High attack rate of Tunga penetrans (Linnaeus 1758) infestation in an impoverished Brazilian community.

abstract：:There are conflicting reports on the presence of neurocognitive dysfunction during the initial, medically asymptomatic stage of HIV infection. This study aimed to assess the psychomotor speed and attention ability of antiretroviral treatment-naïve Nigerian Africans with HIV/AIDS and the impact of CD4 levels on their c...

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

authors： Ogunrin AO,Odiase FE,Ogunniyi A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Omdurman Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Sudan, from 6 October to 1 December 1986, 736 patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) were studied. The duration of the lesions varied from a few days to 4 months, usually (56%) 1-3 months. Multiple lesions ranging from one to 50 (mean = 4) were present in 80% of case...

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

authors： el-Safi SH,Peters W,el-Toam B,el-Kadarow A,Evans DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：: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：:This article reviews peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on the history, epidemiology, genetics, ecology, pathogenesis, pathology and management of podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis). Podoconiosis is a non-infectious geochemical elephantiasis caused by exposure of bare feet to irritant alkalic ...

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

authors： Davey G,Tekola F,Newport MJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major endemic areas of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil are located in the drier, poorly forested regions, principally in the northeastern States such as Ceará and Bahia. Cases of the human disease in the Amazon Region are rare, very sporadic, and seldom present opportunities for epidemiological study. Following the r...

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

authors： Silveira FT,Lainson R,Shaw JJ,Póvoa MM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments in 3 weeks old albino mice with Toxocara canis and sublethal infection with JE virus established a marked synergestic effect in dually infected mice. The results are discussed to indicate the possible role of visceral larva migrans in creating exploxive outbreaks of "acute encephalopathy syndrome" in indiv...

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

authors： Pavri KM,Ghalsasi GR,Dastur DK,Goverdhan MK,Lalitha VS

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capuchin monkeys were resistant to reinfection with Schistosoma haematobium one year after exposure to 500 cercariae, but worms in these monkeys continued to produce normal numbers of eggs. Monkeys were apparently completely refractory to reinfection when challenged 2-5 years after an initial exposure of 1000 to 2000 ...

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

authors： Cheever AW,Duvall RH,Kuntz RE,Huang TC,Moore JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:The seroepidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection was studied in 681 randomly selected Black children from newborn to 13 years of age (333 boys, mean age 8.05 years, and 348 girls, mean age 7.76 years) in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa. H. pylori infection was identified serologically using an enzyme-linked immunosor...

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

authors： Sathar MA,Gouws E,Simjee AE,Mayat AM

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:In a 'blinded' trial (in Sri Lanka, 1996-98) of 47 male asymptomatic microfilaraemic subjects with Wuchereria bancrofti infection, the safety, tolerability and filaricidal efficacy of 3 single-dose combination regimens were compared: albendazole 400 mg with ivermectin 200 micrograms/kg, albendazole 400 mg with diethyl...

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

authors： Ismail MM,Jayakody RL,Weil GJ,Fernando D,De Silva MS,De Silva GA,Balasooriya WK

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross haematuria caused by lymphatic filariasis has been rarely reported. An adult woman living in a filarial-endemic area presented at a hospital in Orissa, India, in July 2004, with painless gross haematuria without any associated symptoms, such as dysuria, abdominal pain and fever. Urine microscopy revealed many er...

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

authors： Kerketta AS,Dhal K,Nayak R

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：:The spread of HIV-1 infection among women of childbearing age has led to increasing numbers of children at risk of vertical transmission. This study aimed to assess child outcomes among HIV-positive (n=19) and AIDS (n=22) mothers from Central West Brazil. CD4(+) T-cell counts (FACScount, BD) and viral loads (HIV-1 RT-...

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

authors： Alcântara KC,Pereira GA,Albuquerque M,Stefani MM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple radioisotope scanner was used in a study of liver diseases in The Gambia. Scans were of value in localizing areas for biopsy or aspiration and in defining the liver in the presence of gross ascites. Although the scan was not helpful in diagnosis it provided a measure of the size of filling defects during trea...

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

authors： Ajdukiewicz AB,Bassett N,Crawley JC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria are sources of numerous molecules used in treatment of infectious diseases. We investigated effects of molecules produced by 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains against infection of mammalian cell cultures with Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease. METHODS:Vero cells were infec...

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

authors： Sass G,Miller Conrad LC,Nguyen TH,Stevens DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demographics, epidemiology, first aid, clinical management, treatment and outcome of snake bites causing no significant signs of systemic envenoming were documented in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, between May 1999 and October 2002. Among 884 patients admitted, 350 were systemically envenomed an...

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

authors： Harris JB,Faiz MA,Rahman MR,Jalil MM,Ahsan MF,Theakston RD,Warrell DA,Kuch U

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As reduced red cell deformability (RCD) can contribute to derangement of the microcirculation, a central feature in the pathogenesis of severe malaria, RCD was measured with a laser diffraction technique in 232 consecutive patients with falciparum malaria on the Kenyan coast, of whom 99 had severe disease. RCD on admi...

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

authors： Dondorp AM,Nyanoti M,Kager PA,Mithwani S,Vreeken J,Marsh K

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:In Ghana, a population-based immunization coverage survey revealed missed opportunities at preventive and curative care visits among children 12-18 months old attending the local hospital in the eastern region of Ghana. Parent-held immunization cards do not have a place to record curative care visits. If pediatric p...

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

authors： Brugha R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of Chagas' disease among HIV seropositive patients and to define the clinical profile of co-infected cases. Cross-sectional study: the prevalence of co-infected subjects was 1.3% and there was no significant difference between co-infected and non co-infecte...

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

authors： Almeida EA,Lima JN,Lages-Silva E,Guariento ME,Aoki FH,Torres-Morales AE,Pedro RJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：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：: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：:Two isolates of Plasmodium falciparum (F 32 and K 1) were tested against sulfadoxine (SDX), sulfamethoxazole (SMZ), pyrimethamine (PYR) and trimethoprim (TMP), using a 48 h microtest, with RPMI-1640 low in PABA and folic acid. The IC50 for F 32 was: PYR 6.1 X 10(-9) M (mol/litre), TMP 1.3 X 10(-7) M, Fansidar (SDX/PYR...

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

authors： Petersen E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in medicinal plants has increased in recent years. This article examines the history of medicinal plant research through a case study of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) over the past 100 years. Papers published by members of the School and documents in the School archives show a flu...

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

authors： Taylor S,Berridge V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a survey for taeniasis and cysticercosis among persons living in a Mexican village where Taenia solium infection in pigs was known to be enzootic. A standardized questionnaire was administered in all 577 households to obtain medical histories and information on demographic and environmental factors and on...

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

authors： Sarti E,Schantz PM,Plancarte A,Wilson M,Gutierrez OI,Aguilera J,Roberts J,Flisser A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a high prevalence of primary liver cell carcinoma in the Guinea Savanna country of Nigeria, one of the highest frequencies in the world. The highest frequency of the tumour was among males aged 20 to 49 years. The clinical and laboratory findings are similar to those found in other series in Africa. Alpha1-fo...

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

authors： Fakunle YM,Ajdukiewicz AB,Greenwood BM,Edington GM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00