Experimental infection of human volunteers with a swine influenzavirus antigenically related to the human A-Hong Kong-68 virus.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To derive regional weight-for-age growth references to help optimize age-based dosing of antimalarials in Africa, the Americas, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific. METHODS:A weight-for-age database was constructed from pre-existing population-based anthropometric data obtained from household surveys and...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Hayes DJ,van Buuren S,ter Kuile FO,Stasinopoulos DM,Rigby RA,Terlouw DJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insecticidal activity of synthetic pyrethroids was compared with that of the natural pyrethrins, which have been used on a world-wide scale as active ingredients for insecticidal aerosols or mosquito coils.All of the synthetic pyrethroids were found to be more stable than the pyrethrins. Tetramethrin showed a very...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Nishizawa Y

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have recently been published of surveys of antibodies to common respiratory viruses in human sera from several parts of the world. The present article reports the findings of a survey of antibodies to two more viruses (adenovirus type 8 and coxsackievirus type A21) in human sera mainly collected from six widel...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Chapple PJ

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult male volunteers were orally vaccinated with two "killed" antityphoid preparations. The recommended doses of both vaccines resulted in serum antibody development in only a few of the subjects. When the dose of the monovalent preparation (Taboral) was doubled, serological responses occurred more frequently, with a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dupont HL,Hornick RB,Snyder MJ,Dawkins AT,Heiner GG,Woodward TE

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiomersal-iodine-formalin (TIF) has been used as a faecal preservative in many prevalence surveys of intestinal helminths and protozoa. In helminth surveys, however, estimates of worm burden are no less essential than those of prevalence. Direct-smear and dilution egg-counting techniques, using fresh faeces, have bee...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dunn FL

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unacceptably high mortality related to acute respiratory infections (ARI) in children, recognition of the importance of bacteria in the causation of severe acute lower respiratory infection in developing countries, and the established effectiveness of antimicrobial and supportive treatment in averting death make a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of rabies-immune serum in addition to regular vaccination has been recommended as routine treatment in man after severe exposure to rabies virus. The inhibitory effect of passive antibody on active immunity induced against rabies by vaccination was investigated in rabbits. It was demonstrated that a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wiktor TJ,Lerner RA,Koprowski H

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple force-of-infection model for onchocerciasis has been developed for a study of the age-specific epidemiological trends during a period of vector control in the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in the Volta River basin area (OCP). The most important factors included in the model are the longevity of an infectio...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Remme J,Ba O,Dadzie KY,Karam M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of lectures on the tubercle bacillus by eminent authorities from various countries was organized at the Institut d'Hygiène et de Bactériologie of the University of Lausanne by Professor Paul Hauduroy, from 22 to 25 April 1949. Through the kindness of Professor Hauduroy it has been possible for the World Healt...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1949-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt was made to assess the protective influence of killed intranasal influenza B vaccine against a homologous virus challenge. Two types of trial were performed. In the first of these, the vaccine was compared with an inert placebo and, in the second, with conventional homologous and heterologous parenteral vac...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Beare AS,Hobson D,Reed SE,Tyrrell DA

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether home visits for neonatal care by community health workers can reduce infant and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in resource-limited settings. METHODS:We conducted a systematic review up to 2008 of controlled trials comparing various intervention packages, one of them being home visits fo...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Gogia S,Sachdev HS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several laboratories have reported a large number of plasmodial antigens that may be implicated in the immune-mediated protection against the asexual blood stage of Plasmodium falciparum. In order to establish relationships between the antigens reported by different laboratories, a comparative testing of 37 antibody r...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dayal R,Decrind C,Lambert PH

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To analyse and improve the Namibian maternity care system by implementing maternal near-miss surveillance during 1 October 2018 and 31 March 2019, and identifying the challenges and benefits of such data collection. Methods:From the results of an initial feasibility study, we adapted the World Health Organiz...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Heemelaar S,Josef M,Diener Z,Chipeio M,Stekelenburg J,van den Akker T,Mackenzie S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological advances in big data (large amounts of highly varied data from many different sources that may be processed rapidly), data sciences and artificial intelligence can improve health-system functions and promote personalized care and public good. However, these technologies will not replace the fundamental c...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Ho CWL,Ali J,Caals K

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notifications of morbidity are frequently incomplete but they represent the only practicable way of carrying out large-scale surveillance. Studies of hepatitis in the Central District of Israel offered an opportunity of assessing the reliability of routine data. The regular canvassing of physicians resulted in a 2-3-f...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Brachott D,Mosley JW

更新日期：1972-01-01 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：:This paper represents a personal reflection on what is needed worldwide to prevent child injuries. It repeats messages that have been frequently delivered in the past. The main points are: first, the need for everyone to accept the view that, ultimately, injuries are a health problem and health departments must view t...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Pless IB

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the socioeconomic, geographical and demographic inequities in the use of postnatal health-care services in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS:We searched Medline, Embase and Cochrane Central databases and grey literature for experimental, quasi-experimental and observational studies that had...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Langlois ÉV,Miszkurka M,Zunzunegui MV,Ghaffar A,Ziegler D,Karp I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatively recent development of more-effective pulicides has been paralleled by the discovery of more-efficient rodenticides. Eight of the latter-namely, warfarin, pival, red squill, alpha-naphthylthiourea (ANTU), zinc phosphide, arsenic trioxide, thallium sulfate, and sodium fluoroacetate (1080)-are discussed wi...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： LINK VB,MOHR CO

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Aëdes aegypti was recently found in Puerto Rico which proved to be resistant to both DDT and dieldrin. This paper reports on genetical studies of this strain to determine whether a single entity is involved or two distinct resistances. Tests carried out by repeated back-crossing combined with selection pre...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KHAN NH,BROWN AW

更新日期：1961-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forecasts of tuberculosis morbidity and mortality are presented for the decade 1990-99. An estimated 88 million new cases of tuberculosis, of which 8 million will be attributable to HIV infection, will occur in the world during the decade; 30 million people are predicted to die of tuberculosis in the same period, incl...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dolin PJ,Raviglione MC,Kochi A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five strains of poliomyelitis virus isolated from paralytic cases in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany were classified either by testing resistance of immunized monkeys, or by neutralization. Seventeen strains (68%) were classified as type 1, 7 (28%) as type 2, and 1 (4%) as type 3. Strains of type 2 are pr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Verlinde JD,Hofman B,Nihoul E

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHILE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HAS PRODUCED GREAT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF YELLOW FEVER AND IN TECHNIQUES FOR ITS CONTROL IN URBAN AREAS, THE ESSENTIAL METHOD OF CONTROL HAS NOT CHANGED: it is still the elimination of the urban vector, Aëdes aegypti. The aim of those responsible for yellow fever control in Afr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MAHAFFY AF

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precautions to be taken and the procedures to be followed when giving intramuscular injections are well known, but they are not always satisfactorily observed under conditions such as those met with in mass treatment campaigns against the treponematoses, nor is the importance of employing uniform techniques always...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： HACKETT CJ,GOCKEL CW

更新日期：1958-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plaque-neutralization method developed by Dulbecco and co-workers for the study of the virus of western equine encephalomyelitis in cultures of chick fibroblasts, though probably unequalled for accuracy, has not been adopted for general use in laboratories engaged in research on the arthropod-borne viruses, for tw...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： PORTERFIELD JS

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of several DDT-resistant strains of Anopheles atroparvus is described. They were selected by larval treatment only (RL), selection of larval and adult females (RLAF), and selection of adult females and males (RAFM). Their rate of DDT-resistance was measured in the larval and adult states (mainly in the...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MOSNA E,PALMIERI C,ASCHER KR,RIVOSECCHI L,NERI I

更新日期：1959-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Countries signed up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development face the challenge of achieving economic progress without damaging the environment or depleting natural resources. Göran Tomson tells Fiona Fleck how scientists can help. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Division of Brucella strains into three species has long been based on differences in growth characteristics on certain dye-agar media and on variations in H(2)S production on liver agar slants. But certain workers believe these differences to be merely quantitative, such as are found between varieties of one species....

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： HUDDLESON IF

更新日期：1961-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of disease outcome is central to the assessment of tuberculosis (TB) control programmes. In the study reported in this article we examined the factors influencing the measurement of outcome, survival rates during and after treatment, smear conversion rates, and relapse rates for patients diagnosed with TB i...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Glynn JR,Warndorff DK,Fine PE,Munthali MM,Sichone W,Pönnighaus JM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of maternity waiting homes on the use of facility-based birthing services for women in two remote districts of Timor-Leste. METHODS:A before-and-after study design was used to compare the number of facility-based births in women who lived at different distances (0-5, 6-25, 26-50 and > 5...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wild K,Barclay L,Kelly P,Martins N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00