{"title":"Disease Ecology: Galapagos Birds and their Parasites","authors":"Patricia G. Parker","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-65909-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65909-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91065123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colonization of Parasites and Vectors","authors":"A. Bataille, Iris I. Levin, E. H. R. Sari","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-65909-1_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65909-1_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"74 1","pages":"45 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76558705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General practice--a quantitative study, 1. Workload and morbidity variation.","authors":"C D Beaumont, L A Pike","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A unique continuous 13-year morbidity database provides the foundation for a statistical analysis of general practice in an urban environment. Based on the Royal College of General Practitioners classification of morbidity this paper offers an objective assessment of both the level and variation in morbidity activity in general practice. Specification demographic characteristics of the individual patients are utilised to identify factors which can constrain general practice. Knowledge of such influences may be utilised in practice management and preventative medicine to provide a higher level of primary health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 1","pages":"45-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17733631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Stupfel, V H Demaria Pesce, V Gourlet, Y Plétan, H Thierry, C Lemercerre
{"title":"Environmental parameters in the experimental evaluation of a respiratory aggression.","authors":"M Stupfel, V H Demaria Pesce, V Gourlet, Y Plétan, H Thierry, C Lemercerre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute nitrogen normobaric hypoxic challenges, resulting in an approximately 50% overall survival, were performed in young adult male and female heterozygous OF1 mice under various environmental conditions. The time required to obtain 50% survival was 20 min for a constant pO2 of 42 Torr, and 151 min when pO2 was progressively lowered by nitrogen flushing from 159 to 16.5 Torr. In LD12:12 synchronized animals, survival was significantly (P less than 0.001) less when hypoxia was performed during the light (L) than during the dark (D) phase. Lowering the ambient temperature from 33.8 to 13.2 degrees C increased the length of the progressive hypoxia necessary to obtain a 50% survival of the mice by 1.7 times, and diminished the final pO2 from 35 to 12 Torr. Grouping and crowding both decreased hypoxic survival. A previous stress (starvation) diminished hypoxic resistance of mice, while a preceding hypoxia, carbon monoxide inhalation, or sodium cyanide injection had the opposite effect. In all instances, OF1 females were more resistant than males. Most of these variations can be related to differences in respiratory exchanges, locomotor activity and aggressiveness, which are dependent upon the various experimental environmental parameters.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 1","pages":"67-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17733632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecological approach to cancer epidemiology.","authors":"V B Smulevich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Man's influence on the 'environment' is such that it is now largely a product of his social activities. In turn the resulting wide-ranging environmental changes have had a profound effect on the structure of human pathology to which the term 'pathomorphosis' is applied. Lung cancer and stomach cancer are cited as examples of the close links between socially-determined environmental changes (e.g. industrialization, urbanization, changing diets, cigarette smoking) and concrete pathomorphic manifestations.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 1","pages":"75-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17733633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health and disease in a traditional-living tribe in southern Africa.","authors":"D A Van Staden","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An isolated traditional-living tribe has been identified in Southern Africa. The lifestyle, eating habits and socio-economic conditions have been studied intensively and are being correlated with the pattern of health and disease of the people. Physical examination, urinalyses, biochemical studies and X-ray investigations show a remarkable absence of the diseases normally associated with a Western lifestyle and yet no evidence of malnutrition was found. Those findings are compared with the results of investigations on urbanized black people. The aim of the study is to determine the long-term effects of inevitable westernization on this tribe.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 2","pages":"149-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17733637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing face of cerebrovascular disease.","authors":"S Seely","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past there was a slow but steady decrease in mortality from cerebrovascular disease--the third largest killing disease--in many advanced countries, notably in the United States and Japan. Mortality, however, is rising in some countries, particularly in Bulgaria. Cerebrovascular mortality seems highest in moderately prosperous countries where the diet is largely vegetarian, but includes proteinaceous plants and oil seeds beside carbohydrates, tending to decrease in the most prosperous countries where a considerable proportion of the dietary intake is of animal origin. Hence the possibility that the disease is caused by one or more of the numerous plant toxins which most, if not all, plants produce to defend themselves against their predators and parasites. The geographical distribution of cerebrovascular disease seems best matched by that of the consumption of leguminous plants, notably soya beans.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 2","pages":"125-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17392651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The geographical approach to urban environment-health relationships.","authors":"N B Barbash","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The modern city covers a sizeable area and contains communities with a variety of social and occupational backgrounds. The study of the intra-urban variations in health status of city dwellers is considered a worthwhile field of study. The weight of 5321 new-born babies in 24 cells (localities) in different parts of Moscow in 1978 have been examined, as have the incidence of grippe (influenza) and acute respiratory disease during their first year of life. Such health-status parameters have been related to both the general character of the environments within the city and to certain social indicators. Regression analysis reveals the importance and complementary nature of such influences on the health status of the new-born child.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 2","pages":"117-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17733636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship of ABO blood groups to bacteremia.","authors":"M F Pinaroc, D J Flournoy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ABO blood types of patients with positive blood cultures were compared with those of patients with negative blood cultures and blood bank work-ups. The proportion of blood types in patients with positive blood cultures and blood bank work-ups was very similar. However the proportion of patients with negative blood cultures, though statistically insignificant, appeared to be different. Also, proportions of blood types of patients having Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia suggest that patients with type A blood may be slightly more prone to S. aureus bacteremia than those of other types. Results show that there is no apparent statistically significant correlation between blood group type and the occurrence of bacteremia in the small population studied; however, a more exhaustive study might find otherwise.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 4","pages":"337-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Esophageal cancer in migrants from high- or low-risk areas in China.","authors":"L Haocai, S L Yu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Death rates from esophageal cancer among migrant and indigenous populations were investigated in three areas in Hubei Province, China. The migrants were from Henan Province. Some came from Xichuam county where esophageal cancer is common and some from Shangchew Prefecture where the disease is less common. Death rates for the migrants moving from high risk to low risk areas over 10 years remained at a high level whereas migrants who have moved from low risk areas to low risk areas for periods in excess of 20 years have remained at a low level. That a small number of chickens raised by migrants from a high risk area developed gullet cancer would suggest the involvement of a traditional dietary habit and an associated carcinogen.</p>","PeriodicalId":79218,"journal":{"name":"Ecology of disease","volume":"2 4","pages":"249-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}