Leishmaniasis in Brazil. XIV. Leishmanial and trypanosomal IgA antibody in patients with leishmaniasis and Chagas's disease.

abstract：:Night blood surveys for filariasis were carried out in two camps of repatriates from Bangladesh. The sample consisted of 1,101 Biharis above one year of age of whom 9.0% were found infected with Wuchereria bancrofti. The infection rate was significantly higher in males (10.2%) than in females (6.7%). Of the three mosq...

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

authors： Aslamkhan M,Pervez SD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which ivermectin treatments have an impact on onchocerciasis transmission is a matter of some concern. We investigated this issue in the Mbam valley, a hyperendemic focus located in a forest-savannah mosaic area of Cameroon. Parasitological examinations of 5-9-year-old children, who had never received an...

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

authors： Pion SD,Clément MC,Boussinesq M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) allows sensitive detection of serum immunoglobulin (Ig) G against a soluble extract of Strongyloides stercoralis infective larvae. In this study, 40/40 (100%) human strongyloidiasis sera had high levels of anti-S. stercoralis IgG, but 30/40 (75%) filariasis sera, and ...

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

authors： Conway DJ,Atkins NS,Lillywhite JE,Bailey JW,Robinson RD,Lindo JF,Bundy DA,Bianco AE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neglected tropical disease (NTD) agenda should include a focus on disability when 'planning for the next decade of progress'. Millions of people are currently living with the disabling consequences of NTDs and mental health conditions are frequent among people living with NTDs. Stigma around NTDs is also common. H...

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

authors： Kuper H

更新日期：2020-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fever and myalgia are non-specific clinical manifestations of illness which commonly occur in patients with arboviral disease. In Egypt, such illness is often mis-diagnosed as "influenza". To determine arboviral aetiology in patients admitted with fever and myalgia, acute and convalescent sera samples were obtained fr...

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

authors： Darwish MA,Feinsod FM,Scott RM,Ksiazek TG,Botros BA,Farrag IH,el Said S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to characterise the genetic determinants and context of two meropenem-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from children hospitalised with bloodstream infections in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. METHODS:Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by disc diffusion E-test and b...

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

authors： Moyo SJ,Manyahi J,Hubbard ATM,Byrne RL,Masoud NS,Aboud S,Manji K,Blomberg B,Langeland N,Roberts AP

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight weeks following infection with Schistosoma mansoni ICR strain mice showed much more marked hepatic fibrosis than did C57BL/6 mice or hamsters. None the less, extracts of the hepatic granulomata of these animals had similar fibroblast stimulating activity when assayed in vitro. ...

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

authors： Cheever AW,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Malawi, where high levels of chloroquine resistance were shown using a modified 7-day in vivo test, amodiaquine and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine were evaluated as alternative initial therapies for Plasmodium falciparum infections in children under 5 years old. Therapy success rates, judged by parasite clearance by day...

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

authors： Heymann DL,Khoromana CO,Wirima JJ,Campbell CC

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Six hundred and ninety-three patients with kala-azar were seen in Khartoum, Sudan, from January 1989 to February 1990. They were almost exclusively from the Nuer tribe, originating from the western Upper Nile province in southern Sudan, an area not known previously to be endemic for kala-azar. Because of the civil war...

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

authors： Zijlstra EE,Ali MS,el-Hassan AM,el-Toum IA,Satti M,Ghalib HW,Sondorp E,Winkler A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cicely Williams, in her original description of kwashiorkor, implied that deficiency of protein in the baby's food could be a main cause of the syndrome. The hallmark of kwashiorkor is oedema. According to the 'classical' theory, an inadequate intake of protein leads to a low plasma albumin concentration, which in tur...

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

authors： Waterlow JC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In developing countries, micronutrient deficiencies are common and associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, which may in turn have longer-term effects on human health. The peri-conceptional period represents a particularly sensitive window of feto-placental development, during which suboptimal maternal micronutrition ...

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

authors： Owens S,Fall CH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capuchin monkeys were resistant to reinfection with Schistosoma haematobium one year after exposure to 500 cercariae, but worms in these monkeys continued to produce normal numbers of eggs. Monkeys were apparently completely refractory to reinfection when challenged 2-5 years after an initial exposure of 1000 to 2000 ...

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

authors： Cheever AW,Duvall RH,Kuntz RE,Huang TC,Moore JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:The bacterial flora of the upper intestine has been examined in symptomatic expatriate adults with mild tropical malabsorption, without steatorrhoea, persisting for many months after return to a western environment. Seven of the 11 patients had enterobacteria in luminal fluid or mucosal samples in numbers ranging from...

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

authors： Tomkins AM,Wright SG,Drasar BS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on resistance to blood schizontocides in Plasmodium falciparum give a rational basis for the use of artemisinins combined with arylaminoalcohols for the treatment of uncomplicated chloroquine-resistant malaria in Africa. In areas where such combinations are introduced, there is reason to believe that th...

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

authors： Warhurst DC,Duraisingh MT

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Chronic hepatitis B infection affects 240 million people, with the highest prevalence in Africa and Asia, and results in 700 000 deaths annually. Access to diagnostics, particularly for hepatitis B virus viral load quantification (HBV DNA), is a major barrier to treatment. We aimed to test World Health Organ...

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

authors： Laing N,Tufton H,Ochola E,P'Kingston OG,Maini MK,Easom N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria are sources of numerous molecules used in treatment of infectious diseases. We investigated effects of molecules produced by 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains against infection of mammalian cell cultures with Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease. METHODS:Vero cells were infec...

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

authors： Sass G,Miller Conrad LC,Nguyen TH,Stevens DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In helminthology, the mean number of eggs per gram of faeces (EPG) is a commonly used indicator for the severity of the infection in a population. The example presented here shows that, in my opinion, mean EPG (either calculated as arithmetic or geometric means) is not the best way to evaluate the impact of control me...

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

authors： Montresor A

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：:Topical N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) was studied as a schistosomiasis prophylactic in vivo for the use of individuals with limited exposure. Fifteen subjects, on a 3-week expedition to Lake Malawi in September 2001, applied 50% DEET to their skin after exposure to lake water. No subjects developed evidence of a new ...

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

authors： Jackson F,Doherty JF,Behrens RH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of enteric pathogens in 143 children with diarrhoea, 116 age-matched controls and 524 asymptomatic people of all ages in a commercial farming area was carried out over a period of one year. Giardia lamblia was detected in 34% of the cases, 29% of the controls and 23% of asymptomatic people of all ages. Variou...

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

authors： Simango C,Dindiwe J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective cohort study of mortality rates and potential predictors of death was conducted in public-sector patients initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) between October 2005 and September 2007 in a rural, under-resourced region of South Africa. The aims were to determine the relative contribut...

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

authors： MacPherson P,Moshabela M,Martinson N,Pronyk P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera remains a grave public health problem in Africa. It is endemic with seasonal variations around the central African Great Lakes. Along the coasts, it occurs mostly in rapidly expanding epidemics, with intercalated 3-5 year lull-periods. Case-fatality ratios remain high at 2–5% against the global declining trend...

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

authors： Mengel MA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows the relationship between lymphocyte subpopulations and their response to non-specific stimulant phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and specific stimulant (amoebic antigen) in cases of amoebic liver abscess in relation to the duration of disease, based on the first appearance of symptoms and/or signs, 26 patien...

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

authors： Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC,Gill NJ,Koshy A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven heterogeneous patients with inoperable hydatid disease were treated with high doses of oral mebendazole, up to 200 mg/kg/day for 16 to 48 weeks. Toxicity was not encountered. Despite careful assessment it proved difficult critically to evaluate the efficacy of mebendazole. In four patients chemotherapy appeared...

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

authors： Bryceson AD,Cowie AG,Macleod C,White S,Edwards D,Smyth JD,McManus DP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in Algeria where two forms have been previously described, the sporadic form caused by Leishmania infantum in the north and the cutaneous form caused by L. major in central and southern parts of the country. During 2005, a CL outbreak occurred in the province of Ghardaïa, locate...

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

authors： Harrat Z,Boubidi SC,Pratlong F,Benikhlef R,Selt B,Dedet JP,Ravel C,Belkaid M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:34 patients with tetanus were studied; all had normal serum proteins and albumin. Only 3 samples of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contained cells (a few polymorphonuclear leucocytes). Protein levels in the CSF were elevated in 26 patients (76.5%); 11 cases with clinically mild tetanus had a mean CSF protein of 400 +/- 250...

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

authors： Idoko JA,Amiobonomo AE,Anjorin FI,Oyeyinka GO,Elechi C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nematode Strongyloides stercoralis has a very particular autoinfection life-cycle which leads to chronic infections remaining undetected for decades. However, hyperinfection can occur in patients receiving immunotherapy resulting in high mortality rates. The main objective of this study was to assess the...

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

authors： Valerio L,Roure S,Fernández-Rivas G,Basile L,Martínez-Cuevas O,Ballesteros ÁL,Ramos X,Sabrià M,North Metropolitan Working Group on Imported Diseases.

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00