Disability, mental health, stigma and discrimination and neglected tropical diseases.

abstract：:This paper provides an overview of the methods in which geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) technology have been used to visualise and analyse data related to vectorborne diseases (VBD) in West Africa and to discuss the potential for these approaches to be routinely included in future studies ...

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

authors： Ratmanov P,Mediannikov O,Raoult D

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to help primary health care (PHC) workers in developing countries in the care of common skin diseases, an algorithm for the management of pyoderma, scabies, superficial mycoses, contact dermatitis and referral of early leprosy cases (based on the identification of diseases through the presence of objective ke...

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

authors： Mahé A,Faye O,N'Diaye HT,Ly F,Konaré H,Kéita S,Traoré AK,Hay R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to conduct an epidemiological and clinical review of 1126 cases of envenoming by spider recorded in the national notifiable diseases information system (SINAN) files of the Municipal Health Secretary of the Criciúma region, Santa Catarina State, Brazil from 1994 to 2006. This work presents a c...

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

authors： Cristiano MP,Cardoso DC,Raymundo MS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis was carried out of the mortality rate on the medical wards of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, over a 14-year period (1960-73). A total of 4,568 cases were reviewed with an annual death rate of between 300 and 400. Most of the deaths resulted from cardiovascular diseases, especially hypertension, t...

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

authors： Adetuyibi A,Akisanya JB,Onadeko BO

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue is a major cause of acute febrile illness in Sri Lanka. Dengue has historically been considered an urban disease. In 2012-2013, we documented that acute dengue was surprisingly associated with self-reported rural residence in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. METHODS:Patients admitted with an acute...

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

authors： Mutucumarana CP,Bodinayake CK,Nagahawatte A,Devasiri V,Kurukulasooriya R,Anuradha T,De Silva AD,Janko MM,Østbye T,Gubler DJ,Woods CW,Reller ME,Tillekeratne LG,Lantos PM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites isolated in Robinson's medium from faeces containing cysts, transported from India, have been tested in vitro against the drugs furazolidone, iodochlorhydroxyquin, and both drugs combined as Dependal. Results show the levels at which drug action is significant and that interaction be...

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

authors： Sargeaunt PG,Lumsden WH

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six villages in Lofa County, north-west Liberia, and one near the coast were surveyed for the presence of indirect fluorescent antibodies (IFA) to Lassa virus (LV). Prevalences were similar among males and females, and among various age groups. The prevalence of IFA positive sera, 6.4%, in two roadside villages was si...

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

authors： Yalley-Ogunro JE,Frame JD,Hanson AP

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:The precise function of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein II (HRPII) is not known, but in vitro studies have indicated its immunomodulatory function. The host immune response to HRPII was measured and compared with the response to P. falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1) in four groups of study subj...

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

authors： Das P,Grewal JS,Chauhan VS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed health system weaknesses of economically wealthy countries with advanced technologies. COVID-19 is now moving fast across Africa where small outbreaks have been reported so far. There is a concern that with the winter transmission will grow rapidly. Despite efforts of African Governme...

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

authors： Vilakati PN,Villa S,Alagna R,Khumalo B,Tshuma S,Quaresima V,Nieman NR,Cirillo DM,Raviglione MC

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study intended to implement a novel intervention strategy, in Brazil, using an ecohealth approach and analyse its effectiveness and costs in reducing Aedes aegypti vector density as well as its acceptance, feasibility and sustainability. The intervention was conducted from 2012 to 2013 in the municipali...

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

authors： Caprara A,Lima JW,Peixoto AC,Motta CM,Nobre JM,Sommerfeld J,Kroeger A

更新日期：2015-02-01 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 post-vaccination antibody response to both Group A and Group C meningococcal polysaccharide antigen was studied in 397 male and 359 female vaccinated persons aged between 4 and 40 years from Bauchi Town and neighbouring villages in Nigeria. No difference in response was observed between the sexes. Highest antibody...

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

authors： Mohammed I,Damisah MM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eighteen patients with acute falciparum malaria were randomized into treatment with either intramuscular or oral sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansidar, Roche) and the results were compared with those from 68 patients treated in parallel with chloroquine. Parasitological cure rate was 97% with oral sulfad...

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

authors： Salako LA,Adio RA,Sowunmi A,Walker O

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Preventive chemotherapy (PC), the large-scale administration of anthelminthics, is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). Since 2010, donated anthelminthics for STH have boosted the implementation of PC programmes in children, achieving glo...

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

authors： Montresor A,Trouleau W,Mupfasoni D,Bangert M,Joseph SA,Mikhailov A,Fitzpatrick C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii antibodies were found in the sera of 22.86% of people in the Jos area of Plateau State, Nigeria. The incidence of antibodies in Nigerian food animals was 17.40%, the highest being in sheep (21.92%) and lowest in goats (13.88%). Cattle and horses were roughly equally infected--about 17.0%. The zoonoti...

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

authors： Osiyemi TI,Synge EM,Agbonlahor DE,Agbavwe R

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to use a modified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling methodology to classify communities according to prevalence of active trachoma and to estimate the prevalence of trachoma and trichiasis in Nioro department, Kaolack Region, Senegal. A survey was conducted using two-stage cluster sampling...

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

authors： Faye M,Kuper H,Dineen B,Bailey R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) caused by Wuchereria bancrofti is widely prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries. Night blood film examination is most commonly used for diagnosis of filariasis but is cumbersome and labour intensive. In order to develop an indirect ELISA-based immunodiagnostic test, the importance of...

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

authors： Singh A,Kamal S,Rathaur S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical, serological, parasitological and therapeutic study of cutaneous leishmaniasis was carried out in a low sub-andean area (250-800 metres) of the La Paz Department, Bolivia. A team of seismic prospectors (350 workers) was surveyed for 12 months. Of 200 suspected cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis, 185 were sero...

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

authors： Desjeux P,Mollinedo S,Le Pont F,Paredes A,Ugarte G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoenzyme profiles of 28 stocks of Leishmania aethiopica were compared with those of reference strains of L. aethiopica, L. tropica and L. major using starch-gel electrophoresis of 13 enzymes (GPI, GD, ES, PGM, PEPD, NH, ASAT, ALAT, PK, MPI, 6PGD, SOD, MDH). 13 zymodemes were seen. L. aethiopica showed some infraspeci...

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

authors： Le Blancq SM,Belehu A,Peters W

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between intestinal parasitism and excreta disposal technologies in Gaborone (Botswana), Ndola (Zambia) and Kumasi (Ghana) were investigated. Parasitic prevalence and intensity rates amongst groups of urban residents having similar socio-economic status and housing, but different excreta disposal tech...

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

authors： Feachem RG,Guy MW,Harrison S,Iwugo KO,Marshall T,Mbere N,Muller R,Wright AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on the history, epidemiology, genetics, ecology, pathogenesis, pathology and management of podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis). Podoconiosis is a non-infectious geochemical elephantiasis caused by exposure of bare feet to irritant alkalic ...

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

authors： Davey G,Tekola F,Newport MJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cross-sectional surveys are used to evaluate malaria intervention programmes in the community, the prevalence of morbidity is difficult to assess because of the fluctuating nature of malarial fever. We have therefore investigated the impact of bed net usage on 2 surrogate markers of malarial morbidity: (i) elevat...

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

authors： McGuire W,D'Alessandro U,Olaleye BO,Thomson MC,Langerock P,Greenwood BM,Kwiatkowski D

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the aetiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Zimbabwe, HCV antibodies (anti-HCV) were determined in sera from 63 HCC patients using a second generation enzyme immunoassay. Anti-HCV was found in 15 patients (23.8%), 12 of whom (80%) were males. The mea...

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

authors： Weinig M,Hakim JG,Gudza I,Tobaiwa O

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of typhoid due to multi-drug resistant Salmonella typhi is reported from Pondicherry, India. While the average prevalence of drug resistant strains in 1980-1988 had been 11.7%, it increased to 52% in 1989-1990. The majority of strains (80.8%) were resistant to chloramphenicol, streptomycin, tetracycline an...

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

authors： Rao RS,Amarnath SK,Sujatha S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 129 million people are infected with urogenital schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Current control recommendations endorse mass administration of praziquantel. Health education is an important component of effective schistosomiasis prevention and control, but there has been limited research on its eff...

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

authors： Price A,Verma A,Welfare W

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-HIV/AIDS co-infection is an emerging health problem with high case fatality. This study presents the epidemiological and clinical aspects of deaths related to VL-HIV/AIDS co-infection in Brazil. METHODS:This was a nationwide population-based study based on mortality data obtained...

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

authors： Martins-Melo FR,Lima Mda S,Alencar CH,Ramos AN Jr,Heukelbach J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model of hepatic amoebiasis in guinea-pigs, simulating the natural infection in man, induced by progesterone following intracaecal inoculation of Entamoeba histolytica has been developed. On Day 3 after infection, 60% of the animals developed amoebic liver abscess, but on Days 7, 11, 15, 20 and 35 afte...

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

authors： Gill NJ,Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC,Bhusnurmath SR,Dilawari JB

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：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