pH of amoebic liver pus.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to estimate and compare the ability of clinical tools for dengue diagnosis in a pediatric population. METHODS:We prospectively evaluated episodes of acute febrile syndrome identified during the follow-up of a population-based cohort of children and adolescents residing in a dengue endemic city. We ...

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

authors： Diaz-Quijano FA,Figueiredo GM,Waldman EA,Figueiredo WM,Cardoso MRA,Campos SRC,Costa AA,Pannuti CS,Luna EJA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are being procured and used in increasing numbers. However, the resultant effect of RDT-based diagnosis on fever management has been limited by lack of confidence in RDT results or the inability to act on results appropriately. If the utilisation of malaria RDTs is going to achieve...

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

authors： Bell D,Perkins MD

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:A population-based study of the clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic findings in patients suffering from mild or moderate opisthorchiasis in Prachinburi province, Thailand was conducted in 1990-1992. The effectiveness of treatment with praziquantel at 40 mg/kg body weight was evaluated. After treatment, a long-la...

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

authors： Pungpak S,Chalermrut K,Harinasuta T,Viravan C,Schelp PF,Hempfling A,Schlattmann P,Bunnag D

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of a short study of the epidemiology of Leishmania tropica in the Sheikh Maksoud District of Aleppo, Syria. The present and past status of infection in a community of about 100,000 people are assessed from prevalence and incidence data obtained by active and passive case detection, and from a ski...

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

authors： Ashford RW,Rioux JA,Jalouk L,Khiami A,Dye C

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera of 173 individuals living in a malaria endemic region in Upper Volta (Donsé village) were screened for the presence of 14 auto-antibodies by the indirect immunofluorescent and/or passive haemagglutination techniques. At least one auto-antibody (AAb) was detected in sera of 72% (124 out of 173) subjects. No differ...

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

authors： Daniel-Ribeiro C,Druilhe P,Monjour L,Homberg JC,Gentilini M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB remains a very significant global health burden. There is an urgent need for better tools for TB control, which include an effective vaccine. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the currently licensed vaccine, confers highly variable protection against pulmonary TB, the main source of TB transmission. Replacing BCG com...

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

authors： Manjaly Thomas ZR,McShane H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight weeks following infection with Schistosoma mansoni ICR strain mice showed much more marked hepatic fibrosis than did C57BL/6 mice or hamsters. None the less, extracts of the hepatic granulomata of these animals had similar fibroblast stimulating activity when assayed in vitro. ...

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

authors： Cheever AW,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:The effect of prior injections on the pattern and severity of paralytic poliomyelitis has been examined by a retrospective analysis of case notes from an outpatient pediatric clinic in South India. Of 262 children with acute polio, 176 had received unnecessary injections < 48 h before paralysis and 12 had received dip...

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

authors： Wyatt HV,Mahadevan S,Srinivasan S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the mucosal immune response against Cryptosporidium has been suggested by studies on the therapeutic effects of hyperimmune colostrum. In order to study the intestinal response to this infection, we have developed a sandwich-type time-resolved immunofluorometric assay for the determination of anti-Cryptosp...

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

authors： Kapel N,Meillet D,Buraud M,Favennec L,Magne D,Gobert JG

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of bloody diarrhoea was observed in 1997 and 1998 in Bessoum, north Cameroon. Of 1176 inhabitants, 16.7% went for medical consultation to a public health centre located 10 km away. This epidemic was probably due to the recent introduction of Schistosoma mansoni in an ancient focus of S. haematobium, follow...

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

authors： Cunin P,Griffet A,Poste B,Djibrilla K,Martin PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus is a member of the triad of epidemiologically important liver fluke species belonging to the family Opisthorchiidae and the major agent causing opisthorchiasis over a vast territory, covering Russia, Kazakhstan and several European countries. The similarity between the diseases ca...

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

authors： Pakharukova MY,Mordvinov VA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the separation and quantitative estimation of melaminophenyl arsenical drugs used in the treatment of human and veterinary trypanosomiases. Five clinically relevant compounds (melarsoprol, melarsonyl potassium, cymelarsan, melarsen oxide...

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

authors： Berger BJ,Fairlamb AH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From June to December 1985 273 cases of hepatitis and jaundice were diagnosed in Maun, northern Botswana. It was known before the outbreak that most adults were immune to hepatitis A virus, most had markers indicating past infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV), there was a mean prevalence of 13.6% (57/418) HBsAg carr...

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

authors： Byskov J,Wouters JS,Sathekge TJ,Swanepoel R

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Renal function was monitored in 24 patients with systemic envenoming following proven Russell's viper bite. In all patients, blood clotted within 20 min on admission. In 15 cases severe defibrination (systemic envenoming) developed during the next 3-5 d. None of the patients received antivenom before admission but enz...

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

authors： Thein-Than,Tin-Tun,Hla-Pe,Phillips RE,Myint-Lwin,Tin-Nu-Swe,Warrell DA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical characteristics of patients with falciparum malaria, as well as sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine and mefloquine, were investigated in 2 distinct strata within the same geographical area of the Amazon Basin. One stratum was the population living along the road, the other that living along th...

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

authors： Kremsner PG,Zotter GM,Feldmeier H,Bienzle U,Jansen-Rosseck R,Graninger W,Rocha RM,Wernsdorfer WH

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five strains of Helicobacter pylori isolated from November 1997 until October 1998 from 33 female and 22 male adults attending for endoscopy at the Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria were assayed for antibiotic susceptibility to amoxycillin, clarithromycin, metronidazole and tetracycline by the E-test strip method. ...

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

authors： Ani AE,Malu AO,Onah JA,Queiroz DM,Kirschner G,Rocha GA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roots of Pseudocedrela kotschyi are commonly used as chewing sticks in West Africa. This study examined the effects of the plant extract on the in-vitro growth of Plasmodium falciparum. Ring-stage synchronised cultures of the malaria parasite were exposed to 30 and 60 microg/ml of P. kotschyi extract for 51 h. Aliquot...

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

authors： Kassim OO,Loyevsky M,Amonoo H,Lashley L,Ako-Nai KA,Gordeuk VR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera remains a grave public health problem in Africa. It is endemic with seasonal variations around the central African Great Lakes. Along the coasts, it occurs mostly in rapidly expanding epidemics, with intercalated 3-5 year lull-periods. Case-fatality ratios remain high at 2–5% against the global declining trend...

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

authors： Mengel MA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent increase in funding for diseases endemic in resource-poor countries has led to a progressive rise in the number of trials conducted in Africa for product development purposes or to answer important questions on reduction of disease burden. This causes an increasing demand for data safety monitoring boards (...

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

authors： Lang T,Chilengi R,Noor RA,Ogutu B,Todd JE,Kilama WL,Targett GA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated amodiaquine as a replacement drug for treating falciparum malaria in an area of Pakistani Punjab where chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum has recently emerged. Amodiaquine appeared to be 4 to 8 times more effective than chloroquine when P. falciparum isolates were tested in vitro. However, the re...

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

authors： Khaliq AA,Fox E,Sarwar M,Strickland GT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three apparently immunocompetent patients died in the intensive care unit at Loni Hospital, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India, between 2001 and 2006 due to multiorgan failure and Strongyloides stercoralis septicaemia following a short course of corticosteroid (prednisolone) therapy of 6-17 days for peripheral blood eosin...

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

authors： Ghosh K,Ghosh K

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Cultured stocks of Entamoeba hartmanni, Endolimax nana, Iodamoeba buetschlli and Dientamoeba fragilis were compared with the four Entamoeba histolytical groups already described (SARGEAUNT et al., 1978), by the electrophoretic patterns of three enzymes: glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI), phosphoglucomutase (PGM) and L...

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

authors： Sargeaunt PG,Williams JE

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand better the relationship among Mycobacterium leprae, its transmission and the human host or the chain of infection which may lead to the development of leprosy, we performed a population survey in which nasal carriage of M. leprae was determined by a specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR), 2 ye...

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

authors： Hatta M,van Beers SM,Madjid B,Djumadi A,de Wit MY,Klatser PR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promotion of breastfeeding is a key component of infant health policies globally. However, maternal HIV infection is a possible contraindication for breastfeeding since it can result in mother-to-child transmission. Research into infant-feeding strategies which will promote the health of all infants but also protect a...

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

authors： Filteau S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infection with Schistosoma haematobium and various factors including water contact pattern, past history of haematuria and treatment for schistosomiasis and cercarial dermatitis was investigated in Southern Iraq. The study covered mainly primary schoolchildren in different areas of Basrah and i...

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

authors： Yacoub A,Southgate BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (XbaI) on 114 bloodstream isolates of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi A and S. enterica serotype Typhi collected from febrile patients in Kathmandu, Nepal. Of the 56 S. Paratyphi A isolates, 51 (91%) were indistinguishable, which suggests the emergence of a single c...

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

authors： Woods CW,Murdoch DR,Zimmerman MD,Glover WA,Basnyat B,Wolf L,Belbase RH,Reller LB

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00