosis may progress to a more severe form. Weil’s disease i...
Ferdousi Hasnat, Mahbub Mutanabbi, Farhana Noman, Kanij Fatema et al.
Background: In tropical countries epidemic and endemic typhus are sometimes missdiagnosed as typhoid fever. Typhus infection is emerging in the subcontinent and clinically presents as nonspecific febrile illness. So high index of clinical suspicion is essential and the objective of the study was to ...
Olufẹmi Vaughan, Paul Nugent, Richard Crook, Katabaro Miti et al.
The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria edited by Adebayo O. Olukoshi (London: James Currey, 1993, pp.192, £35 hb, £9.95 pb). The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982–1991 by Jeffrey Herbst (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993, pp.xii + 180, £40). African Eldora...