Isolation of Japanese encephalitis virus from the Republic of the Philippines.

abstract：:Promotion of breastfeeding is a key component of infant health policies globally. However, maternal HIV infection is a possible contraindication for breastfeeding since it can result in mother-to-child transmission. Research into infant-feeding strategies which will promote the health of all infants but also protect a...

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

authors： Filteau S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By microinjection of cryopreserved microfilariae (mf) into nulliparous flies, a comparison of the lengths of the infective larvae (L3) of Onchocerca volvulus and O. ochengi from the head of Simulium damnosum s.l. (presumed S. sirbanum) has been made. The suitability of S. sirbanum as a host was similar for both Onchoc...

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

authors： McCall PJ,Townson H,Trees AJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major endemic areas of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil are located in the drier, poorly forested regions, principally in the northeastern States such as Ceará and Bahia. Cases of the human disease in the Amazon Region are rare, very sporadic, and seldom present opportunities for epidemiological study. Following the r...

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

authors： Silveira FT,Lainson R,Shaw JJ,Póvoa MM

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:A study was undertaken to assess the role of cockroaches as potential carriers of human intestinal parasites in Addis Ababa and Ziway, Ethiopia. A total of 6480 cockroaches were trapped from the two localities from October 2006 to March 2007. All the cockroaches trapped in Addis Ababa (n=2240) and almost 50% (2100/424...

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

authors： Kinfu A,Erko B

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few reports of parasitic disease prevalence in the Dominican Republic. The most recent study was that by Mackie et al. (1951). Examination of purged specimens from individuals employed by two sugar plantations demonstrated generally high prevalences of a number of helminths and protozoans. We report here the...

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

authors： Collins RF,Edwards LD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercial dot-blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Dip-S-Ticks dipstick test was compared with the indirect immunoperoxidase (IIP) and Weil-Felix (WF) tests for the diagnosis of scrub typhus, using the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) as the reference standard. With a panel of 117 positive and 75 ...

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

authors： Pradutkanchana J,Silpapojakul K,Paxton H,Pradutkanchana S,Kelly DJ,Strickman D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trachoma surveys conducted in sub-Saharan countries showed different geographical distributions of active trachoma and trichiasis. Trichiasis is more common in southern regions. We analysed the role of geoclimatic factors in determining the distributions of active trachoma and trichiasis in Mali. In each regio...

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

authors： Schémann JF,Laffly D,Sacko D,Zephak G,Malvy D

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:In the global effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, annual mass treatments are conducted with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) or ivermectin, combined with albendazole. The success of this strategy depends on achieving high levels of drug coverage, which reduces the number of persons with circulating microfilariae so that...

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

authors： Mathieu E,Deming M,Lammie PJ,McLaughlin SI,Beach MJ,Deodat DJ,Addiss DG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease in a village in southern India was investigated through personal interviews of all households. Maps were drawn using geographic information system (GIS) tools of the water supply system, sewage channels and areas with observed faecal contamination of soil within and around the v...

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

authors： Sarkar R,Prabhakar AT,Manickam S,Selvapandian D,Raghava MV,Kang G,Balraj V

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and tolerability of primaquine (PQ) administered as a short higher-dose (30mg twice daily for 7 days) regimen in 203 Australian Defence Force personnel was evaluated in an open-label presumptive anti-relapse therapy study. No clinically significant differences were measured in the subjects' haematological a...

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

authors： Ebringer A,Heathcote G,Baker J,Waller M,Shanks GD,Edstein MD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geophagy has been associated with iron deficiency and anaemia, but no causal relationship has been established. To clarify this, we conducted a two-by-two factorial randomised, controlled trial on the effect of iron and multimicronutrient supplementation on geophagy in Zambian schoolchildren in Lusaka, from February t...

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

authors： Nchito M,Geissler PW,Mubila L,Friis H,Olsen A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The state of Rio de Janeiro has been important since 1986 as a portal for the introduction of dengue virus (DENV) into Brazil and dissemination of the virus throughout the country. This study describes an active surveillance of DENV in the state of Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2008. METHOD:A total of 14 408 ...

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

authors： Macedo GA,de Araújo JM,Schatzmayr HG,Costa FA,de Filippis AM,Santos FB,Nogueira RM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ghana, a population-based immunization coverage survey revealed missed opportunities at preventive and curative care visits among children 12-18 months old attending the local hospital in the eastern region of Ghana. Parent-held immunization cards do not have a place to record curative care visits. If pediatric p...

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

authors： Brugha R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on adverse reactions following a 12-day course of 6 mg/kg diethylcarbamazine (DEC) therapy in brugian filariasis patients in Indonesia. Microfilaria-positive individuals (n = 26), 'endemic normals' (n = 12) and elephantiasis patients (n = 17) were included in the study. Fever, headache and body ache...

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

authors： Haarbrink M,Terhell AJ,Abadi GK,Mitsui Y,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study performed in south Sulawesi (Sulawesi Selatan), Indonesia, we established that the immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a suitable community diagnostic method and that it can distinguish areas of high and low prevalences within short distances. In an attempt to make...

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

authors： Terhell AJ,Haarbrink M,Abadi K,Bronneberg DC,Tieleman MC,Asri M,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveys of the health of schoolchildren in Tanga Region, Tanzania and Volta Region, Ghana are reported. Two age groups of both sexes were studied: 8-9 and 12-13 years old. Children themselves tend to have a poor perception of their health status. This is confirmed by biomedical surveys. Evidence was common of chronic ...

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

authors：

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the number of clients attending for voluntary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing who are able to enter a trial of preventive therapy for tuberculosis, and the factors that determine who receives therapy, we studied 475 consecutive people attending for an HIV test at Lusaka's first voluntary HIV te...

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

authors： Godfrey-Faussett P,Baggaley R,Mwinga A,Hosp M,Porter J,Luo N,Kelly M,Msiska R,McAdam K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Ebola virus was found in 14 (1.2%) of 1147 human sera collected in Gabon in 1981-1997. Six seropositive subjects were bled in the northeast in 1991, more than 3 years prior to recognition of the first known outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF), whilst eight came from the southwest where the disease h...

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

authors： Lahm SA,Kombila M,Swanepoel R,Barnes RF

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:A fast agglutination screening test (FAST) for the detection of Leishmania antibodies in human serum samples was evaluated under harsh field conditions in northern Ethiopia. Test performance was compared with a standard serological test, namely the direct agglutination test (DAT), and with parasitology. In total, 103 ...

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

authors： Hailu A,Schoone GJ,Diro E,Tesfaye A,Techane Y,Tefera T,Assefa Y,Genetu A,Kebede Y,Kebede T,Schallig HD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional malaria surveys based on the microscopic examination of blood do not always detect chronic, low-grade infections caused by immunity. A model incorporating differences in detectability within the host population shows how the false negative tests caused by poor detectability confound measures of prevalence...

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

authors： Aron JL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five strains of Helicobacter pylori isolated from November 1997 until October 1998 from 33 female and 22 male adults attending for endoscopy at the Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria were assayed for antibiotic susceptibility to amoxycillin, clarithromycin, metronidazole and tetracycline by the E-test strip method. ...

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

authors： Ani AE,Malu AO,Onah JA,Queiroz DM,Kirschner G,Rocha GA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey for intestinal parasites was carried out in a homogenous rice cultivation area, in which people had equal opportunities of acquiring the local endemic helminthiases, including schistosomiasis mansoni. The numbers of Schistosoma mansoni eggs excreted in faeces were counted. Infections with S. mansoni, Ascaris ...

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

authors： Chamone M,Marques CA,Atuncar GS,Pereira AL,Pereira LH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In Nigeria, little is known about the development of new or additional physical disability during leprosy treatment. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and evaluate factors associated with worsening of physical disability during leprosy treatment in Nigeria. Methods:This was a retro...

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

authors： Chukwu JN,Ekeke N,Nwafor CC,Meka AO,Alphonsus C,Mbah OK,Eze CC,Ukwaja KN

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging virus strain termed highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HP-H5N1) has spread widely in the past decade and is now the focus of considerable concern in several sectors. We tested the hypothesis that spatial distributions of veterinary and human HP-H5N1 cases are related to coarse-scale environmental fea...

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

authors： Williams RA,Fasina FO,Peterson AT

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercially available bovine liver catalase has been used to supplement chemically defined medium for growth of Trypanosoma cruzi. The protein extract was found to be contaminated with 25 to 30 protein bands as well as DNA and RNA polymers. ...

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

authors： O'Daly JA,Rodríguez MB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia pahangi were killed by the chewing action of the cibarial and pharyngeal armatures and other papillae and spines in the fore-gut of mosquitoes. The proportion of ingested microfilariae that were killed was largely dependent on the presence and shape of the cibarial arma...

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

authors： McGreevy PB,Bryan JH,Oothuman P,Kolstrup N

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated amodiaquine as a replacement drug for treating falciparum malaria in an area of Pakistani Punjab where chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum has recently emerged. Amodiaquine appeared to be 4 to 8 times more effective than chloroquine when P. falciparum isolates were tested in vitro. However, the re...

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

authors： Khaliq AA,Fox E,Sarwar M,Strickland GT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00