A drone delivery network for antiepileptic drugs: a framework and modelling case study in a low-income country.

abstract：:Man-biting collections were made for 7 consecutive nights per month for 24 months at 2 sites in a Thai village regularly treated with DDT and fenitrothion yet hyperendemic for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. Only Anopheles dirus was incriminated as a vector: 1.6% were infective and 2.4% were infected (median numbe...

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

authors： Rosenberg R,Andre RG,Somchit L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were immunized with 0.25 ml culture supernatant intraperitoneally and challenged with 5 x 10(4) Naegleria fowleri intranasally. Survival rate was 11% after one and 25% after three immunizing doses, compared to 0% in controls. ...

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

authors： Thong YH,Ferrante A,Rowan-Kelly B,O'Keefe DE

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the characteristics of women and men with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis, all 3231 cases treated in Nioki hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo, from 1982 to 2000 were reviewed for demographic information, date and mode of diagnosis, pre-treatment cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination, treatm...

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

authors： Pépin J,Mpia B,Iloasebe M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Turkey has a national tuberculosis (TB) control program that follows the standards set by the World Health Organization's (WHO) global TB control program. METHODS:In this record-based retrospective study, contact screening and chemoprophylaxis of 469 TB contacts registered at the Samsun Tuberculosis Dispens...

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

authors： Dundar C,Oztomurcuk D,Terzi O

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the early 1900s, visceral leishmaniasis (VL; kala-azar) has been among the most important health problems in Sudan, particularly in the main endemic area in the eastern and central regions. Several major epidemics have occurred, the most recent--in Western Upper Nile province in southern Sudan, detected in 1988--...

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

authors： Zijlstra EE,el-Hassan AM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was first reported in Pakistan over 30 years ago from the remote north-eastern Himalayan region. Sporadic cases are now widely reported from the Northern Areas, part of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Punjab Province, together with Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Two hundred and thirt...

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

authors： Rab MA,Evans DA

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:931 serum samples collected at random from healthy subjects in the four health zones of Imo State were analysed for the presence of rubella haemagglutination inhibition antibodies. Rubella antibodies were present in 625 of the samples giving a prevalence of 66.6%. There was a gradual increase in the prevalence of thes...

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

authors： Gomwalk NE,Ezeronye OU

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Night blood surveys for filariasis were carried out in two camps of repatriates from Bangladesh. The sample consisted of 1,101 Biharis above one year of age of whom 9.0% were found infected with Wuchereria bancrofti. The infection rate was significantly higher in males (10.2%) than in females (6.7%). Of the three mosq...

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

authors： Aslamkhan M,Pervez SD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small size of their genomes made bacterial ideal model organisms for the emerging field of genomics. Elucidating the genome sequences of mycobacteria was particularly attractive owing to the difficulties inherent in their manipulation. The slow growth rate, clumping, and requirement for category III containment ma...

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

authors： Gordon SV,Brosch R,Eiglmeier K,Garnier T,Hewinson RG,Cole ST

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Countries around the world are facing an enormous challenge due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pressure that the pandemic inflicts on health systems could certainly impact on the care, control, and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). From mid-January 2020, Ethiopia started to prepare for the prevention a...

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

authors： Abdela SG,van Griensven J,Seife F,Enbiale W

更新日期：2020-10-05 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：:Our study aimed to determine anti-HBc total (IgG+IgM) seroprevalence in the adult population aged ≥ 15 and to compare the cost of testing for HBsAg and anti-HBs in only anti-HBc positive+ subpopulation to that in the whole population for HBV screening. The study involved a face-to-face survey and peripheral blood samp...

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

authors： Ozkan S,Atak A,Bozdayi G,Turkcuoglu S,Maral I

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:Diarrhoeal morbidity was studied during a 15-week period of the rainy season in 244 children aged 6 to 35 months in an urban Gambian community. The average prevalence of diarrhoea was 12.0% and the mean number of episodes per child varied between 2.4 and 2.9 depending on the definition of an episode. The number of chr...

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

authors： Pickering H,Hayes RJ,Tomkins AM,Carson D,Dunn DT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that apoptosis-like features are observed in Blastocystis spp., an intestinal protozoan parasite, when exposed to the cytotoxic drug metronidazole (MTZ). This study reports that among the four subtypes of Blastocystis spp. investigated for rate of apoptosis when treated with MTZ, subtype 3 ...

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

authors： Dhurga DB,Suresh KG,Tan TC,Chandramathi S

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:The assessment of antimicrobial resistance among commensal bacteria is an indicator of the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Rapid screening methods for detection of antimicrobial-resistant faecal Escherichia coli directly on MacConkey plates have been successfully adopted but suffer from lack of standardisation. Th...

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

authors： Bartoloni A,Benedetti M,Pallecchi L,Larsson M,Mantella A,Strohmeyer M,Bartalesi F,Fernandez C,Guzman E,Vallejos Y,Villagran AL,Guerra H,Gotuzzo E,Paradisi F,Falkenberg T,Rossolini GM,Kronvall G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nematode Strongyloides stercoralis has a very particular autoinfection life-cycle which leads to chronic infections remaining undetected for decades. However, hyperinfection can occur in patients receiving immunotherapy resulting in high mortality rates. The main objective of this study was to assess the...

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

authors： Valerio L,Roure S,Fernández-Rivas G,Basile L,Martínez-Cuevas O,Ballesteros ÁL,Ramos X,Sabrià M,North Metropolitan Working Group on Imported Diseases.

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two hydatid cysts have been accurately located in the abdomens of seven patients by ultrasound B-scanning. Lapartomy has confirmed the presence of 19 of these cysts. Grey-scale techniques do not appear to add appreciably to the ease of diagnosis in this condition. Ultrasound can give the clinician a good idea o...

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

authors： Vicary FR,Cusick G,Shirley IM,Blackwell RJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the impact of fish farming operated at household level on nutritional status among children 6-59 months of age, a cross-sectional study was conducted in Zomba district, Malawi. Anthropometric measurements of 66 children in each type of household (fish-farming and non-fish-farming households) and structured...

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

authors： Aiga H,Matsuoka S,Kuroiwa C,Yamamoto S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and natural infections of Simulium sanchezi by Mansonella ozzardi were studied in the area of Síquita, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela. The microfilariae developed synchronously in the blackflies, reaching stage L3 in seven to eight days at temperatures between 23 degrees and 27 degrees C. Larvae i...

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

authors： Yarzábal L,Basáñez MG,Ramírez-Pérez J,Ramírez A,Botto C,Yarzábal A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania lainsoni has recently been recognized as a new peripylarian species belonging to the subgenus Viannia and the L. braziliensis complex. It has been isolated from its sandfly vector, reservoir host and cutaneous lesions of human patients. Microscopical examination has shown characteristics which are different...

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

authors： Eresh S,de Bruijn MH,Mendoza-León JA,Barker DC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimum treatment for louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) has not been fully established. Eliminating spirochetes is often associated with the potentially lethal Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR). The objective of this meta-analysis was to review the evidence supporting the use of antibiotics usually employed for t...

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

authors： Guerrier G,Doherty T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven Egyptians with Schistosoma haematobium infection (current or past) and chronic dysuria seen at the Theodor Bilharz Research Institute outpatient urology clinic in Imbaba, Cairo, Egypt were investigated for Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Direct fluorescent antibody tests (DFAT) showed 30 urethral swabs (...

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

authors： Haberberger RL Jr,Mokhtar S,Badawy H,Abu-Elyazeed R

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In areas endemic for Plasmodium falciparum, clinical malaria is believed to be less common in infants than in older children, but specific case definitions have rarely been determined for this age group. As malaria case definitions are known to be both age- and site-specific, assessment of the risk of disease in infan...

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

authors： McGuinness D,Koram K,Bennett S,Wagner G,Nkrumah F,Riley E

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this experiment was to assess the utility of a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit for diagnosis of giardiasis in archaeological human remains. The kit, a monoclonal antibody assay, is used to detect the presence of Giardia-specific antigen 65 (GSA65) in human faeces. ...

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

authors： Gonçalves ML,Araújo A,Duarte R,da Silva JP,Reinhard K,Bouchet F,Ferreira LF

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lassa fever (LF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic infection, endemic in West Africa. Confirmatory diagnosis and treatment (ribavirin) is difficult, expensive, and restricted to specialised hospitals. Among confirmed and suspected LF cases, we report on clinical and laboratory features, timing and administratio...

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

authors： Dahmane A,van Griensven J,Van Herp M,Van den Bergh R,Nzomukunda Y,Prior J,Alders P,Jambai A,Zachariah R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00