The Hajj and Umrah religious mass gatherings hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases.The pilgrimages have been associated with a number of local and international outbreaks of meningococcal disease.These include serogroup A disease outbreaks in 1987 and throughout the 1990s and two international
Toxoplasma gondii establishes chronic infection by forming tissue cysts, and this chronic infection is one of the most common parasitic infections in humans.Our recent studies revealed that whereas CD8+ T cells of genetically resistant dulces mara candy flavors BALB/c mice have the capability to remove the tissue cysts of the parasite through their
Introduction: knowledge retention at medium and long term in cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation is a problem in education systems worldwide.Objective: to determine the level of knowledge retention about basic cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation in medical students.Method: prospective longitudinal research; developed at the University of Medical Sciences C
Abstract Bromelia includes 66 species, grouped in three subgenera: Bromelia, Distiacanthus and Karatas.The genus is one of the earlier divergent groups within Bromelioideae, a subfamily with innumerable problems of generic delimitation.Considering that few phylogenetic studies have included more than one species of Bromelia, the objectives of this
Typhoid fever is a systemic infection associated with fever that is most often caused by Salmonella typhi, which remains a serious problem in developing countries.Once the bacteria are ingested, it quickly multiplies within the stomach, liver, or gallbladder and finally enters the bloodstream, causing symptoms such as fever and headache.The nationa