Zosteriform multidermatomal nodules and plaques in a case of lepromatous leprosy: an uncommon presentation.

abstract：:The management of yaws has changed in recent years. Mass treatment with oral azithromycin has replaced intramuscular benzathine benzylpenicillin. Treponemal and non-treponemal serology (equivalent to TPHA and RPR) point-of-care blood testing is now available. In addition, recent studies in yaws endemic regions have sh...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Fegan D,Glennon MJ,Kool J,Taleo F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of liver disease among HIV-infected patients is changing. In the era of antiretroviral therapy, opportunistic infections are diminishing and deranged liver function appears to be due usually to drug-induced liver injury, alcohol, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) or chronic hepatitis B. To test this hy...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Mohite AR,Gambhire PA,Pawar SV,Jain SS,Contractor QQ,Rathi PM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A morbidity and mortality survey was carried out amongst 196 malnourished children attending the Nutrition Unit, Ministry of Health, Owina Street, Benin City, Nigeria, between January 1971 and December 1973 (morbidity) and also between October 1974 and March 1975 (mortality). Gastrointestinal disorders (77, 39.3%) and...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ogbeide O,Osuhor PC

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous chrysosporium infection is extremely rare and underdiagnosed. We present an immunocompromised patient who presented with recurrent cutaneous abscesses. Histopathology of the abscess showed thick-walled conidia and septate fungal hyphae within the subcutis and fungal culture grew Chrysosporium species. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Dincy PC,Meera T,Susanne PA,Promila RM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tanzania, rural medical aides (RMA), mother and child health aides (MCHA) and health auxiliaries (HA) care for mothers of childbearing age and children under age 5. This paper presents data obtained at 2 district seminars on mother and child health held in June 1981 and June 1983 at which knowledge and skills of M...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： van Roosmalen J,van Roosmalen-Wiebenga MW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study reveals the seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in multi-transfused thalassemia major patients. Thirty-four out of 79 (43.0%) patients enrolled in the study serologically tested positive for hepatitis C (mean ± standard deviation age = 12 ± 4.1 years), four (5.1%) for hepatiti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Riaz H,Riaz T,Ullah F,Aziz S,Khan MU,Pervaiz R,Ejaz A,Hasan M,Moiz F,Naqvi SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixty eight febrile adult outpatients were investigated at St Francis Designated District Hospital in fakara, a holoendemic area in Tanzania. We wanted to assess the potential anamnestic and clinical risk indicators for malaria and to establish a rational strategy for malaria management. Blood slide in...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Oster N,Krause E,Hatz C

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS support and prevention programs are poorly developed in developing nations. The difficulties of increasing AIDS awareness are compounded by illiteracy and lack of access of large numbers of people to formal education. These facts make community-based AIDS education, counselling and information service an essent...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Foster G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaemia in infancy is a very common clinical problem in the tropics and will continue to be common while infectious disease and poor nutrition prevail. In the diagnosis of anaemia in a child the clinician must expect a number of factors to be involved. On the basis of clinical features it is possible to arrive at a wo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Wright SG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a short report describing the clinical presentation, investigations, treatment and outcome of a patient living in the Jamaican countryside who was diagnosed with a live, motile subfoveal helminth identified as Angiostrongylus cantonensis on optical coherence tomography at the University Hospital of the West In...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sawh R,Mowatt L

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients (34 limbs) with compressive peroneal neuropathy induced by prolonged squatting of more than 5 h during harvesting season were treated conservatively and followed-up to an average of 28.2 months. A marked preponderance of involvement of the left side was noticed. We attribute this to the intermittent ex...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sangwan SS,Marya KM,Kundu ZS,Yadav V,Devgan A,Siwach RC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tungiasis is highly prevalent in resource-poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa, but studies among schoolchildren are scanty. We assessed prevalence, parasite load and clinical aspects of tungiasis in schoolchildren in south-western Nigeria. A total of 545 schoolchildren was examined. Of these, 133 (24.4%; 95% CI, 20...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ugbomoiko US,Ariza L,Babamale AO,Heukelbach J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malnutrition continues to be a major killer of children, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries such as India. An ecological study was undertaken to correlate different demographic factors with the prevalence of underweight children. Based on findings from the National Family Health Survey 4 (2015-2016), 81...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Pratim Roy M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to emphasise the importance of histopathology in the clinically unsuspected diagnosis of duodenal strongyloidiasis, we report six cases diagnosed on duodenal biopsies identified from the database over a period of 15 years, and clinical, endoscopic and histopathological findings were analysed retrospectively. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Gupta L,Gaur K,Sakhuja P,Sharma BC,Saran RK,Batra VV

更新日期：2020-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study finds that pregnant mothers in India should receive prenatal screening for hepatitis B in order to prevent perinatal transmission and spread of the infection within the larger community. Neonates who contract hepatitis B will have an almost 90% risk of developing chronic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sriprakash I,Anil TP

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading casues of morbidity and death in a number of countries worldwide. A healthy 42-year-old patient presented with a chronic palatal ulcer that was not responsive to routine antibiotic treatment. A biopsy and further systemic investigation revealed a diagnosis of TB. An eight-month ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Peck MT,Stephen LX,Marnewick J,Majeed A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine tumours (NET) are rare. They usually arise from the gastrointestinal or bronchopulmonary systems. Most are discovered incidentally and the small bowel tumours pose special difficulty in detection and treatment. Primary mesenteric involvement is very rare. Here we report such a case with a liver metastas...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Agarwal A,Kaman L,Gupta A,Ramavath K,Vaiphei K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization rate of available donor corneas is very low almost everywhere. The present work was undertaken to study the rate of acceptability of donor corneas in a city eye bank in India. Donor eyes were evaluated under slit lamp examination and tissue quality was categorized as: very good; good; fair; and poor fo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Raychaudhuri A,Raychaudhuri M,Banerjee AR

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ophthalmic presentation of relapse in a patient with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV1) associated adult T-cell lymphoma leukaemia is described. Epidemiology, clinical features and therapeutic options are briefly reviewed. Antenatal screening and inclusion of HTLV1 in the differential diagnosis of inflammat...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Charles KS,Leelah N,Murray DC

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal fluorosis is rarely recognized early and is a major cause of morbidity. We report on a 40-year-old man with skeletal fluorosis mimicking seronegative spondyloarthropathy. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kumar S,Kakar A,Gogia A,Byotra SP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of expanded dengue syndrome, where three uncommon presentations occurred concomitantly. A patient with dengue haemorrhagic fever presented initially with acute acalculous cholecystitis along with acute pancreatitis, but later on, during resolution of pancreatitis and cholecystitis, developed pancytope...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Anam AM,Rabbani R,Shumy F

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'test and treat' policy is the recommended way to eradicate Helicobacter pylori in young patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia if the prevalence of H. pylori is high. India is considered to have a high prevalence of H. pylori. This observational study was conducted in order to discover the prevalence of H. pylori...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kashyap B,Kaur IR,Garg PK,Das D,Goel S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An e-mail link with the facility to send high-resolution digital images is a cheap and uncomplicated telemedicine method. The Swinfen Charitable Trust helped establish such a link in Patan Hospital Kathmandu, Nepal in March 2000. Over 12 months using this link 42 telemedicine referrals were sent to specialists through...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Graham LE,Zimmerman M,Vassallo DJ,Patterson V,Swinfen P,Swinfen R,Wootton R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal cocoon is a rare cause of bowel obstruction. The condition was first described three decades ago and is found mainly among adolescent females in tropical and sub-tropical countries. It is characterized by a thick fibrous membrane encapsulating the small intestines partially or completely. Patients present wi...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ibrahim NA,Oludara MA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant feeding practices are influenced by many factors including culture, household income, literacy, advice from health care workers and advertising. In South India doctors play a very significant role in influencing a mother's decision about when or whether to supplement breastfeeding with formula feeds. Doctors ex...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Fidler K,Costello A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe meconium aspiration syndrome is difficult to manage and has a high mortality in developing countries. Guidelines are available for the initial management. If the infant has been born through particulate meconium and is not vigorous, an inspection of the vocal cords by laryngoscopy is recommended. If meconium is...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Green DA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camels use their teeth to bite, lift and throw their enemies, their feet to kick, paw or trample over, their whole body to knock over, press and squeeze, and their spit or regurgitated food to cover their perceived adversaries. Camel injuries can be very serious, resulting in fractures and severe lacerations of skin, ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Tahzib F

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 40 women, mean corpuscular volume (MCV) values in second and third trimesters were compared between women who were iron deficient and those who were iron replete. There was no difference in the two groups. Hence reduced MCV seen in iron deficiency anaemia cannot be relied upon as an effective...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Mukhopadhyay A,Bhatla N,Kriplani A,Saxena R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In October 1989, cases of human plague started to occur in Boteti district of Botswana. One hundred and seventy cases were recorded in total from 15 October 1989 to 6 April 1990. There were 12 deaths, giving a case fatality rate of 7%. All cases were of the bubonic type. A concerted control strategy based on sentinel ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kumaresan JA,Grova JB,Mmatli PK,Maganu ED

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of the critically ill patient forms a significant proportion of obstetric and gynaecological (O & G) practice. There have however, been very few reports on the management of such patients in intensive care units (ICU). We review all O & G patients admitted to the surgical ICU at King Edward VIII Hospital, D...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Platteau P,Engelhardt T,Moodley J,Muckart DJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00