Publications

hydatid disease in children in libya.	hydatid disease is a common condition in libya. between 1971 and 1976, hydatid disease accounted for 0.85% of total hospital admissions to al-jalah general hospital, benghazi. the incidence of hydatid disease reported in children below ten years of age was 11.7%. in this paper the experience of treating 56 children with hydatid disease is described. the presenting features, complications, surgical techniques and results are reported and discussed.	1984	6084469
echinococcosis in libya. iii. further studies on the prevalence of echinococcus granulosus in dogs.	of 92 dogs examined for echinococcus granulosus at five sites in libya from april 1985 to september 1988 33 (35.9%) were infected, the prevalences ranging from 60% (zawiyah) and 52.0% (tripoli) in the north-west, to 28.6% (benghazi) and 28.5% (darna) in the north-east. none of eight dogs at al-kufra, in the south-eastern desert, were infected. twenty dogs each had two to 200 worms, nine had 201-1000 worms and four each had over 1000 worms (one dog in tripoli had 17,120 worms). most infections we ...	1990	2256769