Schistosomiasis prophylaxis in vivo using N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET).

abstract：:Routine results of direct examination of sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli from 34 laboratories in Tanzania were analysed. These represented 8 regions providing 94 laboratory-years of work; 61,580 tuberculosis suspects were evaluated with the aid of 141,371 smears. The average proportion of cases found among suspect...

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

authors： Ipuge YA,Rieder HL,Enarson DA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In The Gambia, insecticide impregnation of bed nets, used alone or combined with Maloprim, reduced morbidity and mortality from malaria amongst children between one and 4 years of age. Taking expenditure of both time and money by public authorities and village volunteers into account, the costs and cost-effectiveness ...

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

authors： Picard J,Aikins M,Alonso PL,Armstrong Schellenberg JR,Greenwood BM,Mills A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National tuberculosis control programmes (NTPs) in sub-Saharan Africa do not routinely record or report treatment outcome data on smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients. Twelve-month treatment outcome on patients with smear-negative PTB registered in all district and mission hospitals in Malawi during th...

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

authors： Harries AD,Nyirenda TE,Banerjee A,Boeree MJ,Salaniponi FM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmanial antigen in circulating immune complexes (CIC) from sera of cotton-rats experimentally infected with Leishmania donovani and visceral leishmaniasis patients (VLP) was detected using a polyethylene glycol (PEG) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (PEG-ELISA). The immune complexes were precipitated in the cold ...

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

authors： Azazy AA,Devaney E,Chance ML

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is concern that crop irrigation that results in increased numbers of vector mosquitoes will lead to a rise in malaria in local communities. We evaluated the level of malaria experienced in 3 communities in northern Tanzania with different agricultural practices: rice irrigation, sugar-cane irrigation and traditi...

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

authors： Ijumba JN,Shenton FC,Clarke SE,Mosha FW,Lindsay SW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of cholera in two groups: (i) people using covered latrine and piped water; (ii) people using uncovered surface latrine and pond and tubewell water. The study population consisted of cholera cases admitted to the ICDDR, B hospital from three refugee camps. In t...

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

authors： Khan MU,Shahidullah M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This year-long study investigated the epidemiology of acute filarial episodes due to Wuchereria bancrofti in 2 rural villages in south India. The annual incidence of 96.5 episodes/1000 population was significantly higher in males (108.5) than females (84.1) an strongly age dependent. First occurrence of acute disease ...

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

authors： Ramaiah KD,Ramu K,Kumar KN,Guyatt H

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trachoma surveys were conducted at baseline in five districts of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia (7478 participants in 1096 households) and at 3-year evaluation (5762 participants in 1117 households). Uptake of SAFE was assessed with programme monitoring data and interviews, and children (1-6 years) were swab...

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

authors： Ngondi J,Gebre T,Shargie EB,Adamu L,Ejigsemahu Y,Teferi T,Zerihun M,Ayele B,Cevallos V,King J,Emerson PM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response in a 49-year-old Italian nun affected by Tetrapetalomena (Dipetalonema) perstans following an eight-year stay in Cameroon is reported. On admission the patient presented with polyarthralgia, conjunctival pruritus and irritation, oedema of the limbs, generalized itching, hypereosinophilia and low to...

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

authors： Almaviva M,Galli M,Rizzi M,Simonelli E,Negri C,Vigevani GM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for a non-toxic and low-cost treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis. We synthesised and tested in vivo an amphotericin B-poly(methacrylic acid) drug (AmB-PMA) that had previously shown in-vitro activity against Leishmania major and L. donovani parasites. Efficacy was determined using L. major fo...

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

authors： Corware KD,Rogers M,Teo I,Müller I,Shaunak S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the characteristics of women and men with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis, all 3231 cases treated in Nioki hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo, from 1982 to 2000 were reviewed for demographic information, date and mode of diagnosis, pre-treatment cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination, treatm...

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

authors： Pépin J,Mpia B,Iloasebe M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological survey was carried out to determine the frequency of distribution of hydatid antibodies in Pondicherry during 1981 to 1984. 1325 apparently normal sera and 109 sera from clinically suspected hydatid disease cases were screened by the indirect haemagglutination (IHA) test. Results showed a diagnostic titr...

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

authors： Parija SC,Sasikala A,Rao RS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model of hepatic amoebiasis in guinea-pigs, simulating the natural infection in man, induced by progesterone following intracaecal inoculation of Entamoeba histolytica has been developed. On Day 3 after infection, 60% of the animals developed amoebic liver abscess, but on Days 7, 11, 15, 20 and 35 afte...

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

authors： Gill NJ,Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC,Bhusnurmath SR,Dilawari JB

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:After new analysis, Sanofi Pasteur now recommends their dengue vaccine (Dengvaxia) should only be given to individuals previously infected with dengue and the World Health Organization's recommendations regarding its use are currently being revised. As a result, the potential costs of performing large-scale ...

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

authors： Turner HC,Wills BA,Rahman M,Quoc Cuong H,Thwaites GE,Boni MF,Clapham HE

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described simple kit for isolating African trypanosomes in vitro (KIVI) was tested further with blood samples from man and other animals in Côte d'Ivoire and République du Congo. A high rate of success was achieved, with positive cultures being found 5-36 d after inoculation. The method was also of value in...

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

authors： Truc P,Aerts D,McNamara JJ,Claes Y,Allingham R,Le Ray D,Godfrey DG

更新日期：1992-11-01 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 Swedish tourist who had visited Kenya fell ill with Plasmodium falciparum malaria 11 days after returning home, in spite of taking pyrimethamine (50 mg weekly) as malaria prophylaxis. Chloroquine treatment (25 mg base/kg body-weight) giving serum concentrations of 0.30 mumol/l cleared the patent parasitaemia and the...

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

authors： Faehlmann M,Rombo L,Hedman P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct diagnosis of parasitic infections is essential for the treatment of individuals avoiding indiscriminate use of anthelmintics which increases drug resistance. In a comparative study between the spontaneous sedimentation technique and Paratest(®), 140 stool samples were analyzed for the detection of parasites. T...

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

authors： Brandelli CL,Cargnin ST,Willers DM,Oliveira KR,Tasca T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 250 Ghanaian schoolchildren aged 5-15 years was followed clinically and parasitologically for 4 months in 1997/98 in order to study the effect of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections on haematological indices and bone-marrow responses. Of the 250 children 65 met the predefined study criteria. Thus...

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

authors： Kurtzhals JA,Addae MM,Akanmori BD,Dunyo S,Koram KA,Appawu MA,Nkrumah FK,Hviid L

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a method, potentially suitable for field applications, for semi-quantitative detection of Mycobacterium leprae antigens in skin scrapings, which are taken normally for smear microscopy. Thirty acid-fast bacilli-negative paucibacillary (PB) leprosy patients comprised the main study group; eight acid-fa...

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

authors： Chaturvedi V,Girdhar BK,Sengupta U,Sinha S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG; beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase; EC 3.2.1.30), blood urea, serum creatinine and creatinine clearance were measured in 23 patients bitten by Russell's viper (Daboia russelii siamensis), with systemic envenomation, at different time intervals after the bite during clinical obse...

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

authors： Win-Aung,Aye-Kyaw,Tin-Win,San-Kun,Thin-Thin-Hlaing

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed with aspirates of bone marrow or lymph node can be used as a test of cure of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Sixty-one VL patients who had received supervised treatment with sodium stibogluconate in the health centre of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) H...

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

authors： Osman OF,Oskam L,Zijlstra EE,el-Hassan AM,el-Naeim DA,Kager PA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmodium vivax malaria has been recognised as an important cause of morbidity in several African countries. The prevalence was previously estimated as 2-5% in eastern Sudan. These estimates are observed to be rising and spreading continuously. The present study was undertaken to investigate the situation o...

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

authors： Elgoraish AG,Elzaki SEG,Ahmed RT,Ahmed AI,Fadlalmula HA,Abdalgader Mohamed S,Abdallah NI,Abdelgadir O,Ageep TB,El-Sayed BB

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 209 patients with liver disease attending the Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, 172 were suffering from acute hepatitis. The proportion harbouring the hepatitis B surface antigen was unknown. Of the remainder, 10 were suffering from chronic active hepatitis, five from primary hepatoma and six from cirrhosis. Infection ...

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

authors： Bate CM,Wolstenholme RJ,Moffatt AD

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Study of the effects of malaria chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy on birthweight and investigation of the influence of birthweight on child survival suggest that, in a rural area of The Gambia, chemoprophylaxis given during pregnancy might reduce infant mortality by about one-fifth in the children of primigravid...

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

authors： Greenwood AM,Armstrong JR,Byass P,Snow RW,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between July 1989 and December 1990, 4504 new adult patients with tuberculosis were screened for antibodies to human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) 1 and 2 in Abidjan's 2 tuberculosis treatment centres. The prevalence levels of HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections were 30.2% and 4.2% respectively, a further 9.3% of patients rea...

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

authors： Gnaore E,Sassan-Morokro M,Kassim S,Ackah A,Yesso G,Adjorlolo G,Digbeu H,Coulibaly D,Coulibaly IM,Doorly R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:34 patients with tetanus were studied; all had normal serum proteins and albumin. Only 3 samples of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contained cells (a few polymorphonuclear leucocytes). Protein levels in the CSF were elevated in 26 patients (76.5%); 11 cases with clinically mild tetanus had a mean CSF protein of 400 +/- 250...

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

authors： Idoko JA,Amiobonomo AE,Anjorin FI,Oyeyinka GO,Elechi C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) accounts for the majority of childhood malignancies seen in sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi, cyclophosphamide (CPM), the mainstay of treatment for endemic BL, is effective in around 50% of cases. Evidence exists in support of an association between activation of replication of Epstein-Barr virus ...

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

authors： Phillips JA,Griffin BE

更新日期：2007-12-01 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