Children discharged following nutritional rehabilitation: a follow-up study.

abstract：:We reviewed the scientific literature on Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) in Africa in order to provide information on the current status of clinical care and the existing research challenges. BL epidemiology led to the discovery of the Epstein Barr virus, an important cause of several viral illnesses and malignancies. The inc...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Orem J,Mbidde EK,Weiderpass E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixty eight febrile adult outpatients were investigated at St Francis Designated District Hospital in fakara, a holoendemic area in Tanzania. We wanted to assess the potential anamnestic and clinical risk indicators for malaria and to establish a rational strategy for malaria management. Blood slide in...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Oster N,Krause E,Hatz C

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through a cross-sectional study conducted at Kabale Regional Hospital, among 111 men accused of rape and admitted for forensic examination from June 2009 to June 2010, we assessed whether the characteristics of perpetrators and the circumstances of the alleged sexual assault differ in acquaintance and stranger rape. U...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kaye DK,Kakaire O,Osinde MO

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of small bowel tuberculosis (SBTB) from Crohn's disease (CD) is a diagnostic challenge. We studied 52 patients with suspected SBTB or CD with terminal ileal involvement, who were prospectively enrolled. After confirming patency of the gastrointestinal tract, 26 patients underwent capsule endoscopy (CE)...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Rana SS,Sharma V,Sharma R,Nada R,Gupta R,Bhasin DK

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe meconium aspiration syndrome is difficult to manage and has a high mortality in developing countries. Guidelines are available for the initial management. If the infant has been born through particulate meconium and is not vigorous, an inspection of the vocal cords by laryngoscopy is recommended. If meconium is...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Green DA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of yaws has changed in recent years. Mass treatment with oral azithromycin has replaced intramuscular benzathine benzylpenicillin. Treponemal and non-treponemal serology (equivalent to TPHA and RPR) point-of-care blood testing is now available. In addition, recent studies in yaws endemic regions have sh...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Fegan D,Glennon MJ,Kool J,Taleo F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS support and prevention programs are poorly developed in developing nations. The difficulties of increasing AIDS awareness are compounded by illiteracy and lack of access of large numbers of people to formal education. These facts make community-based AIDS education, counselling and information service an essent...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Foster G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are first-line therapy for children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS). These children are at risk of deranged bone metabolism and low bone mineral density (BMD). We studied 60 children with INS and divided them into two groups. Group 1 included 21 children (initial and infrequent relapsing) and ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sharawat IK,Dawman L,Kumkhaniya MV,Devpura K,Mehta A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiology of diarrhoea with Cryptosporidium species and pathogenic bacteria has not been identified in the Ethiopian primary healthcare system. Thus, antibiotic consumption for unconfirmed pathogenic diarrhoea is not infrequent. A total of 344 children aged <5 years with diarrhoea were included in the present stud...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Abera B,Hailu T,Beza L,Mulu W,Yizengaw E,Kibret M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report what we believe is the first case in Gujarat of melioidosis in a 67-year-old man. Awareness of this disease is limited, especially in areas supposed not to be endemic. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Savaj P,Shaw T,Munim FC,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic examination of a wet mount of the stool has been the standard practice for the laboratory diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections. Here we describe a novel method of stool microscopy of 80 stool samples, 31 (38.75%) were positive by the new thick stool smear wet mount method, whereas the corresponding...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Parija SC,Bhattacharya S,Padhan P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty Shigella strains were isolated from bloody stools, of which 10 had been collected from children. Eighty per cent of the Shigella isolates were serogrouped as S. flexneri. All 20 Shigella strains were susceptible to gentamicin, nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. More than 80% were resistant to ampicillin, cotrimo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Guyot A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study reveals the seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in multi-transfused thalassemia major patients. Thirty-four out of 79 (43.0%) patients enrolled in the study serologically tested positive for hepatitis C (mean ± standard deviation age = 12 ± 4.1 years), four (5.1%) for hepatiti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Riaz H,Riaz T,Ullah F,Aziz S,Khan MU,Pervaiz R,Ejaz A,Hasan M,Moiz F,Naqvi SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallbladder function was studied in 22 patients with portal hypertension due to advanced Schistosoma mansoni infection and in 17 healthy adults. The fasting volume of the gallbladder was significantly less in patients than in controls. The gallbladder wall was grossly thickened in the study group. There was a signific...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ali QM,Abdel-Rahim IM,Doehring-Schwertfegar E,Franke D,Kardorff R,el Sheikh M,Ehrich JH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of tracheobronchial inhalation of a bead by a five-year-old girl in Djibouti. The bead was extracted using a Fogarty balloon catheter passed through the rigid bronchoscope without complication. This kind of accident is not exceptional and we discuss the management of such cases with limited diagnost...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Landy C,Massoure PL,Gauthier J,Eve O,Kaiser E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adi Quala is an Eritrean agricultural town of 14,000 people, and is situated about 70 km south of the capital, Asmara and 30 km from the border with Tigray, Ethiopia. On good days electricity was received from Asmara between 0600 h and 2300 h with nothing available outside these hours. These conditions meant the elect...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Allen P,Welstead J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus uncommonly causes neurological problems. Among these manifestations meningoencephalitis is very rare. We describe the clinical and laboratory features of a young boy with hepatitis A associated meningoencephalitis and compare it with other cases which had the same diagnoses. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Davoudi S,Soudbakhsh A,Emadikouchak H,Nikbakht G,Modabbernia A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transverse myelitis typically extends two or less spinal segments, whereas longitudinal extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) extends three or more spinal segments in length and may occasionally span all the segments of the spinal cord. We present a case of spinal tuberculosis presenting with LETM with true lower motor...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Goyal MK,Lal M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 46-year-old woman presenting with leprosy, HIV and active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). It is advisable to screen for each one of TB, HIV and leprosy patients, especially when an extra feature emerges. Particularly in a leprosy case, if TB remains undiagnosed, the development of rifampicin resistance second...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Keragala B,Herath H,Janappriya G,Gunasekera CN

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a retrospective study based on pathology reports of specimens reviewed at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) pathology laboratory in Lusaka, Zambia, from January 1997 to December 2005. UTH is the main reference hospital in Zambia and has a catchment area covering 1.3 million people. The most common cancer ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Bowa K,Wood C,Chao A,Chintu C,Mudenda V,Chikwenya M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in a rural Nigerian community. Using the modified Wellcome Classification, the prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was 20.5%. The prevalence of underweight, wasting and stunting were 23.1%t, 9% and 26.7%, respectively. The low prevalenc...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Senbanjo IO,Adeodu OO,Adejuyigbe EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In low-income countries, where surgical expertise and resources are limited, displaced supracondylar fractures of the distal humerus are routinely managed with traction or closed reduction and casting. This is in contrast to high-income nations, where percutaneous K-wire fixation forms the mainstay of treatment. The a...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Yeomans D,Graham SM,Mkandawire NC,Harrison WJ,Perry DC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Œ:Globally, more women are likely to be obese than men, and the need for a gender-specific strategy concerning related health issues is important. Our study aimed to clarify gender difference related to obesity in Papua New Guinea by a sub-analysis of our previous questionnaire-based cross-sectional study. We used demo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Saito T,Matsui N,Izawa KP

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We practise an integrated approach to the management of skin diseases, leprosy and sexually transmitted diseases because the latter diseases are still stigmatized and patients are unwilling to attend clinics so labelled. When approached by a patient with skin disease it is advisable to see the patient promptly, becaus...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Olumide YM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accidental needlestick injuries sustained by health-care workers are a common occupational hazard and a public health issue in health-care settings. An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted and 30.9% of health-care workers had experienced at least one needlestick injury in the previous year. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Tadesse M,Tadesse T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac failure is a common medical presentation in Uganda. This study primarily focuses on the aetiology of heart failure in 65 adult patients and assesses the utility of echocardiography in a resource-limited setting. Our findings suggest that endomyocardial fibrosis is much less prevalent than previously described ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ismail Y,Andia I,Byaruhanga S,Shaw MR,Mathieson PW,Wilde P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis (HPP) is a life-threatening condition. Our aim was to study the clinical profile and laboratory parameters of HPP patients and to develop an algorithm to determine the causes of HPP. 84 patients presented with HPP over a 3 year period. 58 (69.0%) were found to have renal tubular acidosi...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kumar V,Armstrong L,Seshadri MS,Finny P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molluscicidal activity of the fruit and leaves of Dialium guineense was found to be due to glycosides of the triterpenoid oleanolic acid. Three glycosides were isolated from the fruit and a fourth from the leaves and are known compounds. The amount of total saponins present in D. guineense makes it a good candidat...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Houghton PJ,Odukoya OA,Adelusi A,Omogbai EK,Sanderson L,Whitfield PJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malnutrition continues to be a major killer of children, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries such as India. An ecological study was undertaken to correlate different demographic factors with the prevalence of underweight children. Based on findings from the National Family Health Survey 4 (2015-2016), 81...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Pratim Roy M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of glycated proteins, especially haemoglobins, is now a routine procedure for monitoring previous glycaemic control in diabetic patients in the developed world. Until recently, however, the assays were sophisticated and costly and, therefore, were only rarely used in developing countries. With easier and c...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Rahlenbeck SI

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00