Could ochratoxin A in food commodities be the cause of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka?

abstract：:This article reviews peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on the history, epidemiology, genetics, ecology, pathogenesis, pathology and management of podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis). Podoconiosis is a non-infectious geochemical elephantiasis caused by exposure of bare feet to irritant alkalic ...

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

authors： Davey G,Tekola F,Newport MJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera remains a grave public health problem in Africa. It is endemic with seasonal variations around the central African Great Lakes. Along the coasts, it occurs mostly in rapidly expanding epidemics, with intercalated 3-5 year lull-periods. Case-fatality ratios remain high at 2–5% against the global declining trend...

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

authors： Mengel MA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neglected tropical disease (NTD) agenda should include a focus on disability when 'planning for the next decade of progress'. Millions of people are currently living with the disabling consequences of NTDs and mental health conditions are frequent among people living with NTDs. Stigma around NTDs is also common. H...

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

authors： Kuper H

更新日期：2020-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhoeal diseases are a major cause of malnutrition, partly due to poor dietary practices. Misconceptions among the general population and medical personnel lead to withholding of food or avoiding the use of nutritious, locally available and affordable foods. Breast-feeding should not be interrupted during diarrhoea...

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

authors： Torún B,Chew F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Night blood surveys for filariasis were carried out in two camps of repatriates from Bangladesh. The sample consisted of 1,101 Biharis above one year of age of whom 9.0% were found infected with Wuchereria bancrofti. The infection rate was significantly higher in males (10.2%) than in females (6.7%). Of the three mosq...

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

authors： Aslamkhan M,Pervez SD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young African children with severe malaria are given quinine using a regimen designed for Thai adults. We measured quinine in the blood, plasma and plasma water of young children in Kenya after rapid intravenous and intramuscular dosing, and calculated the therapeutic range of unbound quinine. The peak plasma quinine ...

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

authors： Winstanley P,Newton C,Watkins W,Mberu E,Ward S,Warn P,Mwangi I,Waruiru C,Pasvol G,Warrell D

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among infectious diseases, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death, killing around 3 million people each year. Most cases occur in young adults but it is also a major cause of illness and death in children. The problem has been exacerbated in recent years by the HIV pandemic and by the emergence of multidrug resist...

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

authors： Zumla A,Squire SB,Chintu C,Grange JM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The avidin-biotin immunohistochemical (ABC) method was applied to the diagnosis of alveolar hydatid disease in patients from the hyperendemic region of western Alaska. The test was specific for larval cestodes of the genus Echinococcus, and exhibited high sensitivity. A negative reaction was obtained in all cases in w...

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

authors： Condon J,Rausch RL,Wilson JF

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-vaccination antibody response to both Group A and Group C meningococcal polysaccharide antigen was studied in 397 male and 359 female vaccinated persons aged between 4 and 40 years from Bauchi Town and neighbouring villages in Nigeria. No difference in response was observed between the sexes. Highest antibody...

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

authors： Mohammed I,Damisah MM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the exposure of child citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Plasmodium vivax, and to elucidate if it was related to place of residence or previous international travel to malaria-endemic areas. Blood samples were collected from 1010 primary schoolchildren resident in 7 ou...

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

authors： Abu-Zeid YA,Alwash R,Shaheen HM,Bin-Othman SA,Lukic ML,Amiri KM,Charoenvit Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,003 patients with meningococcal disease admitted to a single hospital during the course of a three-month epidemic were studied. A progressive decline in mortality, especially among patients with acute meningococcaemia, and a falling incidence of systemic and severe neurological complications among patients with meni...

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

authors： Greenwood BM,Cleland PG,Haggie MH,Lewis LS,Macfarlane JT,Taqi A,Whittle HC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations to characterize the in vitro reaction of serum-mediated leucocyte-adherence to microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti were carried out in Tanzania. The adherence reaction took place within one hour and at least two serum factors were involved: a heat-labile factor, present also in normal serum (probably ...

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

authors： Simonsen PE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response to treatment with organic pentavalent antimonials, the standard first-line treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), has been decreasing since their introduction into India. Combining sodium stibogluconate (SB) with paromomycin (PM) may be an efficient alternative to single-agent therapy. This trial was desi...

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

authors： Thakur CP,Kanyok TP,Pandey AK,Sinha GP,Zaniewski AE,Houlihan HH,Olliaro P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to reassess the risk factors for giardiasis in communities of the Orang Asli (indigenous people) in Pahang, Malaysia. Stool samples were collected from 321 individuals (2-76 years old; 160 males, 161 females). Data were collected via laboratory analysis of faecal samples and a pre-tested stand...

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

authors： Mohammed Mahdy AK,Lim YA,Surin J,Wan KL,Al-Mekhlafi MS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis was detected in 4 of 117 feral dogs, none of which presented any evidence of visceral involvement, in the Al-Hassa area of Saudi Arabia where neither Leishmania infantum nor L. tropica are transmitted. The parasites isolated from 3 of the animals were identified by biochemical techniques as L. ...

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

authors： Elbihari S,Cheema AH,el-Hassan AM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus antibody, using the reversed passive haemagglutination inhibition test, was carried out in Saudi Arabia on sera from imported livestock at Jeddah seaport, as well as humans who had contact with imported animals on farms and in quarantine stations. Antibodies were dete...

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

authors： Hassanein KM,el-Azazy OM,Yousef HM

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple radioisotope scanner was used in a study of liver diseases in The Gambia. Scans were of value in localizing areas for biopsy or aspiration and in defining the liver in the presence of gross ascites. Although the scan was not helpful in diagnosis it provided a measure of the size of filling defects during trea...

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

authors： Ajdukiewicz AB,Bassett N,Crawley JC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the aetiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Zimbabwe, HCV antibodies (anti-HCV) were determined in sera from 63 HCC patients using a second generation enzyme immunoassay. Anti-HCV was found in 15 patients (23.8%), 12 of whom (80%) were males. The mea...

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

authors： Weinig M,Hakim JG,Gudza I,Tobaiwa O

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ghana, a population-based immunization coverage survey revealed missed opportunities at preventive and curative care visits among children 12-18 months old attending the local hospital in the eastern region of Ghana. Parent-held immunization cards do not have a place to record curative care visits. If pediatric p...

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

authors： Brugha R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of transmission of Schistosoma mansoni of a focal snail control programme was investigated over four years amongst approximately 1250 people living in five communities in the steep-sided Soufriere river valley, St. Lucia, West Indies. Bayer 6076 was applied from constant flow drip cans to 12 stream sections...

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

authors： Prentice MA,Jordan P,Bartholomew RK,Grist E

更新日期：1981-01-01 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: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：:In February 1995 we surveyed to chloroquine among patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria at Nias Island, in the Indian Ocean near north-western Sumatra, Indonesa. The subjects, 21 indigenous males and females (6-50 years old) infected with > 40 asexual blood stage parasites of P. vivax per microliter of blood, had mil...

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

authors： Baird JK,Sustriayu Nalim MF,Basri H,Masbar S,Leksana B,Tjitra E,Dewi RM,Khairani M,Wignall FS

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:Malaria remains an important health problem in Bangladesh, with approximately 14 million people at risk. Antimalarial drug resistance is a major obstacle to the control of malaria in endemic countries. In 2012, Bangladesh reported an estimated 29 522 malaria episodes, of which 94% were reported as being caused by Plas...

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

authors： Haque U,Glass GE,Haque W,Islam N,Roy S,Karim J,Noedl H

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:The occurrence of an unexpected side effect following the use of Maloprim (pyrimethamine/dapsone) for malaria chemosuppression in 3-59 months old children in Sierra Leone is reported. As part of a trial of chemoprophylaxis and insecticide-impregnated bed nets, 2000 children received either Maloprim or placebo; 4% of c...

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

authors： David KP,Marbiah NT,Lovgren P,Greenwood BM,Petersen E

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency was tested of the Haematocrit Centrifugation Technique (HCT) and the miniature Anion-Exchange Centrifugation Technique (mAECT) for demonstrating trypanosomes in the blood of four antelopes experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in Liberia. During simultaneous daily application of both...

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

authors： Sachs R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting reports on the presence of neurocognitive dysfunction during the initial, medically asymptomatic stage of HIV infection. This study aimed to assess the psychomotor speed and attention ability of antiretroviral treatment-naïve Nigerian Africans with HIV/AIDS and the impact of CD4 levels on their c...

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

authors： Ogunrin AO,Odiase FE,Ogunniyi A

更新日期：2007-05-01 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