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The relationship between malaria and HIV
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
Objective: To determine if there is an association between HIV and malaria infection Design: A cross sectional survey. Setting: Sanyati Rural District, a malarious endemic area of Zimbabwe. Subjects: 338 volunteers aged ...
An approach to the management of volvulus of the sigmoid colon
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1990)
The colon involved with the sigmoid volvulus is much thicker than the normal colon. It is easy to handle and holds sutures well. Patients who have sigmoid-colon volvulus do not have much faecal loading. Most of the distension ...
AIDS related knowledge and sexual behaviour among commercial farm residents in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
Objective: To describe sexual behaviour among residents of commercial farms in Zimbabwe, their gender- specific differences; to examine implications of these for HIV/AIDS transmission. Design: A cross sectional descriptive ...
Oh no, not Nitric Oxide!
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
Nitric oxide (NO) is a unique, endogenous regulatory molecule that is involved in a wide variety of physiological processes in multiple organ systems. This simple gas functions as a cellular messenger in a broad range of ...
Pain: friend or foe
(1999)
Pain, the most urgent of symptoms usually signals the presence of potential or on-going injury to tissue which requires attention.The warning that pain provides is, therefore, a good thing and in a way friendly. When pain ...
Pharmacogenomics: today, tomorrow and beyond
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
Pharmacogenomics is today’s hot topic in biotechnology. In 1996 the word did not even exist; now international pharmacogenomics meetings are held monthly, and articles appear weekly in scientific journals ind the popular ...
Hardly a harmless analgesic
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
Membranous nephropathy (MN), the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults, is usually idiopathic, with an identifiable cause in only about 20% of cases.1 Causes of secondary MN include various auto-immune diseases, ...
Current treatment and future prospects for the management of acute coronary syndromes
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
The impact of ischaemic heart disease on the burden of cardiovascular disease continues to escalate worldwide. • although international statistics suggest a levelling off in Western world, in the less industrialised parts ...
Not everything acid-fast is Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A case of Nocardia
(University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1999)
We report a case of a 47 year old woman who presented with a history of motor convulsions and a three month history of an increasingly painful and progressively enlarging mass on the right side of her back. Neurological ...
Epidemiological survey of penicillinase- producing neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) in Zimbabwe
(1991-06)
The study involved an investigation into the plasmid types which confer resistance to penicillin in N. gonorrhoeae in Zimbabwe, and to determine the most occurring plasmid associated with PPNG. Specimens were collected ...