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Clinical Characteristics of the First 100 Patients of COVID-19 in Tobruk, Libya: A Brief Report From Low-Resource Settings

. . Ismail F, Farag A, Haq S, Kamal MA. . Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2021 Apr 19:1-4. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2021.123. Online ahead of print. Abstract OBJECTIVE: This study aims to report the clinical features of a cohort of patients with suspected coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Tobruk, Libya, and reflect upon the diagnosis challenge in …

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Modelling the prevalence of hepatitis C virus amongst blood donors in Libya: An investigation of providing a preventive strategy

. . Daw MA, Shabash A, El-Bouzedi A, Dau AA, Habas M; Libyan Study Group of Hepatitis and HIV. . World J Virol. 2016 Feb 12;5(1):14-22. doi: 10.5501/wjv.v5.i1.14. Abstract AIM: To determine hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroprevalence among the Libyan population using blood donors and applying the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to predict …

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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 in milk and dairy products from Libya: Isolation and molecular identification by partial sequencing of 16S rDNA

. . Garbaj AM, Awad EM, Azwai SM, Abolghait SK, Naas HT, Moawad AA, Gammoudi FT, Barbieri I, Eldaghayes IM. . Vet World. 2016 Nov;9(11):1184-1189. doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2016.1184-1189. Epub 2016 Nov 3. Abstract AIM: The aim of this work was to isolate and molecularly identify enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 in milk and dairy products in …

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History of Foot-and-mouth disease in North African countries

. . Kardjadj M. . Vet Ital. 2018 Mar 31;54(1):1-12. doi: 10.12834/VetIt.928.4711.2. Abstract Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly infectious and contagious transboundary viral disease of domesticated and wild cloven-hoofed animals. Wide prevalence of FMD in Asia and Africa associated with huge economic losses to livestock farming and industry prompted global concern. The present review …

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Diplectanids from Mycteroperca spp. (Epinephelidae) in the Mediterranean Sea: Redescriptions of six species from material collected off Tunisia and Libya, proposal for the ‘Pseudorhabdosynochus riouxi group’, and a taxonomic key

. . Chaabane A, Neifar L, Justine JL. . PLoS One. 2017 Feb 2;12(2):e0171392. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171392. 2017. Abstract Diplectanid monogeneans are gill parasites that can infect fish in huge numbers and thus become harmful, especially in maricultured fish. It is therefore useful to have taxonomic tools, such as keys, to identify species. The following diplectanid …

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Cancer incidence in the Tobruk area, eastern Libya: first results from Tobruk Medical Centre

. . Ismail F, Elsayed AG, El-Garawani I, Abdelsameea E. . Epidemiol Health. 2021 Aug 3:e2021050. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2021050. Online ahead of print. Abstract BACKGROUND: Cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and it is an increasing problem in developing countries. Estimation of the incidence of cancer is important, especially in regions with …

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Monitoring orbital precession of EO-1 Hyperion with three atmospheric correction models in the Libya-4 PICS

. . Neigh C, McCorkel J, Campbell P, Ong L, Ly V, Landis D, Fry S, Middleton E. . IEEE Geosci Remote Sens Lett. 2016 Dec;13(12):1797-1801. doi: 10.1109/lgrs.2016.2612539. Epub 2016 Oct 13. Abstract Spaceborne spectrometers require spectral-temporal stability characterization to aid validation of derived data products. EO-1 began orbital precession in 2011 after exhausting onboard …

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Rabies in bovine: First case report of rabies in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Libya

. . Sharif M, Arhaiem A, Giadan O, Adam A, Abdalla F, Dayhum A, Bengoumi M. . Open Vet J. 2021 Jan-Mar;11(1):96-99. doi: 10.4314/ovj.v11i1.14. Epub 2021 Feb 3. Abstract BACKGROUND: Rabies is still one of the most neglected diseases in developing countries. It is endemic to North Africa, although rabies incidence in North Africa is …

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‘Psychosis of civilization’: a colonial-situated diagnosis

. . Scarfone M. . Hist Psychiatry. 2021 Mar;32(1):52-68. doi: 10.1177/0957154X20968063. Epub 2020 Nov 18. Abstract In the late 1930s, when colonial psychiatry was well established in the Maghreb, the diagnosis ‘psychosis of civilization’ appeared in some psychiatrists’ writings. Through the clinical case of a Libyan woman treated by the Italian psychiatrist Angelo Bravi in …

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