Antibody detection tests for Onchocerca volvulus: comparison of the sensitivity of a cocktail of recombinant antigens used in the indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with a rapid-format antibody card test.

abstract：Background:HIV-associated TB is a serious public health problem in Myanmar. Study objectives were to describe national scale-up of collaborative activities to reduce the double burden of TB and HIV from 2005 to 2016 and to describe TB treatment outcomes of individuals registered with HIV-associated TB in 2015 in the Ma...

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

authors： Theingi P,Harries AD,Wai KT,Shewade HD,Saw S,Win T,Thein S,Kyi MS,Nyunt Oo H,Aung ST

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread use of multidrug therapy, leprosy remains an important public health concern in many regions. Detection is generally limited to clinical exam. METHODS:As a two-tiered active case finding strategy, we used the LID-1 (leprosy IDRI diagnostic-1), and PADL (protein advances for the diagno...

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

authors： de Souza MM,Netto EM,Nakatani M,Duthie MS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 33, 274 mosquitoes was collected from Tagudin, Ilocos Sur Province, Philippines during July 1977. Isolates made from one pool of Culex tritaeniorhynchus and one pool of C. vishnui were identified as Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) by a micro-neutralization test using reference hyperimmune mouse ascitic fl...

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

authors： Trosper JH,Ksiazek TG,Cross JH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:30 pairs of patients with complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (with anaemia, hyperpyrexia, jaundice or more than 5% of erythrocytes parasitized) were studied. Patients with cerebral signs and symptoms were excluded. One group of patients was treated with oral mefloquine (750 mg) and artemether (600 mg by injecti...

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

authors： Tin Shwe,Pe Than Myint,Ye Htut,Win Myint,Lin Soe

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcal infection remains almost the sole cause of the clinical syndrome of acute glomerulonephritis in African children. Evidence for this is in elevated levels of antistreptolysin "O" (ASO) titre in 93% of 28 patients and growth of Group Abeta haemolytic streptococci from the skin and throat in 32%. Spread of ...

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

authors： Hallett AF,Adhikari M,Cooper R,Coovadia HM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Vietnamese child presented with a history of abdominal pain. Shortly afterwards, he vomited eight live trematode flukes that were collected and morphologically identified as Fasciolopsis buski. The identification was confirmed by DNA analysis. Adult worms of F. buski from humans are very rarely seen except at autops...

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

authors： Le TH,Nguyen VD,Phan BU,Blair D,McManus DP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate complement activation in uncomplicated, early phases of human malaria. Fifteen healthy volunteers were experimentally infected with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Parasitemia and complement activation products were assessed. During blood stage parasitemia, volunteers show...

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

authors： Roestenberg M,McCall M,Mollnes TE,van Deuren M,Sprong T,Klasen I,Hermsen CC,Sauerwein RW,van der Ven A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercial dot-blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Dip-S-Ticks dipstick test was compared with the indirect immunoperoxidase (IIP) and Weil-Felix (WF) tests for the diagnosis of scrub typhus, using the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) as the reference standard. With a panel of 117 positive and 75 ...

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

authors： Pradutkanchana J,Silpapojakul K,Paxton H,Pradutkanchana S,Kelly DJ,Strickman D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Man-biting collections were made for 7 consecutive nights per month for 24 months at 2 sites in a Thai village regularly treated with DDT and fenitrothion yet hyperendemic for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. Only Anopheles dirus was incriminated as a vector: 1.6% were infective and 2.4% were infected (median numbe...

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

authors： Rosenberg R,Andre RG,Somchit L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of chloroquine resistance throughout the world poses a major problem in combating malaria. In the present study, an efficient polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformational polymorphism (PCR--SSCP)-based assay detected the PfCRT K76T point mutation, which is a marker for chloroquine resistance. For ...

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

authors： Mishra S,Raj DK,Hazra RK,Dash AP,Supakar PC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical mastitis, defined as raised milk sodium/potassium (Na/K) ratio is common and associated with poor infant growth and increased mother-to-child HIV transmission. In 1996-97, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of multiple micronutrient supplementation, at recommended daily allowance levels, from 22 to...

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

authors： Gomo E,Filteau SM,Tomkins AM,Ndhlovu P,Michaelsen KF,Friis H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy in the treatment of human tuberculosis and to assess longer-term outcomes following treatment for tuberculosis patients, a double-blind placebo-controlled Phase-2 clinical trial was set up in the Mseleni and Manguzi health wards in north-eastern KwaZulu, South Africa. ...

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

authors： Mayo RE,Stanford JL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responsiveness of schistosomiasis patients was assayed longitudinally, before and for two years after chemotherapeutic treatment with praziquantel, by in vitro peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMN) proliferation upon exposure to phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), or soluble schistosomal antigenic preparations from e...

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

authors： Colley DG,Barsoum IS,Dahawi HS,Gamil F,Habib M,el Alamy MA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), a specific, irreversible inhibitor of polyamine biosynthesis shown to be curative in animal models inoculated with various Trypanosoma spp., was evaluated in the Southern Sudan in a preliminary open clinical field trial in patients infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. 20 patients...

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

authors： Van Nieuwenhove S,Schechter PJ,Declercq J,Boné G,Burke J,Sjoerdsma A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nutritional status, parasitic infections and general health of 801 male roadworkers living in four different areas of Kenya, namely, the highlands, coastal lowlands, Lake Victoria basin and the semiarid north-west, were investigated. Undernutrition was common in all areas but was most marked among men in the semi-...

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

authors： Latham MC,Stephenson LS,Hall A,Wolgemuth JC,Elliott TC,Crompton DW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hungry Anopheles funestus females were caught in CDC light traps positioned overnight in village houses in which the occupants were protected by bed nets. The sampling was performed in six huts near Muheza, in North-eastern Tanzania, September to November 1972. Parous, unfed mosquitoes were carefully examined, usually...

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

authors： Krafsur ES,Garrett-Jones C

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:A cohort of 48 Gambian children was protected against malaria by fortnightly administration of Maloprim (pyrimethamine and dapsone) for 2 years between their 3 and 5 birthdays. A matched cohort of 47 children received placebo. During the year following the termination of prophylaxis there was no increase in the freque...

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

authors： Otoo LN,Snow RW,Menon A,Byass P,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Amazonian Brazil most human leishmaniasis is due to Leishmania braziliensis s.l. and is acquired during the clearing of primary climax forest. One of the largest deforestation projects has taken place on the JARI property where plantations of exotic tree species are grown for paper pulp. The ability of the regional...

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

authors： Ready PD,Lainson R,Shaw JJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tungiasis (jigger) is endemic in many impoverished communities in many parts of Brazil. Forty-seven individuals entering an endemic area were followed up for a period of six weeks and regularly examined for the presence of newly embedded sand fleas. At the end of the third week, the attack rate of Tunga penetrans infe...

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

authors： Heukelbach J,Franck S,Feldmeier H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus was evaluated in blood donors and antenatal clinic attenders in Kumasi, Ghana and seropositive subjects were tested for hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The overall seroprevalence among Ghanaians was 2.8% but there was a significantly hi...

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

authors： Wansbrough-Jones MH,Frimpong E,Cant B,Harris K,Evans MR,Teo CG

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and epidemiological features of 62 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, from Pará State, Amazonian Brazil, are discussed. The parasite, isolated in hamster skin and/or blood-agar culture medium, was in each case identified by both biological characteristics and a mo...

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

authors： Silveira FT,Lainson R,Shaw JJ,De Souza AA,Ishikawa EA,Braga RR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypervariable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) probe was isolated by screening a Leishmania donovani genomic DNA library with L. donovani total DNA. The probe was used to characterize L. donovani stocks on the basis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). The molecular karyotype of the same stocks was exami...

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

authors： Bishop RP,Akinsehinwa F

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:A study was conducted in rural Malawi to verify (a) whether the Partec CyFlow Counter((R)) for CD4+ T-cell lymphocyte counting in HIV-positive individuals could be introduced into a district hospital laboratory and (b) whether it would produce CD4 counts of acceptable quality. CD4+ cell counting was performed using th...

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

authors： Fryland M,Chaillet P,Zachariah R,Barnaba A,Bonte L,Andereassen R,Charrondière S,Teck R,Didakus O

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the prevalence, incidence, and geographical distribution of malaria in Zimbabwe is reviewed. Malaria control operations carried out during the last 30 years are briefly described together with available information of their impact on malaria. From 1972 to 1981, 51,962 positive blood slides were submitte...

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

authors： Taylor P,Mutambu SL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand better the relationship among Mycobacterium leprae, its transmission and the human host or the chain of infection which may lead to the development of leprosy, we performed a population survey in which nasal carriage of M. leprae was determined by a specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR), 2 ye...

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

authors： Hatta M,van Beers SM,Madjid B,Djumadi A,de Wit MY,Klatser PR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemolymph of Panstrongylus megistus, infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, was examined by light and electron microscopy. Numerous parasites lie inside the haemocytes, each one in a vacuole. Their well-preserved morphological features support the concept of parasite multiplication in cells of the insect haemolymph. ...

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

authors： Lacombe D,Barth OM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the successful purification of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Burkholderia thailandensis, a Gram-negative bacterium, closely related to the highly pathogenic organisms B. pseudomallei and B. mallei. Burkholderia thailandensis LPS is shown to cross-react with rabbit and mouse sera obtained from inoculation wit...

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

authors： Qazi O,Prior JL,Judy BM,Whitlock GC,Kitto GB,Torres AG,Estes DM,Brown KA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00