Bardus, Marco; Awada, Nathalie; Ghandour, Lilian; Fares, Elie-Jacques; Gherbal, Tarek; Al-Zanati, Tasnim; Stoyanov, Stoyan(Journal of Medical Internet Research Publications, 2020-03)
Background: With thousands of health apps in app stores globally, it is crucial to systemically and thoroughly evaluate the quality of these apps due to their potential influence on health decisions and outcomes. The Mobile ...
Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of ...
Myntti, Cynthia(American University in Cairo Press, )
Paris along the Nile captures, in 200 black and white photographs, the architectural jewels of Cairo’s Belle Époque. The book combines architectural and street photography to produce a compelling portrait of the old and the new.
The Ras Beirut Well-Being Survey was a research project of the AUB Neighborhood Initiative and a response to the dearth of up-to-date sociological, demographic, and health information about neighborhood residents. The ...
Jabbour, Samer; Nuwayhid, Iman; Khawaja, Marwan(Cambridge University Press, )
The Arab world is a distinct geographic and cultural entity with a complex demographic. Public Health in the Arab World reviews and dissects the public health concerns specific to this region. This volume will interest not ...
Habib, Rima R.(American University of Beirut Press, 2019-06)
This report explores the experiences of child labour among Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley. The report is based on data collected on 12,708 refugees living in 1,902 informal tented settlements. These refugees are among ...
We show that HTLV-1 negative leukemia cells are more sensitive to TQ due to higher levels of drug-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS). PreG1 population in HTLV-1 negative Jurkat and CEM was higher than HTLV-1 transformed ...
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective RNA virus and its life cycle is dependent on hepatitis B virus (HBV). Worldwide, it is estimated that 15 to 20million individuals are HDV- infected representing approximately 5 percent ...
Melhem N.M.; Smith K.N.; Huang X.-L.; Colleton B.A.; Jiang W.; Mailliard R.B.; Mullins J.I.; Rinaldo C.R.(SAN DIEGO525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA, 2014)
It is unclear if HIV-1 variants lose the ability to prime naïve CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) during progressive, untreated infection. We conducted a comprehensive longitudinal analysis of viral evolution and its ...
Purpose: Investigation of the injecting drug users (IDUs) population is becoming extremely critical and timely in light of the recent evidence that IDUs now act as the core of hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics in developed ...
Ramia S.; Kobeissi L.; el Kak F.; Shamra S.; Kreidieh K.; Zurayk H.(TRAMANIGLIOJIDC CENT OFF PORTO CONTE RICERCHE RES CTR, S P 55, PORTO CONTE CAPO CACCIA KM 8.400 LOC, TRAMANIGLIO, 07041, ITALY, 2012)
Introduction: This study aimed to identify reproductive tract infections (RTIs) in married, non-pregnant women, aged 18 to 49 years, living in a low-income suburb of Beirut, and to investigate the relationship between ...
El-Zaatari M.; Kazma H.; Naboulsi-Majzoub M.; Haidar M.; Ramlawi F.; Mahfoud Z.; Ramia S.(LONDON32 JAMESTOWN RD, LONDON NW1 7BY, ENGLAND, 2007)
Transmission of HBV infection through transfusion of HBsAg-negative blood has been documented. It is evident that low levels of HBV-DNA remain detectable in serum and liver tissue of some patients who clear HbsAg, and that ...
Ramia S.; Sharara A.I.; El-Zaatari M.; Ramlawi F.; Mahfoud Z.(NEW YORK233 SPRING STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, 2008)
Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, characterised by the presence of HBV infection with undetectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), was investigated in 98 Lebanese patients with chronic hepatitis C liver disease ...
Mahfoud Z.; Kassak K.; Kreidieh K.; Shamra S.; Ramia S.(LONDON236 GRAYS INN RD, FLOOR 6, LONDON WC1X 8HL, ENGLAND, 2010)
Background: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of anti-HCV among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Lebanon, to establish the current prevalence of HCV genotypes in this population and to determine whether ...
Background: The aim of our study was to study the prevalence of and the risk behaviours associated with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among two high-risk groups: female sex workers (FSW) ...
Sharara A.I.; Ramia S.; Ramlawi F.; Fares J.E.; Klayme S.; Naman R.(NEW YORK32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA, 2007)
Recently we identified hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4 as the principle genotype among Lebanese thalassaemics. In an attempt to confirm the predominance of genotype 4 in Lebanon and perhaps in the Middle East, genotyping ...
Ramia S.; El-zaatari M.; Sharara A.I.; Ramlawi F.; Farhat B.(NEW YORK32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA, 2007)
Recently the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes and the association between these genotypes and the clinical status of HBV-infected patients were recently investigated in the Lebanese population. The aim of ...
The presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) serological markers have been investigated in 101 Lebanese patients (69 men, 32 women; mean age 32.7 ± 1.7 years) infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Seven ...