Background: Knowledge of the Sociodemoraphic factors associated with HSV-2 seroprevalence and identification of the associated patient-recognizable clinical features will enable informed preventive public health interventions. There’s yet no documented data on the clinical and so...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7014
Background: Human Herpes Virus 2 (HSV-2) infection has been shown to be significantly associated with several obstetric complications, especially if the infection occurred during the pregnancy. Advocacy for policy formulation and the design of interventions requires local data on...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7020
Background/Aims: Gastric aspirate specimen is accepted as an alternative specimen of choice to sputum in the diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (TB); and specimen microscopy is usually the only available bacteriologic confirmatory test for streaming cases into the Nati...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/5966
Background/Aims: Cytomegalovirus is one of the opportunistic infections associated with significantly high morbidity and mortality among patients living with HIV/AIDS. Clinical manifestation of CMV infection is worse among HIV patients not receiving highly active antiretroviral t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/4442