Risk-Oriented Characteristics of Current Epidemiological Situation on Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever in the Astrakhan Region

Objective - risk-oriented assessment of current epidemiological situation on Crimean hemorrhagic fever (CHF) in the Astrakhan Region.Materials and methods.Documents and reports of the Astrakhan Plague Control Station, Rospotrebnadzor Administration in the Astrakhan Region, and A.M.Nichogi Regional Infectious Clinical Hospital were utilized for the

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Severe isoniazid related sideroblastic anemia

Isoniazid induced sideroblastic anemia is a rare event.We report case of a 45 year old Caucasian women with development of severe THC-A Flower anaemia 4 month after introduction of Isoniazid as part of Tuberculosis treatment.While haemoglobin fell to 47 g/L and erythrocyte count to 1.5 G/L, reticulocytes were very low (reticulocyte production index

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Longitudinal study of urban malaria in a cohort of Ugandan children: description of study site, census and recruitment

Abstract Background Studies of malaria in well-defined cohorts offer important data about the epidemiology of this complex disease, but few have been done in urban African populations.To generate a sampling frame for a longitudinal study of malaria incidence and treatment in Kampala, Uganda, a census, mapping and survey project was conducted.Method

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