Tuberculosis in rural South India. A study of possible trends and the potential impact of antituberculosis programmes.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine trends in mortality from respiratory disease in several areas of Latin America between 1998 and 2009. METHODS:The numbers of deaths attributed to respiratory disease between 1998 and 2009 were extracted from mortality data from Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and P...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： de Souza Mde F,Widdowson MA,Alencar AP,Gawryszewski VP,Aziz-Baumgartner E,Palekar R,Breese J,Cheng PY,Barbosa J,Cabrera AM,Olea A,Flores AB,Shay DK,Mounts A,Oliva OP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hazards involved in the use of antibiotics in animal feeds is that it may lead to the development of bacterial drug-resistance. An analysis of the phenomenon shows that this possibility largely depends on the size of the bacterial populations involved and on the possibility of selective multiplication of th...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MANTEN A

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In serological tests for syphilis, leprosy sera often give biologically false positive reactions. These may be due to the presence of non-specific elements-for example, the ubiquitous lipid antibodies-in the leprosy sera; or they may be the result of errors in technique or unfavourable working conditions in the labora...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： RUGE HG,FROMM G,FUHNER F,GUINTO RS

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nation-wide tuberculosis prevalence surveys were conducted by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1953, 1958 and 1963, using the stratified random sampling method. Follow-up surveys were made on one-third of the areas surveyed in the previous year in 1954, 1959 and 1964. In this paper the results of surveys...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wakamatsu E,Oka H,Kumabe H,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera were collected from 320 shearwaters (Puffinus pacificus chlororhynchus) nesting on two islands off the east coast of northern Australia in December 1969. About 10% of these sera specifically inhibited the neuraminidase of the 1957 strain of human influenza (A2/Asian/57), some to high titre.The neuraminidase of A2...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dasen CA,Laver WG

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Rubella vaccine is not included in the immunization schedule in Myanmar. Although surveillance for outbreaks of measles and rubella is conducted nationwide, there is no routine surveillance for congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Therefore, we organized a study to assess the burden of CRS. METHODS:From 1 Dece...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Thant KZ,Oo WM,Myint TT,Shwe TN,Han AM,Aye KM,Aye KT,Moe K,Thein S,Robertson SE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report from the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre, Madras, summarizes the progress over a 5-year period of 193 patients with newly diagnosed, sputum-positive pulmonary tuberculosis who were admitted to a concurrent comparison of home and sanatorium treatment for one year with isoniazid plus PAS. Previous reports h...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dawson JJ,Devadatta S,Fox W,Radhakrishna S,Ramakrishnan CV,Somasundaram PR,Stott H,Tripathy SP,Velu S

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium are widely distributed throughout East Africa, each being transmitted by several intermediate hosts. It is feared that the increased use of irrigation, which is proposed in Tanganyika to expand agricultural productivity, will also increase the incidence and intensity of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： STURROCK RF

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox vaccinations were performed in a well-vaccinated prison population by multiple-pressure technique and by intradermal jet injection using serial dilutions of vaccine. A total of 140 subjects were divided into groups, and each group was vaccinated by the multiple-pressure technique or by jet injection using 1 o...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Neff JM,Millar JD,Roberto RR,Wulff H

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand better the current regional situation and public health response to cervical cancer and female breast cancer in the Americas. METHODS:Data on cervical cancer and female breast cancers in 33 countries, for the period from 2000 to the last year with available data, were extracted from the Pan Ame...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Luciani S,Cabanes A,Prieto-Lara E,Gawryszewski V

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The QBC (quantitative buffy coat) technique was compared with that of the Giemsa-stained thick blood film (GTF) under field conditions in Junlian and Mingshan counties, Sichuan, China, for rapid diagnosis of vivax malaria. Blood samples were collected from 364 volunteer villagers, and each sample was examined with bot...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wang X,Zhu S,Liu Q,Hu A,Zan Z,Yu Q,Yin Q

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dracontiasis is one of the most easily preventable of the tropical parasitic diseases, yet in India the infection is still present in large numbers of people and causes extreme degrees of morbidity and incapacitation.The 10 000 inhabitants of 4 villages in South India were interviewed and the prevalence of guinea-worm...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Reddy CR,Narasaiah IL,Parvathi G

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representatives of the WHO influenza programme recently proposed a standard method of determining neuraminidase activity and neuraminidase inhibition (NI) antibody titres. Logit transformation of the data obtained with the WHO method for the NI assay permits a more efficient performance of the test and easy calculatio...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Richman DD,Murphy BR,Cline WL,Alling DW

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:James Chau talks to Ana Lesher Treviño about the challenges faced in communicating about public health. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the performance of serological tests using dried blood on filter-papers (micro-card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (micro-CATT)) performed under field and laboratory conditions and using whole blood ((CATT/T.b. gambiense) (wb-CATT) and latex agglutination (LATEX/T.b. gambiense) (wb-LATEX))...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Truc P,Lejon V,Magnus E,Jamonneau V,Nangouma A,Verloo D,Penchenier L,Büscher P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some time ago the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization asked the National Institute for Medical Research, London, to consult with the WHO International Blood Group Reference Laboratory concerning the establishment of an international standard for albumin-potentiated anti-Rh(o) (anti-D) blood-typing serum...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Goldsmith KL,Mourant AE,Bangham DR

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare sentinel and population-based surveillance of the effect of seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), introduced in 2000, on the hospitalization of children aged under 5 years with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in the United States of America. METHODS:Population surveillance data w...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Hampton LM,Zell ER,Schrag S,Cohen AL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have attempted to prepare lysed BCG vaccines retaining the protective antigens of the BCG cell wall and yet eliciting in experimental animals limited sensitivity to the tuberculin substances, the advantage sought being to retain the usefulness of the tuberculin following vaccination as an indicator of supe...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Sato H,Diena BB,Greenberg L

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the implementation of a programme to provide primary care physicians for remote and deprived populations in Brazil. METHODS:The Mais Médicos (More Doctors) programme was launched in July 2013 with public calls to recruit physicians for priority areas. Other strategies were to increase primary car...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Santos LM,Oliveira A,Trindade JS,Barreto IC,Palmeira PA,Comes Y,Santos FO,Santos W,Oliveira JP,Pessoa VM,Shimizu HE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E-health encompasses a diverse set of informatics tools that have been designed to improve public health and health care. Little information is available on the impacts of e-health programmes, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We therefore conducted a scoping review of the published and non-published l...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Piette JD,Lun KC,Moura LA Jr,Fraser HS,Mechael PN,Powell J,Khoja SR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several years after the First World War calcium oxide was the main compound used in the control of Oncomelania nosophora in Japan. This was generally replaced in 1944 by calcium cyanamide; since 1952 the prefectural authorities in areas of endemic bilharziasis have increasingly turned to the use of sodium pentachl...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KOMIYA Y

更新日期：1961-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the quality of the coding of the cause of death (COD) statistics and assess the mortality information needs of the City of Cape Town. METHODS:Using an action research approach, a study was set up to investigate the quality of COD information, the accuracy of COD coding and consistency of coding pra...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Bradshaw D,Groenewald P,Bourne DE,Mahomed H,Nojilana B,Daniels J,Nixon J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author reviews the agricultural use of night-soil, sewage, and sewage sludge from two points of view: the purely agricultural and the sanitary.Knowledge of the chemistry and bacteriology of human faecal matter is still rather scant, and much further work has to be done to find practical ways of digesting night-soi...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： PETRIK M

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Standard for Hyaluronidase is derived from a blend of four batches of bovine testicular hyaluronidase which had been purified so as to contain approximately 400 units per milligram. The material was mixed with beta-lactose, and lyophilized. Tablets were made from the dried mixture, and were examined ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： HUMPHREY JH

更新日期：1957-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Delivery by a skilled birth attendant (SBA) serves as an indicator of progress towards reducing maternal mortality worldwide -- the fifth Millennium Development Goal. Though WHO tracks the proportion of women delivered by SBAs, we know little about their competence to manage common life-threatening obstetric ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Harvey SA,Blandón YC,McCaw-Binns A,Sandino I,Urbina L,Rodríguez C,Gómez I,Ayabaca P,Djibrina S,Nicaraguan Maternal and Neonatal Health Quality Improvement Group.

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore excess paediatric mortality after discharge from Kilifi District Hospital, Kenya, and its duration and risk factors. METHODS:Hospital and demographic data were used to describe post-discharge mortality and survival probability in children aged < 15 years, by age group and clinical syndrome. Cox re...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Moïsi JC,Gatakaa H,Berkley JA,Maitland K,Mturi N,Newton CR,Njuguna P,Nokes J,Ojal J,Bauni E,Tsofa B,Peshu N,Marsh K,Williams TN,Scott JA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While relapses following clinical cure of American cutaneous leishmaniasis are frequent, no test has been described until now to predict such relapses. A cohort of 318 American cutaneous leishmaniasis patients was followed up for two years after treatment with meglumine antimoniate, during which time 32 relapses occur...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Passos VM,Barreto SM,Romanha AJ,Krettli AU,Volpini AC,Lima e Costa MF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airport and aviation authorities are starting to recognize that airports do not have to be unhealthy. Sima Barmania reports. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Papua New Guinea the bottle-feeding of babies has been increasing, predominantly among unemployed women of low educational status. Many women are unaware of their legal right to have breaks at work for the purpose of breastfeeding, and a high proportion of workplaces have no facilities for mothers who wish to breas...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Friesen H,Vince J,Boas P,Danaya R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper synthesizes the rates, barriers, and outcomes of HIV serostatus disclosure among women in developing countries. We identified 17 studies from peer-reviewed journals and international conference abstracts--15 from sub-Saharan Africa and 2 from south-east Asia--that included information on either the rates, b...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Medley A,Garcia-Moreno C,McGill S,Maman S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00