Epidemiological and genetic observations on human schistosomiasis in Kinshasa, Zaire.

abstract：:Urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG; beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase; EC 3.2.1.30), blood urea, serum creatinine and creatinine clearance were measured in 23 patients bitten by Russell's viper (Daboia russelii siamensis), with systemic envenomation, at different time intervals after the bite during clinical obse...

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

authors： Win-Aung,Aye-Kyaw,Tin-Win,San-Kun,Thin-Thin-Hlaing

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteraemia associated with severe malaria in childhood is a sporadically reported phenomenon but its incidence and clinical importance are unknown. We have reviewed clinical and laboratory data from 783 Kenyan children sequentially admitted with a primary diagnosis of severe malaria. The overall incidence of bacterae...

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

authors： Berkley J,Mwarumba S,Bramham K,Lowe B,Marsh K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional deficiency and malaria are 2 major causes of anaemia during pregnancy in tropical areas. The relationship between anaemia, its treatment with iron and folate, and malaria was studied in a prospective cohort of 2112 pregnant Karen women on the north-western border of Thailand between 1993 and 1997. The deve...

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

authors： Nacher M,McGready R,Stepniewska K,Cho T,Looareesuwan S,White NJ,Nosten F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a high prevalence of primary liver cell carcinoma in the Guinea Savanna country of Nigeria, one of the highest frequencies in the world. The highest frequency of the tumour was among males aged 20 to 49 years. The clinical and laboratory findings are similar to those found in other series in Africa. Alpha1-fo...

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

authors： Fakunle YM,Ajdukiewicz AB,Greenwood BM,Edington GM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In The Gambia, insecticide impregnation of bed nets, used alone or combined with Maloprim, reduced morbidity and mortality from malaria amongst children between one and 4 years of age. Taking expenditure of both time and money by public authorities and village volunteers into account, the costs and cost-effectiveness ...

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

authors： Picard J,Aikins M,Alonso PL,Armstrong Schellenberg JR,Greenwood BM,Mills A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades there has been an increase in cases of visceral leishmaniasis complicating the post-transplant phase, mainly following kidney transplantation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reactivity of haemodialysed patients using IFAT. Blood samples of 310 individuals from Natal, RN, Brazil, were col...

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

authors： Souza RM,de Oliveira IB,Paiva VC,Lima KC,dos Santos RP,de Almeida JB,Luz KG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Omdurman Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Sudan, from 6 October to 1 December 1986, 736 patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) were studied. The duration of the lesions varied from a few days to 4 months, usually (56%) 1-3 months. Multiple lesions ranging from one to 50 (mean = 4) were present in 80% of case...

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

authors： el-Safi SH,Peters W,el-Toam B,el-Kadarow A,Evans DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of epidemiological surveys and the follow-up of malaria endemicity are often difficult to compare due to the high frequency of low-density parasitaemia in semi-immune populations. Detecting malaria parasites is dependent on the conditions and methods of parasitological examination. A standardized method of...

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

authors： Trape JF

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schistosoma haematobium infection is a major public health problem in most of Africa and the Middle East and praziquantel remains the only drug used for schistosomiasis control, therefore emergence of drug resistance is unavoidable. The antimalarial artemisinin-naphthoquine phosphate combination (co-ArNp) wa...

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

authors： El-Beshbishi SN,El Bardicy S,Tadros M,Ayoub M,Taman A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia pahangi, which were inoculated into Meriones unguiculatus and Mastomys natalensis respectively, were found in the peripheral blood of the rodents until the ninth day after infection, but no microfilarial periodicity was observed. Microfilariae of W. bancrofti disappeare...

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

authors： Zielke E

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Malaysian, British and New Zealand soldiers were tested for evidence of infection with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi after several weeks' exposure to the infection during field exercises in Malaysia. 39 (5.0%) of 787 British and New Zealand soldiers developed immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) to R. tsutsugamushi to a titre ...

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

authors： Brown GW,Shirai A,Groves MG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tafenoquine is being developed for radical cure and post-exposure prophylaxis of Plasmodium vivax malaria. In an open-label study, 1512 Australian Defence Force personnel received one of three tafenoquine 3 d regimens [400 mg once daily (od), 200 mg twice daily (bid), 200 mg od] or daily primaquine (22.5 mg) plus doxy...

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

authors： Elmes NJ,Nasveld PE,Kitchener SJ,Kocisko DA,Edstein MD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By microinjection of cryopreserved microfilariae (mf) into nulliparous flies, a comparison of the lengths of the infective larvae (L3) of Onchocerca volvulus and O. ochengi from the head of Simulium damnosum s.l. (presumed S. sirbanum) has been made. The suitability of S. sirbanum as a host was similar for both Onchoc...

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

authors： McCall PJ,Townson H,Trees AJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the isolation and characterization of a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid clone showing sequence homology with genes coding for the eukaryotic elongation factor 1 gamma (EF-1 gamma). The clone encodes an open reading frame of 404 amino acids corresponding to a deduced molecular mass of 46.2 kDa. D...

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

authors： Cañavate C,el Bali M,Montoya Y,Barker DC,Alvar J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-feto protein (alpha-FP) is now accepted as a very useful serum marker of hepatocarcinoma, and since its discovery in 1963, surveys have been carried out in various regions of the world, where hepatoma is particularly prevalent, which have shown that alpha-FP may be detected in 50 to 80% of patients with liver ca...

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

authors： Seggie J,Gelfand M

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidneys were studied by light microscopy in 246 consecutive autopsies in Cairo, Egypt. Glomerulonephritis was not related to the presence or intensity of either S. haematobium or S. mansoni infection, and mesangial thickening and proliferation were also unrelated to schistosome infection. Acute and chronic pyelonephri...

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

authors： Sadigursky M,Andrade ZA,Danner R,Cheever AW,Kamel IA,Elwi AM

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:A 17% efficacy in preventing all-cause mortality in children aged 6-59 months was previously reported from a cluster-randomized controlled trial of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) carried out in the Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana from July 1993-June 1995. A follow-up until the end of 2000 found no...

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

authors： Binka FN,Hodgson A,Adjuik M,Smith T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new OptiMAL-IT(R) rapid diagnostic test for malaria was evaluated in 271 patients in Thailand with uncomplicated malaria between June and July 2002. The sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum parasites were 88% and 92%, respectively. For species other than P. falciparum, the sensiti...

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

authors： Pattanasin S,Proux S,Chompasuk D,Luwiradaj K,Jacquier P,Looareesuwan S,Nosten F

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ELISA AND IFAT have been applied to the sero-diagnosis of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis and the levels of leishmanial antibody detected by Leishmania donovani antigens in both tests have been compared. From the results it appears that ELISA is a little more sensitive than IFAT, but IFAT seems to be more specifi...

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

authors： Edrissian GH,Darabian P

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi (Brazil strain) was maintained in liver infusion tryptose and medium supplemented with 5 or 10% foetal calf serum at 27 degrees C on a rotating shaker platform. 85 to 95% of the organisms under these conditions are epimastigotes and the medium supported logarithmic growth for up to 24 hours. The effe...

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

authors： Nadler JP,Lederer E,Wittner M,Baum SG,Tanowitz HB

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercial dot-blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Dip-S-Ticks dipstick test was compared with the indirect immunoperoxidase (IIP) and Weil-Felix (WF) tests for the diagnosis of scrub typhus, using the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) as the reference standard. With a panel of 117 positive and 75 ...

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

authors： Pradutkanchana J,Silpapojakul K,Paxton H,Pradutkanchana S,Kelly DJ,Strickman D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica has been separated in recent years into 2 morphologically identical species: the apathogenic E. dispar and the pathogenic E. histolytica, only the latter being pathogenic. Although various laboratory techniques allow discrimination between the 2 species there is a lack of field data about the sui...

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

authors： Heckendorn F,N'Goran EK,Felger I,Vounatsou P,Yapi A,Oettli A,Marti HP,Dobler M,Traoré M,Lohourignon KL,Lengeler C

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was applied to capillary blood spots dried on filter paper from 20 parasitologically proved cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), 21 subclinical cases, and 11 healthy controls in a longitudinal study of anthroponotic VL in Baringo District, Kenya. Leishmania deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) wa...

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

authors： Schaefer KU,Schoone GJ,Gachihi GS,Muller AS,Kager PA,Meredith SE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the number of clients attending for voluntary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing who are able to enter a trial of preventive therapy for tuberculosis, and the factors that determine who receives therapy, we studied 475 consecutive people attending for an HIV test at Lusaka's first voluntary HIV te...

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

authors： Godfrey-Faussett P,Baggaley R,Mwinga A,Hosp M,Porter J,Luo N,Kelly M,Msiska R,McAdam K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting reports on the presence of neurocognitive dysfunction during the initial, medically asymptomatic stage of HIV infection. This study aimed to assess the psychomotor speed and attention ability of antiretroviral treatment-naïve Nigerian Africans with HIV/AIDS and the impact of CD4 levels on their c...

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

authors： Ogunrin AO,Odiase FE,Ogunniyi A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of chloroquine-resistant malaria has led to a resurgence of quinine in clinical use. One of the well-known side effects of quinine, reversible hearing loss, is closely related to the plasma concentration. We suggest that this hearing effect could be used as an aid in therapy control when quinine drug assay ...

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

authors： Karlsson KK,Hellgren U,Alván G,Rombo L

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functioning of the government primary health care system as it affects infant health in the Baglung District of Nepal, is discussed. the Baglung District is a remote rural area of 232,000 population in the western Himalayan foothills, entirely based on subsistence farming, and without drivable roads. The governm...

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

authors： Costello AM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In February 1995 we surveyed to chloroquine among patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria at Nias Island, in the Indian Ocean near north-western Sumatra, Indonesa. The subjects, 21 indigenous males and females (6-50 years old) infected with > 40 asexual blood stage parasites of P. vivax per microliter of blood, had mil...

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

authors： Baird JK,Sustriayu Nalim MF,Basri H,Masbar S,Leksana B,Tjitra E,Dewi RM,Khairani M,Wignall FS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00