Reaching Nepal's mothers in time.

abstract：:This paper describes the preparation and test procedures for a second batch of lyophilized LBM combination antiserum pools, A through H, used for identifying 42 enteroviruses. Each pool is selectively composed of 10 or 11 of 42 individual enterovirus equine sera so that it contains 500 antibody units of each serum com...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Melnick JL,Wimberly IL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made on the effect of undernutrition on the immunological responses of mice to TAB and BCG vaccines. The mice were fed a diet comprising chapati and germinated grams; one group was fed ad libitum while another was given half the quantity consumed by the first group. The undernourished mice showed a poor im...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Narayanan RB,Nath I,Bhuyan UN,Talwar GP

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several years after the First World War calcium oxide was the main compound used in the control of Oncomelania nosophora in Japan. This was generally replaced in 1944 by calcium cyanamide; since 1952 the prefectural authorities in areas of endemic bilharziasis have increasingly turned to the use of sodium pentachl...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KOMIYA Y

更新日期：1961-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To investigate multicontaminant air pollution in Chinese cities, to quantify the urban population affected and to explore the relationship between air pollution and urban population size. Methods:We obtained data for 155 cities with 276 million inhabitants for 2014 from China's air quality monitoring network...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Han L,Zhou W,Pickett ST,Li W,Qian Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the leading causes of fatal injury for urban South African children aged 0-14 years, the distribution of those causes and the current potential for safety improvements. METHODS:We obtained injury surveillance data from the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System 2001-2003 for six major Sou...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Burrows S,van Niekerk A,Laflamme L

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Memorandum discusses two areas of research into rheumatic disease in which it is considered international cooperation would be valuable. These are: (a) standardization and cooperative evaluation of immunological tests used in diagnosis, clinico-pathological assessment, and epidemiological work; and (b) standardiz...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes laboratory evaluations, followed by field tests, of the effectiveness of sodium pentachlorophenate against Australorbis glabratus, the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni. Results within a range of different concentrations and at various periods of exposure were assessed in relation to both...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KLOCK JW,GERHARDT CE,ILDEFONSO V,SERRANO JM

更新日期：1957-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper gives a comprehensive account of the first six years of operation of an onchocerciasis control pilot project in an area of over 3000 km(2) in the Abuja Emirate, Northern Nigeria. Control was attempted by the use of DDT against the larvae of the vector, Simulium damnosum. For the first two years technical DD...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Davies JB,Crosskey RW,Johnston MR,Crosskey ME

更新日期：1962-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in eastern Europe. Since 1990, the incidence rates of TB have continued to increase in Belarus, the Russian Federation, the Ukraine and the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Eastern Europe, and in particular the Russian Fede...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Atun R,Olynik I

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the results of serological analyses made by the laboratory of the Treponematoses Control Project, Indonesia, from its establishment in April 1951 until April 1953. All sera were tested quantitatively with the VDRL and Kline slide-tests or the Kahn test, or with all three.A study of the mean reagin...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： LI HY,SOEBEKTI R

更新日期：1955-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1979, in view of the widespread resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine in the island of Hainan, China, it use as an antimalarial was suspended throughout the island. A longitudinal survey of the chloroquine-sensitivity of P. falciparum was carried out over the period 1981-91 to investigate whether its r...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Liu DQ,Liu RJ,Ren DX,Gao DQ,Zhang CY,Qui CP,Cai XZ,Ling CF,Song AH,Tang X

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of experimental schistosomiasis haematobia have suffered for want of satisfactory mammals in which schistosome infections would establish host-parasite situations more or less comparable with those seen in man. As a consequence, mammals representing different major groups have been exposed to infection ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Kuntz RE,Myers BJ,Cheever AW

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers new developments to strengthen sexual and reproductive health and HIV linkages and discusses factors that continue to impede progress. It is based on a previous review undertaken for the United Kingdom Department for International Development in 2006 that examined the constraints and opportunities...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dickinson C,Attawell K,Druce N

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PROBLEM:In 2010, dengue virus (DENV) serotype-4 was detected during a dengue outbreak in the Amazonian city of Boa Vista. At that time Brazil was already endemic for DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3. This was the first time DENV-4 was observed in the country after it was initially detected and eliminated in 1981. APPROACH:To...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Maciel-de-Freitas R,Valle D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on studies carried out by the author and his associates in areas of Japan and South Asia where malayan and bancroftian filariasis is endemic, this paper recommends methods for use in microfilaria surveys and in the analysis of data obtained in such surveys. The author recommends the use of measured blood samples...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Sasa M

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potency determinations in mice of venom samples from snakes of the species Bothrops jararaca, which had been caught in an area of less than 10 000 km(2), gave the following principal results:(1) Various methods of drying-i.e., closed and continuous vacuum-drying at 5 degrees and 37 degrees C and freeze-drying (lyophil...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： SCHOTTLER WH

更新日期：1958-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catchy music spots and engaging storylines can help to convey important public health messages, but do they improve our health? Gary Humphreys and Fiona Fleck report. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper presents clinical observations on 1 233 persons with smallpox who were admitted to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Calcutta, in 1973. The disease was of the modified type in 53 patients (4.3%), the ordinary type in 717 (58.2%), the flat type in 249 (20.2%), and the haemorrhagic type in 214 (17.3%). The fat...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Mazumder DN,Mitra AC,Mukherjee MK

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of large numbers of strains of meningococci associated with systemic disease in US Army personnel over a 7-year period has shown a changing pattern of sero-group prevalence and an increasing proportion of sulfadiazine-resistant organisms. These findings underline the failure of sulfadiazine prophylaxis and...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Artenstein MS,Schneider H,Tingley MD

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody NYS4 recognizes a single 140 kDa antigen on the surface of Plasmodium yoelii sporozoites, an antigen which is distinct from the extensively characterized circumsporozoite (CS) protein. To more thoroughly characterize this additional surface component, a genomic expression library was screened with ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Hedstrom RC,Campbell JR,Leef ML,Charoenvit Y,Carter M,Sedegah M,Beaudoin RL,Hoffman SL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This literature review indicates that menstrual regulation during the fifth to seventh week of pregnancy is not always as free from risk as has sometimes been claimed. In particular, it has a higher failure rate, in terms of continued pregnancy, than has abortion by suction in later stages of pregnancy.Vacuum aspirati...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Edström K

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the organization of an epidemiological survey, carried out by the Lipid Centre of the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad, particularly the ways in which subjects were recruited. The different methods of recruitment resulted in a total population response of 78.14%. A time index is int...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Katrusenko AG,Sestov DB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of spastic paraparesis which mostly affected women and children occurred in a northern province of Mozambique in 1981. The epidemic was related to chronic cyanide intoxication associated with a diet consisting almost exclusively of cassava. A prolonged drought in the area had exhausted all food resources e...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine paediatric blood sample volume limits that are consistent with physiological "minimal risk." METHODS:A literature review was performed to search for evidence concerning the adverse effects of blood sampling in children and for guidelines on sampling volume in paediatric research. The search incl...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Howie SR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective population chemotherapy using a single dose of praziquantel (40 mg per kg body weight), which was offered to 29,365 schoolchildren in Abu El Matameer and 40,241 in Abo Homos districts, Beheira governorate in the Nile delta, reduced the prevalence of schistosomiasis from 75.4% to 40.9% (reduction of 45.8%) an...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： el Malatawy A,el Habashy A,Lechine N,Dixon H,Davis A,Mott KE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between July 1966 and May 1972 the Vesicular Disease Laboratory, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga., USA, tested specimens from 849 suspected smallpox cases by at least 2 methods, electron microscopy and chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) cultures. A smaller number of specimens was tested by each of 4 m...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Nakano JH

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Haemosporidia, which comprise the malaria parasites, have probably evolved from Coccidia of the intestinal epithelium of the vertebrate host by adaptation first to some tissues of the internal organs and then to life in the circulating cells of the blood.The present opinion is that, among the malaria parasites of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： BRUCE-CHWATT LJ

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have recently been published of surveys of antibodies to common respiratory viruses in human sera from several parts of the world. The present article reports the findings of a survey of antibodies to two more viruses (adenovirus type 8 and coxsackievirus type A21) in human sera mainly collected from six widel...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Chapple PJ

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1990 the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme (GTB) has promoted the revision of national tuberculosis programmes to strengthen the focus on directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) and close monitoring of treatment outcomes. GTB has encouraged in-depth evaluation of activities through a comprehensive progr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Pio A,Luelmo F,Kumaresan J,Spinaci S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya (CHIK) virus, harvested from infected BHK-21 cell cultures and highly purified by a method combining zinc acetate precipitation, Sephadex-Sepharose column chromatography, and sucrose density gradient centrifugation, was subjected to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation and treatment with formalin. Inactivation of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Nakao E,Hotta S

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00