Background: Lassa virus (LASV) is the cause of lassa fever (LF) belonging to the Arenaviridae family. Clinical diagnosis is often difficult because of symptoms commonality with other infectious diseases. Early and rapid diagnosis is critical for therapy initiation and LF transmis...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i330147
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic illness and so far, there are almost 8860331 confirmed infected cases worldwide concentrating mainly in Americas and Europe, whereas data are less prominent in African countries. In Libya, the preliminary reports revealed there ar...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i330146
The extent of usage of antimicrobials is expected to increase markedly over coming years due to intensification of farming practices in most of the developing countries. The main aim of the study was to assess the pattern of farming practices and antibiotic use in the selected po...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i230145
Introduction and Objectives: The results of two simulations of the propagation of an infectious disease are presented. The objective of this research is to track the propagation of an infectious disease as a function of particle density and time. The results are given as a percen...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i230144
Corona virus COVID-19 is a pandemic whose devastating effects were felt in all corners of the world and by all humanity of whatever age, gender, economic and social status from the beginning of January 2020 and the intensity increasing day-by-day. The patients that had symptoms w...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i230143
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health issue in low-middle income countries. Accurate and timely diagnosis is key to effective management. Diagnosing Multi Drug Resistance Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is mostly done with phenotypic Lowenstein Jenson (LJ) proport...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i230142
Andreus Roberto Schlosser, Saulo Augusto Silva Mantovani, Rayanne Alves de Arruda, Felipe Monteiro de Araújo, Rudi Nogueira, Cássio Braga e Braga, Breno Wilson Benevides Andrade, Mardelson Nery de Souza, Thasciany Moraes Pereira, Antonio Camargo Martins, Luiz Fernando Melo Lima & Mônica da Silva-Nunes·Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases·2020
Background: Malaria remains a health problem in the Amazon and since 2005 the state of Acre has high incidence of malaria. Treatment with Coartem® for cases of falciparum malaria was introduced in Acre in August 2012. In Brazil, there is still no published study on the effectiven...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i230141
COVID 19 can be considered as the most devastating pandemics that happened in the 21st century. Many researches on its virology, epidemiology, transmission, diagnosis, and treatments are ongoing. Studies on the causative virus of COVID 19 has been successfully carried out. Its ge...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i130140
Mardelson Nery de Souza, Saulo Augusto Silva Mantovani, Andreus Roberto Schlosser, Rayanne Alves de Arruda, Cássio Braga e Braga, Breno Wilson Benevides Andrade, Thasciany Moraes Pereira, Antonio Camargo Martins, Rudi Nogueira, Breno Matos Delfino, Kauan Alves Sousa Madruga & Mônica da Silva-Nunes·Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases·2020
Aims: To characterize the frequency and clinical characteristics of venomous animals’ accidents in Mâncio Lima, Acre. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The study took place in Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brazil, between 2013 and 2015. Methodology: We incl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i130139
This paper examined the demographic, temporal and spatial distribution of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Vietnam. COVID-19 data abstracted from the official website of Vietnam Ministry of Health, which provides details of each new, infected case, including age, sex, place...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i130138
Michael Boah, Daniel Adjei Amporfro, Timothy Adampah, Stephen Bordotsiah, Baiming Jin, Ernestine Sefakor Coffie, Emmanuel A. Ayamga & Emmanuel Akanpabadae·Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases·2020
Aims: Knowing the risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) opens up avenues for identifying target groups for intensified case finding. We aimed to identify the risk factors for pulmonary TB (PTB) incidence in a rural district in northern Ghana. Study Design: A matched case-control stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i130137
Objective: This study aimed to assess the association between HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk behaviors relating to HIV infection among African American undergraduate students at a Historically Black University. Methods: A cross-sectional study method was used. A total of 400 partic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i130136
Aims: The COVID-19 is most recently discovered of the corona viruses which caused respiratory infections consisting of two large scale pandemics MERS & SARS and found to be zoonotic in origin. The disease started from Wuhan local seafood market in China and infected 2,761 peo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v3i430135
Background: Skin diseases are common among school age children. In the absence of population based studies, data from hospital based studies could be a pointer to the enormity of the problem within the community. Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and pattern of skin diseases...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v3i430134
Pelumi Daniel Adewole, Muhammed Usman, Maroof Gbadebo Oyeniyi, Damilola Kazeem Suleman, Olayemi Olubunmi Alaka, Ibukun Adeola Adetoro & Olumiyiwa Samuel Alabi·Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases·2020
Introduction: Early detection of drug resistant tuberculosis with more sensitive and accessible method together with appropriate control measures among other factors are keys to interruption of transmission and mortality rate. Study Design: This study conducted a retrospective r...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v3i430133