In developed countries, the unmet demand for these workers has increased, predominantly in employment sectors unable to attract sufficient local workers due to unattractive work conditions, such as low wages, hard physical work or employment in remote areas.
In recent years, transmission in endemic areas has increased, predominantly in urban and semi-urban settings, and has become a major international public health concern.
However, major changes have been taking place over the last 30 years: in some areas where pastoralism was once dominant, livestock farming has declined while crop production has increased, and in some predominantly agricultural regions (northern Cameroon, western Burkina Faso), pastoralists have settled with some of their animals.
NTM disease has increased in elderly female patients who have predominantly nodular bronchiectasis, but disease has decreased in middle-aged men.
The cost of hospital stays (predominantly affecting the open group) has increased, but hospital policies for earlier discharge may have offset this to some extent.
Increased access to ART has increased the survival time of people living with HIV, with the effect that HIV prevalence is expected to increase in the age groups who are predominantly receiving ART.
At 30 min post-exposure, both Vezt fl/fl and Vezt fl/fl:PrestinCre mice had increased hearing thresholds, predominantly on high frequencies.
Nevertheless, these data from an unrelated control cohort also suggest that kidney transplant recipients, when compared with nontransplant subjects, may have increased insulin sensitivity, thereby predominantly experiencing an insulin secretion problem.
Recently, the number of young girls being forced to commit suicide in the predominantly Muslim nation had increased.
Cells treated with paclitaxel are predominantly arrested in G2/M phases, and therefore have increased sensitivity to radiation (Creane et al. 1999).
First-generation cephalosporins (cephalexin, cefadroxil) are predominantly active against Gram-positive bacteria, and successive generations have increased activity against Gram-negative bacteria (cefoperazone) [1 3].
