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Smoking in Africa: the coming epidemic.

Review English Taha A, Ball K. World Smoking Health. 1982 Summer;7(2):25-30. Abstract This discussion describes the development of tobacco smoking in Africa, the increase in consumption, and how tobacco use is promoted. It also presents evidence to show that smoking-related diseases similar to those seen in Western nations may be emerging. Tobacco was first introduced …

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Clinical and serologic study of Czecho-Slovak citizens working in developing countries from the aspect of risk of infection with Coxiella burnetii

Case report Slovak Lukacovicova Z, Zboncakova L, Bazlikova M, Brezina R, Kazar J. Stredisko pre cudzokrajne choroby FN, Bratislave, Slovakia. Bratisl Lek Listy. 1993 Aug;94(8):415-8. Abstract In the years 1984-1988 we observed, besides the routine examinations of history, clinical state, and laboratory tests, also the presence of antibodies to Coxiella burnetii antigens by means of …

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Rickettsiosis of the typhus fever type. Its joint appearance with a left-ventricular thrombus and single-vessel coronary disease

Case report German Sitzler G, Winter UJ, Peters G, Gheorghiu T, Hilger HH. Klinik III fur Innere Medizin, Universitat Koln. Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 1994 Mar 25;119(12):418-22. Abstract A 44-year-old German fell ill in Libya, where he had been living for 10 years, with high fever, rigor and a nonitching centrifugally spreading macular rash, which had …

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Oesophageal Atresia with Tracheoesophageal Fistula Repair by End to Side Technique (A Case Report)

Case report English D.B.Gahukamble department of Surgery (Paediatric), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A .J. Garyounis Medical Journal Vol. 10, No. 1-2 . January 1987: 58-60 Abstract A Two-days old baby with oesophageal atrasia and tracheoesophageal fistula was treated surgically by ligation of fistula and end-to-end side anastomosis between the two segments. This …

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Stereological Analysis of Mucosal Mast Cell Number in the Rat Intestine

Original article English M.A. Mughal, S. Zubi, P. Strojny, W. Sawicki Department of Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Al Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. Garyounis Medical Journal Vol. 11, No. 1-2 . January 1988: 11-17 Abstract Sections of rat jejunum, ileum and colon were stained with toluidine blue and acid fuchsin and analysed with …

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Serum IgE Levels in Libyan Patients with Bronchial Asthma

Original article English A.S.M. Giasuddin 1, G. Borysewicz 2, A. Basha 3 1-Department of Laboratory Medicine, Al Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. 2-7th April Hospital, Ministry of Health, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. 3-Department of Medicine, Al Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. Garyounis Medical Journal Vol. 11, No. 1-2 . January 1988: 18-24 Abstract The serum total IgE …

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Feeding and Weaning Pattern of Libyan Children in Benghazi

Original article English V. Sen 1, R.V.S. Ranawat 2 1-Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. 2-Department of Medicine, Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J Garyounis Medical Journal Vol. 11, No. 1-2 . January 1988: 27-31 Abstract A study of current feeding and weaning practices was conducted in Keesh …

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Complications of Hydatid Cysts of Liver in Children

Original article English D.B. Gahukamble, F.S. Rakas Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Al Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. Garyounis Medical Journal Vol. 11, No. 1-2 . January 1988: 32-35 Abstract The present study showed that about 1/3 of the pediatric patients with hydatid cysts of liver presented with complications. These included infection, intraperitoneal rupture, …

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A Two-Year Bacteriological and Chimical Analysis of Drinking Waters in Benghazi

Original article English A. El Hossadi 1, S.S. Au 1, Tahra A.K. Majed 1, A. Alian 1, R. Farooq 1, A.H.A. Rashid 1, E.M. Abdulla 2 1-Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Garyounis, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. 2-Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine,Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, S.P.L.A.J. Garyounis Medical Journal Vol. 11, No. …

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