Sensitivity of Trichomonas vaginalis, Tritrichomonas foetus and Giardia intestinalis to bacitracin and its zinc salt in vitro.

abstract：:The importance of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) as a cause of diarrhoea in eastern Indonesia was investigated in 74 children during the dry season in Ujung Pandang. Six of the children less than five years old with diarrhoea were infected with ETEC. One child was infected with tetracycline-resistant bacteria...

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

authors： Maidin MA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue is a major cause of acute febrile illness in Sri Lanka. Dengue has historically been considered an urban disease. In 2012-2013, we documented that acute dengue was surprisingly associated with self-reported rural residence in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. METHODS:Patients admitted with an acute...

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

authors： Mutucumarana CP,Bodinayake CK,Nagahawatte A,Devasiri V,Kurukulasooriya R,Anuradha T,De Silva AD,Janko MM,Østbye T,Gubler DJ,Woods CW,Reller ME,Tillekeratne LG,Lantos PM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed health system weaknesses of economically wealthy countries with advanced technologies. COVID-19 is now moving fast across Africa where small outbreaks have been reported so far. There is a concern that with the winter transmission will grow rapidly. Despite efforts of African Governme...

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

authors： Vilakati PN,Villa S,Alagna R,Khumalo B,Tshuma S,Quaresima V,Nieman NR,Cirillo DM,Raviglione MC

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple radioisotope scanner was used in a study of liver diseases in The Gambia. Scans were of value in localizing areas for biopsy or aspiration and in defining the liver in the presence of gross ascites. Although the scan was not helpful in diagnosis it provided a measure of the size of filling defects during trea...

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

authors： Ajdukiewicz AB,Bassett N,Crawley JC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was experimentally induced in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) by intravenously inoculating 2 x 10(7)amastigotes/kg of body weight of Leishmania infantum. The macaques developed a systemic disease showing characteristic features of human VL such as fever, diarrhoea, body weight loss, anaemi...

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

authors： Porrozzi R,Pereira MS,Teva A,Volpini AC,Pinto MA,Marchevsky RS,Barbosa AA Jr,Grimaldi G Jr

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A semi-automated cultivation apparatus for the in vitro culture of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes is described. This apparatus has been designed to produce large numbers of fertile sexual stages for use in the development of a gamete vaccine or for the infection of suitable mosquitoes. These mosquitoes in turn may ...

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

authors： Ponnudurai T,Lensen AH,Leeuwenberg AD,Meuwissen JH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the in vitro response of several isolates of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine, quinine and mefloquine. We show that parasites which are resistant to chloroquine also have a reduced sensitivity to quinine. However, there appears to be no correlation between chloroquine resistance and reduced sensit...

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

authors： Knowles G,Davidson WL,Jolley D,Alpers MP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of chlorproguanil and dapsone is being considered as an alternative antimalarial to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Africa, because of its greater efficacy against resistant parasites, and its shorter half-lives, which exert less selective pressure for the emergence of resistance. A triple artesunate-chlo...

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

authors： Krudsood S,Imwong M,Wilairatana P,Pukrittayakamee S,Nonprasert A,Snounou G,White NJ,Looareesuwan S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey at Richards Bay, the site of a new international harbour on the east coast of South Africa, revealed the presence of 11 anthropophilic mosquito species. These are discussed in relation to their known medical importance and to a complementary survey of arbovirus antibodies among residents of the area. Mansonia...

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

authors： Sharp BL,Appleton CC,Thompson DL,Meenehan G

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: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：:The incidence and progression of coagulation abnormalities were studied in 52 patients with acute falciparum malaria. The patients were prospectively divided into 3 groups; severe (parasitaemia greater than or equal to 5% or vital organ dysfunction), 12 patients; moderate (parasitaemia 1%- less than 5% without complic...

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

authors： Pukrittayakamee S,White NJ,Clemens R,Chittamas S,Karges HE,Desakorn V,Looareesuwan S,Bunnag D

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large numbers of tuberculosis (TB) patients seek care from private for-profit providers. This study aimed to assess and compare TB control activities in the private for-profit and public sectors in Kenya between 2013 and 2017. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collec...

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

authors： Mailu EW,Owiti P,Ade S,Harries AD,Manzi M,Omesa E,Kiende P,Macharia S,Mbithi I,Kamene M

更新日期：2019-12-01 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:Aedes aegypti rapid larval surveys are mandatory in Brazil. Here, we retrospectively examined whether the house index estimated by larval surveys served as a useful tool in anticipating epidemics within Brazilian municipalities from 2009-2015. METHODS:We used correlation indices and classification analysis ...

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

authors： Enslen AW,Lima Neto AS,Castro MC

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Recent investigations on the distribution of human and canine leishmaniasis, and on the vectors and wild reservoirs of the disease in foci in Tuscany have stimulated a retrospective evaluation of human leishmaniasis of the whole region. From a study of the literature, of statistical reports (ISTAT) and of unpublished ...

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

authors： Bettini S,Maroli M,Gradoni L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demographics, epidemiology, first aid, clinical management, treatment and outcome of snake bites causing no significant signs of systemic envenoming were documented in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, between May 1999 and October 2002. Among 884 patients admitted, 350 were systemically envenomed an...

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

authors： Harris JB,Faiz MA,Rahman MR,Jalil MM,Ahsan MF,Theakston RD,Warrell DA,Kuch U

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case report from 2001 of the first parasitologically confirmed case of acute Chagas disease in Suriname. The patient had never left Suriname, and was probably infected by an adventitious species of Panstrongylus in his house in the capital city, Paramaribo. The patient was treated with nifurtimox, and app...

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

authors： Oostburg BF,Anijs JE,Oehlers GP,Hiwat HO,Burke-Hermelijn SM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among children, has been little investigated. A secondary endpoint of our study was to examine for associations between the seroprevalence of H. pylori and the incidence of malaria. We explored H. pylori prevalence by measuring serum IgG antibodies t...

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

authors： Gupta V,Perez-Perez GI,Dorsey G,Rosenthal PJ,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Several trachoma surveys conducted in sub-Saharan countries showed different geographical distributions of active trachoma and trichiasis. Trichiasis is more common in southern regions. We analysed the role of geoclimatic factors in determining the distributions of active trachoma and trichiasis in Mali. In each regio...

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

authors： Schémann JF,Laffly D,Sacko D,Zephak G,Malvy D

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The clinical occurrence of Pneumocystis carinii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis was investigated in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who had clinical pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Lusaka, Zambia. The results were compared with a similar group of patients in Stockholm, Sweden. Induced sputum...

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

authors： Elvin KM,Lumbwe CM,Luo NP,Björkman A,Källenius G,Linder E

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) developed using Leishmania donovani promastigote soluble antigen gave positive responses in practically all the clinically and parasitologically diagnosed patients with kala-azar in a preliminary study. Healthy control subjects from non-endemic and endemic areas gave negati...

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

authors： Choudhry A,Guru PY,Saxena RP,Tandon A,Saxena KC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias is a feature of living organisms. The origin of this bias might be explained not only by external factors but also by the nature of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) itself. We have developed a point mutation simulation program of coding sequences, in which nucleotide replacement follows th...

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

authors： Zimic MJ,Guerra D,Arévalo J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Characterization of the epidemiology of Escherichia coli bloodstream infection (BSI) in sub-Saharan Africa is lacking. We studied patients with E. coli BSI in northern Tanzania to describe host risk factors for infection and to describe the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates. METHODS:Within 24 h of ad...

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

authors： Madut DB,Rubach MP,Kalengo N,Carugati M,Maze MJ,Morrissey AB,Mmbaga BT,Lwezaula BF,Kilonzo KG,Maro VP,Crump JA

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) categorisation has been developed as a phenotypic description of those TB strains that are resistant to most conventional anti-TB drugs. While widely accepted to have significant incidence in those areas, such as Eastern Europe, that have high levels of multidrug re...

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

authors： Jones KD,Hesketh T,Yudkin J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although known for many years, non-filarial elephantiasis remains a public health problem in tropical Africa, including the farming community of Ethiopia. The problem may be exacerbated in women who shoulder most of the burden of agricultural labour in the countryside. The intention of this brief review is to emphasis...

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

authors： Animut A

更新日期：2007-12-01 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