Urban beri-beri in The Gambia, west Africa.

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：:The extent of cryptic leishmaniasis in blood donors from a Spanish endemic area, (Eivissa Island) was studied using various immunological and parasitological methods. Sera from 656 blood donors were analysed: 16 (2.4%) were positive by ELISA and 50 (7.6%) by Western blot. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and ...

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

authors： Riera C,Fisa R,Udina M,Gállego M,Portus M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses three inter-related topics: (1) the immaturity of the neonatal and infant immune response; (2) heterologous immunity, where prior infection history with unrelated pathogens alters disease outcome resulting in either enhanced protective immunity or increased immunopathology to new infections, and ...

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

authors： Gil A,Kenney LL,Mishra R,Watkin LB,Aslan N,Selin LK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related changes in the average worm burden and the prevalence of Trichuris trichiura infection, in a village community in St. Lucia, were examined by field studies based on worm expulsion techniques. Horizontal age-intensity profiles were convex in form with peak parasite loads occurring in the 2 to 15-year-old ch...

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

authors： Bundy DA,Cooper ES,Thompson DE,Anderson RM,Didier JM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The state of Rio de Janeiro has been important since 1986 as a portal for the introduction of dengue virus (DENV) into Brazil and dissemination of the virus throughout the country. This study describes an active surveillance of DENV in the state of Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2008. METHOD:A total of 14 408 ...

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

authors： Macedo GA,de Araújo JM,Schatzmayr HG,Costa FA,de Filippis AM,Santos FB,Nogueira RM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one Entamoeba histolytica isolates from a range of geographical locations and representing 3 different zymodemes were tested under xenic anaerobic conditions for their sensitivities to bacitracin and bactracin zinc. Isolates were over 13 times more sensitive to bacitracin zinc than to bacitracin. Our results in...

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

authors： Andrews BJ,Bjorvatn B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 33, 274 mosquitoes was collected from Tagudin, Ilocos Sur Province, Philippines during July 1977. Isolates made from one pool of Culex tritaeniorhynchus and one pool of C. vishnui were identified as Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) by a micro-neutralization test using reference hyperimmune mouse ascitic fl...

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

authors： Trosper JH,Ksiazek TG,Cross JH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports 7 Ethiopian visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The clinical and laboratory findings in 6 patients did not differ from classical VL. All patients had highly elevated anti-leishmanial antibody titres, determined by immunoglobulin G-based e...

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

authors： Berhe N,Hailu A,Wolday D,Negesse Y,Cenini P,Frommel D

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measured fever often forms the basis for defining clinical malaria episodes in children from endemic areas. We measured body temperature every 3 h from 08:00 to 20:00 in 69 children aged 1-5 years during the malaria season in a rural area of The Gambia. Body temperature varied on average by more than one degree Celsiu...

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

authors： Schellenberg JR,Greenwood BM,Gomez P,Menendez C,Alonso PL

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strain diversity of 100 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates collected over a period of 18 months from tuberculosis (TB) cases in Sri Lanka was studied by spoligotyping. When compared to the international spoligotyping database, 43 spoligotype patterns were identified, of which 20 were previously described. The maj...

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

authors： Rajapaksa US,Victor TC,Perera AJ,Warren RM,Senevirathne SM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to estimate the importance as a public health problem of skin diseases, we investigated the prevalence and severity of skin diseases in a representative sample of children in Mali. 1817 children were randomly selected in 30 clusters by probability-proportional-to-size sampling in Koulikoro region. The mean pr...

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

authors： Mahé A,Prual A,Konaté M,Bobin P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of haptoglobin polymorphisms on severe malaria occurrence was assessed in 1183 individuals from The Gambia. No significant association was found between severe malaria and either haptoglobin genotypes or phenotypes. The advantages of using a deoxyribonucleic acid-based haptoglobin typing method are discu...

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

authors： Aucan C,Walley AJ,Greenwood BM,Hill AV

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Counts of nocturnally periodic Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae (mf) in 20 mm3 finger-prick blood films were compared with membrane counts after filtration of 1 ml of venous blood for their efficacy in determining the prevalence of Bancroftian filariasis. The technique used for spreading and staining the blood films...

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

authors： Sabry M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found serological evidence of infection with Prospect Hill virus, a Hantaan-like virus isolated from meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), in microtine and cricetid rodents trapped in Maryland, West Virginia, Minnesota and California, USA. Fluorescent antibodies were detected in sera from M. pennsylvanicus (74/27...

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

authors： Yanagihara R,Daum CA,Lee PW,Baek LJ,Amyx HL,Gajdusek DC,Gibbs CJ Jr

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective and prospective serological surveys to determine the prevalence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and adenovirus (ADV) infections in children with respiratory diseases were carried out from 1985 to 1988 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. 306 sera from subjects between 3 months and 12...

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

authors： Olaleye OD,Olawuyi AO,Baba SS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to identify individuals with symptomatic and/or asymptomatic infection due to Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi; to study the two types of infection, both clinically and immunologically, and to determine the prevalence rate of infection at the beginning of the study. This was a cross-s...

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

authors： Crescente JA,Silveira FT,Lainson R,Gomes CM,Laurenti MD,Corbett CE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims at estimating the recent trends in HIV-1 prevalence and the factors associated with infection among pregnant women in the Gulu District of north Uganda, a rural area severely affected by civil strife. In 2000-2003, a total of 4459 antenatal clinic attendees of Lacor Hospital were anonymously tested for...

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

authors： Fabiani M,Nattabi B,Opio AA,Musinguzi J,Biryahwaho B,Ayella EO,Ogwang M,Declich S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine can no longer be recommended as the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in several parts of Africa because of the increasing prevalence of chloroquine resistance. However, chloroquine was a highly effective treatment for malaria not only because of its ability to kill parasites quickly but also ...

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

authors： Bojang KA,Schneider G,Forck S,Obaro SK,Jaffar S,Pinder M,Rowley J,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked spatiotemporal variabilities in mosquito infection of arboviruses, exemplified by the transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) in America, require adaptive strategies for mosquito sampling, pool screening and data analyses. Currently there is a lack of reliable and consistent measures of risk exposure, which may c...

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

authors： Gu W,Unnasch TR,Katholi CR,Lampman R,Novak RJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping an area at risk of epidemics of meningococcal meningitis in Africa has significant implications for their prevention and case treatment, through the targeted development of improved surveillance systems and control policies. Such an area was described using information obtained from published and unpublished r...

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

authors： Molesworth AM,Thomson MC,Connor SJ,Cresswell MP,Morse AP,Shears P,Hart CA,Cuevas LE

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:We have studied the distribution of rheumatoid factor isotypes amongst patients with loiasis with and without accompanying glomerulonephritis to determine the possible role of rheumatoid factor antiglobulins in this disease. Our findings indicate an increase in both immunoglobulin (Ig) G and IgM rheumatoid factor isot...

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

authors： Adebajo AO,Akinsola A,Maizels RM,Cawston TE,Hazleman BL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This year-long study investigated the epidemiology of acute filarial episodes due to Wuchereria bancrofti in 2 rural villages in south India. The annual incidence of 96.5 episodes/1000 population was significantly higher in males (108.5) than females (84.1) an strongly age dependent. First occurrence of acute disease ...

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

authors： Ramaiah KD,Ramu K,Kumar KN,Guyatt H

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Achromobacter xylosoxidans is described as being resistant to antiseptics and disinfectants. We studied in vitro the ability of five strains to survive and grow in such solutions, with and without starvation. METHODS:Bacterial suspensions in rich media and in distilled water were inoculated into eight antis...

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

authors： Marion-Sanchez K,Pailla K,Cesarine M,Platon MG,Derancourt C,Olive C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six hospital in-patients in London had breath-hydrogen concentrations measured after 50 g lactose were given orally; in 23 or them serial blood glucose concentrations were also estimated. Eight had tropical malabsorption (TM), 14 were Europeans with no detectable disease (normal group) and 14 who also had no de...

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

authors： Cook GC

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:The influence of spatial and temporal factors on onchocerciasis transmission by Simulium exiguum s.l. and S. quadrivittatum in Ecuador was investigated to help develop sampling protocols for entomological surveillance of ivermectin programmes. Flies were collected in alternate months (November 1995-November 1996) at f...

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

authors： Vieira JC,Brackenboro L,Porter CH,Basáñez MG,Collins RC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesions due to Mycobacterium ulcerans infection may have more synonyms and eponyms than any other disease. New diseases are named for the person who discovered them, from the place from which they were first described or some major clinical feature. 'Buruli ulcer', the name by which the disease is most frequently know...

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

authors： Radford AJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00