Ultrasound and abdominal hydatid disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection has been associated with recurrent and disseminated strongyloidiasis and adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL). METHODS:We compared immunological aspects and markers for ATLL in HTLV-1 patients with or without strongyloidiasis, and evaluated the infl...

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

authors： Salles F,Bacellar A,Amorim M,Orge G,Sundberg M,Lima M,Santos S,Porto A,Carvalho E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the clinical outcome of treatment of cholera in children with ampicillin, erythromycin or tetracycline, a double-'blind' randomized four-cell trial was carried out in Bangladesh. Ampicillin was chosen as additional therapy for acute respiratory tract infection, present in many subjects with diarrhoea. One h...

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

authors： Roy SK,Islam A,Ali R,Islam KE,Khan RA,Ara SH,Saifuddin NM,Fuchs GJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutralizing antibodies against poliovirus have been studied in 265 persons in Monrovia (Liberia). 34% of the individuals studied possessed antibodies against the three polioviruses, 23% against two, 26% against one; the remaining 17% showed none. The three poliovirus antibodies were evenly distributed amongst the pop...

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

authors： Rodriguez-Burgos A,Bada JL,Fernandez-Calvo JL,Artola VM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two long sewerage canals in the city of Kolkata, India were heavily infested with larvae, pupae and egg rafts of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus. Although the burden of bancroftian filariasis and other diseases transmitted by C. quinquefasciatus in the city is practically zero, the night-biting mosquitoe...

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

authors： Biswas D,Mandal B,Biswas B,Banerjee A,Mukherjee TK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flora of the upper intestine has been examined in symptomatic expatriate adults with mild tropical malabsorption, without steatorrhoea, persisting for many months after return to a western environment. Seven of the 11 patients had enterobacteria in luminal fluid or mucosal samples in numbers ranging from...

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

authors： Tomkins AM,Wright SG,Drasar BS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a survey for taeniasis and cysticercosis among persons living in a Mexican village where Taenia solium infection in pigs was known to be enzootic. A standardized questionnaire was administered in all 577 households to obtain medical histories and information on demographic and environmental factors and on...

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

authors： Sarti E,Schantz PM,Plancarte A,Wilson M,Gutierrez OI,Aguilera J,Roberts J,Flisser A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the early 1900s, visceral leishmaniasis (VL; kala-azar) has been among the most important health problems in Sudan, particularly in the main endemic area in the eastern and central regions. Several major epidemics have occurred, the most recent--in Western Upper Nile province in southern Sudan, detected in 1988--...

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

authors： Zijlstra EE,el-Hassan AM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) was studied as a schistosomiasis prophylactic in vivo for the use of individuals with limited exposure. Fifteen subjects, on a 3-week expedition to Lake Malawi in September 2001, applied 50% DEET to their skin after exposure to lake water. No subjects developed evidence of a new ...

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

authors： Jackson F,Doherty JF,Behrens RH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemics of cholera have been frequent in southern Africa since the reintroduction of the disease to the continent in 1970. In late 1992, following a severe drought and an influx of refugees from Mozambique, cholera reappeared in Zimbabwe for the first time since 1985 and rapidly spread through the rural areas of the...

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

authors： Bradley M,Shakespeare R,Ruwende A,Woolhouse ME,Mason E,Munatsi A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria are sources of numerous molecules used in treatment of infectious diseases. We investigated effects of molecules produced by 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains against infection of mammalian cell cultures with Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease. METHODS:Vero cells were infec...

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

authors： Sass G,Miller Conrad LC,Nguyen TH,Stevens DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro blastogenesis response of lymphocytes from 19 patients, with either visceral or mucocutaneous leishmaniasis or Chagas disease, to antigens of the Leishmania-Trypanosoma complex was studied. Cells from all patients responded to both homologous and heterologous antigens and the magnitude of the responses di...

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

authors： Carvalho EM,Reed SG,Johnson WD Jr

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using IFAT, it has been shown that isolated egg-shells and uterine fluid of Dipetalonema viteae are the most potent antigens in heterologous systems using human sera from patients infected with Wuchereria bancrofti, Onchocerca volvulus and Loa loa, as well as in homologous systems using sera from animals infected with...

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

authors： Diesfeld HJ,Kirsten C

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new microplate assay for the determination of activity in vitro against Giardia intestinalis has been developed in which viability is measured by soluble formazan production from a tetrazolium reagent. Metabolic reduction of the latter gives rise to a coloured product which may be determined directly by optical dens...

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

authors： Wright CW,Melwani SI,Phillipson JD,Warhurst DC

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:Pneumocystis carinii occurs in 60-65% of cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Europe and North America. Its prevalence in Africa is unknown, however, due to a lack of suitable investigative techniques. Initial studies suggest that this parasitic complication may be lower in Africa. An investigation of...

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

authors： Carme B,Mboussa J,Andzin M,Mbouni E,Mpele P,Datry A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of information on the disease burden due to Taenia solium taeniasis and its associated risk factors in pig farming communities throughout the world. The present study was conducted in a rural pig farming community of north India to estimate the prevalence of T. solium taeniasis and associated factors. ...

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

authors： Prasad KN,Prasad A,Gupta RK,Pandey CM,Singh U

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Preventive chemotherapy (PC), the large-scale administration of anthelminthics, is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). Since 2010, donated anthelminthics for STH have boosted the implementation of PC programmes in children, achieving glo...

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

authors： Montresor A,Trouleau W,Mupfasoni D,Bangert M,Joseph SA,Mikhailov A,Fitzpatrick C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two leishmanial stocks isolated in Egypt, one from a dog and the other from Rattus norvegicus, were typed according to their excreted factor (EF) serotype and the electrophoretic mobility of their glucose phosphate isomerase. The canine isolate was indistinguishable from L. donovani (= L. infantum ) strains. The rat i...

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

authors： Azab ME,Rifaat MA,Schnur LF,Makhlouf SA,El-Sherif E,Salem AM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin derivatives are becoming the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in areas with widespread resistance to chloroquine. Although generally safe and well tolerated, it has been suggested from animal experiments, and more recently from one human study with artemether-lumefantrine, that these compound...

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

authors： McCall MB,Beynon AJ,Mylanus EA,van der Ven AJ,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naegleria australiensis was recently described as a new species of free-living amoeba pathogenic for mice. Infections of human brain by the free-living amoebae N. fowleri and Acanthamoeba spp. are well known. We here describe the clinicopathological features of experimental infection of the central nervous system of m...

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

authors： De Jonckheere JF,Aerts M,Martinez AJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the irrigated zones of North-eastern region of Afghanistan malaria transmission is sustained by A. pulcherrimus and A. hyrcanus despite many years of DDT spraying. A. hyrcanus is an exophilic and exophagic mosquito, strongly resistant to DDT. A. pulcherrimus is still largely susceptible to the insecticide but seems...

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

authors： Onori E,Nushin MK,Cullen JE,Yakubi GH,Mohammed K,Christal FA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early identification of patients at risk of severe dengue disease (DD) is critical to guide its management. We evaluated whether the atypical lymphocyte count (ALC), generated from the Sysmex automated full blood count analyzer, is predictive of severe thrombocytopenia secondary to Dengue infection. METHODS...

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

authors： Abeysuriya V,Choong CSH,Thilakawardana BU,de Mel P,Shalindi M,de Mel C,Chandrasena L,Seneviratne SL,Yip C,Yap ES,de Mel S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance on account of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) has become a major public health concern in developing countries. The presence of ESBL-PE is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. There is no active antimicrobial surveillance mechan...

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

authors： Musa BM,Imam H,Lendel A,Abdulkadir I,Gumi HS,Aliyu MH,Habib AG

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential multiple opportunistic infections in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) cause the clinician considerable problems. Firstly there is the problem of the correct diagnosis of which organism is producing symptoms and there is the possibility of more than one organism being responsible. ...

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

authors： Gazzard BG

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Microsporidiosis in AIDS patients has emerged as an important cause of morbidity, but diagnosis requires special stains, equipment and expertise. Here we describe a modification to an existing staining technique to allow more rapid preparation, without additional equipment, facilitating research in the tropics into th...

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

authors： Sianongo S,McDonald V,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:The spread of HIV-1 infection among women of childbearing age has led to increasing numbers of children at risk of vertical transmission. This study aimed to assess child outcomes among HIV-positive (n=19) and AIDS (n=22) mothers from Central West Brazil. CD4(+) T-cell counts (FACScount, BD) and viral loads (HIV-1 RT-...

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

authors： Alcântara KC,Pereira GA,Albuquerque M,Stefani MM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the effects of malaria chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy on birthweight and investigation of the influence of birthweight on child survival suggest that, in a rural area of The Gambia, chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy might reduce infant mortality by about one-fifth in the children of primigravid...

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

authors： Greenwood AM,Armstrong JR,Byass P,Snow RW,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to use a modified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling methodology to classify communities according to prevalence of active trachoma and to estimate the prevalence of trachoma and trichiasis in Nioro department, Kaolack Region, Senegal. A survey was conducted using two-stage cluster sampling...

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

authors： Faye M,Kuper H,Dineen B,Bailey R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00