Journal of
Infectious Diseases and Immunity

  • Abbreviation: J. Infect. Dis. Immun.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2375
  • DOI: 10.5897/JIDI
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 94

Table of Content: December, 2011; 3(15)

December 2011

Postpolio syndrome: Epidemiology, pathogenesis and management

Post polio syndrome is a disorder of the nervous system that appears in many survivors of paralytic polio, usually 15 years or more after the original illness. Currently, there are more than 2 million people world wide who have been afflicted with polio as children or young adults and who now may exhibit symptoms of the post-polio syndrome. The purpose of this review is to provide the current information on the...

Author(s): Abdulraheem I. S., Saka M. J. and Saka A. O.

December 2011

Therapeutic effect of nitric oxide and antibiotic against Salmonella typhimurium

Typhoid fever is an important health menace in India and other developing countries. Human typhoid fever is a severe systemic infection of the reticuloendothelial system caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi. It was estimated that more than 22 million cases of typhoid fever occur in which 200,000 related deaths occur worldwide each year from S. typhi. Human typhoid is similar to the...

Author(s): S. S. Haque