The Albert Dock Hospital, London: the original site (in 1899) of Tropical Medicine as a new discipline.

abstract：:Balantioides coli is a known ciliated zoonotic protozoan that mainly causes diarrhea in humans and pigs. An efficient and reliable culture system for this parasite remains unavailable until now. In this study, a modified Dulbecco's modified eagle medium (DMEM) with pH 7.0-7.5, containing 5 mg/mL starch and 20% new cal...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Yan W,Wang T,Zhao L,Sun C

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We focused on the epidemiology of alveolar echinococcosis especially in Japan and discussed control measures to prevent an epidemic. No effective control measures against alveolar echinococcosis have been identified thus far because it is difficult to fully understand the ecology of the parasite and its hosts, i.e. th...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Konno K,Oku Y,Tamashiro H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immune responses to specific Schistosoma japonicum recombinant and native antigens were investigated in a defined study population of 155 individuals in the Philippines, where data collected from a 3-year observation of exposure, infection and reinfection pattern were used to categorically classify putative '...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Acosta LP,Waine G,Aligui GD,Tiu WU,Olveda RM,McManus DP

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax is still the more prevalent human Plasmodium outside Africa and despite this fact, there is still a deep lack of knowledge on its biology. Metacaspases are cysteine proteases related to metazoan caspases, involved in programmed cell death. Here, we have characterized the P. vivax metacaspase 1 gene in...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rezanezhad H,Menegon M,Sarkari B,Hatam GR,Severini C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro cultured Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes were fed to Anopheles gambiae (G3) mosquitoes to identify parasite population characteristics useful for predicting successful mosquito infections. Parameters were collected from an initial study of 90 infections over a two year period and a second study of 55 infect...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Noden BH,Beadle PS,Vaughan JA,Pumpuni CB,Kent MD,Beier JC

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria kills more than a million people a year, causes malady in about three hundred million people and poses risk to approximately 40% of the world's population living in malarious countries. This disease is re-emerging mainly due to the development of drug-resistant parasites and insecticide-resistant mosquitoes. T...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Tsuboi T,Takeo S,Arumugam TU,Otsuki H,Torii M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is caused by the protozoon Toxoplasma gondii that can infect almost all warm-blooded hosts including horses and humans. Horse meat is one of the most important meat products for human consumption. However, data on seroprevalence of T. gondii in horses intended for human consumption in Northern China is s...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Zhang XX,Ren WX,Hou G,Liu Q,Yu TQ,Zhao Q,Ni HB

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance results in selective colonization in animals. In the present study, 447 diarrheic foals (235 horse foals, 165 donkey foals and 47 mule foal) were selected from Lahore and Sahiwal districts of Punjab, Pakistan. Fresh fecal and blood samples from diarrheic foals were collected for isolation and ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Haq I,Durrani AZ,Khan MS,Mushtaq MH,Ahmad I

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), a member of the Toll-like receptor family, plays an important role in the recognition of and subsequent immune response activation against leptospirosis in humans. The genetic polymorphism in TLR2 of an arginine to glutamine substitution at residue 753 (Arg753Gln) has been associated with ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Cédola M,Chiani Y,Pretre G,Alberdi L,Vanasco B,Gómez RM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vaccine to protect sheep, goats, and bovines against hydatid disease caused by the cysts of Echinococcus granulosus is prepared as a recombinant fusion protein expressed in Escherichia coli. Solubilised inclusion bodies are injected, together with Quil A, subcutaneously on two occasions 1 month or more apart, and in...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Heath DD,Jensen O,Lightowlers MW

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pangonius theodori a new horse fly species (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) from northern Israel and southern Lebanon is described. The zoogeography, habitat preference and taxonomic position within the genus of the new species is discussed in detail. ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Zeegers T,Kravchenko VD,Müller GC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:China was once a country plagued by parasitic diseases. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, nearly 80% of the population suffered from parasitic diseases because of poverty and poor sanitary conditions. After nearly 70 years of development, China has made remarkable achievements in the ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Zhang H,Liu C,Zheng Q

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presentation of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s roadmap for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in January 2012 raised optimism that many NTDs can indeed be eliminated. To make this happen, the endemic, often low-income countries with still heavy NTD burdens must substantially strengthen their health systems....

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Bergquist R,Yang GJ,Knopp S,Utzinger J,Tanner M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni, being transmitted by some freshwater Biomphalaria snails, is a major causative agent of human schistosomiasis. In the absence of effective vaccine and alternative drug designs to fight against the disease, and with the limitations of molluscicide application, developing more efficient strategies t...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Famakinde DO

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many fundamental aspects of the immunobiology of Plasmodium falciparum infections that are not fully understood, therefore limiting our comprehension of how people become immune to malaria and why some ethnic groups living in malaria endemic areas are less susceptible than others. The complexity of parasite-...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Arama C,Maiga B,Dolo A,Kouriba B,Traoré B,Crompton PD,Pierce SK,Troye-Blomberg M,Miller LH,Doumbo OK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In July 1989, blood samples were collected from parasitaemic cattle in the Ghibe valley, Ethiopia, frozen in liquid nitrogen and transported to Nairobi, Kenya. Twelve of the stabilates were inoculated into individual Boran (Bos indicus) calves and characterised for their sensitivity, in turn, to diminazene aceturate (...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Codjia V,Mulatu W,Majiwa PA,Leak SG,Rowlands GJ,Authié E,d'Ieteren GD,Peregrine AS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to describe the occurrence of dengue in space and time and to assess the relationships between dengue incidence and entomologic indicators. We selected the dengue autochthonous cases that occurred between September 2005 and August 2007 in São José do Rio Preto to calculate incidence rates b...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Chiaravalloti-Neto F,Pereira M,Fávaro EA,Dibo MR,Mondini A,Rodrigues-Junior AL,Chierotti AP,Nogueira ML

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triatoma williami is naturally infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, the ethiological agent of Chagas disease, the most significant cause of morbidity and mortality in South and Central America.The possibility of domiciliation of T. williami increases the risk of human T. cruzi vetorial transmission. Despite this, there is a...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Lunardi RR,Gomes LP,Peres Câmara T,Arrais-Silva WW

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) infect over one billion people and are responsible for over one million deaths each year, globally. Chikungunya (CHIK) and Dengue Fever (DENF) are emerging VBDs due to overpopulation, increases in urbanization, climate change, and other factors. Colombia has recently experienced severe out...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Desjardins MR,Whiteman A,Casas I,Delmelle E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of egg morphology of Schistosoma mansoni carried out between 9 parasite populations from Guadeloupean foci demonstrates the existence of an intraspecific polymorphism. Three types of lateral spined eggs have been described and their relative proportions observed between populations are related to t...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Théron A

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish borne trematodes are an important cause of morbidity in Kazakhstan. The number of human cases of opisthorchiidosis (infection with parasites of the family opisthorchiidae) reached a peak of 2521 recorded cases (17 cases per 100,000) in 2002 with a gradual decline to 1225 cases (7.4 cases per 100,000) in 2011. Mos...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Sultanov A,Abdybekova A,Abdibaeva A,Shapiyeva Z,Yeshmuratov T,Torgerson PR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation, degradation and excretion by the host of helminth metabolic end products, such as branched-chain volatile fatty acids are poorly studied although they play an appreciable role in host-parasite interactions and, being detectable in excreta, provide a reliable diagnostic test for at least some helminthiase...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Soprunov FF,Lurje AA,Laynis YaYa,Soprunova NYa,Alieva HH

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to genetic history, environmental conditions during larval stages are critical to the development, success and phenotypic fate of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. In particular, previous studies have shown a strong genotype-by-environment component to adult mosquito body size in response to optimal vs stressed ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Kang DS,Alcalay Y,Lovin DD,Cunningham JM,Eng MW,Chadee DD,Severson DW

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field experiments were conducted in central Kenya, to study the effect of ammonium sulphate fertiliser ((NH(4))(2)SO(4)) on mosquito larval populations in rice fields. The experiments used a complete randomised block design having four blocks with two experimental ponds per block, and the fertiliser and control treatm...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Mutero CM,Ng'ang'a PN,Wekoyela P,Githure J,Konradsen F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To better understand the epidemiology of tick-borne disease in Mongolia, a comprehensive seroprevalence study was conducted investigating exposure to Anaplasma spp. and spotted fever group (SFG) Rickettsia spp. in nomadic herders and their livestock across three provinces from 2014 to 2015. METHODS:Blood wa...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： von Fricken ME,Lkhagvatseren S,Boldbaatar B,Nymadawa P,Weppelmann TA,Baigalmaa BO,Anderson BD,Reller ME,Lantos PM,Gray GC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While horizontal transmission (human-mosquito-human) of dengue viruses largely determines the epidemiology of the disease, vertical transmission (infected female mosquito- infected offspring) has been suggested as a mechanism that ensures maintenance of the virus during adverse conditions for horizontal transmission t...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Gutiérrez-Bugallo G,Rodriguez-Roche R,Díaz G,Vázquez AA,Alvarez M,Rodríguez M,Bisset JA,Guzman MG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis, a disease that occurs worldwide, especially in tropical regions, is caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira and affects mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. Boa constrictor snakes are commonly found in Atlantic rainforest fragments in peri‑urban areas, which indicates a greater possibility of the conta...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rodamilans GM,Fonseca MS,Paz LN,Fernandez CC,Biondi I,Lira-da-Silva RM,Meyer R,Pinna MH,Portela RD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coadministration of tubercidin and ethidium to mice infected with Trypanosoma gambiense gave a better parasite clearance than either of the single drugs. The combination was also more toxic to the mice but the inclusion of nitrobenzylthioinosinate in the therapy significantly alleviated the toxicity of the drug co...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Ogbunude PO,Ikediobi CO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six Cercopithecus aethiops monkeys, 4 Theropithecus gelada baboons and 2 Papio anubis baboons were infected using Leishmania aethiopica isolates originating either from localized (LCL) or diffuse (DCL) cutaneous leishmaniasis patients. The history of lesions in 4 C. aethiops monkeys infected by LCL strains mimicked th...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Hailu A,Negesse Y,Abraham I

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue and Saint Louis encephalitis virus are among the most important emerging viruses transmitted by mosquitoes at the global scale, and from 2009 onward both diseases have reached temperate Argentina. To test whether the urbanization level can be used as a predictor for the infestation levels of container-breeding ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rubio A,Cardo MV,Carbajo AE,Vezzani D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00