Neglecting the effect of COVID-19 on neglected tropical diseases: the Ethiopian perspective.

abstract：Background:In Nigeria, little is known about the development of new or additional physical disability during leprosy treatment. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and evaluate factors associated with worsening of physical disability during leprosy treatment in Nigeria. Methods:This was a retro...

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

authors： Chukwu JN,Ekeke N,Nwafor CC,Meka AO,Alphonsus C,Mbah OK,Eze CC,Ukwaja KN

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin derivatives are becoming the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in areas with widespread resistance to chloroquine. Although generally safe and well tolerated, it has been suggested from animal experiments, and more recently from one human study with artemether-lumefantrine, that these compound...

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

authors： McCall MB,Beynon AJ,Mylanus EA,van der Ven AJ,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：: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：:The new OptiMAL-IT(R) rapid diagnostic test for malaria was evaluated in 271 patients in Thailand with uncomplicated malaria between June and July 2002. The sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum parasites were 88% and 92%, respectively. For species other than P. falciparum, the sensiti...

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

authors： Pattanasin S,Proux S,Chompasuk D,Luwiradaj K,Jacquier P,Looareesuwan S,Nosten F

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiological survey of bancroftian filariasis was carried out in 2 townships in Sri Lanka with the objectives of determining the microfilaraemia rates, dependence on age and sex, susceptibility to re-infection, effect of diethylcarbamazine therapy on serum antibodies to microfilarial surface antigens, and the...

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

authors： Dissanayake S

更新日期：1989-05-01 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

abstract：:Niclosamide was used to interrupt transmission of Schistosoma haematobium by Bulinus senegalensis in seasonal rainwater pools for a period of three years. Snail populations were progressively reduced to approximately 1% of the numbers in untreated pools. There was little or no evidence of acquisition of new infection ...

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

authors： Goll PH,Wilkins HA,Marshall TF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and tolerability of primaquine (PQ) administered as a short higher-dose (30mg twice daily for 7 days) regimen in 203 Australian Defence Force personnel was evaluated in an open-label presumptive anti-relapse therapy study. No clinically significant differences were measured in the subjects' haematological a...

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

authors： Ebringer A,Heathcote G,Baker J,Waller M,Shanks GD,Edstein MD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade immigration to Europe has increased, with Africa being the source of a large number of immigrants. In addition to infections, this group has other less known health problems, such as erythrocyte abnormalities. METHODS:The objectives of this study were: the systematic evaluation of red cel...

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

authors： de-la-Iglesia-Iñigo S,Carranza-Rodriguez C,Ropero-Gradilla P,González-Fernandez FA,Molero-Labarta T,Hemmersbach-Miller M,Pérez-Arellano JL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Singapore in 2005 there were 14,209 documented cases of dengue fever, including 25 deaths. The epidemiology of dengue in Singapore is changing, with increasingly severe infection in adults with chronic disease being recognised. We performed a retrospective review of nine adult patients who died of dengue-related il...

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

authors： Lahiri M,Fisher D,Tambyah PA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic model of the transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) was used to investigate some of the possible implications of the loss of vaccine-induced immunity on the effectiveness of mass HBV vaccination in high endemicity countries. The model, which describes the processes of horizontal and vertical transmission of...

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

authors： Edmunds WJ,Medley GF,Nokes DJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum parasites exist as genetically distinct haploid clones in infected people. In the Kilombero valley in south-east Tanzania, at least 85% of the inhabitants of Michenga village harbour more than one clone. Using 2 highly polymorphic unlinked markers, it has been estimated that each infected person ...

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

authors： Babiker HA,Ranford-Cartwright LC,Walliker D

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tinea imbricata, also known as 'Tokelau', is an uncommon superficial mycosis caused by the anthropophilic dermatophyte Trichophyton concentricum. Cutaneous lesions appear characteristically as scaly and concentric rings that may cover all parts of the body. Often acquired in childhood, tinea imbricata is a chronic dis...

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

authors： Pihet M,Bourgeois H,Mazière JY,Berlioz-Arthaud A,Bouchara JP,Chabasse D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low birth weight is known to be associated with postnatal growth failure. It is not yet established that both conditions are determinants of psychomotor development. The study investigated whether or not low birth weight leads to delayed psychomotor development of a child, and whether it can be mitigated by ...

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

authors： Avan BI,Raza SA,Kirkwood BR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured stocks of Entamoeba hartmanni, Endolimax nana, Iodamoeba buetschlli and Dientamoeba fragilis were compared with the four Entamoeba histolytical groups already described (SARGEAUNT et al., 1978), by the electrophoretic patterns of three enzymes: glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI), phosphoglucomutase (PGM) and L...

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

authors： Sargeaunt PG,Williams JE

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) was studied as a schistosomiasis prophylactic in vivo for the use of individuals with limited exposure. Fifteen subjects, on a 3-week expedition to Lake Malawi in September 2001, applied 50% DEET to their skin after exposure to lake water. No subjects developed evidence of a new ...

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

authors： Jackson F,Doherty JF,Behrens RH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercial dot-blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Dip-S-Ticks dipstick test was compared with the indirect immunoperoxidase (IIP) and Weil-Felix (WF) tests for the diagnosis of scrub typhus, using the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) as the reference standard. With a panel of 117 positive and 75 ...

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

authors： Pradutkanchana J,Silpapojakul K,Paxton H,Pradutkanchana S,Kelly DJ,Strickman D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response in vitro of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine, mefloquine and quinine was studied in a hyperendemic peri-urban area of Accra, Ghana, during the fourth quarter of 1991, yielding a total of 159 valid tests. Schizont maturation in drug-free controls and effective chloroquine concentrations were strongly c...

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

authors： Wernsdorfer WH,Landgraf B,Wiedermann G,Kollaritsch H

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Eleven heterogeneous patients with inoperable hydatid disease were treated with high doses of oral mebendazole, up to 200 mg/kg/day for 16 to 48 weeks. Toxicity was not encountered. Despite careful assessment it proved difficult critically to evaluate the efficacy of mebendazole. In four patients chemotherapy appeared...

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

authors： Bryceson AD,Cowie AG,Macleod C,White S,Edwards D,Smyth JD,McManus DP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidiosis in AIDS patients has emerged as an important cause of morbidity, but diagnosis requires special stains, equipment and expertise. Here we describe a modification to an existing staining technique to allow more rapid preparation, without additional equipment, facilitating research in the tropics into th...

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

authors： Sianongo S,McDonald V,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-seven children with heavy Trichuris trichiura infection (Group A) were compared to 73 control children of similar socio-economic status but with light or no T. trichiura (Group B), for nutritional status, rates of concomitant bacterial and protozoal, and symptoms and clinical signs associated with heavy T. trich...

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

authors： Gilman RH,Chong YH,Davis C,Greenberg B,Virik HK,Dixon HB

更新日期：1983-01-01 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

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：:A prospective series of 156 patients systemically envenomed following the bite of a Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) were studied. All patients were treated with appropriate antivenom and clinical course and outcome were compared. The proportion of patients requiring intubation was significantly smaller, an...

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

authors： Trevett AJ,Lalloo DG,Nwokolo NC,Naraqi S,Kevau IH,Theakston RD,Warrell DA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endemic hepatitis E in Southeast Asia increases the risk of death in pregnant women. In Lao People's Democratic Republic, infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) is widespread in pig farms. No human data are available yet. This study determined the prevalence and risk factors for HEV infection among women of ...

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

authors： Bisayher S,Barennes H,Nicand E,Buisson Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:The influence of haptoglobin polymorphisms on severe malaria occurrence was assessed in 1183 individuals from The Gambia. No significant association was found between severe malaria and either haptoglobin genotypes or phenotypes. The advantages of using a deoxyribonucleic acid-based haptoglobin typing method are discu...

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

authors： Aucan C,Walley AJ,Greenwood BM,Hill AV

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the application of epidemiological understanding of diarrhoeal disease to interventions in water and sanitation. Over the past 20 years, great efforts have been made to elucidate the relationships between water supply, sanitation and diarrhoeal disease. At the outset, it was hoped that improved unde...

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

authors： Kolsky PJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00