The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in man in Plateau State and meat animals in Nigeria.

abstract：:Among infectious diseases, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death, killing around 3 million people each year. Most cases occur in young adults but it is also a major cause of illness and death in children. The problem has been exacerbated in recent years by the HIV pandemic and by the emergence of multidrug resist...

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

authors： Zumla A,Squire SB,Chintu C,Grange JM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a disfiguring parasitic disease and one of the leading causes of disability in the world. This study aimed to assess the severity of lymphoedema, the physical restrictions and socio-economic impact on affected individuals living in an endemic community in Malawi. METHODS:In a si...

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

authors： Martindale S,Mkwanda SZ,Smith E,Molyneux D,Stanton MC,Kelly-Hope LA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of neurological manifestations of infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei have been described including cerebral abscesses, which are a well-recognized form of neurological melioidosis. The optimal antibiotic therapy for this condition has not been defined; however, combinations of intravenous antibiotics a...

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

authors： Chadwick DR,Ang B,Sitoh YY,Lee CC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryptosporidium spp. are enteric parasites that infect humans and animals. In immunocompromised patients infection can be fatal. This study was conducted to identify sub-populations of Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum isolates from HIV-seropositive patients in Equatorial Guinea. METHODS:In a previous s...

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

authors： Blanco MA,Montoya A,Iborra A,Fuentes I

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of bloody diarrhoea was observed in 1997 and 1998 in Bessoum, north Cameroon. Of 1176 inhabitants, 16.7% went for medical consultation to a public health centre located 10 km away. This epidemic was probably due to the recent introduction of Schistosoma mansoni in an ancient focus of S. haematobium, follow...

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

authors： Cunin P,Griffet A,Poste B,Djibrilla K,Martin PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the isolation and characterization of a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid clone showing sequence homology with genes coding for the eukaryotic elongation factor 1 gamma (EF-1 gamma). The clone encodes an open reading frame of 404 amino acids corresponding to a deduced molecular mass of 46.2 kDa. D...

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

authors： Cañavate C,el Bali M,Montoya Y,Barker DC,Alvar J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) accounts for the majority of childhood malignancies seen in sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi, cyclophosphamide (CPM), the mainstay of treatment for endemic BL, is effective in around 50% of cases. Evidence exists in support of an association between activation of replication of Epstein-Barr virus ...

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

authors： Phillips JA,Griffin BE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for a specific, sensitive, and practical diagnostic test to monitor onchocerciasis elimination campaigns. In April 2001, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using 3 recombinant antigens and a rapid-format antibody card test (immunochromatographic test; ICT) using an individual antigen were com...

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

authors： Rodríguez-Pérez MA,Domínguez-Vázquez A,Méndez-Galván J,Sifuentes-Rincón AM,Larralde-Corona P,Barrera-Saldaña HA,Bradley JE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for detection of Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax and P. malariae was combined with a simple blood collection and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction method and evaluated in Malaysia. Finger-prick blood samples from 46 hospital patients and 120 individuals liv...

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

authors： Singh B,Cox-Singh J,Miller AO,Abdullah MS,Snounou G,Rahman HA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the irrigated zones of North-eastern region of Afghanistan malaria transmission is sustained by A. pulcherrimus and A. hyrcanus despite many years of DDT spraying. A. hyrcanus is an exophilic and exophagic mosquito, strongly resistant to DDT. A. pulcherrimus is still largely susceptible to the insecticide but seems...

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

authors： Onori E,Nushin MK,Cullen JE,Yakubi GH,Mohammed K,Christal FA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously standardized the direct agglutination test (DAT) to detect anti-Leishmania chagasi promastigote antibodies (DAT-LPC) with good sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing visceral leishmaniasis (VL). In this paper, we present a technical upgrade by introducing some modifications into the antigen preparati...

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

authors： Oliveira E,Pedras MJ,de Assis IE,Rabello A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemics of cholera have been frequent in southern Africa since the reintroduction of the disease to the continent in 1970. In late 1992, following a severe drought and an influx of refugees from Mozambique, cholera reappeared in Zimbabwe for the first time since 1985 and rapidly spread through the rural areas of the...

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

authors： Bradley M,Shakespeare R,Ruwende A,Woolhouse ME,Mason E,Munatsi A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community treatment with ivermectin was implemented in Opoa, French Polynesia from April 1991 to October 1993. All consenting inhabitants aged 3 years or more were treated with twice-yearly single doses of ivermectin, pregnant women excepted. A dosage of 100 microgram/kg was used for the 3 first treatments and then ab...

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

authors： Nguyen NL,Moulia-Pelat JP,Cartel JL

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:The functioning of the government primary health care system as it affects infant health in the Baglung District of Nepal, is discussed. the Baglung District is a remote rural area of 232,000 population in the western Himalayan foothills, entirely based on subsistence farming, and without drivable roads. The governm...

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

authors： Costello AM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rio de Janeiro (RJ) has been of major importance for the epidemiology of dengue viruses (DENVs) in Brazil. After the DENV 1-4 introductions in 1986, 1990, 2000 and 2011, respectively, the state has suffered explosive epidemics. We aimed to describe laboratorial, epidemiological and clinical aspects due to th...

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

authors： Heringer M,Nogueira RM,de Filippis AM,Lima MR,Faria NR,Nunes PC,Nogueira FB,dos Santos FB

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:The in vitro blastogenesis response of lymphocytes from 19 patients, with either visceral or mucocutaneous leishmaniasis or Chagas disease, to antigens of the Leishmania-Trypanosoma complex was studied. Cells from all patients responded to both homologous and heterologous antigens and the magnitude of the responses di...

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

authors： Carvalho EM,Reed SG,Johnson WD Jr

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias is a feature of living organisms. The origin of this bias might be explained not only by external factors but also by the nature of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) itself. We have developed a point mutation simulation program of coding sequences, in which nucleotide replacement follows th...

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

authors： Zimic MJ,Guerra D,Arévalo J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 8 cases of envenoming by Chinese krait (Bungarus multicinctus) and one banded krait (B. fasciatus) in southern Myanmar is reported. Chinese krait bite produced minimal local reactions, except in one person bitten on the lip which resulted in local swelling. Onset of neurotoxic symptoms occurre...

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

authors： Pe T,Myint T,Htut A,Htut T,Myint AA,Aung NN

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was carried out in Kassala and Medani Maternity Hospitals in Sudan to investigate acute-phase proteins [haptoglobin, C-reactive protein (CRP), ferritin and albumin] in three groups of pregnant women (32 in each arm) comprising those with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria or uncomplicated P. fal...

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

authors： Saad AA,Mohamed OE,Ali AA,Bashir AM,Ali NI,Elbashir MI,Adam I

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of information on the disease burden due to Taenia solium taeniasis and its associated risk factors in pig farming communities throughout the world. The present study was conducted in a rural pig farming community of north India to estimate the prevalence of T. solium taeniasis and associated factors. ...

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

authors： Prasad KN,Prasad A,Gupta RK,Pandey CM,Singh U

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct agglutination test (DAT) has been assessed as a diagnostic procedure for visceral leishmaniasis. Fifty-six of 58 sera (96.5%) from confirmed cases of visceral leishmaniasis, whose bone marrow aspirates contained Leishmania donovani amastigotes, had agglutinating antibodies above the cut-off titre of 1:800. ...

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

authors： Singla N,Singh GS,Sundar S,Vinayak VK

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of chloroquine resistance throughout the world poses a major problem in combating malaria. In the present study, an efficient polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformational polymorphism (PCR--SSCP)-based assay detected the PfCRT K76T point mutation, which is a marker for chloroquine resistance. For ...

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

authors： Mishra S,Raj DK,Hazra RK,Dash AP,Supakar PC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of an autopsy study of Opisthorchis viverrini infection in 181 accident subjects in northeast Thailand are presented. The age-prevalence profiles were similar whether determined by faecal examination for parasite eggs or by recovery of worms from the liver. The prevalence increased rapidly with age and rea...

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

authors： Sithithaworn P,Tesana S,Pipitgool V,Kaewkes S,Thaiklar K,Pairojkul C,Sripa B,Paupairoj A,Sanpitak P,Aranyanat C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimum treatment for louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) has not been fully established. Eliminating spirochetes is often associated with the potentially lethal Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR). The objective of this meta-analysis was to review the evidence supporting the use of antibiotics usually employed for t...

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

authors： Guerrier G,Doherty T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains an important health problem in Bangladesh, with approximately 14 million people at risk. Antimalarial drug resistance is a major obstacle to the control of malaria in endemic countries. In 2012, Bangladesh reported an estimated 29 522 malaria episodes, of which 94% were reported as being caused by Plas...

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

authors： Haque U,Glass GE,Haque W,Islam N,Roy S,Karim J,Noedl H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one Entamoeba histolytica isolates from a range of geographical locations and representing 3 different zymodemes were tested under xenic anaerobic conditions for their sensitivities to bacitracin and bactracin zinc. Isolates were over 13 times more sensitive to bacitracin zinc than to bacitracin. Our results in...

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

authors： Andrews BJ,Bjorvatn B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty Kenyan patients with visceral leishmaniasis were evaluated for the presence of Leishmania donovani in their peripheral blood. Smears, cultures and hamster inoculations detected parasitaemia in 11, 10 and six patients, respectively, and at least one method detected parasitaemia in 15 patients (75%). The likeliho...

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

authors： Chulay JD,Adoyo MA,Githure JI

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tafenoquine is being developed for radical cure and post-exposure prophylaxis of Plasmodium vivax malaria. In an open-label study, 1512 Australian Defence Force personnel received one of three tafenoquine 3 d regimens [400 mg once daily (od), 200 mg twice daily (bid), 200 mg od] or daily primaquine (22.5 mg) plus doxy...

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

authors： Elmes NJ,Nasveld PE,Kitchener SJ,Kocisko DA,Edstein MD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00