Burkholderia pseudomallei: animal models of infection.

abstract：:Evaluating the performance of well child clinics on adherence to recommended perinatal hepatitis B prevention programmes as well as assessing the outcome of infants living with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive parents is important. A retrospective study was performed of 336 babies who had at least one HBsA...

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

authors： Polat S,Camurdan AD,Aksakal N,Agladioglu S,Beyazova U,Sahin F,Atak A,Er A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In areas endemic for Plasmodium falciparum, clinical malaria is believed to be less common in infants than in older children, but specific case definitions have rarely been determined for this age group. As malaria case definitions are known to be both age- and site-specific, assessment of the risk of disease in infan...

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

authors： McGuinness D,Koram K,Bennett S,Wagner G,Nkrumah F,Riley E

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial diarrheal diseases are one of the leading causes of child morbidity and mortality in developing countries. This study aimed to identify the main causes of non-bacterial diarrhea in Afghanistan. METHODS:A total of 699 stools were collected from children aged under 5 years who presented with diarrhe...

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

authors： Elyan D,Wasfy M,El Mohammady H,Hassan K,Monestersky J,Noormal B,Oyofo B

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two long sewerage canals in the city of Kolkata, India were heavily infested with larvae, pupae and egg rafts of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus. Although the burden of bancroftian filariasis and other diseases transmitted by C. quinquefasciatus in the city is practically zero, the night-biting mosquitoe...

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

authors： Biswas D,Mandal B,Biswas B,Banerjee A,Mukherjee TK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man bitten by a large coral snake (Micrurus lemniscatus helleri) in the Amazon basin of Ecuador developed persistent excruciating pain in the bitten arm. On admission to hospital less than 30 min later, he had a polymorphonuclear leucocytosis, thrombocytopenia and mildly prolonged prothrombin time/partial thrombopla...

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

authors： Manock SR,Suarez G,Graham D,Avila-Aguero ML,Warrell DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) caused by Wuchereria bancrofti is widely prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries. Night blood film examination is most commonly used for diagnosis of filariasis but is cumbersome and labour intensive. In order to develop an indirect ELISA-based immunodiagnostic test, the importance of...

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

authors： Singh A,Kamal S,Rathaur S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,197 wild animals from Pará State north Brazil, were examined for haematozoa. Trypanosoma cruzi-like parasites were found in 13 different species, and were particularly common in a variety of marsupials (Didelphidae), porcupines (Coendou spp.), armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) and coatimundis(Nasua nasua)...

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

authors： Lainson R,Shaw JJ,Fraiha H,Miles MA,Draper CC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a life-threatening tick-borne infection in Africa and Eurasia. Although knowledge of epidemiology is increasing, the global extent and risk of infection is not well described. A niche-modeling framework has been used to map the global distribution of risk for CCHF based on ana...

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

authors： Leblebicioglu H,Ozaras R,Erciyas-Yavuz K

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:alpha, beta-Arteether is an ethyl ether derivative of artemisinin which is an efficient schizontocidal drug in mild falciparum malaria. The present study reports the efficacy of the drug in severe falciparum malaria. Fifty patients with severe falciparum malaria were given intramuscular arteether, 150 mg, once daily o...

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

authors： Mohanty S,Mishra SK,Satpathy SK,Dash S,Patnaik J

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:The sensitivity specificity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the serodiagnosis of strongyloidiasis has been investigated. 45 men with long-standing strongyloidiasis were compared with the same number of age- and sex-matched control subjects. The ELISA detected antibody in 84% of patients with parasi...

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

authors： Carroll SM,Karthigasu KT,Grove DI

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:A clinical, serological, parasitological and therapeutic study of cutaneous leishmaniasis was carried out in a low sub-andean area (250-800 metres) of the La Paz Department, Bolivia. A team of seismic prospectors (350 workers) was surveyed for 12 months. Of 200 suspected cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis, 185 were sero...

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

authors： Desjeux P,Mollinedo S,Le Pont F,Paredes A,Ugarte G

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolations were attempted from blood samples obtained from rats captured in four adjacent habitats near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Antibody surveys were also made. Rickettsial infections were most frequent in rats captured in the forest and in lalang grass (Imperata cylindrica) and least frequent...

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

authors： Muul I,Lim BL,Walker JS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world-wide occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) is very high, and in many parts of the world prevalence has reached epidemic proportions. While the WHO's global 'directly observed therapy short-course' (DOTS) programme has yielded some notable successes, it has reached only 12% of the world's TB cases (1996 data). This...

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

authors： Beggs CB,Kerr KG,Donnelly JK,Sleigh PA,Mara DD,Cairns G

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Immunoepidemiologic studies have shown a relationship between IgE and IgG4 antibodies with age and with resistance and susceptibility to infection. It is believed that the IgE and IgG4 responses to soluble egg antigen (SEA) can be used for serological analysis of infection and post-treatment status. This stu...

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

authors： Matoso LF,Oliveira-Prado R,Abreu MN,Fujiwara RT,Loverde PT,Kloos H,Gazzinelli A,Correa-Oliveira R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Severe cholera is a life-threatening illness of hypovolemic shock and metabolic acidosis due to rapid and profuse diarrheal fluid loss. Emergency life-saving therapy is i.v. saline, optionally supplemented with potassium and alkali to correct the fluid deficit, potassium losses and acidosis. After this initi...

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

authors： Butler T

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:We report the results of a short study of the epidemiology of Leishmania tropica in the Sheikh Maksoud District of Aleppo, Syria. The present and past status of infection in a community of about 100,000 people are assessed from prevalence and incidence data obtained by active and passive case detection, and from a ski...

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

authors： Ashford RW,Rioux JA,Jalouk L,Khiami A,Dye C

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:A study was conducted in Mathias Hospital, Yeji, an area of Ghana, where snake bite cases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, with a case fatality rate of 11% (8/72). Case management difficulties included uncertainty about the assessment of the severity of envenoming, the dosage of antivenom, and the re...

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

authors： Visser LE,Kyei-Faried S,Belcher DW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strain diversity of 100 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates collected over a period of 18 months from tuberculosis (TB) cases in Sri Lanka was studied by spoligotyping. When compared to the international spoligotyping database, 43 spoligotype patterns were identified, of which 20 were previously described. The maj...

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

authors： Rajapaksa US,Victor TC,Perera AJ,Warren RM,Senevirathne SM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is a common human pathogen that can colonise the respiratory tract and cause infection. Here we investigate the risk factors associated with nasopharyngeal carriage of S. aureus (including methicillin-resistant S. aureus [MRSA]) in Vietnam. METHODS:Between February and June 2012, nasal...

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

authors： Van Nguyen K,Zhang T,Thi Vu BN,Dao TT,Tran TK,Thi Nguyen DN,Thi Tran HK,Thi Nguyen CK,Fox A,Horby P,Wertheim H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a major health problem worldwide, and neurocysticercosis (NCC) is one of the important causes of epilepsy in the tropics. The present study was carried out in a rural pig farming community of north India to estimate the prevalence of NCC in patients with active epilepsy (AE) and to determine the associated...

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

authors： Prasad KN,Prasad A,Gupta RK,Nath K,Pradhan S,Tripathi M,Pandey CM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The state of Rio de Janeiro has been important since 1986 as a portal for the introduction of dengue virus (DENV) into Brazil and dissemination of the virus throughout the country. This study describes an active surveillance of DENV in the state of Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2008. METHOD:A total of 14 408 ...

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

authors： Macedo GA,de Araújo JM,Schatzmayr HG,Costa FA,de Filippis AM,Santos FB,Nogueira RM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged carriage of Plasmodium falciparum in humans during the dry season is critical for parasite survival, as the infected subjects constitute a major reservoir in the absence of transmission. Yet, very little is known about the host/parasite interactions contributing to parasite persistence. In order to study the...

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

authors： Zwetyenga J,Rogier C,Spiegel A,Fontenille D,Trape JF,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global travel and migration trends have meant a huge increase in the numbers of people exposed to tropical parasitic diseases. Thus, there is an increasing need for robust, reproducible and reliable diagnostic techniques in the field. Advanced molecular and lateral flow techniques have pushed the boundaries of clinica...

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

authors： Shrivastava J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00