Protein and nucleotide contamination of bovine liver catalase used in culture medium explains growth of Trypanosoma cruzi.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection has been associated with recurrent and disseminated strongyloidiasis and adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL). METHODS:We compared immunological aspects and markers for ATLL in HTLV-1 patients with or without strongyloidiasis, and evaluated the infl...

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

authors： Salles F,Bacellar A,Amorim M,Orge G,Sundberg M,Lima M,Santos S,Porto A,Carvalho E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis and irrational prescribing behaviour has been identified as a contributing factor. The current study aimed to assess the knowledge of, attitudes towards and practices regarding antibiotic prescribing of medical doctors providing free healthcare services in the ...

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

authors： Kabba JA,Tadesse N,James PB,Kallon H,Kitchen C,Atif N,Jiang M,Hayat K,Zhao M,Yang C,Chang J,Fang Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of coma in cerebral malaria (CM) is not well understood. Obstruction of microcirculatory flow is thought to play a central role, but other hypotheses include roles for parasite- and host-derived factors such as immune mediators, and for increased blood-brain barrier permeability leading to raised i...

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

authors： Maude RJ,Dondorp AM,Abu Sayeed A,Day NP,White NJ,Beare NA

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Improved awareness of Pap test by Nigerian women may not necessarily increase its use. This hypothesis was tested using female medical practitioners in Enugu state, Nigeria. They were expected to be advocates of disease screening and therefore should lead by example. All respondents were aware of the Pap smear but onl...

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

authors： Dim CC,Ekwe E,Madubuko T,Dim NR,Ezegwui HU

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological study was undertaken to determine the role of arboviruses as etiological agents of encephalitis in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Paired sera were collected during mosquito seasons in 1988-1990 from 614 patients with possible viral encephalitis in 15 regions of PRC and tested for haemagglutination...

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

authors： Gu HX,Artsob H,Lin YZ,Wang DM,Zhao BY,Long QZ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Omdurman Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Sudan, from 6 October to 1 December 1986, 736 patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) were studied. The duration of the lesions varied from a few days to 4 months, usually (56%) 1-3 months. Multiple lesions ranging from one to 50 (mean = 4) were present in 80% of case...

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

authors： el-Safi SH,Peters W,el-Toam B,el-Kadarow A,Evans DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 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 demographics, epidemiology, first aid, clinical management, treatment and outcome of snake bites causing no significant signs of systemic envenoming were documented in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, between May 1999 and October 2002. Among 884 patients admitted, 350 were systemically envenomed an...

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

authors： Harris JB,Faiz MA,Rahman MR,Jalil MM,Ahsan MF,Theakston RD,Warrell DA,Kuch U

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ELISA AND IFAT have been applied to the sero-diagnosis of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis and the levels of leishmanial antibody detected by Leishmania donovani antigens in both tests have been compared. From the results it appears that ELISA is a little more sensitive than IFAT, but IFAT seems to be more specifi...

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

authors： Edrissian GH,Darabian P

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kala-azar (VL), mainly affecting infants and young children, is being increasingly reported in the south-west of Saudi Arabia, 305 cases being diagnosed in 1988. Most cases arise in scattered locations in the foothills west of the Asir mountains at altitudes between about 500 and 1000 m, although case clusters are app...

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

authors： al-Zahrani MA,Peters W,Evans DA,Smith V,Ching CI

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy type 1 reactions (T1R) are immune-mediated events with inflammation of peripheral nerves and skin. We report the clinical outcomes of a closely monitored open prospective trial in which eight Nepali and 33 Ethiopian patients with T1Rs were treated with an Indian generic formulation of ciclosporin (Cn; 5-7.5 mg...

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

authors： Marlowe SN,Leekassa R,Bizuneh E,Knuutilla J,Ale P,Bhattarai B,Sigdel H,Anderson A,Nicholls PG,Johnston A,Holt D,Lockwood DN

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The relation between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) infection was investigated in paediatric and adult patients in Kampala, Uganda, from 1987 to 1989. Both infections contributed largely to hospital morbidity. Of 1527 clinically suspicious in-patients, 61% were pos...

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

authors： Müller O,Moser R

更新日期：1990-05-01 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 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：:Microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia pahangi, which were inoculated into Meriones unguiculatus and Mastomys natalensis respectively, were found in the peripheral blood of the rodents until the ninth day after infection, but no microfilarial periodicity was observed. Microfilariae of W. bancrofti disappeare...

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

authors： Zielke E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria isolated on aerobic and anaerobic culture were compared in 80 unilateral ulcers in patients with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease, 62 superficial skin lesions, and in 30 diabetic ulcers. In SS disease, the bacterial flora was predominantly aerobic and polymicrobial with Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomon...

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

authors： MacFarlane DE,Baum KF,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indigenous natural drugs are in common use in Zimbabwe because modern life-saving drugs are beyond the reach of nearly 85% of the population. These natural drugs have caused a number of poisoning cases. In a study of the records of four hospitals from 1971 to 1982, carried out to see how many people had been poisoned ...

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

authors： Nyazema NZ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of study was to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of diagnostic options for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Brazil. METHODS:Six diagnostic tests were considered: IT LEISH, Kalazar Detect, DAT-LPC (DAT made in the Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas), IFAT, PCR and direct ex...

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

authors： Machado de Assis TS,Azeredo-da-Silva AL,Werneck GL,Rabello A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mebendazole, a benzimidazole carbamate compound, is currently in use for human medical practice against soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and enterobiasis. However, it has been demonstrated that its spectrum of activity is broad and goes beyond those infections. Several studies provide evidence that this drug, take...

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

authors： Cañete R,Escobedo AA,Almirall P,González ME,Brito K,Cimerman S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:After new analysis, Sanofi Pasteur now recommends their dengue vaccine (Dengvaxia) should only be given to individuals previously infected with dengue and the World Health Organization's recommendations regarding its use are currently being revised. As a result, the potential costs of performing large-scale ...

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

authors： Turner HC,Wills BA,Rahman M,Quoc Cuong H,Thwaites GE,Boni MF,Clapham HE

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Tungiasis (jigger) is endemic in many impoverished communities in many parts of Brazil. Forty-seven individuals entering an endemic area were followed up for a period of six weeks and regularly examined for the presence of newly embedded sand fleas. At the end of the third week, the attack rate of Tunga penetrans infe...

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

authors： Heukelbach J,Franck S,Feldmeier H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allopurinol and allopurinol ribonucleoside tested in vitro and in vivo for activity against Leishmania donovani. Activity in vitro was low against the amastigote form of this parasite with ED50 values of the order of 54 and 96 microM and 86 and 213 microM respectively for the two compounds. In vivo inhibition of up to...

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

authors： Neal RA,Croft SL,Nelson DJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for a non-toxic and low-cost treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis. We synthesised and tested in vivo an amphotericin B-poly(methacrylic acid) drug (AmB-PMA) that had previously shown in-vitro activity against Leishmania major and L. donovani parasites. Efficacy was determined using L. major fo...

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

authors： Corware KD,Rogers M,Teo I,Müller I,Shaunak S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of mortality despite availability of effective chemotherapy. This study was performed to identify contributing factors for poor outcome during anti-tuberculosis treatment at a teaching hospital chest clinic. Medical records of registered patients treated for TB between 1 January...

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

authors： Burton NT,Forson A,Lurie MN,Kudzawu S,Kwarteng E,Kwara A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological testing of paired (i.e. admission and convalescent) sera from 103 fever patients in Kathmandu, Nepal, was performed to estimate the prevalence rates of scrub typhus, murine typhus, Leptospira and dengue virus antibodies and to determine their role in the cause of active infections. Blood cultures from 15 p...

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

authors： Blacksell SD,Sharma NP,Phumratanaprapin W,Jenjaroen K,Peacock SJ,White NJ,Pukrittayakamee S,Day NP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00