Leishmania in the Old World: 3. The distribution of L. aethiopica zymodemes.

abstract：:The genetic polymorphism of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis detected in cases of mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) from HIV-infected and non HIV-infected patients was evaluated. Nine samples from three HIV-infected patients and five samples from five non HIV-infected patients were analysed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR...

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

authors： de Oliveira FS,Valete-Rosalino CM,Schubach Ade O,Madeira Mde F,Pacheco Rda S

更新日期：2012-11-01 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:In urbanized, low-income cities with high rates of congestion, delivery of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) by unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to people with epilepsy for both emergency and non-urgent distribution may prove beneficial. METHODS:Conakry is the capital of the Republic of Guinea, a low-income sub-S...

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

authors： Mateen FJ,Leung KHB,Vogel AC,Cissé AF,Chan TCY

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infection with Schistosoma haematobium and various factors including water contact pattern, past history of haematuria and treatment for schistosomiasis and cercarial dermatitis was investigated in Southern Iraq. The study covered mainly primary schoolchildren in different areas of Basrah and i...

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

authors： Yacoub A,Southgate BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measured fever often forms the basis for defining clinical malaria episodes in children from endemic areas. We measured body temperature every 3 h from 08:00 to 20:00 in 69 children aged 1-5 years during the malaria season in a rural area of The Gambia. Body temperature varied on average by more than one degree Celsiu...

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

authors： Schellenberg JR,Greenwood BM,Gomez P,Menendez C,Alonso PL

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of coma in cerebral malaria (CM) is not well understood. Obstruction of microcirculatory flow is thought to play a central role, but other hypotheses include roles for parasite- and host-derived factors such as immune mediators, and for increased blood-brain barrier permeability leading to raised i...

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

authors： Maude RJ,Dondorp AM,Abu Sayeed A,Day NP,White NJ,Beare NA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lassa fever convalescent plasma (LFCP) has been administered to 27 patients in hospitals at Jos and Vom, Nigeria. Among serologically or virologically confirmed cases of Lassa fever (LF) given plasma on or before the 10th day, all eight survived, as did two of three possible LF cases. Of eight patients given LFCP afte...

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

authors： Frame JD,Verbrugge GP,Gill RG,Pinneo L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Man-biting collections were made for 7 consecutive nights per month for 24 months at 2 sites in a Thai village regularly treated with DDT and fenitrothion yet hyperendemic for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. Only Anopheles dirus was incriminated as a vector: 1.6% were infective and 2.4% were infected (median numbe...

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

authors： Rosenberg R,Andre RG,Somchit L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the successful eradication of Brucella abortus infection in cattle, human brucellosis in England and Wales has become an uncommon imported disease. Culture of the organism presents a major laboratory hazard, and difficulties in identification may occur using a biochemical test-strip method. An overview of re...

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

authors： Luzzi GA,Brindle R,Sockett PN,Solera J,Klenerman P,Warrell DA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal survey--parasitological, clinical, immunological and entomological--of onchocerciasis is being conducted in Gbaiima village in Sierra Leone. The estimated Annual Transmission Potential (ATP) is 5863. More than 80% of the annual transmission occurs between October and December. Four species of the Simuli...

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

authors： McMahon JE,Davies JB,White MD,Goddard JM,Beech-Garwood PA,Kirkwood BR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Turkey has a national tuberculosis (TB) control program that follows the standards set by the World Health Organization's (WHO) global TB control program. METHODS:In this record-based retrospective study, contact screening and chemoprophylaxis of 469 TB contacts registered at the Samsun Tuberculosis Dispens...

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

authors： Dundar C,Oztomurcuk D,Terzi O

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indigenous natural drugs are in common use in Zimbabwe because modern life-saving drugs are beyond the reach of nearly 85% of the population. These natural drugs have caused a number of poisoning cases. In a study of the records of four hospitals from 1971 to 1982, carried out to see how many people had been poisoned ...

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

authors： Nyazema NZ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counts of nocturnally periodic Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae (mf) in 20 mm3 finger-prick blood films were compared with membrane counts after filtration of 1 ml of venous blood for their efficacy in determining the prevalence of Bancroftian filariasis. The technique used for spreading and staining the blood films...

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

authors： Sabry M

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：: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：:The aims of this study were to analyze the seasonal distribution of infective larvae on the soil surface, to determine whether numbers of infective larvae near faeces were related to the faecal egg count of individuals, and to relate the distribution of larvae to environmental characteristics. Larvae were recovered fr...

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

authors： Hominick WM,Dean CG,Schad GA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was first reported from north Pakistan over 3 decades age in the remote valleys of the western Himalayas. These foci were reported as being completely devoid of domestic dogs. The later emergence of sporadic cases of infantile VL in the sub-Himalayan region of the country, where d...

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

authors： Rab MA,Frame IA,Evans DA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are 4 recognized classes of Escherichia coli that cause diarrhoeal disease in humans: enteropathogenic (EPEC), enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteroinvasive (EIEC), and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC). Preliminary analysis of enterotoxin production in a rural community in Ghana showed a prevalence of 11.0% LT-ST+, 9....

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

authors： Agbodaze D,Abrahams CA,Arai S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preserved sera from patients with various forms of leishmaniasis, acute and chronic Chagas's disease and from normal individuals were examined for the presence of IgG and IgA antibodies by the IFA test. The leishmanial antigen used in the IFA test was prepared from a hamster infected with the PH8 strain of Leishmania ...

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

authors： Shaw JJ,Lainson R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemolymph of Panstrongylus megistus, infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, was examined by light and electron microscopy. Numerous parasites lie inside the haemocytes, each one in a vacuole. Their well-preserved morphological features support the concept of parasite multiplication in cells of the insect haemolymph. ...

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

authors： Lacombe D,Barth OM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study of 729 children and adults in western Kenya investigated the impact of infection with hookworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Schistosoma mansoni and malaria on iron status. In bivariate analyses, hookworm intensities as low as 300 eggs/g of faeces were negatively related to levels...

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

authors： Olsen A,Magnussen P,Ouma JH,Andreassen J,Friis H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for a non-toxic and low-cost treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis. We synthesised and tested in vivo an amphotericin B-poly(methacrylic acid) drug (AmB-PMA) that had previously shown in-vitro activity against Leishmania major and L. donovani parasites. Efficacy was determined using L. major fo...

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

authors： Corware KD,Rogers M,Teo I,Müller I,Shaunak S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to estimate and compare the ability of clinical tools for dengue diagnosis in a pediatric population. METHODS:We prospectively evaluated episodes of acute febrile syndrome identified during the follow-up of a population-based cohort of children and adolescents residing in a dengue endemic city. We ...

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

authors： Diaz-Quijano FA,Figueiredo GM,Waldman EA,Figueiredo WM,Cardoso MRA,Campos SRC,Costa AA,Pannuti CS,Luna EJA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the effects of malaria chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy on birthweight and investigation of the influence of birthweight on child survival suggest that, in a rural area of The Gambia, chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy might reduce infant mortality by about one-fifth in the children of primigravid...

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

authors： Greenwood AM,Armstrong JR,Byass P,Snow RW,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Mexico was first described in 1912. Since then, its existence has been repeatedly confirmed in the forest regions of the peninsula of Yucatan. In order to obtain reliable knowledge about the magnitude of this problem, we questioned and skin-tested a sample of 449 persons randomly selected fr...

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

authors： Andrade-Narváez FJ,Simmonds-Díaz E,Rico-Aguilar S,Andrade-Narvéez M,Palomo-Cetina A,Canto-Lara SB,García-Miss MR,Madera-Sevilla M,Albertos-Alpuche N

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Leishmania lainsoni has recently been recognized as a new peripylarian species belonging to the subgenus Viannia and the L. braziliensis complex. It has been isolated from its sandfly vector, reservoir host and cutaneous lesions of human patients. Microscopical examination has shown characteristics which are different...

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

authors： Eresh S,de Bruijn MH,Mendoza-León JA,Barker DC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In developing countries, micronutrient deficiencies are common and associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, which may in turn have longer-term effects on human health. The peri-conceptional period represents a particularly sensitive window of feto-placental development, during which suboptimal maternal micronutrition ...

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

authors： Owens S,Fall CH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of HIV-1 infection among women of childbearing age has led to increasing numbers of children at risk of vertical transmission. This study aimed to assess child outcomes among HIV-positive (n=19) and AIDS (n=22) mothers from Central West Brazil. CD4(+) T-cell counts (FACScount, BD) and viral loads (HIV-1 RT-...

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

authors： Alcântara KC,Pereira GA,Albuquerque M,Stefani MM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hungry Anopheles funestus females were caught in CDC light traps positioned overnight in village houses in which the occupants were protected by bed nets. The sampling was performed in six huts near Muheza, in North-eastern Tanzania, September to November 1972. Parous, unfed mosquitoes were carefully examined, usually...

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

authors： Krafsur ES,Garrett-Jones C

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00