Cost-effectiveness analysis of diagnostic tests for human visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil.

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：BACKGROUND:Quinolones are broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are used for the treatment of different infectious diseases associated with Enterobacteriaceae. During recent decades, the wide use as well as overuse of quinolones against diverse infections has led to the emergence of quinolone-resistant bacterial strains. H...

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

authors： Azargun R,Gholizadeh P,Sadeghi V,Hosainzadegan H,Tarhriz V,Memar MY,Pormohammad A,Eyvazi S

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In Malawi, where high levels of chloroquine resistance were shown using a modified 7-day in vivo test, amodiaquine and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine were evaluated as alternative initial therapies for Plasmodium falciparum infections in children under 5 years old. Therapy success rates, judged by parasite clearance by day...

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

authors： Heymann DL,Khoromana CO,Wirima JJ,Campbell CC

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:The emerging virus strain termed highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HP-H5N1) has spread widely in the past decade and is now the focus of considerable concern in several sectors. We tested the hypothesis that spatial distributions of veterinary and human HP-H5N1 cases are related to coarse-scale environmental fea...

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

authors： Williams RA,Fasina FO,Peterson AT

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study was carried out from October 2003 to December 2005 and involved a cohort of 946 individuals of both genders, aged 1-89 years, from an endemic area for American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL), in Pará State, Brazil. The aim of the study was to analyze the dynamics of the clinical and immunological ...

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

authors： Silveira FT,Lainson R,Crescente JA,de Souza AA,Campos MB,Gomes CM,Laurenti MD,Corbett CE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have proven highly effective in reducing malaria morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Artemether-lumefantrine (AL) was introduced in 2005 as a first-line ACT for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Rwanda. Monitoring the therapeutic efficacy of ACTs is necessa...

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

authors： Uwimana A,Penkunas MJ,Nisingizwe MP,Warsame M,Umulisa N,Uyizeye D,Musanabaganwa C,Munyaneza T,Ntagwabira E,Hakizimana D,Muvunyi CM,Kayobotsi C,Kabera M,Murindahabi M,Mbituyumuremyi A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias is a feature of living organisms. The origin of this bias might be explained not only by external factors but also by the nature of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) itself. We have developed a point mutation simulation program of coding sequences, in which nucleotide replacement follows th...

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

authors： Zimic MJ,Guerra D,Arévalo J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A coagglutination test using Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain 1 sensitized with specific antiserum successfully identified Naegleria fowleri in axenic and monoxenic culture by detection of a heat stable antigen released into the culture medium during growth. Strong coagglutination, visible to the naked eye, occurred...

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

authors： Kilvington S,White DG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved enzyme immunoassay technique (EIA) was used in the diagnosis of 311 suspected Russell's viper bite cases in Myanmar [Burma], 181 of whom (58%) had systemic envenoming. Russell's viper venom was detected in the sera of 175 (56.3%), cobra or green pit viper venoms in 4 (1.3%), and no venom in the remaining 1...

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

authors： Tun-Pe,Ba-Aye,Aye-Aye-Myint,Tin-Nu-Swe,Warrell DA

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine was studied in parasites from 45 children on the island of Flores, Indonesia. The micro in vitro culture technique and a 12-volt battery-operated field incubator were found to be well suited to the field situation encountered. Parasites from seven childr...

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

authors： Smrkovski LL,Hoffman SL,Purnomo,Hussein RP,Masbar S,Kurniawan L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new antihookworm compound, C.9333 Go./CGP 4540, was evaluated clinically in 65 adult patients with hookworm infection. Several dosage schedules were evaluated to determine an effective, well tolerated and convenient regime. The lowest effective dose was 125 mg administered at four-hourly intervals for three doses. T...

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

authors： Vakil BJ,Dalal NJ,Shah PN

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:112 Leishmania isolates, obtained in French Guiana from human lesions, phlebotomine sandflies and wild mammals, were characterized by isoenzyme electrophoresis. Leishmania braziliensis guyanensis and L. mexicana amazonensis were found parasitizing different natural hosts. L.b. guyanensis was the dominant species (103 ...

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

authors： Desjeux P,Dedet JP

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：: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：:The polymerase chain reaction was applied to capillary blood spots dried on filter paper from 20 parasitologically proved cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), 21 subclinical cases, and 11 healthy controls in a longitudinal study of anthroponotic VL in Baringo District, Kenya. Leishmania deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) wa...

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

authors： Schaefer KU,Schoone GJ,Gachihi GS,Muller AS,Kager PA,Meredith SE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of an unexpected side effect following the use of Maloprim (pyrimethamine/dapsone) for malaria chemosuppression in 3-59 months old children in Sierra Leone is reported. As part of a trial of chemoprophylaxis and insecticide-impregnated bed nets, 2000 children received either Maloprim or placebo; 4% of c...

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

authors： David KP,Marbiah NT,Lovgren P,Greenwood BM,Petersen E

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data regarding the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among people living with diabetes (PLWD) in TB-endemic settings are scarce. We examined TB incidence among PLWD in Indonesia who had previously been screened for latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease. METHODS:PLWD (≥18 y of age) in an urban setting were ...

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

authors： McAllister SM,Koesoemadinata RC,Santoso P,Soetedjo NNM,Kamil A,Permana H,Ruslami R,Critchley JA,van Crevel R,Hill PC,Alisjahbana B

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to analyze the seasonal distribution of infective larvae on the soil surface, to determine whether numbers of infective larvae near faeces were related to the faecal egg count of individuals, and to relate the distribution of larvae to environmental characteristics. Larvae were recovered fr...

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

authors： Hominick WM,Dean CG,Schad GA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is now widely used in malaria research for analysis of field samples. However, little has been reported regarding loss of sensitivity due to field methodology. Therefore, studies were carried out in relation to blood sampling (anticoagulants, culture medium, filter paper), storage (temp...

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

authors： Färnert A,Arez AP,Correia AT,Björkman A,Snounou G,do Rosário V

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the prevalence of drug resistant TB among outpatients initiating TB treatment in Lilongwe, Malawi. METHODS:This was a prospective cohort study of patients 18 years and older initiating TB treatment at Martin Preuss Centre, the primary integrated HIV/TB clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, from...

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

authors： Barnett B,Gokhale RH,Krysiak R,Kanyemba C,Chikaonda T,Bokosi M,Mukuzunga C,Saidi F,Phiri S,Hoffman IF,Hosseinipour MC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described simple kit for isolating African trypanosomes in vitro (KIVI) was tested further with blood samples from man and other animals in Côte d'Ivoire and République du Congo. A high rate of success was achieved, with positive cultures being found 5-36 d after inoculation. The method was also of value in...

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

authors： Truc P,Aerts D,McNamara JJ,Claes Y,Allingham R,Le Ray D,Godfrey DG

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro blastogenesis response of lymphocytes from 19 patients, with either visceral or mucocutaneous leishmaniasis or Chagas disease, to antigens of the Leishmania-Trypanosoma complex was studied. Cells from all patients responded to both homologous and heterologous antigens and the magnitude of the responses di...

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

authors： Carvalho EM,Reed SG,Johnson WD Jr

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of animal models of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection have been reported, and the host species differ widely both in their susceptibility to infection and in the pathogenesis of disease. In mice, and depending on the route of infection, dose, and mouse strain, the disease can range from a chronic, and in som...

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

authors： Titball RW,Russell P,Cuccui J,Easton A,Haque A,Atkins T,Sarkar-Tyson M,Harley V,Wren B,Bancroft GJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among children, has been little investigated. A secondary endpoint of our study was to examine for associations between the seroprevalence of H. pylori and the incidence of malaria. We explored H. pylori prevalence by measuring serum IgG antibodies t...

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

authors： Gupta V,Perez-Perez GI,Dorsey G,Rosenthal PJ,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of an indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) performed in a "sandwich" technique has demonstrated: (i) the usefulness of the test for the diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the opossum Didelphis marsupialis; (ii) the existence of differences in the serological response of the opossum, that were rel...

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

authors： Jansen AM,Moriearty PL,Castro BG,Deane MP

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Freeze-dried and freshly cultured isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from different countries have been examined for variation in six enzymes, GPI, PGD, LDH, GDH, ADA and PEPE, using starch gel electrophoresis. Variant forms of each enzyme occur. For most enzymes, similar forms occur in isolates from different parts of...

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

authors： Sanderson A,Walliker D,Molez JF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a worldwide disease, but due to the absence of surveillance systems is under-reported from low- and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, the disease is found in the rural highlands and the incidence of Leishmania/HIV co-infection is increasing. Although some studies have been carried out in areas of ...

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

authors： Padovese V,Terranova M,Toma L,Barnabas GA,Morrone A

更新日期：2009-07-01 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