Background: Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram –negative bacteria that can cause the fatal disease of Melioidosis with mortality ranging from 21-40% in different countries. Further, Burkholderia pseudomallei is a highly resilient environmental pathogen and can live as a free-liv...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/23/v44i211489
Introduction: Feedback is vital for clinical students to improve their learning, growth, and raise self-awareness of their clinical skills. It also provides an important vista for faculty members to appraise their teaching practices for quality assurance process. Therefore, it is...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i201487
Background: There has been little progress made in Sub-Saharan Africa in achieving Sustainable Development Goal of reducing maternal deaths. Maternal mortality can be reduced significantly by skilled delivery. Women in low-income countries choose home deliveries despite the risks...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i201488
Aims: The study to assess the prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis/ S. stercoralis infection, and to correlate environmental risk factors with the prevalence of S. stercoralis infection. Study Design: We perform a cross-sectional study in rural community in Muarakaman and Mar...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i201486
Adolescent high blood pressure (HBP), now a growing significant health problem with lasting consequences on cardiovascular health, was considered rare at a time. Several end-organ complications could occur if this asymptomatic condition is uncontrolled, and tracks into adulthood....
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i201485
Hypertension is one of the non-communicable diseases linked with heart disease and accounts for about 64% of stroke cases globally. BP is becoming the leading global public health problem with over 10M death every year. Despite growing evidence that high blood pressure is on the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i191483
Introduction: Traditional bullying (face to face bullying, that occurs within or around the school premises) among secondary school students is a persistent global public health problem; with varying long lasting mental, physical and academic consequences, not only on the victims...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i201484
Sitarah M. Mathias, Akhila Aarya P. V., King David Edward, Dileep Unnikrishnan, Dileep Raman, Michelle Niescierenko, Suraj Sarvode & Carl D. Britto·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2023
A nationwide multicentric pharmacoepidemiologic analysis of antimicrobial use in critical care settings over a 2 year period in India, revealed that 76.0% (22,920) received at least one antimicrobial with 36.6% (11,027) receiving multiple antimicrobials. When classified based on...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i191482
Aim: Cryptosporidiosis is the fifth leading cause of diarrhoea-related death globally among under-five children. This study was conducted to identify and characterize oocysts of Cryptosporidium in under-five children with diarrhoea in Ile-Ife. Study Design: It was a case-control...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i191481
Background: Malaria and intestinal coccidian parasites are both protozoan and their interaction in co-infected patients is still not clear. Patients infected with both malaria and coccidian parasites experience diarrhoea, gastro-intestinal and health problems that maybe life thre...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2023/v44i191480