Are health education interventions effective for the control and prevention of urogenital schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review.

abstract：:Diabetic patients, and especially elderly patients in a low-nutritional or immunocompromised state, are prone to a variety of opportunistic infections. 'Myiasis' is a term that refers to non-iatrogenic infestation of tissues by larvae, commonly known as maggots, of dipterous flies. Myiasis as a complication of fractur...

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

authors： Verettas DA,Chatzipapas CN,Drosos GI,Xarchas KC,Staikos C,Chloropoulou P,Kazakos KI,Ververidis A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue occurred sporadically in Bangladesh from 1964 until a large epidemic in 2000 established the virus. We trace dengue from the time it was first identified in Bangladesh and identify factors favourable to future dengue haemorrhagic fever epidemics. The epidemic in 2000 was likely due to introduction of a dengue v...

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

authors： Sharmin S,Viennet E,Glass K,Harley D

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the IgG fraction of a monospecific sheep antiserum against the circulating anodic antigen (CAA) of Schistosoma mansoni, an indirect haemagglutination reaction for the determination of this antigen was developed. This is the first time that an IHA has been applied to the detection of circulating antigens in paras...

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

authors： Deelder AM,Eveleigh PC

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the isolation and characterization of a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid clone showing sequence homology with genes coding for the eukaryotic elongation factor 1 gamma (EF-1 gamma). The clone encodes an open reading frame of 404 amino acids corresponding to a deduced molecular mass of 46.2 kDa. D...

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

authors： Cañavate C,el Bali M,Montoya Y,Barker DC,Alvar J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric measurements were made and serum iron and ferritin levels determined in a group of Gambian children at the beginning of the rainy season and these findings were related to the malaria experience of the children during the following malaria transmission season. Susceptibility to malaria was not correlate...

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

authors： Snow RW,Byass P,Shenton FC,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are 4 recognized classes of Escherichia coli that cause diarrhoeal disease in humans: enteropathogenic (EPEC), enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteroinvasive (EIEC), and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC). Preliminary analysis of enterotoxin production in a rural community in Ghana showed a prevalence of 11.0% LT-ST+, 9....

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

authors： Agbodaze D,Abrahams CA,Arai S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalence of skin and eye disorders in African onchocerciasis (river blindness) is well documented. However, less is known about their joint occurrence. Information on concurrence may improve our understanding of disease pathogenesis and is required to estimate the disease burden of onchocerciasis. We analysed data f...

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

authors： Coffeng LE,Fobi G,Ozoh G,Bissek AC,Nlatté BO,Enyong P,Olinga JM,Zouré HG,Habbema JD,Stolk WA,de Vlas SJ,Boussinesq M,Noma M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty human strains of Leishmania infantum isolated in 1985-99 from 17 patients with repeated cutaneous, mucosal or visceral leishmaniasis episodes in Catalonia (Spain) were examined by isoenzyme electrophoresis. Six zymodemes were revealed: MON-1, MON-24, MON-28, MON-29, MON-33 and MON-34. In 2 patients 2 different z...

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

authors： Gállego M,Pratlong F,Riera C,Muñoz C,Ribera E,Fisa R,Rioux JA,Dedet JP,Portús M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WHO's new End TB Strategy 2016-2035 has evolved from previous global strategies to respond to old and new challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. It frames the global fight against TB as a development, social justice and human rights issue, while re-emphasizing the public health and clinical fundaments...

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

authors： Lönnroth K,Raviglione M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients who presented with a long-lasting febrile illness associated with pancytopenia. Both of them had evidence of hypercellular marrow with haemophagocytosis. They were confirmed as having rickettsial infections by serology and had a rapid haematological recovery with anti-rickettsial antibiotics. We...

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

authors： Premaratna R,Williams HS,Chandrasena TG,Rajapakse RP,Kularatna SA,de Silva HJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital-acquired complications (HACs) contribute to increased morbidity, mortality and hospital costs. However, their burden is often overlooked in resource-limited settings. We sought to determine the incidence, risk factors and effects of HACs on direct medical costs. METHODS:This was a prospective cohor...

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

authors： Sih C,Mbatchou-Ngahane BH,Mboue-Djieka Y,Ngueng-Eke MC,Mbarga NT,Verla VS,Choukem SP

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin derivatives are becoming the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in areas with widespread resistance to chloroquine. Although generally safe and well tolerated, it has been suggested from animal experiments, and more recently from one human study with artemether-lumefantrine, that these compound...

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

authors： McCall MB,Beynon AJ,Mylanus EA,van der Ven AJ,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Achromobacter xylosoxidans is described as being resistant to antiseptics and disinfectants. We studied in vitro the ability of five strains to survive and grow in such solutions, with and without starvation. METHODS:Bacterial suspensions in rich media and in distilled water were inoculated into eight antis...

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

authors： Marion-Sanchez K,Pailla K,Cesarine M,Platon MG,Derancourt C,Olive C

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Infantile visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was first reported from north Pakistan over 3 decades age in the remote valleys of the western Himalayas. These foci were reported as being completely devoid of domestic dogs. The later emergence of sporadic cases of infantile VL in the sub-Himalayan region of the country, where d...

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

authors： Rab MA,Frame IA,Evans DA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective and prospective serological surveys to determine the prevalence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and adenovirus (ADV) infections in children with respiratory diseases were carried out from 1985 to 1988 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. 306 sera from subjects between 3 months and 12...

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

authors： Olaleye OD,Olawuyi AO,Baba SS

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:A possible association between nutritional status and Schistosoma mansoni infection or morbidity was investigated by comparing anthropometric indices among 362 children from 3 primary schools in Machakos District, Kenya. Matithini was a prosperous school in an area (Kangundo) of moderate intensity of schistosome infec...

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

authors： Corbett EL,Butterworth AE,Fulford AJ,Ouma JH,Sturrock RF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a large scale control programme for falciparum malaria in Xinyang prefecture, China, from the early 1980s to 1992. Falciparum malaria, transmitted mainly by Anopheles anthropophagus, was epidemic in Gusi, Huangchuan, Shangcheng and Huaibin counties in the prefecture in the early 1980s, 2922 cases ...

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

authors： Dapeng L,Leyuan S,Xili L,Xiance Y

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem, particularly in countries where antibiotic use is frequently not controlled. The aim of this study was to analyse the prevalence of the molecular mechanisms of quinolone-resistance in E. coli isolated from faeces of healthy Peruvian children or those presenting...

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

authors： Pons MJ,Mosquito S,Gomes C,Del Valle LJ,Ochoa TJ,Ruiz J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flora of the upper intestine has been examined in symptomatic expatriate adults with mild tropical malabsorption, without steatorrhoea, persisting for many months after return to a western environment. Seven of the 11 patients had enterobacteria in luminal fluid or mucosal samples in numbers ranging from...

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

authors： Tomkins AM,Wright SG,Drasar BS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses three inter-related topics: (1) the immaturity of the neonatal and infant immune response; (2) heterologous immunity, where prior infection history with unrelated pathogens alters disease outcome resulting in either enhanced protective immunity or increased immunopathology to new infections, and ...

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

authors： Gil A,Kenney LL,Mishra R,Watkin LB,Aslan N,Selin LK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mumbai is a hot spot for drug-resistant TB, and private practitioners trained in AYUSH systems (Ayurveda, yoga, Unani, Siddha and homeopathy) are major healthcare providers. It is important to understand how AYUSH practitioners manage patients with TB or presumptive TB. METHODS:We conducted semi-structured ...

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

authors： McDowell A,Pai M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During February and March of 1998, 12 sudden deaths were reported among residents of a high-Andean community in Ecuador. All 12 fatalities were members of the same extended family and some had apparent exposure to sick guinea-pigs. Following an initial investigation by public health officials, an additional death was ...

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

authors： Gabastou JM,Proaño J,Vimos A,Jaramillo G,Hayes E,Gage K,Chu M,Guarner J,Zaki S,Bowers J,Guillemard C,Tamayo H,Ruiz A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arboviruses are maintained and transmitted through an alternating biological cycle in arthropods and vertebrates, with largely incidental disease in humans and animals. As such, they provide excellent examples of One Health, as their health impact is inextricably linked to their vertebrate hosts, their arthropod vecto...

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

authors： Mackenzie JS,Lindsay MDA,Smith DW,Imrie A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and progression of coagulation abnormalities were studied in 52 patients with acute falciparum malaria. The patients were prospectively divided into 3 groups; severe (parasitaemia greater than or equal to 5% or vital organ dysfunction), 12 patients; moderate (parasitaemia 1%- less than 5% without complic...

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

authors： Pukrittayakamee S,White NJ,Clemens R,Chittamas S,Karges HE,Desakorn V,Looareesuwan S,Bunnag D

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to assess the role of cockroaches as potential carriers of human intestinal parasites in Addis Ababa and Ziway, Ethiopia. A total of 6480 cockroaches were trapped from the two localities from October 2006 to March 2007. All the cockroaches trapped in Addis Ababa (n=2240) and almost 50% (2100/424...

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

authors： Kinfu A,Erko B

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is concern that crop irrigation that results in increased numbers of vector mosquitoes will lead to a rise in malaria in local communities. We evaluated the level of malaria experienced in 3 communities in northern Tanzania with different agricultural practices: rice irrigation, sugar-cane irrigation and traditi...

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

authors： Ijumba JN,Shenton FC,Clarke SE,Mosha FW,Lindsay SW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In French Guiana, American cutaneous leishmaniasis is localized in the skin. The host response appears to be effective since few extra- or intracellular organisms can be found in tissue lesions, and we never observed any cutaneous dissemination or visceral involvement. However, this response is not fully effective sin...

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

authors： Ridel PR,Esterre P,Dedet JP,Pradinaud R,Santoro F,Capron A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00