Simulium neavei-transmitted onchocerciasis: HIV infection increases severity of onchocercal skin disease in a small sample of patients.

abstract：:The fibre-web technique for sampling, storing and transport of venous or capillary blood has been evaluated, in 84 schoolchildren from the Mwanza region of Tanzania, with regard to diagnostic efficacy for determination of the schistosome circulating anodic antigen (CAA) under conditions similar to those prevailing in ...

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

authors： Nilsson LA,van Dam GJ,Deelder AM,Eriksson B,Gabone RM,Schmeisser S

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:In order to estimate the importance as a public health problem of skin diseases, we investigated the prevalence and severity of skin diseases in a representative sample of children in Mali. 1817 children were randomly selected in 30 clusters by probability-proportional-to-size sampling in Koulikoro region. The mean pr...

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

authors： Mahé A,Prual A,Konaté M,Bobin P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited outbreak of symptomatic intestinal and extraintestinal amoebiasis within a family complex is described. The infection was almost certainly transmitted by a Philippino housemaid, who was an asymptomatic carrier of Entamoeba histolytica infection acquired in her native country. Starch-gel electrophoresis showe...

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

authors： Gatti S,Cevini C,Bruno A,Novati S,Scaglia M

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:The sensitivity specificity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the serodiagnosis of strongyloidiasis has been investigated. 45 men with long-standing strongyloidiasis were compared with the same number of age- and sex-matched control subjects. The ELISA detected antibody in 84% of patients with parasi...

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

authors： Carroll SM,Karthigasu KT,Grove DI

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) identify different populations of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with only some degree of overlap. In an urban slum in Bangladesh, we conducted a prospective cohort study on children assessed as being severely malnourished ...

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

authors： Ali E,Zachariah R,Shams Z,Vernaeve L,Alders P,Salio F,Manzi M,Allaouna M,Draguez B,Delchevalerie P,Harries AD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a five-year period, 45 Nigerians with radiographic appearances of diffuse pulmonary infiltration with at least six sputum specimens negative on culture for tubercule bacilli were investigated at University College Hospital, Ibadan. The value of pulmonary function studies and open or closed lung biopsy in discov...

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

authors： Onadeko BO,Sofowora EO,Grillo IA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of the medical records of 1970 patients admitted to the intensive care unit of the Clinical Research Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh was made, to identify various complications and outcome. All patients were admitted with a history of diarrhoea. Children under 5 years old comprised 90% of these pa...

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

authors： Mitra AK,Khan MR,Alam AN

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study performed in south Sulawesi (Sulawesi Selatan), Indonesia, we established that the immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a suitable community diagnostic method and that it can distinguish areas of high and low prevalences within short distances. In an attempt to make...

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

authors： Terhell AJ,Haarbrink M,Abadi K,Bronneberg DC,Tieleman MC,Asri M,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidiosis in AIDS patients has emerged as an important cause of morbidity, but diagnosis requires special stains, equipment and expertise. Here we describe a modification to an existing staining technique to allow more rapid preparation, without additional equipment, facilitating research in the tropics into th...

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

authors： Sianongo S,McDonald V,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty Kenyan patients with visceral leishmaniasis were evaluated for the presence of Leishmania donovani in their peripheral blood. Smears, cultures and hamster inoculations detected parasitaemia in 11, 10 and six patients, respectively, and at least one method detected parasitaemia in 15 patients (75%). The likeliho...

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

authors： Chulay JD,Adoyo MA,Githure JI

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and application of interventions for the control of vector-borne zoonoses requires broad understanding of epidemiological linkages between vector, animal infection and human infection. However, there are significant gaps in our understanding of these linkages and a lack of appropriate data poses a cons...

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

authors： Wardrop NA

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:We evaluated amodiaquine as a replacement drug for treating falciparum malaria in an area of Pakistani Punjab where chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum has recently emerged. Amodiaquine appeared to be 4 to 8 times more effective than chloroquine when P. falciparum isolates were tested in vitro. However, the re...

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

authors： Khaliq AA,Fox E,Sarwar M,Strickland GT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved awareness of Pap test by Nigerian women may not necessarily increase its use. This hypothesis was tested using female medical practitioners in Enugu state, Nigeria. They were expected to be advocates of disease screening and therefore should lead by example. All respondents were aware of the Pap smear but onl...

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

authors： Dim CC,Ekwe E,Madubuko T,Dim NR,Ezegwui HU

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the in vitro response of several isolates of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine, quinine and mefloquine. We show that parasites which are resistant to chloroquine also have a reduced sensitivity to quinine. However, there appears to be no correlation between chloroquine resistance and reduced sensit...

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

authors： Knowles G,Davidson WL,Jolley D,Alpers MP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal survey--parasitological, clinical, immunological and entomological--of onchocerciasis is being conducted in Gbaiima village in Sierra Leone. The estimated Annual Transmission Potential (ATP) is 5863. More than 80% of the annual transmission occurs between October and December. Four species of the Simuli...

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

authors： McMahon JE,Davies JB,White MD,Goddard JM,Beech-Garwood PA,Kirkwood BR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Anopheles gambiae, as in most species of mosquitoes, mating is initiated in flight. The males aggregate in aerial swarms and conspecific females individually fly to these swarms where they mate with males. In this study, we investigated the swarming behaviour of A. gambiae and conducted 2 surveys in the rice field ...

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

authors： Diabate A,Baldet T,Brengues C,Kengne P,Dabire KR,Simard F,Chandre F,Hougard JM,Hemingway J,Ouedraogo JB,Fontenille D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue fever (DF) is an urban vector-borne disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Both species deposit their eggs in favorable breeding sites either in natural or artificial containers. An understanding of their habitat characteristics is crucial in curbing DF outbreaks METHODS:A search ...

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

authors： Dom NC,Faiz Madzlan M,Nadira Yusoff SN,Hassan Ahmad A,Ismail R,Nazrina Camalxaman S

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Achromobacter xylosoxidans is described as being resistant to antiseptics and disinfectants. We studied in vitro the ability of five strains to survive and grow in such solutions, with and without starvation. METHODS:Bacterial suspensions in rich media and in distilled water were inoculated into eight antis...

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

authors： Marion-Sanchez K,Pailla K,Cesarine M,Platon MG,Derancourt C,Olive C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative antibody responses of individual Kenyan children to a tegument membrane preparation from adult schistosomes have been studied by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Qualitative differences between patients were examined by electrophoretic fractionation of the membrane preparation followed by Western blotti...

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

authors： Roberts SM,Wilson RA,Ouma JH,Kariuki HC,Koech D,arap Siongok TK,Sturrock RF,Butterworth AE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on malaria transmission intensity and prevalences of asexual parasites and of gametocytes were obtained in an urban district of Yaoundé, Cameroon. The transmission level from mosquito to human was determined by indoor night capture of mosquitoes on human volunteers, revealing a calculated entomological inoculatio...

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

authors： van der Kolk M,Tebo AE,Nimpaye H,Ndombol DN,Sauerwein RW,Eling WM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of 27 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and six with mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) in Sudan are described. The diagnosis was confirmed by the demonstration of amastigotes in bone-marrow in 20 cases with VL (80%) and impression smears in 2 cases with ML. The en...

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

authors： el-Safi SH,Peters W,Evans DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients with short duration of cough was determined. Ninety-eight adult out-patients (60 men, 38 women; mean age 32 years) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, who had cough for 1-3 weeks which was unresponsive to a course of antibiotics, were succes...

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

authors： Banda HT,Harries AD,Welby S,Boeree MJ,Wirima JJ,Subramanyam VR,Maher D,Nunn PA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freeze-dried and freshly cultured isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from different countries have been examined for variation in six enzymes, GPI, PGD, LDH, GDH, ADA and PEPE, using starch gel electrophoresis. Variant forms of each enzyme occur. For most enzymes, similar forms occur in isolates from different parts of...

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

authors： Sanderson A,Walliker D,Molez JF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically identical Leishmania chagasi/infantum parasites cause both atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis. In this report we have tested the first part of a hypothesis that states that the form of this disease that is manifested depends upon the adjuvant-like activity of aluminium of dietary o...

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

authors： Maingon R,Khela A,Sampson C,Ward R,Walker K,Exley C

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus was first reported to have mainly haemolytic and neurotoxic physiopathological activities. Later studies demonstrated the systemic myotoxic action of the venom, characterized by the release of myoglobin from damaged skeletal muscle into serum and...

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

authors： Cupo P,Azevedo-Marques MM,Hering SE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00