The potential for the establishment of new arbovirus transmission cycles in Europe.

abstract：:Persistent diarrhoea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in AIDS patients, and consequently an important public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Although intestinal protozoa and bacteria are detected in many of these patients, a substantial proportion of disease remains unexplained even after intensive in...

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

authors： Kelly P,Hicks S,Oloya J,Mwansa J,Sikakwa L,Zulu I,Phillips A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten Trypanosoma cruzi stocks recently isolated from patients in acute and chronic phases of Chagas disease were inoculated to susceptible (A/Sn) mice. The mice were inoculated with 10(4) trypomastigotes intraperitoneally and monitored for parasitaemia and mortality for up to 300 d. The results demonstrated that (i) T....

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

authors： Oliveira EC,Stefani MM,Campos DE,Andrade AL,Silva SA,Rassi A,Luquetti AO

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine can no longer be recommended as the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in several parts of Africa because of the increasing prevalence of chloroquine resistance. However, chloroquine was a highly effective treatment for malaria not only because of its ability to kill parasites quickly but also ...

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

authors： Bojang KA,Schneider G,Forck S,Obaro SK,Jaffar S,Pinder M,Rowley J,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cross-sectional surveys are used to evaluate malaria intervention programmes in the community, the prevalence of morbidity is difficult to assess because of the fluctuating nature of malarial fever. We have therefore investigated the impact of bed net usage on 2 surrogate markers of malarial morbidity: (i) elevat...

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

authors： McGuire W,D'Alessandro U,Olaleye BO,Thomson MC,Langerock P,Greenwood BM,Kwiatkowski D

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preserved sera from patients with various forms of leishmaniasis, acute and chronic Chagas's disease and from normal individuals were examined for the presence of IgG and IgA antibodies by the IFA test. The leishmanial antigen used in the IFA test was prepared from a hamster infected with the PH8 strain of Leishmania ...

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

authors： Shaw JJ,Lainson R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on adverse reactions following a 12-day course of 6 mg/kg diethylcarbamazine (DEC) therapy in brugian filariasis patients in Indonesia. Microfilaria-positive individuals (n = 26), 'endemic normals' (n = 12) and elephantiasis patients (n = 17) were included in the study. Fever, headache and body ache...

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

authors： Haarbrink M,Terhell AJ,Abadi GK,Mitsui Y,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to identify individuals with symptomatic and/or asymptomatic infection due to Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi; to study the two types of infection, both clinically and immunologically, and to determine the prevalence rate of infection at the beginning of the study. This was a cross-s...

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

authors： Crescente JA,Silveira FT,Lainson R,Gomes CM,Laurenti MD,Corbett CE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related changes in the average worm burden and the prevalence of Trichuris trichiura infection, in a village community in St. Lucia, were examined by field studies based on worm expulsion techniques. Horizontal age-intensity profiles were convex in form with peak parasite loads occurring in the 2 to 15-year-old ch...

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

authors： Bundy DA,Cooper ES,Thompson DE,Anderson RM,Didier JM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which ivermectin treatments have an impact on onchocerciasis transmission is a matter of some concern. We investigated this issue in the Mbam valley, a hyperendemic focus located in a forest-savannah mosaic area of Cameroon. Parasitological examinations of 5-9-year-old children, who had never received an...

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

authors： Pion SD,Clément MC,Boussinesq M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria are sources of numerous molecules used in treatment of infectious diseases. We investigated effects of molecules produced by 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains against infection of mammalian cell cultures with Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease. METHODS:Vero cells were infec...

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

authors： Sass G,Miller Conrad LC,Nguyen TH,Stevens DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and urinary RNase activity was determined in 15 normal children and in 52 children in various clinical stages of schistosomal hepatic fibrosis. The activity of serum RNase was compared with that of serum GOT, GPT and AP. The activity of serum and urinary RNase in the different schistosomal groups was significant...

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

authors： Zeitoun MM,Hamam MA,Kantoosh M,Abdel-Moneim MA,el-Sewedy SM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites isolated in Robinson's medium from faeces containing cysts, transported from India, have been tested in vitro against the drugs furazolidone, iodochlorhydroxyquin, and both drugs combined as Dependal. Results show the levels at which drug action is significant and that interaction be...

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

authors： Sargeaunt PG,Lumsden WH

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Geophagy has been associated with iron deficiency and anaemia, but no causal relationship has been established. To clarify this, we conducted a two-by-two factorial randomised, controlled trial on the effect of iron and multimicronutrient supplementation on geophagy in Zambian schoolchildren in Lusaka, from February t...

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

authors： Nchito M,Geissler PW,Mubila L,Friis H,Olsen A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of an autopsy study of Opisthorchis viverrini infection in 181 accident subjects in northeast Thailand are presented. The age-prevalence profiles were similar whether determined by faecal examination for parasite eggs or by recovery of worms from the liver. The prevalence increased rapidly with age and rea...

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

authors： Sithithaworn P,Tesana S,Pipitgool V,Kaewkes S,Thaiklar K,Pairojkul C,Sripa B,Paupairoj A,Sanpitak P,Aranyanat C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Ross River virus infection (epidemic polyarthritis), which occurred in American Samoa between August 1979 and January 1980, is described. On the basis of a serological survey performed near the end of the epidemic, it is estimated that at least 13,500 people were infected. Ross River virus was isolated ...

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

authors： Tesh RB,McLean RG,Shroyer DA,Calisher CH,Rosen L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triclabendazole is the drug of choice against Fasciola hepatica infections in humans and animals. However, parasite resistance against triclabendazole is spreading in the veterinary field, and there are no drugs of comparable activity currently available for the treatment and control of fascioliasis. We investigated t...

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

authors： Keiser J,Utzinger J,Vennerstrom JL,Dong Y,Brennan G,Fairweather I

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a disfiguring parasitic disease and one of the leading causes of disability in the world. This study aimed to assess the severity of lymphoedema, the physical restrictions and socio-economic impact on affected individuals living in an endemic community in Malawi. METHODS:In a si...

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

authors： Martindale S,Mkwanda SZ,Smith E,Molyneux D,Stanton MC,Kelly-Hope LA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from patients in a Sudanese village exhibiting RI resistance to chloroquine have been typed for allelic variants of 2 merozoite surface antigens, MSP1 and MSP2. Blood forms were taken from each patient before chloroquine was administered, and after parasites had reappeared following t...

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

authors： Babiker H,Ranford-Cartwright L,Sultan A,Satti G,Walliker D

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine in Zambia was determined by the in vivo and in vitro microtechniques. A total dose of 25mg chloroquine base/kg body weight (over 3 d) was administered to 60 children at Lubwe and 42 at Kalene. The in vivo test was successfully completed on 55 cases at Lubwe and 39 a...

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

authors： Lemnge MM,Inambao AW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fever and myalgia are non-specific clinical manifestations of illness which commonly occur in patients with arboviral disease. In Egypt, such illness is often mis-diagnosed as "influenza". To determine arboviral aetiology in patients admitted with fever and myalgia, acute and convalescent sera samples were obtained fr...

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

authors： Darwish MA,Feinsod FM,Scott RM,Ksiazek TG,Botros BA,Farrag IH,el Said S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyomyositis remains poorly documented in tropical Latin America. We therefore performed a retrospective review of cases admitted to a hospital in the upper Negro river basin during 2002-2006. Seasonality was assessed by the cosinor model and independent predictors of outcome were identified by logistic regression. Det...

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

authors： Borges AH,Faragher B,Lalloo DG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of neurological manifestations of infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei have been described including cerebral abscesses, which are a well-recognized form of neurological melioidosis. The optimal antibiotic therapy for this condition has not been defined; however, combinations of intravenous antibiotics a...

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

authors： Chadwick DR,Ang B,Sitoh YY,Lee CC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because background seroepidemiological data are required before nationwide vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV) is attempted, the rate of exposure to HBV was investigated in two high-risk Saudi groups: patients on haemodialysis and patients with congenital bleeding disorders. Although the HBsAg carrier rate was...

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

authors： Arif M,al-Momen AK,Huraib S,Ramia S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fibroblast-like cell line derived from the mountain vole Microtus montanus was effective in promoting an increase in the multiplication rate of new and established isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. An increase in multiplication rate was also achieved in the absence of M. montanus cells when cultures of P. falciparu...

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

authors： Trenholme KR,McMonagle FA,Phillips RS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in medicinal plants has increased in recent years. This article examines the history of medicinal plant research through a case study of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) over the past 100 years. Papers published by members of the School and documents in the School archives show a flu...

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

authors： Taylor S,Berridge V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00