Case reports: acute hookworm infection: an unusual cause of profuse watery diarrhoea in returned travellers.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In urbanized, low-income cities with high rates of congestion, delivery of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) by unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to people with epilepsy for both emergency and non-urgent distribution may prove beneficial. METHODS:Conakry is the capital of the Republic of Guinea, a low-income sub-S...

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

authors： Mateen FJ,Leung KHB,Vogel AC,Cissé AF,Chan TCY

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of enteric pathogens in 143 children with diarrhoea, 116 age-matched controls and 524 asymptomatic people of all ages in a commercial farming area was carried out over a period of one year. Giardia lamblia was detected in 34% of the cases, 29% of the controls and 23% of asymptomatic people of all ages. Variou...

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

authors： Simango C,Dindiwe J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aedes aegypti rapid larval surveys are mandatory in Brazil. Here, we retrospectively examined whether the house index estimated by larval surveys served as a useful tool in anticipating epidemics within Brazilian municipalities from 2009-2015. METHODS:We used correlation indices and classification analysis ...

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

authors： Enslen AW,Lima Neto AS,Castro MC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a worldwide disease, but due to the absence of surveillance systems is under-reported from low- and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, the disease is found in the rural highlands and the incidence of Leishmania/HIV co-infection is increasing. Although some studies have been carried out in areas of ...

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

authors： Padovese V,Terranova M,Toma L,Barnabas GA,Morrone A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infection with Schistosoma haematobium and various factors including water contact pattern, past history of haematuria and treatment for schistosomiasis and cercarial dermatitis was investigated in Southern Iraq. The study covered mainly primary schoolchildren in different areas of Basrah and i...

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

authors： Yacoub A,Southgate BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases manifesting features characteristic of epidemic dropsy following body massage with contaminated mustard oil are reported. A transcutaneous route of absorption for the toxin (sanguinarine) resulting in epidemic dropsy has not been documented previously in man. Oil used for body massage was found to be adulte...

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

authors： Sood NN,Sachdev MS,Mohan M,Gupta SK,Sachdev HP

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Human milk was shown to inhibit adherence of Giardia at concentrations as low as 0.5%. Unsaturated fatty acids were also found to cause significant inhibitory effects on adherence, with ED50 values less than 1 microM for arachidonic, linoleic and palmitic acids. A variety of infant feeding formulae derived from cow's ...

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

authors： Crouch AA,Seow WK,Whitman LM,Thong YH

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey for intestinal parasites was carried out in a homogenous rice cultivation area, in which people had equal opportunities of acquiring the local endemic helminthiases, including schistosomiasis mansoni. The numbers of Schistosoma mansoni eggs excreted in faeces were counted. Infections with S. mansoni, Ascaris ...

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

authors： Chamone M,Marques CA,Atuncar GS,Pereira AL,Pereira LH

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:Anthropometric measurements were made and serum iron and ferritin levels determined in a group of Gambian children at the beginning of the rainy season and these findings were related to the malaria experience of the children during the following malaria transmission season. Susceptibility to malaria was not correlate...

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

authors： Snow RW,Byass P,Shenton FC,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was carried out between October 2007 and January 2008 to investigate the prevalence and types of anaemia among pregnant women of eastern Sudan. Socio-demographic and obstetrical data were collected using a questionnaire. Haemoglobin (Hb), serum ferritin, serum folate and vitamin B(12) were asse...

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

authors： Abdelrahim II,Adam GK,Mohmmed AA,Salih MM,Ali NI,Elbashier MI,Adam I

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial diarrheal diseases are one of the leading causes of child morbidity and mortality in developing countries. This study aimed to identify the main causes of non-bacterial diarrhea in Afghanistan. METHODS:A total of 699 stools were collected from children aged under 5 years who presented with diarrhe...

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

authors： Elyan D,Wasfy M,El Mohammady H,Hassan K,Monestersky J,Noormal B,Oyofo B

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked spatiotemporal variabilities in mosquito infection of arboviruses, exemplified by the transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) in America, require adaptive strategies for mosquito sampling, pool screening and data analyses. Currently there is a lack of reliable and consistent measures of risk exposure, which may c...

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

authors： Gu W,Unnasch TR,Katholi CR,Lampman R,Novak RJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 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-resistant malaria has led to a resurgence of quinine in clinical use. One of the well-known side effects of quinine, reversible hearing loss, is closely related to the plasma concentration. We suggest that this hearing effect could be used as an aid in therapy control when quinine drug assay ...

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

authors： Karlsson KK,Hellgren U,Alván G,Rombo L

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Ultrasound utilization studies in the developing world are important to support appropriate use. METHODS:A prospective, cross-sectional study in the medical wards at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, was performed which aimed to assess referrals, reports and usefulness of scans to develop ...

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

authors： Brindle HE,Allain TJ,Kampondeni S,Kayange N,Faragher B,Bates I,Joekes E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using IFAT, it has been shown that isolated egg-shells and uterine fluid of Dipetalonema viteae are the most potent antigens in heterologous systems using human sera from patients infected with Wuchereria bancrofti, Onchocerca volvulus and Loa loa, as well as in homologous systems using sera from animals infected with...

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

authors： Diesfeld HJ,Kirsten C

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on resistance to blood schizontocides in Plasmodium falciparum give a rational basis for the use of artemisinins combined with arylaminoalcohols for the treatment of uncomplicated chloroquine-resistant malaria in Africa. In areas where such combinations are introduced, there is reason to believe that th...

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

authors： Warhurst DC,Duraisingh MT

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:The in vitro blastogenesis response of lymphocytes from 19 patients, with either visceral or mucocutaneous leishmaniasis or Chagas disease, to antigens of the Leishmania-Trypanosoma complex was studied. Cells from all patients responded to both homologous and heterologous antigens and the magnitude of the responses di...

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

authors： Carvalho EM,Reed SG,Johnson WD Jr

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the irrigated zones of North-eastern region of Afghanistan malaria transmission is sustained by A. pulcherrimus and A. hyrcanus despite many years of DDT spraying. A. hyrcanus is an exophilic and exophagic mosquito, strongly resistant to DDT. A. pulcherrimus is still largely susceptible to the insecticide but seems...

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

authors： Onori E,Nushin MK,Cullen JE,Yakubi GH,Mohammed K,Christal FA

更新日期：1975-01-01 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

abstract：:Vector competence of Aedes aegypti populations from six locations in different bioclimatic zones and habitats of Senegal was assessed for sylvatic (ArD 140875) and epidemic (ArA 6894) dengue 2 virus (DENV-2) isolates. F1 generation mosquitoes were fed with a blood meal containing 10(6.5) and 1.6 x 10(7) tissue culture...

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

authors： Diallo M,Ba Y,Faye O,Soumare ML,Dia I,Sall AA

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:To investigate the spatial distribution of congenital syphilis (CS) and its association to social vulnerability indexes in northeast Brazil. METHODS:This was an ecological study referring to all cases of CS and CS deaths recorded in the northeast region of Brazil from 2008 to 2015. Data were obtained from t...

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

authors： de Souza CDF,Machado MF,Correia DS,do Carmo RF,Cuevas LE,Santos VS

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arboviruses are maintained and transmitted through an alternating biological cycle in arthropods and vertebrates, with largely incidental disease in humans and animals. As such, they provide excellent examples of One Health, as their health impact is inextricably linked to their vertebrate hosts, their arthropod vecto...

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

authors： Mackenzie JS,Lindsay MDA,Smith DW,Imrie A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00