Comparison between spontaneous sedimentation method and Paratest® for the diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryptosporidium spp. are enteric parasites that infect humans and animals. In immunocompromised patients infection can be fatal. This study was conducted to identify sub-populations of Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum isolates from HIV-seropositive patients in Equatorial Guinea. METHODS:In a previous s...

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

authors： Blanco MA,Montoya A,Iborra A,Fuentes I

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a longitudinal study to determine the effect of annual community-based treatment of ocular onchocerciasis with ivermectin, the population living in the 3 most affected villages in the holo-endemic onchocerciasis focus of Asubende in Ghana were re-examined 16 and 24 months after initiating treatment. Ocular microfil...

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

authors： Dadzie KY,Remme J,De Sole G

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both northern and southern Sudan are deploying artemisinin-based combinations against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (artesunate+sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine [AS+SP] in the north, artesunate+amodiaquine [AS+AQ] in the south). In 2003, we tested the efficacy of 3 day AS+SP and AS+AQ regimens in vivo in the is...

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

authors： Hamour S,Melaku Y,Keus K,Wambugu J,Atkin S,Montgomery J,Ford N,Hook C,Checchi F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the irrigated zones of North-eastern region of Afghanistan malaria transmission is sustained by A. pulcherrimus and A. hyrcanus despite many years of DDT spraying. A. hyrcanus is an exophilic and exophagic mosquito, strongly resistant to DDT. A. pulcherrimus is still largely susceptible to the insecticide but seems...

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

authors： Onori E,Nushin MK,Cullen JE,Yakubi GH,Mohammed K,Christal FA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis was confirmed by the Leptospira Laboratory in 138 hospital patients on Barbados between early November 1979 and the end of 1982 (annual average 43.6 cases). These were the great majority of severe cases occurring on the island during that time. The crude incidence rate ranged between 15 and 23 per 100,00...

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

authors： Everard CO,Edwards CN,Webb GB,White HS,Nicholson GD

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From June to December 1985 273 cases of hepatitis and jaundice were diagnosed in Maun, northern Botswana. It was known before the outbreak that most adults were immune to hepatitis A virus, most had markers indicating past infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV), there was a mean prevalence of 13.6% (57/418) HBsAg carr...

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

authors： Byskov J,Wouters JS,Sathekge TJ,Swanepoel R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tinea imbricata, also known as 'Tokelau', is an uncommon superficial mycosis caused by the anthropophilic dermatophyte Trichophyton concentricum. Cutaneous lesions appear characteristically as scaly and concentric rings that may cover all parts of the body. Often acquired in childhood, tinea imbricata is a chronic dis...

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

authors： Pihet M,Bourgeois H,Mazière JY,Berlioz-Arthaud A,Bouchara JP,Chabasse D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt was made to estimate the prevalence of hydatid disease in nomadic pastoralists living in eastern Africa and to identify environmental, cultural and behavioural factors which may influence Echinococcus transmission. 18,565 nomadic pastoralists, from 12 different groups living in the vast, semi-desert regions...

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

authors： Macpherson CN,Spoerry A,Zeyhle E,Romig T,Gorfe M

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:We found serological evidence of infection with Prospect Hill virus, a Hantaan-like virus isolated from meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), in microtine and cricetid rodents trapped in Maryland, West Virginia, Minnesota and California, USA. Fluorescent antibodies were detected in sera from M. pennsylvanicus (74/27...

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

authors： Yanagihara R,Daum CA,Lee PW,Baek LJ,Amyx HL,Gajdusek DC,Gibbs CJ Jr

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and tolerability of primaquine (PQ) administered as a short higher-dose (30mg twice daily for 7 days) regimen in 203 Australian Defence Force personnel was evaluated in an open-label presumptive anti-relapse therapy study. No clinically significant differences were measured in the subjects' haematological a...

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

authors： Ebringer A,Heathcote G,Baker J,Waller M,Shanks GD,Edstein MD

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Observations on canine leishmaniasis in Morocco (clinical symptoms, diagnosis, evolution, haematology, development of serum proteins, pathology and histopathology) are reported from dogs examined during 1979/80. Special reference is made to infantile kala-azar and its increasing incidence. The public health importance...

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

authors： Kirmse P,Mahin L,Lahrech TM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counts of nocturnally periodic Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae (mf) in 20 mm3 finger-prick blood films were compared with membrane counts after filtration of 1 ml of venous blood for their efficacy in determining the prevalence of Bancroftian filariasis. The technique used for spreading and staining the blood films...

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

authors： Sabry M

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:Inadequate evaluation of vaccine coverage after mass vaccination campaigns, such as used in national measles control programmes, can lead to inappropriate public health responses. Overestimation of vaccination coverage may leave populations at risk, whilst underestimation can lead to unnecessary catch-up campaigns. Th...

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

authors： Alberti KP,Guthmann JP,Fermon F,Nargaye KD,Grais RF

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercially available bovine liver catalase has been used to supplement chemically defined medium for growth of Trypanosoma cruzi. The protein extract was found to be contaminated with 25 to 30 protein bands as well as DNA and RNA polymers. ...

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

authors： O'Daly JA,Rodríguez MB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although known for many years, non-filarial elephantiasis remains a public health problem in tropical Africa, including the farming community of Ethiopia. The problem may be exacerbated in women who shoulder most of the burden of agricultural labour in the countryside. The intention of this brief review is to emphasis...

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

authors： Animut A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure, heart rate and electrocardiographic responses to exercise were compared in a group of 125 subjects with antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi and in 153 seronegative subjects, randomly selected from persons with no evidence of heart disease in a resting electrocardiogram during a cross-sectional survey among...

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

authors： Zicker F,Zicker EM,Oliveira JJ,Netto JC,Oliveira RM,Smith PG

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of Chagas' disease among HIV seropositive patients and to define the clinical profile of co-infected cases. Cross-sectional study: the prevalence of co-infected subjects was 1.3% and there was no significant difference between co-infected and non co-infecte...

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

authors： Almeida EA,Lima JN,Lages-Silva E,Guariento ME,Aoki FH,Torres-Morales AE,Pedro RJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seroprevalence of toxocariasis was investigated in 1997/98 in 1009 schoolchildren (aged 5-12 years) throughout Trinidad. Infection, as measured by titre, was found to be high compared to values obtained from children in other countries. Using an excretory-secretory antigen and performing an ELISA test, it was foun...

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

authors： Baboolal S,Rawlins SC

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Dengue fever (DF) is an urban vector-borne disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Both species deposit their eggs in favorable breeding sites either in natural or artificial containers. An understanding of their habitat characteristics is crucial in curbing DF outbreaks METHODS:A search ...

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

authors： Dom NC,Faiz Madzlan M,Nadira Yusoff SN,Hassan Ahmad A,Ismail R,Nazrina Camalxaman S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common comorbidities in HIV-positive patients with CD4+ T lymphocytes below 200 cells/μl. Early diagnosis and treatment of toxoplasmosis reduces the mortality rate in HIV-positive people. The aim of this study was to estimate the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection ...

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

authors： Ahmadpour E,Pishkarie-Asl R,Spotin A,Samadi Kafil H,Didarlu H,Azadi Y,Barac A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted in rural Malawi to verify (a) whether the Partec CyFlow Counter((R)) for CD4+ T-cell lymphocyte counting in HIV-positive individuals could be introduced into a district hospital laboratory and (b) whether it would produce CD4 counts of acceptable quality. CD4+ cell counting was performed using th...

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

authors： Fryland M,Chaillet P,Zachariah R,Barnaba A,Bonte L,Andereassen R,Charrondière S,Teck R,Didakus O

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five strains of Helicobacter pylori isolated from November 1997 until October 1998 from 33 female and 22 male adults attending for endoscopy at the Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria were assayed for antibiotic susceptibility to amoxycillin, clarithromycin, metronidazole and tetracycline by the E-test strip method. ...

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

authors： Ani AE,Malu AO,Onah JA,Queiroz DM,Kirschner G,Rocha GA

更新日期：1999-11-01 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

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：:Neither high theoretical efficacy of disease control tools, nor diagnostic accuracy, nor good compliance, nor adequate coverage can lead on its own to the final goal of community effectiveness. There is a complex relationship between these factors. The different steps in the process leading to effective health care in...

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

authors： Tanner M,Lengeler C,Lorenz N

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00