Electron microscope observations of Trypanosoma cruzi during development inside the haemocytes of Triatominae.

abstract：:A community-based intervention trial was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of alphamethrin-impregnated bed nets for control of Plasmodium vivax malaria and its vector in an area of moderate endemicity in southern Henan province, central China in 1990. Malaria incidence was significantly lower in the interventi...

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

authors： Luo D,Lu D,Yao R,Li P,Huo X,Li A,Wen L,Ge C,Zhang S,Huo H

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The market for antimalarial drugs consists of the 2.8 billion (2.8 x 10(9) people living in malaria endemic areas and about 20-30 million people, mainly Europeans and North Americans, who travel or live in malarious areas, and the wealthy elite of malarious developing countries. Some of the largest markets include Chi...

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

authors： Foster S

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A supplements are reported to reduce febrile episodes of malaria and parasite counts, especially in children aged 12-36 months. Red palm oil (RPO) is a good source of vitamin A, is rich in alpha- and beta-carotene and is as effective as high-dose retinyl palmitate supplements in improving vitamin A status. In ...

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

authors： Cooper KA,Adelekan DA,Esimai AO,Northrop-Clewes CA,Thurnham DI

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roots of Pseudocedrela kotschyi are commonly used as chewing sticks in West Africa. This study examined the effects of the plant extract on the in-vitro growth of Plasmodium falciparum. Ring-stage synchronised cultures of the malaria parasite were exposed to 30 and 60 microg/ml of P. kotschyi extract for 51 h. Aliquot...

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

authors： Kassim OO,Loyevsky M,Amonoo H,Lashley L,Ako-Nai KA,Gordeuk VR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibre-web technique for sampling, storing and transport of venous or capillary blood has been evaluated, in 84 schoolchildren from the Mwanza region of Tanzania, with regard to diagnostic efficacy for determination of the schistosome circulating anodic antigen (CAA) under conditions similar to those prevailing in ...

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

authors： Nilsson LA,van Dam GJ,Deelder AM,Eriksson B,Gabone RM,Schmeisser S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mebendazole, a benzimidazole carbamate compound, is currently in use for human medical practice against soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and enterobiasis. However, it has been demonstrated that its spectrum of activity is broad and goes beyond those infections. Several studies provide evidence that this drug, take...

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

authors： Cañete R,Escobedo AA,Almirall P,González ME,Brito K,Cimerman S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flora of the upper intestine has been examined in symptomatic expatriate adults with mild tropical malabsorption, without steatorrhoea, persisting for many months after return to a western environment. Seven of the 11 patients had enterobacteria in luminal fluid or mucosal samples in numbers ranging from...

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

authors： Tomkins AM,Wright SG,Drasar BS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although diethylcarbamazine (DEC) and albendazole are recommended to interrupt transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti, little is known about the macrofilaricidal effect of this drug combination. Forty-seven men with W. bancrofti infection were randomly assigned to receive a single dose of either DEC alone (6 mg/kg) (n=2...

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

authors： Dreyer G,Addiss D,Williamson J,Norões J

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：Background:Chronic hepatitis B infection affects 240 million people, with the highest prevalence in Africa and Asia, and results in 700 000 deaths annually. Access to diagnostics, particularly for hepatitis B virus viral load quantification (HBV DNA), is a major barrier to treatment. We aimed to test World Health Organ...

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

authors： Laing N,Tufton H,Ochola E,P'Kingston OG,Maini MK,Easom N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To date, there is no consensus on ideal ways to measure antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence in resource limited settings. This study aimed to identify markers of poor adherence to ART. Methods:Retrospective data of HIV-positive ART-naïve adults initiating standard first-line ART at Themba Lethu Clinic,...

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

authors： Nnambalirwa M,Govathson C,Evans D,McNamara L,Maskew M,Nyasulu P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea-pigs were inoculated with Entamoeba histolytica strains isolated from cases of amoebic liver abscess, amoebic dysentery and asymptomatic cyst passers and the strains were classified in zymodemes by isoenzyme electrophoresis. It was observed that certain non-pathogenic zymodemes were potentially pathogenic for t...

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

authors： Vohra H,Bhatti HS,Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood pressure patterns of three Kenyan communities have been studied: 861 members of the Luo tribe in a rural community, 281 members of the Kamba tribe in a rural community and 310 "urban" Luo living in Nairobi. The slope of linear regression of blood pressure with age was significantly different in each populati...

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

authors： Poulter NR,Khaw KT,Mugambi M,Peart WS,Rose G,Sever P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of levamisole, isoprinosine and Corynebacterium parvum on Trypanosoma cruzi (Y strain) experimental infection of mice were studied. In prophylactic treatment these drugs reduced the peak of parasitaemia, and had no apparent effect on mortality rate or on histopathological and electrocardiographic findings....

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

authors： Abath FG,Coutinho EM,Montenegro SM,Gomes YM,Carvalho AB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy type 1 reactions (T1R) are immune-mediated events with inflammation of peripheral nerves and skin. We report the clinical outcomes of a closely monitored open prospective trial in which eight Nepali and 33 Ethiopian patients with T1Rs were treated with an Indian generic formulation of ciclosporin (Cn; 5-7.5 mg...

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

authors： Marlowe SN,Leekassa R,Bizuneh E,Knuutilla J,Ale P,Bhattarai B,Sigdel H,Anderson A,Nicholls PG,Johnston A,Holt D,Lockwood DN

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:TB remains a very significant global health burden. There is an urgent need for better tools for TB control, which include an effective vaccine. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the currently licensed vaccine, confers highly variable protection against pulmonary TB, the main source of TB transmission. Replacing BCG com...

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

authors： Manjaly Thomas ZR,McShane H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 102 blind and 218 deaf children in 2 specialized schools in Guatemala revealed distinctly different age-intensity profiles of infection with the intestinal helminth, Trichuris trichiura. In the school for the deaf, intensity (measured as eggs per gram of stool) peaked in the children 7 to 8 years old and d...

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

authors： Scott ME,Santizo MC,Zepeda E,Ramirez I,Forrester JE

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Thirty-eight patients with beri-beri (13 dry, 14 wet and 11 mixed type) were seen at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Banjul, The Gambia, in 1990-1991, with a peak in September-October (25 cases) during the latter half of the rainy season. They were all non-confined residents of urban areas. Overt risk factors were pregna...

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

authors： Rolfe M,Walker RW,Samba KN,Cham K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of malaria from other causes of fever in the absence of microscopy is notoriously difficult. Clinical predictors of malaria have been studied in an area of low and unstable transmission on the western border of Thailand. In 1527 children aged 2-15 years who were followed prospectively for 7 months,...

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

authors： Luxemburger C,Nosten F,Kyle DE,Kiricharoen L,Chongsuphajaisiddhi T,White NJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent increase in funding for diseases endemic in resource-poor countries has led to a progressive rise in the number of trials conducted in Africa for product development purposes or to answer important questions on reduction of disease burden. This causes an increasing demand for data safety monitoring boards (...

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

authors： Lang T,Chilengi R,Noor RA,Ogutu B,Todd JE,Kilama WL,Targett GA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercially available bovine liver catalase has been used to supplement chemically defined medium for growth of Trypanosoma cruzi. The protein extract was found to be contaminated with 25 to 30 protein bands as well as DNA and RNA polymers. ...

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

authors： O'Daly JA,Rodríguez MB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis has never been officially reported from Cambodia. Here we report two cases, a 58-year-old male (case 1) and a 49-year-old female (case 2) who presented with respiratory illnesses featuring multiple lung abscesses. The sputum culture of both patients, taken in the framework of a laboratory-based study on ae...

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

authors： Overtoom R,Khieu V,Hem S,Cavailler P,Te V,Chan S,Lau P,Guillard B,Vong S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune reactions to the surface of microfilariae (mff) of Wuchereria bancrofti were investigated among persons living in an endemic filariasis area of Tanzania. The sera from a proportion of mff-negative persons contained antibodies to the microfilarial sheath, and a clear correlation was seen between presence of anti...

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

authors： Simonsen PE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors which identify patients at risk of treatment failure were characterized in 1590 children and adults with uncomplicated falciparum malaria treated with 15 or 25 mg/kg of mefloquine on the borders of Thailand. Six independent predictors of failure were identified using multiple logistic regression. Age < or ...

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

authors： ter Kuile FO,Luxemburger C,Nosten F,Thwai KL,Chongsuphajaisiddhi T,White NJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From June to December 1985 273 cases of hepatitis and jaundice were diagnosed in Maun, northern Botswana. It was known before the outbreak that most adults were immune to hepatitis A virus, most had markers indicating past infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV), there was a mean prevalence of 13.6% (57/418) HBsAg carr...

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

authors： Byskov J,Wouters JS,Sathekge TJ,Swanepoel R

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Between 1986 and 1993 visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was diagnosed in 50 adult patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection (8 females, 42 males: 31 intravenous drug users, 11 homosexual or bisexual men, 6 heterosexual individuals, 2 blood recipients) from 5 hospital centres in southern France. Dia...

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

authors： Rosenthal E,Marty P,Poizot-Martin I,Reynes J,Pratlong F,Lafeuillade A,Jaubert D,Boulat O,Dereure J,Gambarelli F

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both northern and southern Sudan are deploying artemisinin-based combinations against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (artesunate+sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine [AS+SP] in the north, artesunate+amodiaquine [AS+AQ] in the south). In 2003, we tested the efficacy of 3 day AS+SP and AS+AQ regimens in vivo in the is...

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

authors： Hamour S,Melaku Y,Keus K,Wambugu J,Atkin S,Montgomery J,Ford N,Hook C,Checchi F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00