Prevalence of intestinal helminths and protozoans in a rural population segment of the Dominican Republic.

abstract：:Using the IgG fraction of a monospecific sheep antiserum against the circulating anodic antigen (CAA) of Schistosoma mansoni, an indirect haemagglutination reaction for the determination of this antigen was developed. This is the first time that an IHA has been applied to the detection of circulating antigens in paras...

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

authors： Deelder AM,Eveleigh PC

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：: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 role of the mucosal immune response against Cryptosporidium has been suggested by studies on the therapeutic effects of hyperimmune colostrum. In order to study the intestinal response to this infection, we have developed a sandwich-type time-resolved immunofluorometric assay for the determination of anti-Cryptosp...

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

authors： Kapel N,Meillet D,Buraud M,Favennec L,Magne D,Gobert JG

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to assess the impact of sputum quality and quantity on smear and culture positivity for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. METHODS:A total of 14 708 sputum specimens, collected from respiratory symptomatics in a TB prevalence survey, were evaluated for gross appearance and volume of...

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

authors： Bhat J,Rao V,Muniyandi M,Yadav R,Karforma C,Luke C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood pressure patterns of three Kenyan communities have been studied: 861 members of the Luo tribe in a rural community, 281 members of the Kamba tribe in a rural community and 310 "urban" Luo living in Nairobi. The slope of linear regression of blood pressure with age was significantly different in each populati...

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

authors： Poulter NR,Khaw KT,Mugambi M,Peart WS,Rose G,Sever P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data gathered by the Onchocerciasis Control Programme from 66 villages in West Africa have been analysed. All of these villages were surveyed twice and 10 a third time. The first surveys were conducted around the time when control activities started and provide baseline data against which to assess the...

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

authors： Kirkwood B,Smith P,Marshall T,Prost A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:963 sera from contacts, persons from various localities, and blood donors were examined with a commercially produced kit for micro-immunofluorescence for the presence of antibodies to Rickettsia conorii. 10.6% of sera were serologically positive. The higher rates of positivity were observed in sera of contacts (19%) a...

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

authors： Mansueto S,Vitale G,Miceli MD,Tringali G,Quartararo P,Picone DM,Occhino C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector competence of Aedes aegypti populations from six locations in different bioclimatic zones and habitats of Senegal was assessed for sylvatic (ArD 140875) and epidemic (ArA 6894) dengue 2 virus (DENV-2) isolates. F1 generation mosquitoes were fed with a blood meal containing 10(6.5) and 1.6 x 10(7) tissue culture...

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

authors： Diallo M,Ba Y,Faye O,Soumare ML,Dia I,Sall AA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the successful purification of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Burkholderia thailandensis, a Gram-negative bacterium, closely related to the highly pathogenic organisms B. pseudomallei and B. mallei. Burkholderia thailandensis LPS is shown to cross-react with rabbit and mouse sera obtained from inoculation wit...

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

authors： Qazi O,Prior JL,Judy BM,Whitlock GC,Kitto GB,Torres AG,Estes DM,Brown KA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Man-biting collections were made for 7 consecutive nights per month for 24 months at 2 sites in a Thai village regularly treated with DDT and fenitrothion yet hyperendemic for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. Only Anopheles dirus was incriminated as a vector: 1.6% were infective and 2.4% were infected (median numbe...

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

authors： Rosenberg R,Andre RG,Somchit L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the prevalence of drug resistant TB among outpatients initiating TB treatment in Lilongwe, Malawi. METHODS:This was a prospective cohort study of patients 18 years and older initiating TB treatment at Martin Preuss Centre, the primary integrated HIV/TB clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, from...

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

authors： Barnett B,Gokhale RH,Krysiak R,Kanyemba C,Chikaonda T,Bokosi M,Mukuzunga C,Saidi F,Phiri S,Hoffman IF,Hosseinipour MC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically identical Leishmania chagasi/infantum parasites cause both atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis. In this report we have tested the first part of a hypothesis that states that the form of this disease that is manifested depends upon the adjuvant-like activity of aluminium of dietary o...

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

authors： Maingon R,Khela A,Sampson C,Ward R,Walker K,Exley C

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin (20 mg/kg/d) or ofloxacin (12 mg/kg/d) given for a median of 15 weeks (range 12-40) were used for maintenance treatment of 57 adult patients with melioidosis. The median duration of follow-up in the 45 patients who complied with treatment and were followed for at least 6 months was 28 months (range 6-65)...

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

authors： Chaowagul W,Suputtamongkul Y,Smith MD,White NJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：: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：:A survey was conducted for serum neutralizing antibodies against 3 members of the Lyssavirus group (rabies, Lagos bat and Mokola viruses) in Nigerian dogs and humans. Of 463 unvaccinated dogs sampled, 142 (30.7%) had antibodies against rabies; 39.2% of the stray dogs were positive. Of 241 dogs tested, 17.4% had antibo...

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

authors： Ogunkoya AB,Beran GW,Umoh JU,Gomwalk NE,Abdulkadir IA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man bitten by a large coral snake (Micrurus lemniscatus helleri) in the Amazon basin of Ecuador developed persistent excruciating pain in the bitten arm. On admission to hospital less than 30 min later, he had a polymorphonuclear leucocytosis, thrombocytopenia and mildly prolonged prothrombin time/partial thrombopla...

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

authors： Manock SR,Suarez G,Graham D,Avila-Aguero ML,Warrell DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tafenoquine is being developed for radical cure and post-exposure prophylaxis of Plasmodium vivax malaria. In an open-label study, 1512 Australian Defence Force personnel received one of three tafenoquine 3 d regimens [400 mg once daily (od), 200 mg twice daily (bid), 200 mg od] or daily primaquine (22.5 mg) plus doxy...

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

authors： Elmes NJ,Nasveld PE,Kitchener SJ,Kocisko DA,Edstein MD

更新日期：2008-11-01 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 sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the separation and quantitative estimation of melaminophenyl arsenical drugs used in the treatment of human and veterinary trypanosomiases. Five clinically relevant compounds (melarsoprol, melarsonyl potassium, cymelarsan, melarsen oxide...

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

authors： Berger BJ,Fairlamb AH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease known to have wide-ranging clinical manifestations. Despite a number of published case series, culture-confirmed series are few and there is a paucity of data on Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR) associated with treatment of leptospirosis. Our objective was to describe the...

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

authors： Tsuha S,Taniguchi T,Shiiki S,Narita M,Leung DT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible association between nutritional status and Schistosoma mansoni infection or morbidity was investigated by comparing anthropometric indices among 362 children from 3 primary schools in Machakos District, Kenya. Matithini was a prosperous school in an area (Kangundo) of moderate intensity of schistosome infec...

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

authors： Corbett EL,Butterworth AE,Fulford AJ,Ouma JH,Sturrock RF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of early markers that predict the response to anti-tuberculosis treatment would facilitate evaluation of new drugs and improve patient management. This study aimed to determine whether selected acute phase proteins and micronutrients measured at the time of diagnosis and during the first weeks of tr...

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

authors： Almeida ML,Barbieri MA,Gurgel RQ,Abdurrahman ST,Baba UA,Hart CA,Shenkin A,Silva AM,de Souza L,Cuevas LE

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing need to provide spatial distribution maps of the clinical burden of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa. Recent evidence suggests that risk groups and the clinical spectrum of severe malaria are related to the intensity of P. falciparum transmission. Climate operates to affect the vectorial ...

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

authors： Snow RW,Gouws E,Omumbo J,Rapuoda B,Craig MH,Tanser FC,le Sueur D,Ouma J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient rises in parasitaemia occur commonly during the treatment of falciparum malaria but their prognostic significance has not been well defined. Twelve-hourly parasite counts from 133 malaria patients who were ultimately cured were therefore compared with counts from 97 therapeutic failures to determine if incre...

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

authors： Watt G,Shanks GD,Phintuyothin P

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of Chagas' disease among HIV seropositive patients and to define the clinical profile of co-infected cases. Cross-sectional study: the prevalence of co-infected subjects was 1.3% and there was no significant difference between co-infected and non co-infecte...

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

authors： Almeida EA,Lima JN,Lages-Silva E,Guariento ME,Aoki FH,Torres-Morales AE,Pedro RJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic polymorphism of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis detected in cases of mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) from HIV-infected and non HIV-infected patients was evaluated. Nine samples from three HIV-infected patients and five samples from five non HIV-infected patients were analysed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR...

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

authors： de Oliveira FS,Valete-Rosalino CM,Schubach Ade O,Madeira Mde F,Pacheco Rda S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00