Aims: To evaluate GenoType® MTBDRplus line probe assay as a diagnostic tool for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and drug susceptibility testing from cerebrospinal fluid of probable tuberculous meningitis patients. Study Design: A prospective, double blind study. Place and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18176
Objectives: The aim of the current study was to evaluate of three dose levels of verapamil; as a calcium channel blocker that could confer an anti-inflammatory efficacy, in an experimental model of neuropathy in mice that had been subjected to chronic partial constriction of the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17908
Background: Universities in the high prevalence nations of sub-Saharan Africa have significant proportions of their students and staff being infected with HIV. The prevalence of risk behaviors for HIV/AIDS continues to rise especially among university students. The objective of t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18421
Primary cardiac tumors represent a small subset of cardiac neoplasms. The papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) is a benign tumor that typically affects the cardiac valvular system and is second in prevalence only to myxomas. Though typically asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally, few...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17608
Aim: The aim of the study is to find differences and factors associated to musculoskeletal disorders in male and female patients in primary health care units in Egypt. Subjects and Methods: This is an exploratory cross-sectional study of a sample of 396 patients with musculoskele...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18049
Aims: Exposure and developing conditions can affect the occurrence of cervical burnout in bitewing radiographs which is one of the common false positive errors in these images. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of kilo voltage peak (KVP), milliampere second (mAS) and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13217
Aerophagia is excessive swallowing of air which goes to stomach through oesophagus and causes abdominal distention. This may alert the parents of pediatric age group especially neonates and causes anxiety. Although it’s a functional condition, the clinical presentation can sugges...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17197
Aim: The central corneal thickness (CCT) of healthy individuals was measured with an ultrasonic pachymeter (UP) and the Scheimpflug imaging system (SIS) and the results were compared to evaluate the agreement between the two methods in this study. Materials and Methods: The 61 su...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17579
Aims: Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular multi-systemic disorder caused by a CTG triplet repeat expansion mutation in the DMPK gene. The clinical decision points defining the CTG repeat boundaries between normal, premutation and mild disease ra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18303
Aim: To report a case of concurrent tuberculous and bacterial arthritis in chronic tophaceous gout. Presentation of the Case: A 59-year old Filipino male patient consulted for sensorial changes with four-month progressive swelling of the right knee draining non-foul smelling yell...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17652
Signaling pathways play an intricate role in regulating the homeostasis of a normal cell and any chronically altered activity in such signaling pathways causes cancer. Such aberrantly activated Wnt and vanished p53 signaling contribute to the development of various carcinomas. Ma...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17996
Aim: Teachers have important roles in the identification, referral and management of school children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, their ability to play these roles is contingent on their depth of knowledge about ADHD. This study assessed literacy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18089
Aims: To clarify the changes in morphometric parameters and contents of zinc (Zn) and in the relationship between these characteristics in normal and hyperplastic human prostates, a quantitative morphometry and energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis was performed. Methodol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17572
Introduction: Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in old age. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between social support and depression in elderly population of Amirkola city, northern Iran. Also, a few studies have been conducted to de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15111
Aims: This study was designed and conducted to establish the normal values of various haematological indices and CD4 absolute count for apparently healthy adult in Ondo State, and to compare these values with those obtained for other populations in both tropical and western count...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17974