Background and Aim: Scrub typhus, a potentially severe but treatable infection is a major cause of acute non-malarial febrile illness in children in the rural tropics. The present study aims to explore the association between the liver function tests in the cases of scrub typhus...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v14i1276
Alejandro Coutiño Valdovinos, Indira Vega Gaitan, Beatriz Garnica Guerrero, Iracema Islas Vega, Josefina Reynoso Vázquez & Jesús Carlos Ruvalcaba Ledezma·Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases·2023
Introduction: SRAS-Cov-2, First found on December 2019 in Wuhan China has turned into a worldwide health care problem. The changes on genetic drift, genetic recombination, natural selection, and other mutations originated variants of medical concern because of the changes on its...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i4275
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can lead to severe complications and even death, especially in young children. Children who are not vaccinated against measles are at a higher risk of contracting the disease. In the first 5 weeks of 2023, a total of 209 suspected...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i4274
The rise in multidrug resistance is a growing public health concern among agents of respiratory tract infection, which is responsible for morbidity, mortality and costs in Africa. This study was designed to survey for multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens in patients with lower...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i4273
Histoplasmosis is a systemic fungal disease caused by the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum and is more common in immunocompromised patients. Histoplasmosis can present with a wide range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic illness to severe organ dysfunctions and m...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i4272
Tetracyclines are broad-spectrum antibiotics effective against a wide variety of microorganisms including bacteria, both Gram-positive and Gram-negative, mycoplasmas, rickettsiae, chlamydiae, and protozoan parasites. Owing to their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities and inex...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i4271
Aims: Venous thromboembolism is a state of hypercoaguability occurring due to various risk factors causing a prothrombotic state. In this case series, 3 cases are discussed where patients presented as DVT revealing underlying infection later on during the progression of it’s cour...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i3270
Whether pathogens in the ingested blood meal can enter the salivary glands of mosquitoes is a decisive factor in disease transmission. Unlike the known mosquito-borne pathogens (e.g. ZIKA, dengue, etc.), most human pathogens cannot enter the salivary glands of mosquitoes, and the...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i3269
Background: Many acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) related deaths were reported in Yemen. The question is about what risk factors contribute to this excess death. Hodeidah governorate in the Western part of Yemen is exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic like other...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i3268
Aim: During the second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic, a life threatening fungal infection, mucormycosis have been detected in patients post COVID 19 disease. Commonly known as the ‘black fungus’ can causes tissue necrosis, inflammation and necrosis of the head and neck regions, p...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2023/v13i3267