Original article English El-Ghodban A, Ghenghesh KS, Marialigeti K, Esahli H, Tawil A Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Etovos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. J Med Microbiol. 2006 Feb;55(Pt 2):179-82. Abstract Sixty-three Staphylococcus aureus strains (40 from clinical sources and 23 from food sources) were examined for toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) using PCR, phage …
Original article English El-Mistiri M, El-Mangush M, El-Sahli N, El-Hamri F, Habil S, Bugrara F, Azzuz R, Attia A, El-Katib A, Hammad S El Jamahiriya, Hopital Benghazi, Libya. Tunis Med. : 2005 Dec;83 Suppl 12:18-9. Abstract Keywords: Incidence,Neoplasms,Libya,Cancer Link/DOI:
Original article English Duweb G, Alhaddar J, Elsherif B, Eljehawi N, Makhlouf H. Dermatology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. gamal_a_duweb@yahoo.co.uk Drugs Exp Clin Res. 2005;31(5-6):175-9. Abstract Of 17 patients (10 men and 7 women) with psoriasis vulgaris, aged between 12 and 59 years, included in this study, 4 patients were excluded (3 …
Original article English Elgderi RM, Ghenghesh KS, Berbash N Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Al-Fateh University, P.O. Box 13537, Tripoli, Libya. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2006 Jan;100(1):55-62. Abstract Using standard bacteriological procedures, 403 cockroaches (Blattella germanica) collected in Tripoli, from hospitals or the households surrounding the hospitals, were examined for bacteria that are potentially …
Case report English Otman SG, Abdelhamid NI Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. sulimangh@hotmail.com Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2005 Nov-Dec;71(6):426-7. Abstract A thirty six year-old African man, born in the Southern part of Libya, presented with congenital deafness and white forelock, variable-sized hypopigmented, depigmented patches and hyperpigmented islands within …
Waardenburg syndrome type 2 in an African patient. Read More »
Review English Sadjjadi SM. Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, P.O. Box 71345-1735, Iran. parasito@sums.ac.ir Parasitol Int. 2006;55 Suppl:S197-202. Abstract Echinococcosis is one of the major zoonotic parasitic diseases in the Middle East and Arabic North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. Both cystic and alveolar echinococcosis has …
Present situation of echinococcosis in the Middle East and Arabic North Africa. Read More »
Original article English Rao KR, Kauser F, Srinivas S, Zanetti S, Sechi LA, Ahmed N, Hasnain SE. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad 500 076, India. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Dec;43(12):5978-82. Abstract Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of tuberculosis, has lost many coding and noncoding regions in its genome during the course of evolution. …
Case report English Piro S, Sammud M, Badi S, Al Ssabi L. Infectious Diseases Division, Tripoli Central Hospital, Tripoli, Libya. silvpiro@liberto.it J Hosp Infect. 2001 Feb;47(2):156-8. Abstract We describe two cases of malaria occurring in a malaria-free zone in two in-patients, two weeks after a case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, acquired in Burkina Faso, had …
Hospital-acquired malaria transmitted by contaminated gloves. Read More »
Original article English Rosenberg NA, Woolf E, Pritchard JK, Schaap T, Gefel D, Shpirer I, Lavi U, Bonne-Tamir B, Hillel J, Feldman MW. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. noah@charles.stanford.edu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 30;98(3):858-63. Abstract Unlinked autosomal microsatellites in six Jewish and two non-Jewish populations …
Distinctive genetic signatures in the Libyan Jews. Read More »
Case report English Khatri ML, Stefanato CM, Benghazeil M, Shafi M, Kubba A, Bhawan J. Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Fateh University of Medical Sciences, Tripoli, Libya. Int J Dermatol. 2000 Nov;39(11):853-6. Abstract A 26-year-old Libyan woman presented with asymptomatic nodulo-ulcerative skin lesions present for 1 year. Three years prior to presentation, she had …
Cutaneous and paranasal aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient. Read More »