Oral Health-related Knowledge and Assessment of Oral Health Status of Diabetic Patients Attending Dental Clinic at College of Dentistry, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Aim: This study was aimed to evaluate the oral health status and knowledge of diabetic and nondiabetic patients attending dental clinic at College of Dentistry, Hail, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Materials And Methods: It was an observational cross-sectional study. Using nonprobability convenient sampling technique, data were collected from 202 respondents.

Molecular epidemiology and genotyping of TT virus isolated from Saudi blood donors and hepatitis patients.

Background: In Saudi Arabia, the epidemiology and clinical significance of Torque Teno virus (TTV) infection alone and in patients with hepatitis virus infections have not been determined in a single study. In this paper, we molecularly investigated the rate and genotypes of TTV infection among Saudi Arabian blood donors and patients with viral hepatitis. The effect of TTV coinfection on viral hepatitis was also examined.

Changes in adenosine deaminase activity in ageing cultured human cells and the role of zinc.

The level of adenosine deaminase (ADA; EC 3.5.4.

Detection of genital colonization of group B streptococci during late pregnancy.

Objective: To detect group B streptococcal carrier state of Saudi females during 3rd trimester of pregnancy and to assess type of specimens and the techniques used for the organism detection.

Methods: A total of 867 consecutive vaginal and rectal swabs were obtained from 217 pregnant women at > 28 weeks of gestation and their follow up testing from King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Swab-specimens were cultured comparatively on Islam and Edwards blood agar plates, and into selective Lim broth.

GB virus C/hepatitis G virus infection in Saudi Arabian blood donors and patients with cryptogenic hepatitis.

Viral hepatitis is a common infection in the developing countries. Aside from Hepatitis A-E viruses, a novel hepatitis virus termed GBV-C, or HGV, was recently described. We have studied the prevalence of this virus among Saudi Arabian healthy blood donors (n = 200) and patients with cryptogenic (non-A-E) hepatitis (n=71).