Antigenic activity in adult Dipetalonema viteae in the indirect immunofluorescent test against sera from filariasis patients--the immunofluorescent histological search for "pure" antigen.

abstract：:Residents of a slum community of Dhaka city, Bangladesh were tested by serological and faecal examination for evidence of Strongyloides stercoralis infection. In stool specimens from a total of 147 participants Strongyloides larvae were found in 34 (23.1%) by Harada-Mori culture, 15 (10.2%) by agar plate culture (APC)...

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

authors： Sultana Y,Gilbert GL,Ahmed BN,Lee R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine can no longer be recommended as the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in several parts of Africa because of the increasing prevalence of chloroquine resistance. However, chloroquine was a highly effective treatment for malaria not only because of its ability to kill parasites quickly but also ...

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

authors： Bojang KA,Schneider G,Forck S,Obaro SK,Jaffar S,Pinder M,Rowley J,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses were measured in a volunteer infected four times with Necator americanus over a 27-month period. The main source of antigen was culture fluid in which living adult N. americanus had been maintained for several days. Antibodies to worm acetylcholinesterase and IgE antibodies were detected only with t...

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

authors： Ogilvie BM,Bartlett A,Godfrey RC,Turton JA,Worms MJ,Yeates RA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fever and myalgia are non-specific clinical manifestations of illness which commonly occur in patients with arboviral disease. In Egypt, such illness is often mis-diagnosed as "influenza". To determine arboviral aetiology in patients admitted with fever and myalgia, acute and convalescent sera samples were obtained fr...

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

authors： Darwish MA,Feinsod FM,Scott RM,Ksiazek TG,Botros BA,Farrag IH,el Said S

更新日期：1987-01-01 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 influence of spatial and temporal factors on onchocerciasis transmission by Simulium exiguum s.l. and S. quadrivittatum in Ecuador was investigated to help develop sampling protocols for entomological surveillance of ivermectin programmes. Flies were collected in alternate months (November 1995-November 1996) at f...

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

authors： Vieira JC,Brackenboro L,Porter CH,Basáñez MG,Collins RC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of levamisole hydrochloride and mebendazole on Angiostrongylus malaysiensis infection in albino rats was studied. Animals at different stages of infection were treated with various oral doses of levamisole and mebendazole with the aim of finding an effective treatment regime. Levamisole was most effective f...

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

authors： Ambu S,Kwa BH,Mak JW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin (20 mg/kg/d) or ofloxacin (12 mg/kg/d) given for a median of 15 weeks (range 12-40) were used for maintenance treatment of 57 adult patients with melioidosis. The median duration of follow-up in the 45 patients who complied with treatment and were followed for at least 6 months was 28 months (range 6-65)...

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

authors： Chaowagul W,Suputtamongkul Y,Smith MD,White NJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000 we used a sensitive technique to examine 9 isolates from malaria patients in Muheza, Tanzania who had failed treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Three isolates carried, at low levels, the leucine to isoleucine change at amino acid 164 that is associated with clinical failure of SP. Numerous other hi...

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

authors： Hastings MD,Bates SJ,Blackstone EA,Monks SM,Mutabingwa TK,Sibley CH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread use of multidrug therapy, leprosy remains an important public health concern in many regions. Detection is generally limited to clinical exam. METHODS:As a two-tiered active case finding strategy, we used the LID-1 (leprosy IDRI diagnostic-1), and PADL (protein advances for the diagno...

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

authors： de Souza MM,Netto EM,Nakatani M,Duthie MS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycotic liver abscess was diagnosed in a 35-year-old alcoholic farmer from southern India with tender hepatomegaly and fever. CT of the abdomen revealed three coalescing hypodense lesions in the liver. The causative organism could be demonstrated on direct microscopy and cultured from the pus. Treatment with i.v...

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

authors： Lakshmana Kumar YC,Javherani R,Malini A,Prasad SR

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey at Richards Bay, the site of a new international harbour on the east coast of South Africa, revealed the presence of 11 anthropophilic mosquito species. These are discussed in relation to their known medical importance and to a complementary survey of arbovirus antibodies among residents of the area. Mansonia...

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

authors： Sharp BL,Appleton CC,Thompson DL,Meenehan G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct diagnosis of parasitic infections is essential for the treatment of individuals avoiding indiscriminate use of anthelmintics which increases drug resistance. In a comparative study between the spontaneous sedimentation technique and Paratest(®), 140 stool samples were analyzed for the detection of parasites. T...

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

authors： Brandelli CL,Cargnin ST,Willers DM,Oliveira KR,Tasca T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological coexistence of schistosomiasis and malaria is frequently observed in developing countries. Co-infection with malaria in children could influence the development of acquired immunity associated with the resistance or the pathology of schistosomiasis. In the present study, performed during May to Jun...

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

authors： Remoue F,Diallo TO,Angeli V,Hervé M,de Clercq D,Schacht AM,Charrier N,Capron M,Vercruysse J,Ly A,Capron A,Riveau G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the IgG fraction of a monospecific sheep antiserum against the circulating anodic antigen (CAA) of Schistosoma mansoni, an indirect haemagglutination reaction for the determination of this antigen was developed. This is the first time that an IHA has been applied to the detection of circulating antigens in paras...

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

authors： Deelder AM,Eveleigh PC

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1997 a large dengue epidemic occurred in Rio Grande do Norte, a State in north-east Brazil. The co-circulation of dengue virus type 1 and dengue virus type 2 was demonstrated by virus isolation in Aedes albopictus clone C6/36 cell-line and by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). IgM capture...

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

authors： Cunha RV,Schatzmayr HG,Miagostovich MP,Barbosa AM,Paiva FG,Miranda RM,Ramos CC,Coelho JC,dos Santos FB,Nogueira RM

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Characterization of the epidemiology of Escherichia coli bloodstream infection (BSI) in sub-Saharan Africa is lacking. We studied patients with E. coli BSI in northern Tanzania to describe host risk factors for infection and to describe the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates. METHODS:Within 24 h of ad...

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

authors： Madut DB,Rubach MP,Kalengo N,Carugati M,Maze MJ,Morrissey AB,Mmbaga BT,Lwezaula BF,Kilonzo KG,Maro VP,Crump JA

更新日期：2020-05-07 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 efficiency was tested of the Haematocrit Centrifugation Technique (HCT) and the miniature Anion-Exchange Centrifugation Technique (mAECT) for demonstrating trypanosomes in the blood of four antelopes experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in Liberia. During simultaneous daily application of both...

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

authors： Sachs R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man bitten by a large coral snake (Micrurus lemniscatus helleri) in the Amazon basin of Ecuador developed persistent excruciating pain in the bitten arm. On admission to hospital less than 30 min later, he had a polymorphonuclear leucocytosis, thrombocytopenia and mildly prolonged prothrombin time/partial thrombopla...

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

authors： Manock SR,Suarez G,Graham D,Avila-Aguero ML,Warrell DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged carriage of Plasmodium falciparum in humans during the dry season is critical for parasite survival, as the infected subjects constitute a major reservoir in the absence of transmission. Yet, very little is known about the host/parasite interactions contributing to parasite persistence. In order to study the...

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

authors： Zwetyenga J,Rogier C,Spiegel A,Fontenille D,Trape JF,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Ross River virus infection (epidemic polyarthritis), which occurred in American Samoa between August 1979 and January 1980, is described. On the basis of a serological survey performed near the end of the epidemic, it is estimated that at least 13,500 people were infected. Ross River virus was isolated ...

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

authors： Tesh RB,McLean RG,Shroyer DA,Calisher CH,Rosen L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of cholera in two groups: (i) people using covered latrine and piped water; (ii) people using uncovered surface latrine and pond and tubewell water. The study population consisted of cholera cases admitted to the ICDDR, B hospital from three refugee camps. In t...

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

authors： Khan MU,Shahidullah M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Giardia intestinalis in TYI-S-33 medium containing a sub-lethal concentration of metronidazole over a period of 66 weeks selected a line of organisms that was over 8 times less sensitive to the drug. This resistance was unstable and the organisms reverted to their original sensitivity within 22 weeks of grow...

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

authors： Boreham PF,Phillips RE,Shepherd RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of 27 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and six with mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) in Sudan are described. The diagnosis was confirmed by the demonstration of amastigotes in bone-marrow in 20 cases with VL (80%) and impression smears in 2 cases with ML. The en...

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

authors： el-Safi SH,Peters W,Evans DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sickle cell gene was first described in India in a tribal population in the south, leading to the belief that it was confined to tribal groups. The present study confirms that it is widespread in the state of Orissa and spreads throughout Hindu society, being more common in upper and scheduled castes than in triba...

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

authors： Kar BC,Devi S,Dash KC,Das M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple radioisotope scanner was used in a study of liver diseases in The Gambia. Scans were of value in localizing areas for biopsy or aspiration and in defining the liver in the presence of gross ascites. Although the scan was not helpful in diagnosis it provided a measure of the size of filling defects during trea...

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

authors： Ajdukiewicz AB,Bassett N,Crawley JC

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The objective of study was to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of diagnostic options for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Brazil. METHODS:Six diagnostic tests were considered: IT LEISH, Kalazar Detect, DAT-LPC (DAT made in the Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas), IFAT, PCR and direct ex...

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

authors： Machado de Assis TS,Azeredo-da-Silva AL,Werneck GL,Rabello A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00