Envenoming by Chinese krait (Bungarus multicinctus) and banded krait (B. fasciatus) in Myanmar.

abstract：:There is an increasing need to provide spatial distribution maps of the clinical burden of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa. Recent evidence suggests that risk groups and the clinical spectrum of severe malaria are related to the intensity of P. falciparum transmission. Climate operates to affect the vectorial ...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Snow RW,Gouws E,Omumbo J,Rapuoda B,Craig MH,Tanser FC,le Sueur D,Ouma J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although known for many years, non-filarial elephantiasis remains a public health problem in tropical Africa, including the farming community of Ethiopia. The problem may be exacerbated in women who shoulder most of the burden of agricultural labour in the countryside. The intention of this brief review is to emphasis...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Animut A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:HIV-associated TB is a serious public health problem in Myanmar. Study objectives were to describe national scale-up of collaborative activities to reduce the double burden of TB and HIV from 2005 to 2016 and to describe TB treatment outcomes of individuals registered with HIV-associated TB in 2015 in the Ma...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Theingi P,Harries AD,Wai KT,Shewade HD,Saw S,Win T,Thein S,Kyi MS,Nyunt Oo H,Aung ST

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and epidemiological features of 62 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, from Pará State, Amazonian Brazil, are discussed. The parasite, isolated in hamster skin and/or blood-agar culture medium, was in each case identified by both biological characteristics and a mo...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Silveira FT,Lainson R,Shaw JJ,De Souza AA,Ishikawa EA,Braga RR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study aimed to determine anti-HBc total (IgG+IgM) seroprevalence in the adult population aged ≥ 15 and to compare the cost of testing for HBsAg and anti-HBs in only anti-HBc positive+ subpopulation to that in the whole population for HBV screening. The study involved a face-to-face survey and peripheral blood samp...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Ozkan S,Atak A,Bozdayi G,Turkcuoglu S,Maral I

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping an area at risk of epidemics of meningococcal meningitis in Africa has significant implications for their prevention and case treatment, through the targeted development of improved surveillance systems and control policies. Such an area was described using information obtained from published and unpublished r...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Molesworth AM,Thomson MC,Connor SJ,Cresswell MP,Morse AP,Shears P,Hart CA,Cuevas LE

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To date, there is no consensus on ideal ways to measure antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence in resource limited settings. This study aimed to identify markers of poor adherence to ART. Methods:Retrospective data of HIV-positive ART-naïve adults initiating standard first-line ART at Themba Lethu Clinic,...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Nnambalirwa M,Govathson C,Evans D,McNamara L,Maskew M,Nyasulu P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency was tested of the Haematocrit Centrifugation Technique (HCT) and the miniature Anion-Exchange Centrifugation Technique (mAECT) for demonstrating trypanosomes in the blood of four antelopes experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in Liberia. During simultaneous daily application of both...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Sachs R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the role of non-biting cyclorrhaphan flies as carriers of human intestinal parasites at Woreta, northwestern Ethiopia. In total, 6530 flies were collected from four breeding sites and then examined for human intestinal parasites, mainly using the formol-ether concentration metho...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Fetene T,Worku N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000 we used a sensitive technique to examine 9 isolates from malaria patients in Muheza, Tanzania who had failed treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Three isolates carried, at low levels, the leucine to isoleucine change at amino acid 164 that is associated with clinical failure of SP. Numerous other hi...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Hastings MD,Bates SJ,Blackstone EA,Monks SM,Mutabingwa TK,Sibley CH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of patients with Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL) suppressed the natural killer cell (NK) activity of normal human PBMC in vitro in a dose-dependent manner. Adherent monocytes, but not the non-adherent lymphocytes of VL patients suppressed NK activity through soluble mediato...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Chakrabarti G,Basu A,Manna PP,Bhattacharya S,Sen S,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vector potential of Culicoides variipennis for Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) was investigated. Insects from a colony maintained at the Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright, were fed through a membrane on a mixture of mouse blood and RVFV (virus concentration of blood meal 7 X 95 log10 MLD50ml). Engorged ins...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Jennings M,Platt GS,Bowen ET

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolations were attempted from blood samples obtained from rats captured in four adjacent habitats near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Antibody surveys were also made. Rickettsial infections were most frequent in rats captured in the forest and in lalang grass (Imperata cylindrica) and least frequent...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Muul I,Lim BL,Walker JS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a recently developed sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to determine the kinetics of Schistosoma mansoni circulating soluble egg antigen (CSEA) after chemotherapy and compared these with previously determined levels of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA). Urine samples were collected from 35 Egyptian pa...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Nibbeling HA,Van Lieshout L,Deelder AM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy in the treatment of human tuberculosis and to assess longer-term outcomes following treatment for tuberculosis patients, a double-blind placebo-controlled Phase-2 clinical trial was set up in the Mseleni and Manguzi health wards in north-eastern KwaZulu, South Africa. ...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Mayo RE,Stanford JL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients with short duration of cough was determined. Ninety-eight adult out-patients (60 men, 38 women; mean age 32 years) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, who had cough for 1-3 weeks which was unresponsive to a course of antibiotics, were succes...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Banda HT,Harries AD,Welby S,Boeree MJ,Wirima JJ,Subramanyam VR,Maher D,Nunn PA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hump-nosed pit vipers (Hypnale hypnale) are highly venomous snakes found in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats region of India. They are the most common cause of venomous snakebites in Sri Lanka, mainly causing local envenoming leading to pain, swelling and necrosis. Systemic envenoming causing acute kidney inj...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Rathnayaka RMMKN,Ranathunga PEAN,Kularatne SAM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the aetiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Zimbabwe, HCV antibodies (anti-HCV) were determined in sera from 63 HCC patients using a second generation enzyme immunoassay. Anti-HCV was found in 15 patients (23.8%), 12 of whom (80%) were males. The mea...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Weinig M,Hakim JG,Gudza I,Tobaiwa O

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate complement activation in uncomplicated, early phases of human malaria. Fifteen healthy volunteers were experimentally infected with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Parasitemia and complement activation products were assessed. During blood stage parasitemia, volunteers show...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Roestenberg M,McCall M,Mollnes TE,van Deuren M,Sprong T,Klasen I,Hermsen CC,Sauerwein RW,van der Ven A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple pit latrines often represent the cheapest form of sanitation for poor communities. However, simple latrines lack a concrete slab and are therefore classified as an unimproved form of sanitation. This study collected soil samples in simple pit latrines and analysed them for the presence of helminth eggs; 71% of ...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Baker SM,Ensink JH

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted in Mathias Hospital, Yeji, an area of Ghana, where snake bite cases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, with a case fatality rate of 11% (8/72). Case management difficulties included uncertainty about the assessment of the severity of envenoming, the dosage of antivenom, and the re...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Visser LE,Kyei-Faried S,Belcher DW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niclosamide was used to interrupt transmission of Schistosoma haematobium by Bulinus senegalensis in seasonal rainwater pools for a period of three years. Snail populations were progressively reduced to approximately 1% of the numbers in untreated pools. There was little or no evidence of acquisition of new infection ...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Goll PH,Wilkins HA,Marshall TF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic patients, and especially elderly patients in a low-nutritional or immunocompromised state, are prone to a variety of opportunistic infections. 'Myiasis' is a term that refers to non-iatrogenic infestation of tissues by larvae, commonly known as maggots, of dipterous flies. Myiasis as a complication of fractur...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Verettas DA,Chatzipapas CN,Drosos GI,Xarchas KC,Staikos C,Chloropoulou P,Kazakos KI,Ververidis A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strain diversity of 100 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates collected over a period of 18 months from tuberculosis (TB) cases in Sri Lanka was studied by spoligotyping. When compared to the international spoligotyping database, 43 spoligotype patterns were identified, of which 20 were previously described. The maj...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Rajapaksa US,Victor TC,Perera AJ,Warren RM,Senevirathne SM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In urbanized, low-income cities with high rates of congestion, delivery of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) by unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to people with epilepsy for both emergency and non-urgent distribution may prove beneficial. METHODS:Conakry is the capital of the Republic of Guinea, a low-income sub-S...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Mateen FJ,Leung KHB,Vogel AC,Cissé AF,Chan TCY

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between intestinal parasitism and excreta disposal technologies in Gaborone (Botswana), Ndola (Zambia) and Kumasi (Ghana) were investigated. Parasitic prevalence and intensity rates amongst groups of urban residents having similar socio-economic status and housing, but different excreta disposal tech...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Feachem RG,Guy MW,Harrison S,Iwugo KO,Marshall T,Mbere N,Muller R,Wright AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey for intestinal parasites was carried out in a homogenous rice cultivation area, in which people had equal opportunities of acquiring the local endemic helminthiases, including schistosomiasis mansoni. The numbers of Schistosoma mansoni eggs excreted in faeces were counted. Infections with S. mansoni, Ascaris ...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Chamone M,Marques CA,Atuncar GS,Pereira AL,Pereira LH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-third of the world's population burn organic material such as wood, dung or charcoal (biomass fuel) for cooking, heating and lighting. This form of energy usage is associated with high levels of indoor air pollution and an increase in the incidence of respiratory infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis and c...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Fullerton DG,Bruce N,Gordon SB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to assess the impact of sputum quality and quantity on smear and culture positivity for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. METHODS:A total of 14 708 sputum specimens, collected from respiratory symptomatics in a TB prevalence survey, were evaluated for gross appearance and volume of...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Bhat J,Rao V,Muniyandi M,Yadav R,Karforma C,Luke C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small size of their genomes made bacterial ideal model organisms for the emerging field of genomics. Elucidating the genome sequences of mycobacteria was particularly attractive owing to the difficulties inherent in their manipulation. The slow growth rate, clumping, and requirement for category III containment ma...

journal_title：Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

authors： Gordon SV,Brosch R,Eiglmeier K,Garnier T,Hewinson RG,Cole ST

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00