Aluminium: a natural adjuvant in Leishmania transmission via sand flies?

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：:We present a case report from 2001 of the first parasitologically confirmed case of acute Chagas disease in Suriname. The patient had never left Suriname, and was probably infected by an adventitious species of Panstrongylus in his house in the capital city, Paramaribo. The patient was treated with nifurtimox, and app...

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

authors： Oostburg BF,Anijs JE,Oehlers GP,Hiwat HO,Burke-Hermelijn SM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical occurrence of Pneumocystis carinii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis was investigated in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who had clinical pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Lusaka, Zambia. The results were compared with a similar group of patients in Stockholm, Sweden. Induced sputum...

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

authors： Elvin KM,Lumbwe CM,Luo NP,Björkman A,Källenius G,Linder E

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:931 serum samples collected at random from healthy subjects in the four health zones of Imo State were analysed for the presence of rubella haemagglutination inhibition antibodies. Rubella antibodies were present in 625 of the samples giving a prevalence of 66.6%. There was a gradual increase in the prevalence of thes...

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

authors： Gomwalk NE,Ezeronye OU

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of 27 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and six with mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) in Sudan are described. The diagnosis was confirmed by the demonstration of amastigotes in bone-marrow in 20 cases with VL (80%) and impression smears in 2 cases with ML. The en...

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

authors： el-Safi SH,Peters W,Evans DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：: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：:Primary peritonitis that tends to occur especially in children, and cirrhotic spontaneous bacterial peritonitis are well recognized clinical entities. At the University College Hospital, Ibadan, cases of intra-abdominal abscess that do not fit the recognized criteria for primary peritonitis have been seen. These patie...

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

authors： Ajao OG,Ajao AO

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is an anthropozoonotic disease endemic world-wide, caused by the apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii. Although the course of infection is generally benign, it can cause significant morbidity and mortality in the developing fetus and in immunocompromised individuals. Biological diagnosis classically relies upo...

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

authors： Bastien P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (ICCDE) met in December to review progress towards eradication. The status of the programme was presented by WHO and The Carter Center, Atlanta. The Commission received reports from international certification teams that Cote d'Ivoire, Ni...

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

authors： Al-Awadi AR,Al-Kuhlani A,Breman JG,Doumbo O,Eberhard ML,Guiguemde RT,Magnussen P,Molyneux DH,Nadim A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to identify individuals with symptomatic and/or asymptomatic infection due to Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi; to study the two types of infection, both clinically and immunologically, and to determine the prevalence rate of infection at the beginning of the study. This was a cross-s...

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

authors： Crescente JA,Silveira FT,Lainson R,Gomes CM,Laurenti MD,Corbett CE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease in a village in southern India was investigated through personal interviews of all households. Maps were drawn using geographic information system (GIS) tools of the water supply system, sewage channels and areas with observed faecal contamination of soil within and around the v...

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

authors： Sarkar R,Prabhakar AT,Manickam S,Selvapandian D,Raghava MV,Kang G,Balraj V

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The red fox is considered to be the main reservoir of the present European rabies epizootic which began in Poland in 1939-40. Its usual rate of spread is 20 to 60 km a year. Mortality among rabies-infected fox populations is estimated variously to be 20 to 60%. The infection spreads more rapidly among foxes in the aut...

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

authors： Lloyd HG

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue is a major cause of acute febrile illness in Sri Lanka. Dengue has historically been considered an urban disease. In 2012-2013, we documented that acute dengue was surprisingly associated with self-reported rural residence in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. METHODS:Patients admitted with an acute...

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

authors： Mutucumarana CP,Bodinayake CK,Nagahawatte A,Devasiri V,Kurukulasooriya R,Anuradha T,De Silva AD,Janko MM,Østbye T,Gubler DJ,Woods CW,Reller ME,Tillekeratne LG,Lantos PM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe anaemia in pregnancy is an important preventable cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Different methods of screening for severe anaemia in pregnancy were evaluated in a 2-phased study conducted in Kilifi, Kenya. In phase 1 (in 1994/95), pallor testing was evaluated alone and in addition to r...

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

authors： Shulman CE,Levene M,Morison L,Dorman E,Peshu N,Marsh K

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 8 cases of envenoming by Chinese krait (Bungarus multicinctus) and one banded krait (B. fasciatus) in southern Myanmar is reported. Chinese krait bite produced minimal local reactions, except in one person bitten on the lip which resulted in local swelling. Onset of neurotoxic symptoms occurre...

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

authors： Pe T,Myint T,Htut A,Htut T,Myint AA,Aung NN

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of HIV-1 infection among women of childbearing age has led to increasing numbers of children at risk of vertical transmission. This study aimed to assess child outcomes among HIV-positive (n=19) and AIDS (n=22) mothers from Central West Brazil. CD4(+) T-cell counts (FACScount, BD) and viral loads (HIV-1 RT-...

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

authors： Alcântara KC,Pereira GA,Albuquerque M,Stefani MM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between intestinal parasitism and excreta disposal technologies in Gaborone (Botswana), Ndola (Zambia) and Kumasi (Ghana) were investigated. Parasitic prevalence and intensity rates amongst groups of urban residents having similar socio-economic status and housing, but different excreta disposal tech...

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

authors： Feachem RG,Guy MW,Harrison S,Iwugo KO,Marshall T,Mbere N,Muller R,Wright AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data regarding the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among people living with diabetes (PLWD) in TB-endemic settings are scarce. We examined TB incidence among PLWD in Indonesia who had previously been screened for latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease. METHODS:PLWD (≥18 y of age) in an urban setting were ...

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

authors： McAllister SM,Koesoemadinata RC,Santoso P,Soetedjo NNM,Kamil A,Permana H,Ruslami R,Critchley JA,van Crevel R,Hill PC,Alisjahbana B

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty Kenyan patients with visceral leishmaniasis were evaluated for the presence of Leishmania donovani in their peripheral blood. Smears, cultures and hamster inoculations detected parasitaemia in 11, 10 and six patients, respectively, and at least one method detected parasitaemia in 15 patients (75%). The likeliho...

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

authors： Chulay JD,Adoyo MA,Githure JI

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease known to have wide-ranging clinical manifestations. Despite a number of published case series, culture-confirmed series are few and there is a paucity of data on Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR) associated with treatment of leptospirosis. Our objective was to describe the...

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

authors： Tsuha S,Taniguchi T,Shiiki S,Narita M,Leung DT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three apparently immunocompetent patients died in the intensive care unit at Loni Hospital, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India, between 2001 and 2006 due to multiorgan failure and Strongyloides stercoralis septicaemia following a short course of corticosteroid (prednisolone) therapy of 6-17 days for peripheral blood eosin...

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

authors： Ghosh K,Ghosh K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study intended to implement a novel intervention strategy, in Brazil, using an ecohealth approach and analyse its effectiveness and costs in reducing Aedes aegypti vector density as well as its acceptance, feasibility and sustainability. The intervention was conducted from 2012 to 2013 in the municipali...

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

authors： Caprara A,Lima JW,Peixoto AC,Motta CM,Nobre JM,Sommerfeld J,Kroeger A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies delineating bacterial causes of fever in rural Asia indicate a major role for several previously under-recognized pathogens, including Rickettsia and Leptospira. The use of blood culture for the first time to investigate patients with febrile illness in rural Asia has also revealed some unexpected findi...

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

authors： Peacock SJ,Newton PN

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:In order to estimate the importance as a public health problem of skin diseases, we investigated the prevalence and severity of skin diseases in a representative sample of children in Mali. 1817 children were randomly selected in 30 clusters by probability-proportional-to-size sampling in Koulikoro region. The mean pr...

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

authors： Mahé A,Prual A,Konaté M,Bobin P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin disease is among the most frequent causes of morbidity in Ethiopia, showing high prevalence in the general population and being the sixth most frequent cause of outpatient visits nationwide to health facilities. This study was aimed at describing skin disease patterns in Tigray region, northern Ethiopia through a...

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

authors： Accorsi S,Barnabas GA,Farese P,Padovese V,Terranova M,Racalbuto V,Morrone A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a Colombian immunosuppressed migrant hospitalized in France with fever, dry cough and altered general health. Results of blood culture and bronchoalveolar lavage led to the diagnosis of the first reported case of concomitant disseminated histoplasmosis and pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in an HIV-i...

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

authors： Pistone T,Lacombe K,Poirot JL,Girard PM,Meynard JL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited outbreak of symptomatic intestinal and extraintestinal amoebiasis within a family complex is described. The infection was almost certainly transmitted by a Philippino housemaid, who was an asymptomatic carrier of Entamoeba histolytica infection acquired in her native country. Starch-gel electrophoresis showe...

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

authors： Gatti S,Cevini C,Bruno A,Novati S,Scaglia M

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00