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Prevention of spinal cord injuries in Australia
An Awareness and Prevention Team of five lecturers has been employed for 5 years funded by the Spinal Research Foundation at the Royal North Shore...
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Epidemiology of Human Rabies in Kenya
For the last five years human rabies cases have tremendously increased in Kenya, transmitted through the bites of rabid domestic as well as wild...
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Legislation for Rabies Control
Model legislation for rabies control is presented, for use by countries when drawing up or updating their national laws concerning this disease. The...
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Water-Borne Helminthiases: Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis)
A special feature of the geomedical situation of the Philippines archipelago is the presence of a disease which occurs only in some of the islands...
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Chemotherapy of Gastrointestinal Nematodiasis in Man
Intestinal worms have always been and are still problems for humans. The awareness of practitioners has been generally limited to the...
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Reactions to Dipterous Biting Flies
The blood-sucking dipterous flies are composed of several distinct families, which are shown in Table 9.1. The common feature of this group is the...
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Infestation with Anoplura—Lice
The two genera of Anoplura or sucking lice, Pediculus and Pthirus, are obligatory parasites of man. [Pthirus is the correct zoological name for the...
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Serum aminopeptidases in pregnant vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)
Two distinctive aminopeptidase isozymes have been identified in the serum of the vervet monkey. The l -methionine-sensitive cytosol aminopeptidase...
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High Altitude Pulmonary Edema: Analysis of 166 Cases
Ascent to altitude can cause a number of complaints: acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude retinal hemorrhages (HARH), high altitude pulmonary...
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High Altitude Physiology and Medicine
High altitude physiology and medicine has again become important. The excep tional achievements of mountaineers who have climbed nearly all peaks...
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Results of the Map** of Brucellosis Occurrence
As a result of at times decades of successful measures of control against brucellosis the European continent no longer constitutes a uniform region...
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The Arthropods
Arthropods influence human well being not only as hosts of parasitic organisms and vectors of a wide variety of pathogens but also as direct causes...
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Venomous Animals and Their Toxins
Venomous Animals have been a threat to man at all times, in the warm and wilder regions more than in the temperate areas. People in especially...
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Formal genetics of Fanconi's anemia
The formal genetics of Fanconi's anemia were investigated on the basis of 21 families from different European countries, and of 69 families from the...
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Immunoallergologic Aspects of Syphilis
Syphilis is a chronic infectious disease caused by T. pallidum, systemic from the outset. Since virtually any organ or tissue may be affected,...
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The economics of human parasitic infections
It is generally conceded that parasitic infections of man can and do have important socio-economic consequences. It follows also that control of...