Visceral leishmaniasis: use of the polymerase chain reaction in an epidemiological study in Baringo District, Kenya.

abstract：:There are 4 recognized classes of Escherichia coli that cause diarrhoeal disease in humans: enteropathogenic (EPEC), enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteroinvasive (EIEC), and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC). Preliminary analysis of enterotoxin production in a rural community in Ghana showed a prevalence of 11.0% LT-ST+, 9....

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

authors： Agbodaze D,Abrahams CA,Arai S

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Plasmodia infect the liver for about 7 days before subsequently infecting the blood. Present prophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum malaria employs agents that primarily kill blood stages and must be continued for 28 days after the last exposure. Atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone) is a new antimalarial agent that is l...

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

authors： Berman JD,Nielsen R,Chulay JD,Dowler M,Kain KC,Kester KE,Williams J,Whelen AC,Shmuklarsky MJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin (20 mg/kg/d) or ofloxacin (12 mg/kg/d) given for a median of 15 weeks (range 12-40) were used for maintenance treatment of 57 adult patients with melioidosis. The median duration of follow-up in the 45 patients who complied with treatment and were followed for at least 6 months was 28 months (range 6-65)...

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

authors： Chaowagul W,Suputtamongkul Y,Smith MD,White NJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that cow's milk formula and weaning diet may damage the gut mucosa, the gastrointestinal permeability of 77 healthy English and Gambian infants was measured from the urinary recovery of the markers lactulose and mannitol included in feeds. All infants were born at term and studied at 6, 12 and 1...

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

authors： Weaver LT

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notification is an important source of health information. However, it suffers from the serious limitation of under-reporting, especially in 'third world' countries. The aims of this study were to assess the impact of a special notification nurse and ward notification register on the rate of notification from a genera...

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

authors： Seneviratne SL,Gunatilake SB,de Silva HJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiological and clinical study was performed in an area of West Africa (The Gambia) where Plasmodium falciparum is endemic with seasonal transmission. Plasma samples were tested by intermediate gel immunoelectrophoresis for antibodies against 7 soluble P. falciparum antigens. There were marked differences in...

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

authors： Jakobsen PH,Riley EM,Allen SJ,Larsen SO,Bennett S,Jepsen S,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency surveys in Afghan refugees and a local community in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, showed that this trait was most common among Pathan and Uzbak refugees (15.8% and 9.1% respectively). The prevalence among Pakistani Pathans was 7.0%, and that in Tajik ...

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

authors： Bouma MJ,Goris M,Akhtar T,Khan N,Khan N,Kita E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During February and March of 1998, 12 sudden deaths were reported among residents of a high-Andean community in Ecuador. All 12 fatalities were members of the same extended family and some had apparent exposure to sick guinea-pigs. Following an initial investigation by public health officials, an additional death was ...

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

authors： Gabastou JM,Proaño J,Vimos A,Jaramillo G,Hayes E,Gage K,Chu M,Guarner J,Zaki S,Bowers J,Guillemard C,Tamayo H,Ruiz A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the global effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, annual mass treatments are conducted with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) or ivermectin, combined with albendazole. The success of this strategy depends on achieving high levels of drug coverage, which reduces the number of persons with circulating microfilariae so that...

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

authors： Mathieu E,Deming M,Lammie PJ,McLaughlin SI,Beach MJ,Deodat DJ,Addiss DG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible association between nutritional status and Schistosoma mansoni infection or morbidity was investigated by comparing anthropometric indices among 362 children from 3 primary schools in Machakos District, Kenya. Matithini was a prosperous school in an area (Kangundo) of moderate intensity of schistosome infec...

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

authors： Corbett EL,Butterworth AE,Fulford AJ,Ouma JH,Sturrock RF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residents of a slum community of Dhaka city, Bangladesh were tested by serological and faecal examination for evidence of Strongyloides stercoralis infection. In stool specimens from a total of 147 participants Strongyloides larvae were found in 34 (23.1%) by Harada-Mori culture, 15 (10.2%) by agar plate culture (APC)...

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

authors： Sultana Y,Gilbert GL,Ahmed BN,Lee R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new antihookworm compound, C.9333 Go./CGP 4540, was evaluated clinically in 65 adult patients with hookworm infection. Several dosage schedules were evaluated to determine an effective, well tolerated and convenient regime. The lowest effective dose was 125 mg administered at four-hourly intervals for three doses. T...

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

authors： Vakil BJ,Dalal NJ,Shah PN

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective series of 156 patients systemically envenomed following the bite of a Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) were studied. All patients were treated with appropriate antivenom and clinical course and outcome were compared. The proportion of patients requiring intubation was significantly smaller, an...

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

authors： Trevett AJ,Lalloo DG,Nwokolo NC,Naraqi S,Kevau IH,Theakston RD,Warrell DA

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Ultrasound utilization studies in the developing world are important to support appropriate use. METHODS:A prospective, cross-sectional study in the medical wards at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, was performed which aimed to assess referrals, reports and usefulness of scans to develop ...

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

authors： Brindle HE,Allain TJ,Kampondeni S,Kayange N,Faragher B,Bates I,Joekes E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper records the incidence of chancroid in northern Nigeria. Out of 776 new patients registered at the Special Treatment Clinic (STC) of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) Zaria during February to August 1982, 34 cases (4.38%) were diagnosed as chancroid. Direct smear examination for Ha...

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

authors： Joshi RM,Lawande RV

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On return from duty in North Solomons Province (including Bougainville Island), Papua New Guinea, 586 Australian Defence Force personnel received either primaquine (14-d) or tafenoquine (3-d) post-exposure malaria prophylaxis. Within 12 months, 6 of the 214 volunteers receiving primaquine and 7 of 378 receiving tafeno...

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

authors： Nasveld P,Kitchener S,Edstein M,Rieckmann K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compounds derived from the Chinese medicinal plant qinghao (Artemisia annua) are the most rapidly acting of all antimalarial drugs. They are effective when given parenterally, orally or by suppository. No serious adverse effect has yet been reported in humans. The artemisinin derivatives already have an establishe...

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

authors： White NJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:Plasmodium falciparum in Thailand is highly resistant to available antimalarial drugs. Artemether, a derivative of artemisinin, is a promising compound currently used to cope with this situation but the course of treatment has to be at least 5 d. An effective short treatment course of this drug is possible when used i...

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

authors： Karbwang J,Na-Bangchang K,Thanavibul A,Ditta-in M,Harinasuta T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the lung in 13 cases of human visceral leishmaniasis was studied. Interstitial pneumonitis with mononuclear cells was found in 76.8% of the cases; 53.8% also had foci of septal fibrosis. Leishmania were seen within macrophages in 3 cases only. However, all 10 interstitial pneumonitis cases showed PA...

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

authors： Duarte MI,da Matta VL,Corbett CE,Laurenti MD,Chebabo R,Goto H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:34 patients with tetanus were studied; all had normal serum proteins and albumin. Only 3 samples of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contained cells (a few polymorphonuclear leucocytes). Protein levels in the CSF were elevated in 26 patients (76.5%); 11 cases with clinically mild tetanus had a mean CSF protein of 400 +/- 250...

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

authors： Idoko JA,Amiobonomo AE,Anjorin FI,Oyeyinka GO,Elechi C

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:We report the successful treatment of envenoming by the Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) and include results of in vitro investigations of the haemostatic properties of the whole venom. The patient was admitted to casualty soon after the bite with chest tightness, dizziness, nausea and swelling at the site of the bite an...

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

authors： McNally T,Conway GS,Jackson L,Theakston RD,Marsh NA,Warrell DA,Young L,Mackie IJ,Machin SJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty surgically confirmed cases of hydatid disease in Eastern Libya were investigated. Of these, 30 had cysts of the liver, five had extra-hepatic abdominal cysts and 15 had cysts in the chest, including the lungs. Ten cases of malignancy of the liver and five cases of malignancy of the lung were used as controls. Di...

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

authors： Taguri S,Dar FK

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a report of the first year of follow-up on 250 pre-school children in a village in Ghana. The mean weight for age and the mean height for age at the start of the study, ranged between 81 and 97% and 91 and 101.4% of the median WHO reference standards respectively. Classified according to Waterlow (1973) ...

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

authors： Biritwum RB,Isomura S,Assoku A,Torigoe S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among many other factors, malaria plays a major causative role of anaemia globally. The mechanisms leading to anaemia in the course of malaria are extremely diverse, involving immunological factors that act differently according to age and malaria epidemiology. The malaria-attributable fraction of anaemia may then dif...

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

authors： Castelli F,Sulis G,Caligaris S

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：: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