Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common life-threatening monogenic disorders affecting millions of people worldwide. The disease has a high prevalence in malaria-endemic tropics, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Although sickle-cell trait (SCT) offers protective adva...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v30i830220
Globally, the number of international migrants is about 258 million with over 60% of these living in Asia and Europe and the rest of the 40% living in Northern America, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Oceania. We aimed to describe the healthy migrant effect, the publi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i630209
Nutritional status is considered as one of the key indicators of the overall wellbeing of a population. Lactating women and children are among the most vulnerable groups due to their higher nutritional needs and detrimental effects of poor nutrition on their health. Lactating wom...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i830459
Background: YKL-40 also named as chitinase-3-like protein 1 (CHI3L1) is a novel inflammatory biomarker found to be elevated in inflammatory and chronic diseases. This meta-analysis was done to estimate the pooled SMD of serum YKL-40 and evaluate its use as a diagnostic biomarker...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i530844
Zika virus (ZIKV) that was less known for decades suddenly became a global health emergency at the beginning of 2016. The virus was first discovered in the Zika forest of Uganda in 1947, and the first confirmed human infection was reported in Uganda between1962-1963. From its ori...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v30i1130271
Taha Hussein Musa, Hassan Hussein Musa, Layla Ahmed Mohammed, Abdelkareem Abdallah Ahmed, Rehab Ibrahim Kambo, Idriss Hussein Musa, Tauseef Ahmad, Joseph Kawuki, Upama Ghimire, Nathan Obore, Shireen Salome Papabathini, Alieu Tommy & Lovel Fornah·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2019
Few epidemiological studies have been undertaken of measles disease among Sudanese, although measles is the third leading cause of death since 1995 among childhood diseases that can be prevented by immunization. The measles vaccine was introduced into the EPI program in 1985. In...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v30i1130273