There has been extensive research on post-viral fatigue, and the present mini-review and commentary provides an overview of the effects associated with different infecting agents. Fatigue is not only a subjective state, rather it has an impact on our ability to carry out everyday...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2021/v6i130182
Objectives: The study seeks to assess the sex differences in reported clinical symptoms and haematological parameters of hospitalized COVID-19 cases. Study Design: A retrospective descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Covid-19 Treatment Centre, Rivers St...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2021/v6i130180
Gonococcal disease is a sexually transmitted infection. The responsible agent is Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Disseminated gonococcal infection results from blood dissemination of N. gonorrhoeae from its mucosal first site of infection. In our cases, two patients had systematic lupus e...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2021/v6i130179
Objective: This paper examines and upgrades a two-parameter double exponential distribution to a four-parameter beta double exponential model by compounding the baseline distribution and beta link function to fits and analyse deaths-cases data set of the recent outbreak of the gl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430181
Clofazimine is a riminophenazine dye originally used as an antitubercular agent after its first synthesis in 1954, just few years after it was administered as a treatment for leprosy by YT Chang. In the following years, also an anti-inflammatory effectiveness on erythema nodosum...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430178
Cherry Lois M. Benjamin, Jan Patrick O. Ng, Elija Haziel B. Sunga, Darleen M. Sy, Saturnino P. Javier, Milagros Uy, Janice Caoili, John Pastores, Arnold Ocampo, Artemio Salvador & R. N. Bernadette Bodegon·Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases·2020
Aims: Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). While the gold standard for diagnosis is still reverse transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), it is not readily available. Serologi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430177
Malaria, a mosquito-borne, protozoan disease is caused by a protozoan parasite of genus Plasmodium (Phylum: Apicomplexan). Four species of malaria parasites are recognized to infect humans. However, a fifth species, Plasmodium knowlesi, has been reported to show potential zoonoti...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430176
Introduction: From 27 April to 3 August 2017, 453,175 suspected cholera cases and 1,930 deaths (CFR: 0.4%) have been reported in 95.6% (22/23) of Yemen governorates, and 89.2% (297/333) of the districts. The five most affected governorates were Amanat Al-Asima, Al Hudaydah, Hajja...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430175
Adolescents and youths are at high risk due to knowledge gap and behavior risks related to HIV. Despite the well-known need for protection from HIV infections and other reproductive health risks, being an adolescent coupled with social and economic status could limit access to in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430174
Background: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is an established cause of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, chronic pelvic pain and infertility among women. It is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the world. The infection is largely asympt...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v5i430173