Serological survey of hydatid disease in Pondicherry, India.

abstract：:A serological study was undertaken to determine the role of arboviruses as etiological agents of encephalitis in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Paired sera were collected during mosquito seasons in 1988-1990 from 614 patients with possible viral encephalitis in 15 regions of PRC and tested for haemagglutination...

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

authors： Gu HX,Artsob H,Lin YZ,Wang DM,Zhao BY,Long QZ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demographics, epidemiology, first aid, clinical management, treatment and outcome of snake bites causing no significant signs of systemic envenoming were documented in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, between May 1999 and October 2002. Among 884 patients admitted, 350 were systemically envenomed an...

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

authors： Harris JB,Faiz MA,Rahman MR,Jalil MM,Ahsan MF,Theakston RD,Warrell DA,Kuch U

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance on account of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) has become a major public health concern in developing countries. The presence of ESBL-PE is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. There is no active antimicrobial surveillance mechan...

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

authors： Musa BM,Imam H,Lendel A,Abdulkadir I,Gumi HS,Aliyu MH,Habib AG

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cicely Williams, in her original description of kwashiorkor, implied that deficiency of protein in the baby's food could be a main cause of the syndrome. The hallmark of kwashiorkor is oedema. According to the 'classical' theory, an inadequate intake of protein leads to a low plasma albumin concentration, which in tur...

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

authors： Waterlow JC

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Schistosomiasis is a major parasitic infection of tropical areas. We present a 26-year-old male immigrant from Egypt with acute abdomen due to schistosomial infection, mimicking symptoms of acute appendicitis, with histopathological detection and representation of schistosomial eggs in the unusual area of the greater ...

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

authors： Konstantinidou E,Alexiou C,Demonakou M,Sakellaridis T,Fotopoulos A,Antsaklis G

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ultrasound utilization studies in the developing world are important to support appropriate use. METHODS:A prospective, cross-sectional study in the medical wards at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, was performed which aimed to assess referrals, reports and usefulness of scans to develop ...

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

authors： Brindle HE,Allain TJ,Kampondeni S,Kayange N,Faragher B,Bates I,Joekes E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is strongly associated with peptic ulcer and gastric cancer and may be the most common human bacterial infection. The epidemiology of H. pylori has been poorly studied in Africa, where its relevance to disease has not been fully appreciated. Following a cross-sectional study design, H. pylori infec...

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

authors： Farag TH,Stoltzfus RJ,Khalfan SS,Tielsch JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of phlebotomines has been made in the area of the Province of Grosseto (Tuscany, Italy) where human cases of both visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis have recently occurred. 12 collecting stations, placed around the leishmaniasis foci, were divided into three groups of localities, the Argentario Promontory, ...

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

authors： Maroli M,Bettini S

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:During a four-year study on Grenada, 4,754 mongooses were examined, of which 100 (2.1%) were rabid. Of 1,675 mongooses tested for rabies serum neutralizing (SN) antibody, 498 (30%) were positive. During these four years (1971-74) the antibody prevalence rate increased from 20.8% to 43.2%, whereas the number of rabid m...

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

authors： Everard CO,Baer GM,Alls ME,Moore SA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of people from different states in India who developed polyneuropathy following intake of mefloquine for treatment of malaria. To the best of our knowledge this has not been reported before. ...

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

authors： Jha S,Kumar R,Kumar R

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:We successfully detected dengue virus (DENV) genome in urine and saliva but not in plasma samples from a Japanese dengue fever patient. The results of the present study suggest that detection of DENV genome in urine and saliva can be an effective diagnostic method, particularly for children with viral hemorrhage. ...

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

authors： Mizuno Y,Kotaki A,Harada F,Tajima S,Kurane I,Takasaki T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a major health problem worldwide, and neurocysticercosis (NCC) is one of the important causes of epilepsy in the tropics. The present study was carried out in a rural pig farming community of north India to estimate the prevalence of NCC in patients with active epilepsy (AE) and to determine the associated...

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

authors： Prasad KN,Prasad A,Gupta RK,Nath K,Pradhan S,Tripathi M,Pandey CM

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:In sub-Saharan Africa, anaemia in pregnancy results from multiple causes including malaria, iron deficiency and haemoglobinopathies. In a cross-sectional study among 530 pregnant women in Ghana in November-December 1998, red blood cell indices were analysed with respect to malaria, serum concentrations of ferritin and...

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

authors： Mockenhaupt FP,Rong B,Günther M,Beck S,Till H,Kohne E,Thompson WN,Bienzle U

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective and prospective serological surveys to determine the prevalence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and adenovirus (ADV) infections in children with respiratory diseases were carried out from 1985 to 1988 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. 306 sera from subjects between 3 months and 12...

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

authors： Olaleye OD,Olawuyi AO,Baba SS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow cultures in 15 Plasmodium falciparum patients were studied both during and after parasitaemia. Abnormalities were observed only in the group during parasitaemia. These abnormalities included: (1) decreased normoblastic number and cellular iron incorporation in all cases; (2) premature death of normoblasts ...

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

authors： Srichaikul T,Siriasawakul T,Poshyachinda M

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of Chagas' disease among HIV seropositive patients and to define the clinical profile of co-infected cases. Cross-sectional study: the prevalence of co-infected subjects was 1.3% and there was no significant difference between co-infected and non co-infecte...

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

authors： Almeida EA,Lima JN,Lages-Silva E,Guariento ME,Aoki FH,Torres-Morales AE,Pedro RJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric measurements were made and serum iron and ferritin levels determined in a group of Gambian children at the beginning of the rainy season and these findings were related to the malaria experience of the children during the following malaria transmission season. Susceptibility to malaria was not correlate...

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

authors： Snow RW,Byass P,Shenton FC,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Intrathecal cytokine levels and blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier function were studied in 91 Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense-infected patients. The CSF concentration of the cellular immune activation marker neopterin and the cytokines IL-6 and IL-10 were increased over control and post-treatment levels in all pa...

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

authors： Maclean L,Odiit M,Sternberg JM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present the long-term outcome of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) patients. METHODS:An observational study of 291 MDR TB cases that were diagnosed from 1990 to 2011 at the Fukujuji Hospital in Japan. RESULTS:The frequency of relapse after cure was 3/168 (1.8%) during a mean follow-up of 4.4 year...

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

authors： Yoshiyama T,Morimoto K,Okumura M,Sasaki Y,Ogata H,Shiraishi Y,Kudou S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty human strains of Leishmania infantum isolated in 1985-99 from 17 patients with repeated cutaneous, mucosal or visceral leishmaniasis episodes in Catalonia (Spain) were examined by isoenzyme electrophoresis. Six zymodemes were revealed: MON-1, MON-24, MON-28, MON-29, MON-33 and MON-34. In 2 patients 2 different z...

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

authors： Gállego M,Pratlong F,Riera C,Muñoz C,Ribera E,Fisa R,Rioux JA,Dedet JP,Portús M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is a common human pathogen that can colonise the respiratory tract and cause infection. Here we investigate the risk factors associated with nasopharyngeal carriage of S. aureus (including methicillin-resistant S. aureus [MRSA]) in Vietnam. METHODS:Between February and June 2012, nasal...

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

authors： Van Nguyen K,Zhang T,Thi Vu BN,Dao TT,Tran TK,Thi Nguyen DN,Thi Tran HK,Thi Nguyen CK,Fox A,Horby P,Wertheim H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients with short duration of cough was determined. Ninety-eight adult out-patients (60 men, 38 women; mean age 32 years) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, who had cough for 1-3 weeks which was unresponsive to a course of antibiotics, were succes...

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

authors： Banda HT,Harries AD,Welby S,Boeree MJ,Wirima JJ,Subramanyam VR,Maher D,Nunn PA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case report from 2001 of the first parasitologically confirmed case of acute Chagas disease in Suriname. The patient had never left Suriname, and was probably infected by an adventitious species of Panstrongylus in his house in the capital city, Paramaribo. The patient was treated with nifurtimox, and app...

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

authors： Oostburg BF,Anijs JE,Oehlers GP,Hiwat HO,Burke-Hermelijn SM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective cohort study of mortality rates and potential predictors of death was conducted in public-sector patients initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) between October 2005 and September 2007 in a rural, under-resourced region of South Africa. The aims were to determine the relative contribut...

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

authors： MacPherson P,Moshabela M,Martinson N,Pronyk P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00