Epidemiology of needlestick injuries among health-care workers in Awassa City, Southern Ethiopia.

abstract：:This is a short report describing the clinical presentation, investigations, treatment and outcome of a patient living in the Jamaican countryside who was diagnosed with a live, motile subfoveal helminth identified as Angiostrongylus cantonensis on optical coherence tomography at the University Hospital of the West In...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sawh R,Mowatt L

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer screening programmes only succeed when the coverage, screening, treatment and follow-up of any abnormal results are of high quality. This study investigates the screening coverage and the quality of the follow-up of cervical cancer screening of women in León, Nicaragua, as well as the factors affecting...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Vastbinder MB,Castillo C,Bekkers RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the world-wide focus on how to rationally use antibiotics, national drug policy programmes have been developed in many countries in order to minimize the environmental antibiotic pressure and thereby hopefully limit increasing bacterial resistance. This study investigated perceptions of antibiotics in a health s...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Halfvarsson J,Heijne N,Ljungman P,Ham MN,Holmgren G,Tomson G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of liver disease among HIV-infected patients is changing. In the era of antiretroviral therapy, opportunistic infections are diminishing and deranged liver function appears to be due usually to drug-induced liver injury, alcohol, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) or chronic hepatitis B. To test this hy...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Mohite AR,Gambhire PA,Pawar SV,Jain SS,Contractor QQ,Rathi PM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accidental opium intoxication in children is an extremely dangerous poisoning if it remains undiagnosed and untreated. The classic triad of miosis, decreased level of consciousness and bradypnea, which are the hallmarks of opiate intoxication, are used for the diagnosis of opium poisoning in adults and children. Littl...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Zamani N,Sanaei-Zadeh H,Mostafazadeh B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary small bowel volvulus is the commonest cause of intestinal obstruction in the Gorkha district of Nepal resulting in laparotomy. Yet, this problem is mentioned only briefly, if at all, in many standard textbooks of surgery. This paper presents details of the presentation, clinical findings, and surgical manageme...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Parkes G

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report what we believe is the first case in Gujarat of melioidosis in a 67-year-old man. Awareness of this disease is limited, especially in areas supposed not to be endemic. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Savaj P,Shaw T,Munim FC,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is the disease caused by the soil and water bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. Our study aimed to delineate its genitourinary manifestations. Over a 10-year period (2006-2016), 20 adults with culture-confirmed genitourinary melioidosis were identified. The patients were all men with a mean age of 45.3 ±...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Koshy M,Sadanshiv P,Sathyendra S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus is an emerging infectious disease in India. Among its protean clinical manifestations, central nervous system involvement is common. In this prospective observational study, altered sensorium, headache, seizures and aseptic meningitis were found to be common central nervous system manifestations. Prompt t...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Boorugu H,Chrispal A,Gopinath KG,Chandy S,Prakash JJ,Abraham AM,Abraham OC,Thomas K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in a rural Nigerian community. Using the modified Wellcome Classification, the prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was 20.5%. The prevalence of underweight, wasting and stunting were 23.1%t, 9% and 26.7%, respectively. The low prevalenc...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Senbanjo IO,Adeodu OO,Adejuyigbe EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This technical note describes a new simple, cheap and affordable adult cervical traction device that is especially suitable for use in resource-poor third world countries because of its cost-effectiveness. While the widely used imported Gardner-Wells tongs cost over N250,000 (Nigerian) naira (approximately $1630 USD),...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Odebode TO,Agaja SB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a prospective and descriptive study about childhood acute poisoning with kerosene in Djibouti. Acute poisoning is a common and stable occurrence in low socioeconomic groups in Africa, where negligence is the main cause of poisoning. The respiratory system was the main target, with 41% of patients having pneu...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Benois A,Petitjeans F,Raynaud L,Dardare E,Sergent H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weighing children is one of the simplest, cheapest, and quickest methods of assessing the nutritional status of children. Regular weighing of children and recording the results on growth charts can be used to monitor the growth pattern of individual children and may promote early detection and prevention of growth-fa...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Abel R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaemia in infancy is a very common clinical problem in the tropics and will continue to be common while infectious disease and poor nutrition prevail. In the diagnosis of anaemia in a child the clinician must expect a number of factors to be involved. On the basis of clinical features it is possible to arrive at a wo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Wright SG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of glycated proteins, especially haemoglobins, is now a routine procedure for monitoring previous glycaemic control in diabetic patients in the developed world. Until recently, however, the assays were sophisticated and costly and, therefore, were only rarely used in developing countries. With easier and c...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Rahlenbeck SI

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of HIV infection in blood donors or populations is usually by testing sera for antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2. Screening tests are now highly sensitive and specific, but still expensive and scarce in Africa. We tested the commercially available kits 'HIVCHEK 1 + 2' in two field laboratories, on specimens from...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Wannan GJ,Cranefield MJ,Cutting WA,Fischer PR,Hargreaves FD,Inglis JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous chrysosporium infection is extremely rare and underdiagnosed. We present an immunocompromised patient who presented with recurrent cutaneous abscesses. Histopathology of the abscess showed thick-walled conidia and septate fungal hyphae within the subcutis and fungal culture grew Chrysosporium species. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Dincy PC,Meera T,Susanne PA,Promila RM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate models of nursing and nursing education based on the western medical model and medical education impede the development of adequate national health service and primary health services. Nurses are an untapped resource for primary health care (PHC) along with non-nurse PHC workers. They have the potenti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Hammond M,Mazibuko R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tanzania, rural medical aides (RMA), mother and child health aides (MCHA) and health auxiliaries (HA) care for mothers of childbearing age and children under age 5. This paper presents data obtained at 2 district seminars on mother and child health held in June 1981 and June 1983 at which knowledge and skills of M...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： van Roosmalen J,van Roosmalen-Wiebenga MW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strategy of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) aims at improving the skills of first level health workers and consequently, improving the survival chances of children. The guidelines have been shown to be cost-effective. We aimed to determine the potential impact of using IMCI guidelines on drug tre...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Wammanda RD,Ejembi CL,Iorliam T

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential diagnosis in women between acute appendicitis and acute gynaecological conditions on clinical examination is often difficult. A plea is made for the more widespread use of ultrasound and laparoscopy in the differential diagnosis of these conditions. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ameh EA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of the critically ill patient forms a significant proportion of obstetric and gynaecological (O & G) practice. There have however, been very few reports on the management of such patients in intensive care units (ICU). We review all O & G patients admitted to the surgical ICU at King Edward VIII Hospital, D...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Platteau P,Engelhardt T,Moodley J,Muckart DJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus and leptospirosis are bacterial zoonotic diseases reported from different parts of India, whose prevalence in Chhattisgarh is unknown. Our study was carried out to delineate the prevalence of these illnesses there and to assess the clinical profiles of rural and urban patients. A total of 169 patients wit...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Vikram K,Agarwala P,Bhargava A,Jain Y,Jagzape T,Wasnik P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study reveals the seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in multi-transfused thalassemia major patients. Thirty-four out of 79 (43.0%) patients enrolled in the study serologically tested positive for hepatitis C (mean ± standard deviation age = 12 ± 4.1 years), four (5.1%) for hepatiti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Riaz H,Riaz T,Ullah F,Aziz S,Khan MU,Pervaiz R,Ejaz A,Hasan M,Moiz F,Naqvi SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is the main complaint of patients presenting as surgical emergencies. However, preoperative analgesia has not been studied in developing countries. The adequacy of preoperative analgesia in 106 consecutive acute surgical cases admitted to the Accident and Emergency Department of The University College Hospital, I...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Aisuodionoe-Shadrach OI,Olapade-Olaopa EO,Soyannwo OA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiology of diarrhoea with Cryptosporidium species and pathogenic bacteria has not been identified in the Ethiopian primary healthcare system. Thus, antibiotic consumption for unconfirmed pathogenic diarrhoea is not infrequent. A total of 344 children aged <5 years with diarrhoea were included in the present stud...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Abera B,Hailu T,Beza L,Mulu W,Yizengaw E,Kibret M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated cold abscess of the thigh without active tuberculosis elsewhere in the body is a rare entity, and only a few cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of isolated cold abscess of the thigh following DPT vaccination in an immunocompetent child. The association with DPT vaccination is intrigu...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sharma J,Sharma T,Bhatt GC,Bhargava R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured questionnaire was administered to 50 medical patients, 50 surgical patients and 50 staff members at Vila Central Hospital, Vanuatu. A similar study was conducted 10 years earlier. In the intervening decade, Vanuatu has seen unprecedented population growth, increasing expatriate numbers, and the introducti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Lai Y,Grace R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of indication-specific pricing (ISP) of drugs means that the cost of a drug will vary depending on the reasons for its use. ISP is a novel concept and its beneficial or detrimental effects are unknown. Experience from richer countries suggests that it is fraught with many administrative, ethical and regula...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Meher BR,Padhy BM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zaria has the highest incidence of peripartum cardiac failure, a syndrome of unsettled aetiology. Over the years it has been noted that there has been a decrease in the period of treatment by traditional methods from an average of 90 days to 30 days and with a complete avoidance of hot bed treatment. Twenty-one subjec...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Danbauchi SS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00