Treatment failure of a single high dose of ivermectin for Mansonella perstans filariasis.

abstract：:Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) accounts for the majority of childhood malignancies seen in sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi, cyclophosphamide (CPM), the mainstay of treatment for endemic BL, is effective in around 50% of cases. Evidence exists in support of an association between activation of replication of Epstein-Barr virus ...

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

authors： Phillips JA,Griffin BE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a method, potentially suitable for field applications, for semi-quantitative detection of Mycobacterium leprae antigens in skin scrapings, which are taken normally for smear microscopy. Thirty acid-fast bacilli-negative paucibacillary (PB) leprosy patients comprised the main study group; eight acid-fa...

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

authors： Chaturvedi V,Girdhar BK,Sengupta U,Sinha S

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Tracking the history of the discovery of mycetoma is not simple because identifying the roots of medical knowledge depends on utilising sources that employ imprecise and sometimes confusing descriptions when compared with those based on modern medical terminology. Ancient sources of information include writings, such ...

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

authors： Hay RJ

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmanial antigen in circulating immune complexes (CIC) from sera of cotton-rats experimentally infected with Leishmania donovani and visceral leishmaniasis patients (VLP) was detected using a polyethylene glycol (PEG) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (PEG-ELISA). The immune complexes were precipitated in the cold ...

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

authors： Azazy AA,Devaney E,Chance ML

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freeze-dried and freshly cultured isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from different countries have been examined for variation in six enzymes, GPI, PGD, LDH, GDH, ADA and PEPE, using starch gel electrophoresis. Variant forms of each enzyme occur. For most enzymes, similar forms occur in isolates from different parts of...

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

authors： Sanderson A,Walliker D,Molez JF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumour antibiotic bleomycin, supplied as commercial BlenoxaneR (a mixture of bleomycinic acids), at 7 or 14 mg/kg prolonged life greater than 30 days beyond death of controls without relapse or sign of trypanosomes in the peripheral blood of mice infected with Trypanosoma b. brucei EATRO 110. Control mice died...

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

authors： Nathan HC,Bacchi CJ,Sakai TT,Rescigno D,Stumpf D,Hutner SH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 129 million people are infected with urogenital schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Current control recommendations endorse mass administration of praziquantel. Health education is an important component of effective schistosomiasis prevention and control, but there has been limited research on its eff...

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

authors： Price A,Verma A,Welfare W

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Healthcare-associated infections pose a major, yet often preventable risk to patient safety. Poor hand hygiene among healthcare personnel and unsanitary hospital environments may contribute to this risk in low-income settings. We aimed to describe hand hygiene behaviour and environmental contamination by sea...

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

authors： Tang K,Berthé F,Nackers F,Hanson K,Mambula C,Langendorf C,Marquer C,Isanaka S

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Response to treatment with organic pentavalent antimonials, the standard first-line treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), has been decreasing since their introduction into India. Combining sodium stibogluconate (SB) with paromomycin (PM) may be an efficient alternative to single-agent therapy. This trial was desi...

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

authors： Thakur CP,Kanyok TP,Pandey AK,Sinha GP,Zaniewski AE,Houlihan HH,Olliaro P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin disease is among the most frequent causes of morbidity in Ethiopia, showing high prevalence in the general population and being the sixth most frequent cause of outpatient visits nationwide to health facilities. This study was aimed at describing skin disease patterns in Tigray region, northern Ethiopia through a...

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

authors： Accorsi S,Barnabas GA,Farese P,Padovese V,Terranova M,Racalbuto V,Morrone A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments in 3 weeks old albino mice with Toxocara canis and sublethal infection with JE virus established a marked synergestic effect in dually infected mice. The results are discussed to indicate the possible role of visceral larva migrans in creating exploxive outbreaks of "acute encephalopathy syndrome" in indiv...

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

authors： Pavri KM,Ghalsasi GR,Dastur DK,Goverdhan MK,Lalitha VS

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:A Vietnamese child presented with a history of abdominal pain. Shortly afterwards, he vomited eight live trematode flukes that were collected and morphologically identified as Fasciolopsis buski. The identification was confirmed by DNA analysis. Adult worms of F. buski from humans are very rarely seen except at autops...

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

authors： Le TH,Nguyen VD,Phan BU,Blair D,McManus DP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical mastitis, defined as raised milk sodium/potassium (Na/K) ratio is common and associated with poor infant growth and increased mother-to-child HIV transmission. In 1996-97, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of multiple micronutrient supplementation, at recommended daily allowance levels, from 22 to...

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

authors： Gomo E,Filteau SM,Tomkins AM,Ndhlovu P,Michaelsen KF,Friis H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebic liver pus has an acidic pH. Hence the pleural aspirate from an amoebic empyema due to rupture of an amoebic liver abscess has an acidic pH. In contrast, the pH of pleural aspirates from effusions and empyema of non-amoebic aetiology were noted to have an alkaline pH. The clinical significance of these observat...

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

authors： Ramachandran S,Induruwa PA,Perera MV

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:A total of 1,197 wild animals from Pará State north Brazil, were examined for haematozoa. Trypanosoma cruzi-like parasites were found in 13 different species, and were particularly common in a variety of marsupials (Didelphidae), porcupines (Coendou spp.), armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) and coatimundis(Nasua nasua)...

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

authors： Lainson R,Shaw JJ,Fraiha H,Miles MA,Draper CC

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Epilepsy is a major health problem worldwide, and neurocysticercosis (NCC) is one of the important causes of epilepsy in the tropics. The present study was carried out in a rural pig farming community of north India to estimate the prevalence of NCC in patients with active epilepsy (AE) and to determine the associated...

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

authors： Prasad KN,Prasad A,Gupta RK,Nath K,Pradhan S,Tripathi M,Pandey CM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited outbreak of symptomatic intestinal and extraintestinal amoebiasis within a family complex is described. The infection was almost certainly transmitted by a Philippino housemaid, who was an asymptomatic carrier of Entamoeba histolytica infection acquired in her native country. Starch-gel electrophoresis showe...

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

authors： Gatti S,Cevini C,Bruno A,Novati S,Scaglia M

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and co-trimoxazole were both effective in reducing fever, clearing parasitaemia and improving anaemia in children aged < 5 years with uncomplicated malaria in 2 Kenyan endemic sites, Oyugis in the west and Tiwi on the coast. We compared the efficacy of these 2 regimens (in May-July 1998)...

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

authors： Omar SA,Bakari A,Owiti A,Adagu IS,Warhurst DC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a region of Sudanese savannah in Burkina Faso, insecticide-treated curtains were installed in 8 out of 16 zones, each covering an area of about 50 km2. Longitudinal entomological monitoring using CDC light traps was performed in 4 villages (2 intervention, 2 control) over a period of 3 years (including 1 year prior...

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

authors： Cuzin-Ouattara N,Van den Broek AH,Habluetzel A,Diabaté A,Sanogo-Ilboudo E,Diallo DA,Cousens SN,Esposito F

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoenzyme profiles of 28 stocks of Leishmania aethiopica were compared with those of reference strains of L. aethiopica, L. tropica and L. major using starch-gel electrophoresis of 13 enzymes (GPI, GD, ES, PGM, PEPD, NH, ASAT, ALAT, PK, MPI, 6PGD, SOD, MDH). 13 zymodemes were seen. L. aethiopica showed some infraspeci...

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

authors： Le Blancq SM,Belehu A,Peters W

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted experiments in vitro to assess the effect of artemether in combination with haemin on adult Schistosoma japonicum, S. mansoni and S. haematobium. When schistosomes were maintained in a medium containing artemether at concentrations of 20 micrograms/mL or less for 72 h, no apparent effect on the schistosom...

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

authors： Xiao S,Chollet J,Utzinger J,Matile H,Mei J,Tanner M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven cases of alveolar echinococcosis (Echinococcus multilocularis infection) with non-resectable lesions but treated with albendazole for 17 to 69 months were followed-up clinically and serologically for 4.5-11.5 years. Based on the clinical outcome and computerized tomography (CT) scanning, they were divided into ...

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

authors： Ma L,Ito A,Liu YH,Wang XG,Yao YQ,Yu DG,Chen YT

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and tolerability of primaquine (PQ) administered as a short higher-dose (30mg twice daily for 7 days) regimen in 203 Australian Defence Force personnel was evaluated in an open-label presumptive anti-relapse therapy study. No clinically significant differences were measured in the subjects' haematological a...

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

authors： Ebringer A,Heathcote G,Baker J,Waller M,Shanks GD,Edstein MD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00