Publications by authors named "Muawia Yousif Fadlelmola Mohamed"

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  • Asymptomatic leishmaniasis significantly contributes to the ongoing transmission of Leishmania within endemic communities, complicating efforts to eliminate the disease.
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of 111 articles found an overall prevalence of 11.2% for asymptomatic leishmaniasis in the general population, with higher rates (36.7%) in those living with symptomatic patients.
  • The study revealed that 64.9% of individuals with leishmaniasis were asymptomatic, and males were more likely to develop symptoms, with a notable prevalence remaining stable over the past 40 years.
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Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the third leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. We aimed to disclose the prognostic values of examined (dissected) lymph node (ELN), negative lymph node (NLN), and positive (metastatic) lymph node (PLN) counts and lymph node (LNs) ratio in PCa patients.

Methods: We extracted data of PCa patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program.

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Background: The massive abundance of studies relating to tropical medicine and health has increased strikingly over the last few decades. In the field of tropical medicine and health, a well-conducted systematic review and meta-analysis (SR/MA) is considered a feasible solution for keeping clinicians abreast of current evidence-based medicine. Understanding of SR/MA steps is of paramount importance for its conduction.

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Background: Malaria parasites have developed resistance to most of the known antimalarial drugs in clinical practice, with reports of artemisinin resistance emerging in South East Asia (SEA). We sort to find the status of artemisinin resistance and efficacy of different modalities of the current artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs).

Methods: We carried out a systematic search in 11 electronic databases to identify in vivo studies published between 2001 and 2017 that reported artemisinin resistance.

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