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Pharmacy Apps: a new frontier on the digital landscape? Open

Michael J. Davies, Matthew Collings, William Fletcher, Hassan Mujtaba · 2014

Medicine Psychology Computer science

The data indicate that although pharmacists are supportive of mobile apps in healthcare, a number of factors (i.e. risk, company policy and lack of regulation) may preclude their use in modern day pharmacy practise. Clearly, limitations of…

Measurement of heterophil antibody and antibodies to EB viral capsid antigen IgG and IgM in suspected cases of infectious mononucleosis. Open

J M Blake, J M Edwards, William Fletcher, D A McSwiggan, M. S. Pereira · 1976

Medicine

The EBV IgG titres in acute and convalescent specimens from 97 cases of infectious mononucleosis were compared with titres from acute and convalescent sera from 96 students with illnesses resembling infectious mononucleosis but without het…

Vaccination in the control of influenza Open

J. W. G. Smith, William Fletcher, P J Wherry · 1976

Medicine

Summary Although killed influenza vaccine given by injection is protective, able to reduce sickness absence in industry and to control influenza in the armed forces, it has not so far been possible to demonstrate more than a small effect o…

The response to oral poliovaccine in persons aged 16–18 years Open

J. W. G. Smith, J. A. Lee, William Fletcher, Christine A. Morris, D. A. Parker , et al. · 1976

Medicine Psychology

SUMMARY Serum neutralizing antibodies to polioviruses were titrated in serum samples from 182 police cadets aged 16–18 years before and, in 168 of the cadets, 6 weeks after vaccination with a single dose of oral polio vaccine (OPV). Faecal…

Severity of notified whooping cough. Open

C L Miller, William Fletcher · 1976

Medicine

An analysis was made of the severity of over 8000 cases of whooping cough notified from October 1974 to March 1975. Ten per cent of these patients were admitted to hospital and there were 10 deaths. Severity was directly related to age, th…

EB virus antibody and infectious mononucleosis in a boarding school for boys. Open

T.W. Hoskins, William Fletcher, J M Blake, M. S. Pereira, J M Edwards · 1976

Medicine Philosophy

A study of EB virus antibody was undertaken in a boarding school for boys between 11 and 18 years of age; 35% of boys had EBV antibody when first sampled and a small number acquired antibody each year. Some of these boys had had no recorde…

Response to influenza vaccine in adjuvant 65-4 Open

J. W. G. Smith, William Fletcher, Martin C. Peters, M. A. Westwood, F. J. Perkins · 1975

Medicine

SUMMARY A comparison was made of the antibody response and subjective reactions to zonally-purified influenza vaccine in aqueous suspension and in peanut oil adjuvant 65-4. Both preparations contained 700 CCA units of A/Aichi/2/68, and 300…

Influenza vaccination--acceptance in an industrial population Open

J. W. G. Smith, Richard B. Pollard, William Fletcher, R.A. Barker, James R. Lewis · 1974

Medicine Computer science Sociology

Smith, J. W. G., Pollard, R., Fletcher, W. B., Barker, R., and Lewis, J. R. (1974).British Journal of Industrial Medicine,31, 292-297. Influenza vaccination—acceptance in an industrial population. Influenza vaccination was offered in a pha…

The influence of antigenic variation on influenza A2 epidemics Open

Marguerite S. Pereira, Pratima Chakraverty, Attilio Pane, William Fletcher · 1969

Biology Medicine Physics

SUMMARY The antigenic variation of influenza A 2 virus and the antibody present in the population to different variants are described and related to the occurrence of epidemics of influenza in England since 1957.

An Experiment in Mass Radiography Open

J. B. Cochran, William Fletcher, Christopher Clayson · 1959

Medicine

AN EXP ~~~~~~~~~grup.6~f fve: wards, owhich' two Wer-ntnivl : ; Rn-v - -isited when x-raying began.The divison of ' these -five wards was planned to maintain a numerical and economic balance.

Early Clinical Manifestations of Disseminated Sclerosis Open

D. K. Adams, J. M. Sutherland, William Fletcher · 1950

Medicine

MBoRTSH 431 distributions of symptoms at the first examination were very similar for the two groups.The results for the patients who reported on each of the three days are shown in Table II.On each day the proportion recovering was slightl…

Typhus-Like Fevers of Unknown Ætiology, with Special Reference to the Malay States Open

William Fletcher · 1930

Medicine Biology

Typhus exanthematicus, Rocky Mountain fever, and the tsutsugamushi disease have been classified in the "typhus group" by Megaw, as louse-typhus, tick-typhus, and mite-typhus. He has added a fourth-class, comprising typhus-like fevers, with…

Melioidosis: Notes on a culture of <i>B. whitmori</i> from Saigon. Open

A. T. Stanton, William Fletcher · 1927

Biology

The biological characters, and pathological effects in animal inoculation, of a strain of B. whitmori from Saigon are described. It is the most virulent strain of the organism from a human source that has so far been encountered. The case …

Melioidosis in a Horse Open

A. T. Stanton, William Fletcher, S. L. Symonds · 1927

Biology Medicine

A race-horse, which had been imported into the Malay States from Australia, got out of condition and occasionally coughed up thick pus. Five specimens of pus were brought to the laboratory between February and July, 1925, and on each occas…

Melioidosis and its Relation to Glanders Open

A. T. Stanton, William Fletcher · 1925

Biology Medicine

(1) It is impossible to distinguish the lesions of melioidosis from those of glanders by means of inspection with the naked eye or even with the microscope. (2) The symptoms and course of the two diseases are similar. Melioidosis generally…

The Wassermann and Luetin Reactions in Leprosy Open

William Fletcher · 1915

Medicine

1. One hundred lepers were examined by Browning, Cruickshank and McKenzie's modification of the Wassermann reaction with positive results in 22 cases. The amount of complement deviated was in some cases exceptionally large. 2. In a control…

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