A sero-epidemiological survey of asymptomatic cases of Boutonneuse fever in western Sicily.

abstract：:In order to estimate the importance as a public health problem of skin diseases, we investigated the prevalence and severity of skin diseases in a representative sample of children in Mali. 1817 children were randomly selected in 30 clusters by probability-proportional-to-size sampling in Koulikoro region. The mean pr...

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

authors： Mahé A,Prual A,Konaté M,Bobin P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of a convenient diagnostic method for onchocerciasis has motivated attempts to develop better detection techniques. Preliminary results indicate that a dot blot assay of the total immunoglobulin G (IgG) response to an easily available and simply prepared Tris buffer soluble fraction (TSF) of whole female worm...

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

authors： Lavebratt C,Dalhammar G,Adamafio NA,Nykänen-Dejerud U,Mingarini K,Ingemarsson K,Opoku N,Akuffo HO

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:There are 4 recognized classes of Escherichia coli that cause diarrhoeal disease in humans: enteropathogenic (EPEC), enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteroinvasive (EIEC), and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC). Preliminary analysis of enterotoxin production in a rural community in Ghana showed a prevalence of 11.0% LT-ST+, 9....

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

authors： Agbodaze D,Abrahams CA,Arai S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency surveys in Afghan refugees and a local community in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, showed that this trait was most common among Pathan and Uzbak refugees (15.8% and 9.1% respectively). The prevalence among Pakistani Pathans was 7.0%, and that in Tajik ...

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

authors： Bouma MJ,Goris M,Akhtar T,Khan N,Khan N,Kita E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hump-nosed pit vipers (Hypnale hypnale) are highly venomous snakes found in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats region of India. They are the most common cause of venomous snakebites in Sri Lanka, mainly causing local envenoming leading to pain, swelling and necrosis. Systemic envenoming causing acute kidney inj...

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

authors： Rathnayaka RMMKN,Ranathunga PEAN,Kularatne SAM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (ICCDE) met in December to review progress towards eradication. The status of the programme was presented by WHO and The Carter Center, Atlanta. The Commission received reports from international certification teams that Cote d'Ivoire, Ni...

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

authors： Al-Awadi AR,Al-Kuhlani A,Breman JG,Doumbo O,Eberhard ML,Guiguemde RT,Magnussen P,Molyneux DH,Nadim A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the effects of malaria chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy on birthweight and investigation of the influence of birthweight on child survival suggest that, in a rural area of The Gambia, chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy might reduce infant mortality by about one-fifth in the children of primigravid...

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

authors： Greenwood AM,Armstrong JR,Byass P,Snow RW,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem, particularly in countries where antibiotic use is frequently not controlled. The aim of this study was to analyse the prevalence of the molecular mechanisms of quinolone-resistance in E. coli isolated from faeces of healthy Peruvian children or those presenting...

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

authors： Pons MJ,Mosquito S,Gomes C,Del Valle LJ,Ochoa TJ,Ruiz J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infection with Schistosoma haematobium and various factors including water contact pattern, past history of haematuria and treatment for schistosomiasis and cercarial dermatitis was investigated in Southern Iraq. The study covered mainly primary schoolchildren in different areas of Basrah and i...

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

authors： Yacoub A,Southgate BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:To characterize red cell susceptibility to invasion in malaria, a selectivity index (SI) was calculated as the ratio of observed number of multiple-infected red cells to that expected from a random process (Poisson distribution). In patients with falciparum malaria (n = 100) SI decreased with increasing parasitaemia (...

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

authors： Simpson JA,Silamut K,Chotivanich K,Pukrittayakamee S,White NJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a recently developed sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to determine the kinetics of Schistosoma mansoni circulating soluble egg antigen (CSEA) after chemotherapy and compared these with previously determined levels of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA). Urine samples were collected from 35 Egyptian pa...

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

authors： Nibbeling HA,Van Lieshout L,Deelder AM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical sprue, a primary malabsorption syndrome affecting residents and visitors to several tropical regions, occurs in southern India in endemic and epidemic forms. The stomach, the small intestine and colon are affected and malabsorption results in nutrient deficiency. Enterocyte damage, the primary lesion in south...

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

authors： Mathan VI

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a life-threatening tick-borne infection in Africa and Eurasia. Although knowledge of epidemiology is increasing, the global extent and risk of infection is not well described. A niche-modeling framework has been used to map the global distribution of risk for CCHF based on ana...

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

authors： Leblebicioglu H,Ozaras R,Erciyas-Yavuz K

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:A longitudinal survey--parasitological, clinical, immunological and entomological--of onchocerciasis is being conducted in Gbaiima village in Sierra Leone. The estimated Annual Transmission Potential (ATP) is 5863. More than 80% of the annual transmission occurs between October and December. Four species of the Simuli...

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

authors： McMahon JE,Davies JB,White MD,Goddard JM,Beech-Garwood PA,Kirkwood BR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of the performance of the Kersey Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre in Nigeria was undertaken with particular focus on mortality, rate of weight gain, and the management strategy. During 1987-1991 the total number of admissions for protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) was 803. The age group most commonly repre...

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

authors： Ibekwe VE,Ashworth A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1986 and 1993 visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was diagnosed in 50 adult patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection (8 females, 42 males: 31 intravenous drug users, 11 homosexual or bisexual men, 6 heterosexual individuals, 2 blood recipients) from 5 hospital centres in southern France. Dia...

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

authors： Rosenthal E,Marty P,Poizot-Martin I,Reynes J,Pratlong F,Lafeuillade A,Jaubert D,Boulat O,Dereure J,Gambarelli F

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Preventive chemotherapy (PC), the large-scale administration of anthelminthics, is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). Since 2010, donated anthelminthics for STH have boosted the implementation of PC programmes in children, achieving glo...

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

authors： Montresor A,Trouleau W,Mupfasoni D,Bangert M,Joseph SA,Mikhailov A,Fitzpatrick C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue fever (DF) is an urban vector-borne disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Both species deposit their eggs in favorable breeding sites either in natural or artificial containers. An understanding of their habitat characteristics is crucial in curbing DF outbreaks METHODS:A search ...

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

authors： Dom NC,Faiz Madzlan M,Nadira Yusoff SN,Hassan Ahmad A,Ismail R,Nazrina Camalxaman S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved awareness of Pap test by Nigerian women may not necessarily increase its use. This hypothesis was tested using female medical practitioners in Enugu state, Nigeria. They were expected to be advocates of disease screening and therefore should lead by example. All respondents were aware of the Pap smear but onl...

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

authors： Dim CC,Ekwe E,Madubuko T,Dim NR,Ezegwui HU

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand better the relationship among Mycobacterium leprae, its transmission and the human host or the chain of infection which may lead to the development of leprosy, we performed a population survey in which nasal carriage of M. leprae was determined by a specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR), 2 ye...

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

authors： Hatta M,van Beers SM,Madjid B,Djumadi A,de Wit MY,Klatser PR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young African children with severe malaria are given quinine using a regimen designed for Thai adults. We measured quinine in the blood, plasma and plasma water of young children in Kenya after rapid intravenous and intramuscular dosing, and calculated the therapeutic range of unbound quinine. The peak plasma quinine ...

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

authors： Winstanley P,Newton C,Watkins W,Mberu E,Ward S,Warn P,Mwangi I,Waruiru C,Pasvol G,Warrell D

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency, intensity and clinical features of onchocerciasis in the two ethnic groups (Blacks and Chachilla--an indigenous tribe) in the endemic foci of the disease in Esmeraldas province (Ecuador) were evaluated. The incidence of infection and intensity of the disease seen in both groups were directly related to ...

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

authors： Molea J,Guderian RH,Proaño R,Carrillo R,Swanson WL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological survey was carried out to determine the frequency of distribution of hydatid antibodies in Pondicherry during 1981 to 1984. 1325 apparently normal sera and 109 sera from clinically suspected hydatid disease cases were screened by the indirect haemagglutination (IHA) test. Results showed a diagnostic titr...

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

authors： Parija SC,Sasikala A,Rao RS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold, acidified anthrone was used to test 200 wild-caught sandflies (Phlebotomus ariasi females) for the presence of fructose. This sugar, or others with a fructose moiety, were demonstrable in 157 (79%) of the flies; proportions of flies positive in different tests ranged from 44 to 91%. Higher proportions of flies g...

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

authors： Young CJ,Turner DP,Killick-Kendrick R,Rioux JA,Leaney AJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00