HEPATITIS A VIRUS INFECTIONS AND OUTBREAKS IN ASYLUM SEEKERS ARRIVING TO GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 2015 TO MARCH 2016

Hepatitis A virus infections and outbreaks in asylum seekers arriving to Germany, September 2015 to March 2016

From September 2015 to March 2016, hepatitis A notifications in Germany increased by 45% to 699 cases compared to 482 cases in the same period of the previous year.Children aged five to nine years were predominantly affected (22% Basketball - Clothing - Mens of all cases in this period).We hypothesized that this increase could be explained by the m

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The influence of thyroid function disorders on pregnant women on the Apgar scale and psychomotor development of the child in the first 18 months of life

Introduction.In the prenatal period, there are many exogenous and endogenous factors, which adversely affect the normal development of the fetus and may affect the further development of the child.The impaired reference level of thyroid hormones pregnant woman may entail a number of complications, especially in the first trimester of pregnancy, whe

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