| expatriate maids and food patterns in kuwait. | the aim of this study was to investigate the role of the maid and her nationality on infant feeding patterns, nutritional status of mothers and food pattern in kuwait. a multistage stratified sample of 2004 kuwaiti families was taken to represent all districts in kuwait. mothers were interviewed to collect data on infant feeding patterns, types of foods presented daily and the nutritional status of the mother was assessed. when there was no maid, 65.3% of the infants were breast fed, such rate d ... | 1990 | 2121982 |
| poxvirus infection in a rat (rattus norvegicus) in kuwait. | a poxvirus was isolated from skin lesions on the tail of a rat (rattus norvegicus) in kuwait in february, 1982. the virus grew on the chorioallantoic membrane (cam) developing chicken embryos and induced small generalized haemorrhagic pock lesions, 72 hours post-inoculation. it grew also with cytopathic effect (cpe) in cer and vero cell lines. in cultured cells it produced cell rounding and syncytia 48-72 hours post-infection. the virus was resistant to the effect of ether as well as to chlorofo ... | 1983 | 6315618 |
| application of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for screening of sheep urine and animal tissue for the androgenic steroid trenbolone acetate in the state of kuwait. | this study was undertaken to determine the presence of any residue-positive meat and urine samples from live sheep in the state of kuwait market by using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) method and to examine the accuracy and precision of the method. a total of 350 samples, including 230 sheep urine, 30 beef meat and 90 chicken, were subjected, after extraction, to an elisa for the determination of their contents of the androgenic hormone, trenbolone acetate. the results obtained sho ... | 1998 | 9602920 |
| benign thyroid disease and dietary factors in thyroid cancer: a case-control study in kuwait. | we conducted a population-based study of 313 case-control pairs in kuwait to examine the aetiology of thyroid cancer, the second most common neoplasm among women in this and several other countries in the gulf region. among the demographic variables, individuals with 12+ years of education had a significantly reduced risk of thyroid cancer (or=0.6; 95% ci: 0.3-0.9). the average age at diagnosis (+/-s.d.) of thyroid cancer was 34.7+/-11 years in women and 39+/-13.4 years in men. history of thyroi ... | 2002 | 12087461 |
| application of molecular and serological methods for rapid detection of mycoplasma gallisepticum infection (avian mycoplasmosis). | mycoplasma infection is a major problem in veterinary medicine and in poultry production. the pathogen has many strains, so that diagnosis of the disease using culture method is not effective. the objective of this work was to evaluate the prevalence of mycoplasma gallisepticum (mg) in kuwait poultry farms using serology and molecular methods in comparison to the culture under specific conditions. a total of 50 swab samples from choanal cleft and tracheal samples and blood samples were obtained ... | 2015 | 26364358 |