As part of our surveys of the invasive malaria vector in four Sudanese states, including North and South Kordofan, Sennar, and White Nile, we collected 166 larvae. Our morphological identification confirmed that 30% of the collected mosquito samples were species, namely and , while the 117 specimens were (39%), (32%), (9%), (9%), (6%), (3%), and (3%). Considering the serious threat of emergence for the public health in the area and our limited resources, we prioritized samples for further genomic analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis an invasive Asian malaria vector that initially emerged in Africa in 2012 and was reported in Sudan in 2019. We investigated the distribution and population structure of throughout Sudan by using sequencing and molecular tools. We confirmed the presence of in eight border-states, identifying both natural and human-made breeding sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate longitudinal endothelial cell characteristics of children with posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy (PPCD).
Methods: In this prospective case-control study, children with PPCD were followed with slit-lamp photography and non-contact specular microscopy. Patient's eyes were subdivided according to the clinical subtypes of PPCD (vesicular, band, diffuse, and unaffected) and the number of lesions present on the posterior corneal surface.
Purpose: To study the longitudinal effect of anterior chamber inflammation on the corneal endothelium in children.
Methods: In this prospective longitudinal observational study, children (aged <18 years) with anterior chamber inflammation and those at risk of developing uveitis due to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) were included. Changes in central endothelial cell density (ECD) and morphological variables were determined by non-contact specular microscopy, and their correlations with uveitis activity and surgical interventions were analysed.
Purpose: To assess the impact of ocular trauma associated with obstetric forceps delivery on the corneal endothelium in children.
Methods: Five patients who attended the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, between 2013 and 2016 with a diagnosis of unilateral obstetrical forceps-related corneal injury were included. Clinical presentation, best-corrected visual acuity, corneal endothelial cell density (ECD, cells/mm), and measures of cellular morphology were obtained.
Background: The common lombosciatic is a disease observed at all ages. To the elderly, clinical data, treatment, clinical outcome and prognosis present sometimes some peculiarities.
Aim: Report of lombosciatic in the elderly.
Gout is one of the oldest and better understood among rheumatic diseases. It is characterized by chronic hyperuricemia and recurrent attacks of acute arthritis provoked by release of sodium urate crystals into joints. The manifestations of Gout can be abolished by lifelong urate-lowering therapy maintainine serum urate levels under 360 mmol/l.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 25-years-old man who had an ankylosing spondylitis associated with multiple exostoses. The patient had hip pain of inflammatory origin and back stiffness with x-ray findings suggestive of bilaterral sacroilitis, coxitis as well as exostosis of the humerus, radius, femor and tibia. This is occurred in Turkey, the association was described as a simple concidence due to the difference in the genetic mechanisms involved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present the case a 53-year-old patient followed-up since 1999, for erosive AR treated with methotrexate and glucocorticoids. In April 2000, he had an arthritis of the right knee. The identification of an enterobacter in blood culture, and synovial biopsy results permitted the diagnosis of septic arthritis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdult onset Still's disease is a rare systemic disorder of unknown etiology occuring in young adults. The diagnosis is difficult and based upon Yamaguchi's criteria after exclusion of infectious diseases, hemotologic process or autoimmune diseases. Clinical manifestations are various.
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