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This study was conducted to assess the bacteriological quality of alternative drinking water supply options in southwest coastal areas of Bangladesh. A total of 90 water samples were collected during both dry and wet seasons from household based rainwater harvesting systems (RWHSS), community based r...
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PMID: 21942205
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A total of 298 Salmonella isolates showed an overall per cent positivity of 5.58. Multidrug resistance was found in 11.96 per cent and 15.62 per cent isolates of S. Typhi and S. Paratyphi A respectively. Less than 2 per cent isolates of Salmonella showed resistance to ciprofloxacin. A resistance of...
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PMID: 21537098
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Soins. Gerontologie ()88 2011
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The arrival of an elderly person in a remand centre reveals the extent to which the prison system is ill-equipped to deal with this type of detainee. The cooperation between the prison, nursing and social care teams however compensates for the many difficulties his case presents.
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PMID: 21526541
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Why did the British march up the Nile in the 1890s? The answers to this crucial question of imperial historiography have direct relevance for narratives and theories about imperialism, in general, and the partition of Africa in the nineteenth century, in particular. They will also in...
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PMID: 21961186
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Prior to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010, conditions were dire in Haiti. Now, nearly a year later and with the emergency phase long since over, a cholera epidemic has hit Haiti.
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PMID: 21117546
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The Lancet (376)9755 2010
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Occupational Health & Safety (79)12 2010
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Food Microbiology (27)6 2010
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We then demonstrated that spores in suspension in NaOH could adhere to surfaces of a CIP rig and that the contamination level was controlled by flow pattern. Consequently, re-adhesion along the processing line might occur during CIP procedures and this phenomenon must be taken into account when defi...
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PMID: 20630318
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The Lancet (376)9739 2010
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We focus on socioeconomic and demographic features, basic sanitation features, the presence of accumulated water bodies, dense vegetation in the summer and winter seasons and related terrain characteristics. We draw on the decision tree approach to infection risk modelling and mapping. The model rob...
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PMID: 20721506
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Geographical Information System (GIS) is a tool that has recently been applied to better understand spatial disease distributions. Using meteorological, social, sanitation, mollusc distribution data and remote sensing variables, this study aimed to further develop the GIS technology by creating a mo...
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PMID: 20721504
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Climate change is occurring and has tremendous consequences for children's health worldwide. This article describes how the rise in temperature, precipitation, droughts, floods, glacier melt and sea levels resulting from human-induced climate change is affecting the quantity, quality...
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PMID: 20403822
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Poor hygiene practices and inadequate sanitary conditions play major roles in the increased burden of communicable diseases within developing countries. This study evaluated the KAP of hygiene among rural school children in Ethiopia and assessed the extent to which proper knowledge of hygiene was ass...
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PMID: 21155409
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Foodborne illnesses pose a problem to all individuals but are especially significant for infants, the elderly, and individuals with compromised immune systems. Personal hygiene is recognized as the number-one way people can lower their risk. The majority of meals in the U.S. are eaten at home. Littl...
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PMID: 20556938
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)5 2010
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A cross-sectional hospital-based study of 259 children aged < 5 years was carried out in Tikrit, Iraq, to identify the prevalence of nosocomial diarrhoea and sources of contamination in the ward environment. Nosocomial diarrhoea was diagnosed in 84 children (32.4%). Children with diarrhoea were more...
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PMID: 20799556
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Nephrology news & issues (24)6 2010
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Three experiments were conducted in a University of Jordan field in the Al-Jubeiha area, to evaluate the effect of manure composting for 0, 2, 4, or 6 weeks prior to planting on the house fly (Musca domestica L.) population. The obtained results indicated that the housefly prefers broiler and layer...
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PMID: 20503811
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The existence of infectious diseases specialists in Ancient Rome is unlikely, but there were at least three authors able of keen observations on infectious matters, with enough merit to be considered our predecessors: Varro, Columella and Vitruvius, none of them physicians. Varro, in his first Book...
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PMID: 20556322
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Availability and access to primary healthcare facilities is a subject of great concern in African countries south of the Sahara. Problems remain not only in the range of services but also in equality of access. By definition the public health sector has a responsibility to provide citizens with equa...
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PMID: 20486343
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To identify areas at risk of dengue transmission by means of cluster analysis.
A cluster analysis in which the primary analysis units were the 48 districts of the municipality of Niterói, Southeastern Brazil, was conducted. The districts were grouped into six strata according to sociodemographic co...
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PMID: 20339626
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This study aims at quantification of health losses, considering social and environmental factors. Morbidity and mortality cases of diarrhoea for children under five years old were used to estimate the disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost for the target households in low-income communities in...
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PMID: 20009260
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To explore the association between socio-economic status (SES) and health insurance subscription to the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of residents of the Asante Akim North district of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
In the course of a community survey, d...
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PMID: 19961565
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To determine the personal and environmental risk factors associated with trachoma in pre-school children in Yobe state, Nigeria.
Total of 639 children aged 1-5 from 27 villages were examined in their households for clinical signs of trachoma. Personal and environmenta...
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PMID: 20002619
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The combination of heat and low levels of oxygen increases mortality to insects infesting fruit compared with either heat or low oxygen alone. This combination treatment shows promise to disinfest commodities of quarantine pests. Heated air/modified atmosphere treatments employ the modified atmosphe...
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PMID: 20214365
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These results support the elimination of dump tanks in cantaloupe packing operations established by the Mexican government for certification of firms exporting cantaloupes to the United States. When a sanitizer is to be applied to the product, lactic acid seems to be a viable option, at least for pr...
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PMID: 20132684
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Ugeskrift for laeger (172)2 2010
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When implementing water and sanitation in a disaster situation, it is of crucial importance that the intervention is grounded in the local cultural and socioeconomic context. The assistance provided in the response phase should facilitate short and long-term recovery and sustainable development of t...
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PMID: 20074486
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729 and 890 children aged 7-14 years (mean = 10.4 y, SD = 0.05 y) were analysed over the first and the second cohorts, respectively. The adjusted reductions of the prevalence and incidence rates at the second in relation to the first cohort were 27% and 34%, 25% and 32%, 33% and 26%, and 82% and 42%...
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PMID: 20126396
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As there appeared to be no data available on Toxocara canis infection in the children of Swaziland, a serological survey of T. canis infection was recently conducted among 92 children aged 3-12 years from rural slums in the low- and middle-veld. A child was considered seropositive if, in western blo...
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PMID: 20149294
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Nigerian journal of medicine : journal of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (19)3 2010
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Most of the household (80%) were seen to source domestic water from the municipal pipe-borne water supply while only 5% source water from their own dug-in well only. 27% of the households reported diarrhea in their household in the last six month. The diarrhea was found to have bivariate association...
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PMID: 20845629
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Rural and Remote Health (10)1 2010
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) was predominantly a hospital-acquired organism; recently, however, community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) has been causing outbreaks in otherwise healthy individuals involved in athletics. As such, CA-MRSA is of emerging concern to sanitarians and publ...
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PMID: 20104828
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In Tajikistan, the mosquitoes Anopheles superpictus (Grassi 1899) are one of the major malaria vectors. The basic habitats are the mountain and submountain landscapes of an area where this species is reckoned among the most dangerous carriers of the disease. The malaria control tactic should be dete...
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PMID: 20361634
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The Michigan nurse (83)2 2010
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Acceptance and adequate use of water and sanitation technologies in least developed countries is still a chimera, with one billion people using unimproved water supply sources and 2.5 billion not benefitting from adequate sanitation. Public participation in water and sanitation planning and pre-impl...
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PMID: 20818042
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Water Science & Technology (61)10 2010
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The recent discovery of the bio-waste and excreta treatment of a former civilisation in the Amazon reveals the possibility of a highly efficient and simple sanitation system. With the end product that was black soil they converted 10% of former infertile soil of the region: Terra Preta do Indio (bla...
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PMID: 20453341
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Rooftop rainwater harvesting has received an increased attention as a potential alternative water supply source both in the coastal and arsenic affected rural areas in Bangladesh. Several programs in installing rainwater harvesting systems have been implemented to mitigate the drinking water problem...
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PMID: 20389012
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In 1997, Poland experienced a flood of high-intensity. Some predicted major threats from communicable diseases caused by deterioration of the sanitary-epidemiological conditions. On the basis of data from 1997, in this article is presented range of counter epidemic measures recommended in the condit...
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PMID: 20976945
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We should now single out optics, power engineering, researches, wildlife conservation, etc. The specific physicochemical properties of nanomaterials suggest that they can be toxic to humans. That is the reason that society should be keenly aware of what the nanomaterials are. Despite the fact that n...
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PMID: 20496486
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The scientific rationale for preventive measures based on sanitary-and-epidemiological surveillance on environmental objects is considered. The sizes of functional zones and space for various types of communal services and amenities and leisure are regulated to ensure good urban vital activities. Mu...
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PMID: 20496488
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The current globalization tendencies give rise to serious human health risks associated with the problems in providing the safety of water resources, with their intense microbiological contamination due to sewage disposal, with the loss of capacity of water ecosystems for self-repair. To guarantee a...
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PMID: 20491262
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The purpose of the study was to assess the sanitary-and-hygienic state of solid garbage (SG) burial grounds in the Perm Territory in different stage of a life cycle. This paper presents the results of the study of deposited waste, forming dump soil, and SG ground emissions by general sanitary and sa...
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PMID: 20373712
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This study evaluated whether occurrence of acute gastrointestinal illnesses declined after filtration and ozonation were added to a previously unfiltered, chlorinated high-quality surface water source in a northwest United States city. Enteric and other illnesses were recorded for two 6-month period...
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PMID: 19590125
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The cyanobacterium Anabaena circinalis has the ability to co-produce geosmin and saxitoxins, compounds which can compromise the quality of drinking water. This study provides pertinent information in optimising water treatment practices for the removal of geosmin and saxitoxins. In particular, it de...
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PMID: 19590122
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A WHO methodology is used for the first time to estimate the burden of disease directly associated with incomplete water and sanitation provision in refugee camps in sub-Saharan African countries. In refugee camps of seven countries, containing just fewer than 1 million people in 2005, there were 13...
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PMID: 19590123
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Plastic plug-flow bio-digesters have been promoted as a good option for improved treatment of manure and wastewater in developing countries although minimal information has been published on their hygienic status. This bench-scale study replicates bio-digester conditions to evaluate the reduction of...
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PMID: 19590126
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Adler Museum bulletin (35)2 2009
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During the South African/Anglo-Boer War(1899-1902), the British established concentration camps in retaliation to Boer guerilla fighters. Thousands of Boer women and children and thousands of blacks and "coloured" people were interned within these camps. The conditions in the camps were unsanitary a...
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PMID: 20052808
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There were significant improvements in the parasitological health indicators, such as reductions in the prevalence of some species of enteroparasites and maintenance of a low parasite load, thus showing the importance of combining antiparasite treatment with sanitation improvements....
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PMID: 20027501
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Canadian Veterinary Journal (50)10 2009
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Six recent cases of animal hoarding in Manitoba were compared to the relevant literature. Cases were similar to previous reports in age and demographics of hoarders. Five cases involved small mammals and 1 case involved horses. Understanding this phenomenon would be enhanced by consistent investigat...
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PMID: 20046607
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