Primary liver cell carcinoma (PLCC) in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria.

abstract：:To compare the characteristics of women and men with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis, all 3231 cases treated in Nioki hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo, from 1982 to 2000 were reviewed for demographic information, date and mode of diagnosis, pre-treatment cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination, treatm...

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

authors： Pépin J,Mpia B,Iloasebe M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of single-dose ivermectin (150-200 micrograms/kg) and albendazole (400 mg) treatment administered separately or in combination for Wuchereria bancrofti infections were assessed in 1996-98 in a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled field trial in Ghana: 1425 individuals from 4 lymphatic fil...

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

authors： Dunyo SK,Nkrumah FK,Simonsen PE

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:Leishmania mexicana mexicana amastigote proteinase activity was largely inhibited by low concentrations of leupeptin, antipain and two epoxysuccinates, compounds known to affect cysteine proteinases. Of these inhibitors, only two had leishmanicidal activity. trans-Dicyclohexylepoxysuccinate at 10 microgram/ml inhibite...

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

authors： Coombs GH,Hart DT,Capaldo J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidiosis in AIDS patients has emerged as an important cause of morbidity, but diagnosis requires special stains, equipment and expertise. Here we describe a modification to an existing staining technique to allow more rapid preparation, without additional equipment, facilitating research in the tropics into th...

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

authors： Sianongo S,McDonald V,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Anopheles gambiae, as in most species of mosquitoes, mating is initiated in flight. The males aggregate in aerial swarms and conspecific females individually fly to these swarms where they mate with males. In this study, we investigated the swarming behaviour of A. gambiae and conducted 2 surveys in the rice field ...

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

authors： Diabate A,Baldet T,Brengues C,Kengne P,Dabire KR,Simard F,Chandre F,Hougard JM,Hemingway J,Ouedraogo JB,Fontenille D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria isolated on aerobic and anaerobic culture were compared in 80 unilateral ulcers in patients with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease, 62 superficial skin lesions, and in 30 diabetic ulcers. In SS disease, the bacterial flora was predominantly aerobic and polymicrobial with Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomon...

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

authors： MacFarlane DE,Baum KF,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global travel and migration trends have meant a huge increase in the numbers of people exposed to tropical parasitic diseases. Thus, there is an increasing need for robust, reproducible and reliable diagnostic techniques in the field. Advanced molecular and lateral flow techniques have pushed the boundaries of clinica...

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

authors： Shrivastava J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In highly malaria-endemic areas, thick smears are usually positive regardless of the clinical context. Therefore the simple positivity or negativity of the thick smear is not an adequate criterion for distinguishing malaria from other causes of fever. In order to define simple parasitological and clinical criteria for...

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

authors： Trape JF,Peelman P,Morault-Peelman B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the aetiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Zimbabwe, HCV antibodies (anti-HCV) were determined in sera from 63 HCC patients using a second generation enzyme immunoassay. Anti-HCV was found in 15 patients (23.8%), 12 of whom (80%) were males. The mea...

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

authors： Weinig M,Hakim JG,Gudza I,Tobaiwa O

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Severe cholera is a life-threatening illness of hypovolemic shock and metabolic acidosis due to rapid and profuse diarrheal fluid loss. Emergency life-saving therapy is i.v. saline, optionally supplemented with potassium and alkali to correct the fluid deficit, potassium losses and acidosis. After this initi...

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

authors： Butler T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey for Schistosoma intercalatum conducted in Kinshasa, Zaire, in September 1994 revealed a prevalence of 3.6% (n = 167). Three isolates of schistosomes were made by exposing Bulinus wrighti to miracidia hatched from eggs collected from 2 infected children. Characterization of the isolates by biochemical (isoenzy...

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

authors： Tchuem Tchuenté LA,Southgate VR,Vercruysse J,Kaukas A,Kane R,Mulumba MP,Pagès JR,Jourdane J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum was observed in all 22 isolates established in this laboratory. Gametocytes were produced in variable numbers--up to 3% of red cells--for a limited period of time after which this stage was seen only very sporadically. Complete maturation of microgametocytes in vitro...

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

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

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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

abstract：:A natural infection of Leishmania braziliensis panamensis in the edentate, Choloepus hoffmanni is recorded from the Pacific Coast of Columbia. ...

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

authors： Loyola EG,Alzate A,Sánchez A,González A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of an indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) performed in a "sandwich" technique has demonstrated: (i) the usefulness of the test for the diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the opossum Didelphis marsupialis; (ii) the existence of differences in the serological response of the opossum, that were rel...

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

authors： Jansen AM,Moriearty PL,Castro BG,Deane MP

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted in Mathias Hospital, Yeji, an area of Ghana, where snake bite cases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, with a case fatality rate of 11% (8/72). Case management difficulties included uncertainty about the assessment of the severity of envenoming, the dosage of antivenom, and the re...

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

authors： Visser LE,Kyei-Faried S,Belcher DW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dog infected with Brugia pahangi is an excellent model for studying the clinical and immunological pathogenesis of lymphatic filarial infection and disease. Dogs demonstrated a range of clinical changes including varying levels of microfilaraemia, episodic lymphadenopathy, lymphangitis, and limb oedema similar to ...

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

authors： Snowden KF,Hammerberg B

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 250 Ghanaian schoolchildren aged 5-15 years was followed clinically and parasitologically for 4 months in 1997/98 in order to study the effect of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections on haematological indices and bone-marrow responses. Of the 250 children 65 met the predefined study criteria. Thus...

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

authors： Kurtzhals JA,Addae MM,Akanmori BD,Dunyo S,Koram KA,Appawu MA,Nkrumah FK,Hviid L

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active community and self-reporting surveillance techniques have been used to describe the dynamics of febrile illness and associated malaria infection in children aged 2 to 15 years from a rural area of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Both history of fever and fever in association with parasitaemia appeared ...

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

authors： Cox MJ,Kum DE,Tavul L,Narara A,Raiko A,Baisor M,Alpers MP,Medley GF,Day KP

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community treatment with ivermectin was implemented in Opoa, French Polynesia from April 1991 to October 1993. All consenting inhabitants aged 3 years or more were treated with twice-yearly single doses of ivermectin, pregnant women excepted. A dosage of 100 microgram/kg was used for the 3 first treatments and then ab...

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

authors： Nguyen NL,Moulia-Pelat JP,Cartel JL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis was confirmed by the Leptospira Laboratory in 138 hospital patients on Barbados between early November 1979 and the end of 1982 (annual average 43.6 cases). These were the great majority of severe cases occurring on the island during that time. The crude incidence rate ranged between 15 and 23 per 100,00...

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

authors： Everard CO,Edwards CN,Webb GB,White HS,Nicholson GD

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Turkey has a national tuberculosis (TB) control program that follows the standards set by the World Health Organization's (WHO) global TB control program. METHODS:In this record-based retrospective study, contact screening and chemoprophylaxis of 469 TB contacts registered at the Samsun Tuberculosis Dispens...

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

authors： Dundar C,Oztomurcuk D,Terzi O

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB remains a very significant global health burden. There is an urgent need for better tools for TB control, which include an effective vaccine. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the currently licensed vaccine, confers highly variable protection against pulmonary TB, the main source of TB transmission. Replacing BCG com...

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

authors： Manjaly Thomas ZR,McShane H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged carriage of Plasmodium falciparum in humans during the dry season is critical for parasite survival, as the infected subjects constitute a major reservoir in the absence of transmission. Yet, very little is known about the host/parasite interactions contributing to parasite persistence. In order to study the...

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

authors： Zwetyenga J,Rogier C,Spiegel A,Fontenille D,Trape JF,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：1999-07-01 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

abstract：:The small size of their genomes made bacterial ideal model organisms for the emerging field of genomics. Elucidating the genome sequences of mycobacteria was particularly attractive owing to the difficulties inherent in their manipulation. The slow growth rate, clumping, and requirement for category III containment ma...

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

authors： Gordon SV,Brosch R,Eiglmeier K,Garnier T,Hewinson RG,Cole ST

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eighteen patients with acute falciparum malaria were randomized into treatment with either intramuscular or oral sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansidar, Roche) and the results were compared with those from 68 patients treated in parallel with chloroquine. Parasitological cure rate was 97% with oral sulfad...

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

authors： Salako LA,Adio RA,Sowunmi A,Walker O

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00