Pseudomonas keratitis in rabbit eyes was treated with Gentamicin and Tobramycin. There was no statistically significant difference between these antibiotics in the elimination of bacteria and ...regression of keratitis. The clinical results, however, were better in the Tobramycin group.
The quality of teaching & learning could be improved in lower division undergraduate sociology courses by giving students considerably more flexibility in selecting various teaching methods. Large ...lecture sections are especially prone to the conventional format of lectures, textbooks, & objective exams. Assuming the heterogeneity of the student body, it would seem propitious to create diversified teaching/learning models. 2 large lecture sections of introductory sociology provided a convenient opportunity for experimenting with such diversification. On the first day of class, 663 students were given the following 3 options: (1) conventional lecture/objective exam format, (2) small groups of 5 to 8 students assigned a series of special projects, (3) an independent study arrangement emphasizing a one-to-one student/ teacher relationship. The majority of students (86%) selected the conventional learning option. The next most frequent option chosen was small groups (11%); only 3% chose independent study. Various personality needs (as originally formulated by H. A Murray & measured by the Personality Research Form) are related to the learning models which students selected. Students majoring in the fields of technology, business, nursing, education, & natural sciences tended to prefer the conventional approach. Those students uncertain about their major & those in the social sciences & humanities were more likely to select independent study & small groups. Other factors such as educational attainment of parents, size of high school & previous exposure to high school sociology appear to have little or no relationship to the choices students make.
Cuptor-tunel Behrens, Heinz; Scheider, Paul; Zapf, Ernst
1976
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Background: Plasmodium vivax is the second most common species among malaria patients diagnosed in Europe, but epidemiological and clinical data on imported P. vivax malaria are limited. The ...TropNetEurop surveillance network has monitored the importation of vivax malaria into Europe since 1999. Objectives: To present epidemiological and clinical data on imported P. vivax malaria collected at European level. Material and methods: Data of primary cases of P. vivax malaria reported between January 1999 and September 2003 were analysed, focusing on disease frequency, patient characteristics, place of infection, course of disease, treatment and differences between network-member countries. Results: Within the surveillance period 4,801 cases of imported malaria were reported. 618 (12.9%) were attributed to P. vivax. European travellers and immigrants were the largest patient groups, but their proportion varied among the reporting countries. The main regions of infection in descending order were the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, South America and Western and Eastern Africa, as a group accounting for more than 60% of the cases. Regular use of malaria chemoprophylaxis was reported by 118 patients. With 86 (inter-quartile range 41-158) versus 31 days (inter-quartile range 4-133) the median symptom onset was significantly delayed in patients with chemoprophylaxis (p < 0.0001). Common complaints were fever, headache, fatigue, and musculo-skeletal symptoms. All patients survived and severe clinical complications were rare. Hospitalization was provided for 60% and primaquine treatment administered to 83.8% of the patients, but frequencies varied strongly among reporting countries. Conclusions: TropNetEurop data can contribute to the harmonization of European treatment policies.
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