Mefloquine toxicity presenting with polyneuropathy - a report of two cases in India.

abstract：:In the aftermath of a natural disaster, multispecialty rapid response teams are deployed to support health-related relief work. Microbiologists are often part of such teams, along with public health specialists, clinicians and entomologists, and can contribute to the response in multiple ways. The role of a microbiolo...

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

authors： Viswanathan R,Chakrabarty A,Basu S

更新日期：2021-01-07 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：:Stool specimens from 90% of the population of 2 marginal communities in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, were examined by the Kato-Katz technique for the estimation of eggs per gram of faeces (epg). Average epg values for Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura were calculated for each family in the community, based on the...

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

authors： Forrester JE,Scott ME,Bundy DA,Golden MH

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Cross-sectional entomological surveys were carried out during the 2006 dry and rainy seasons in Lagdo, Cameroon to measure the impact of rice cultivation on malaria transmission and to monitor vector susceptibility to insecticides. Adult anopheline mosquitoes were captured on human volunteers and by pyrethrum spray co...

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

authors： Antonio-Nkondjio C,Atangana J,Ndo C,Awono-Ambene P,Fondjo E,Fontenille D,Simard F

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:In 2000 we used a sensitive technique to examine 9 isolates from malaria patients in Muheza, Tanzania who had failed treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Three isolates carried, at low levels, the leucine to isoleucine change at amino acid 164 that is associated with clinical failure of SP. Numerous other hi...

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

authors： Hastings MD,Bates SJ,Blackstone EA,Monks SM,Mutabingwa TK,Sibley CH

更新日期：2002-11-01 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 effect of prior injections on the pattern and severity of paralytic poliomyelitis has been examined by a retrospective analysis of case notes from an outpatient pediatric clinic in South India. Of 262 children with acute polio, 176 had received unnecessary injections < 48 h before paralysis and 12 had received dip...

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

authors： Wyatt HV,Mahadevan S,Srinivasan S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The market for antimalarial drugs consists of the 2.8 billion (2.8 x 10(9) people living in malaria endemic areas and about 20-30 million people, mainly Europeans and North Americans, who travel or live in malarious areas, and the wealthy elite of malarious developing countries. Some of the largest markets include Chi...

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

authors： Foster S

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty human strains of Leishmania infantum isolated in 1985-99 from 17 patients with repeated cutaneous, mucosal or visceral leishmaniasis episodes in Catalonia (Spain) were examined by isoenzyme electrophoresis. Six zymodemes were revealed: MON-1, MON-24, MON-28, MON-29, MON-33 and MON-34. In 2 patients 2 different z...

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

authors： Gállego M,Pratlong F,Riera C,Muñoz C,Ribera E,Fisa R,Rioux JA,Dedet JP,Portús M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of information on the disease burden due to Taenia solium taeniasis and its associated risk factors in pig farming communities throughout the world. The present study was conducted in a rural pig farming community of north India to estimate the prevalence of T. solium taeniasis and associated factors. ...

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

authors： Prasad KN,Prasad A,Gupta RK,Pandey CM,Singh U

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test and the amoebic gel diffusion (AGD) test were assessed as tools for differentiating between past and present infection in invasive amoebiasis; in the case of the IFA test the Entamoeba histolytica-specific IgG and IgM were monitored. In a pilot study in which sera from 56 p...

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

authors： Jackson TF,Anderson CB,Simjee AE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new dihydroartemisinin (DHA) tablet formulation has been developed by the Thai Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO). In this report, its in vitro dissolution and in vivo pharmacokinetics as well as its safety in healthy volunteers were evaluated, using the DHA tablet made by Dafra Pharma NV as a reference. A...

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

authors： Kongpatanakul S,Chatsiricharoenkul S,Sathirakul K,Suputtamongkol Y,Atipas S,Watnasirichaikul S,Pongnarin P,Sangvanich P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leptospirosis has a mortality rate of 5-20%. Poor prognostic factors are older age; oliguria; elevated potassium, creatinine and/or bilirubin levels; and altered mental status. We conducted this retrospective study to analyse the predictors of mortality among Indian patients with leptospirosis. METHODS:Clin...

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

authors： Goswami RP,Goswami RP,Basu A,Tripathi SK,Chakrabarti S,Chattopadhyay I

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor-resting anopheline mosquitoes were collected from Obuasi, Ghana, and were identified morphologically and by PCR as Anopheles funestus Giles. Wild-caught females were induced to lay eggs. Samples of F1 progeny from each family were divided into cohorts and were either exposed to DDT and permethrin or were stored...

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

authors： Okoye PN,Brooke BD,Koekemoer LL,Hunt RH,Coetzee M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of deaths from cerebral malaria occur within 48 h after admission to hospital. Because of the possibility of inadequate treatment within this period, the use of a loading dose of quinine has been proposed. We reviewed clinical and laboratory data for 113 children with cerebral malaria, who were treated wi...

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

authors： van der Torn M,Thuma PE,Mabeza GF,Biemba G,Moyo VM,McLaren CE,Brittenham GM,Gordeuk VR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are being procured and used in increasing numbers. However, the resultant effect of RDT-based diagnosis on fever management has been limited by lack of confidence in RDT results or the inability to act on results appropriately. If the utilisation of malaria RDTs is going to achieve...

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

authors： Bell D,Perkins MD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites isolated in Robinson's medium from faeces containing cysts, transported from India, have been tested in vitro against the drugs furazolidone, iodochlorhydroxyquin, and both drugs combined as Dependal. Results show the levels at which drug action is significant and that interaction be...

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

authors： Sargeaunt PG,Lumsden WH

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias is a feature of living organisms. The origin of this bias might be explained not only by external factors but also by the nature of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) itself. We have developed a point mutation simulation program of coding sequences, in which nucleotide replacement follows th...

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

authors： Zimic MJ,Guerra D,Arévalo J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dog infected with Brugia pahangi is an excellent model for studying the clinical and immunological pathogenesis of lymphatic filarial infection and disease. Dogs demonstrated a range of clinical changes including varying levels of microfilaraemia, episodic lymphadenopathy, lymphangitis, and limb oedema similar to ...

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

authors： Snowden KF,Hammerberg B

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present the long-term outcome of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) patients. METHODS:An observational study of 291 MDR TB cases that were diagnosed from 1990 to 2011 at the Fukujuji Hospital in Japan. RESULTS:The frequency of relapse after cure was 3/168 (1.8%) during a mean follow-up of 4.4 year...

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

authors： Yoshiyama T,Morimoto K,Okumura M,Sasaki Y,Ogata H,Shiraishi Y,Kudou S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of Trypanosoma cruzi, used previously as prototypes for a classification based on the host-parasite relationships, as well as several stocks isolated from different geographical areas in Brazil, were submitted to isoenzymic analysis. Their isoenzyme patterns revealed a clear correlation with the biologic...

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

authors： Andrade V,Brodskyn C,Andrade SG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow cultures in 15 Plasmodium falciparum patients were studied both during and after parasitaemia. Abnormalities were observed only in the group during parasitaemia. These abnormalities included: (1) decreased normoblastic number and cellular iron incorporation in all cases; (2) premature death of normoblasts ...

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

authors： Srichaikul T,Siriasawakul T,Poshyachinda M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mebendazole, a benzimidazole carbamate compound, is currently in use for human medical practice against soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and enterobiasis. However, it has been demonstrated that its spectrum of activity is broad and goes beyond those infections. Several studies provide evidence that this drug, take...

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

authors： Cañete R,Escobedo AA,Almirall P,González ME,Brito K,Cimerman S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhoeal morbidity was studied during a 15-week period of the rainy season in 244 children aged 6 to 35 months in an urban Gambian community. The average prevalence of diarrhoea was 12.0% and the mean number of episodes per child varied between 2.4 and 2.9 depending on the definition of an episode. The number of chr...

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

authors： Pickering H,Hayes RJ,Tomkins AM,Carson D,Dunn DT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the role of non-biting cyclorrhaphan flies as carriers of human intestinal parasites at Woreta, northwestern Ethiopia. In total, 6530 flies were collected from four breeding sites and then examined for human intestinal parasites, mainly using the formol-ether concentration metho...

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

authors： Fetene T,Worku N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoenzyme profiles of 28 stocks of Leishmania aethiopica were compared with those of reference strains of L. aethiopica, L. tropica and L. major using starch-gel electrophoresis of 13 enzymes (GPI, GD, ES, PGM, PEPD, NH, ASAT, ALAT, PK, MPI, 6PGD, SOD, MDH). 13 zymodemes were seen. L. aethiopica showed some infraspeci...

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

authors： Le Blancq SM,Belehu A,Peters W

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00