Rheumatoid factor and rheumatoid factor isotypes in loiasis with and without accompanying glomerulonephritis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a neglected tropical disease and its diagnosis is still a challenge due to non-specific manifestations. Neuroimaging techniques are used in the diagnosis of NCC, however, due to the high cost of these methods and the advantages presented in the use of immunological tests, such as ...

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

authors： Silva GBD,Faria LSD,Lopes CA,Nunes DS,Ribeiro VS,de Sousa JEN,Paiva GCM,Gonçalves-Pires MRF,Borges IP,Santos MM,Ávila VMR,Júnior ÁF,Costa-Cruz JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compounds derived from the Chinese medicinal plant qinghao (Artemisia annua) are the most rapidly acting of all antimalarial drugs. They are effective when given parenterally, orally or by suppository. No serious adverse effect has yet been reported in humans. The artemisinin derivatives already have an establishe...

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

authors： White NJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a region of Sudanese savannah in Burkina Faso, insecticide-treated curtains were installed in 8 out of 16 zones, each covering an area of about 50 km2. Longitudinal entomological monitoring using CDC light traps was performed in 4 villages (2 intervention, 2 control) over a period of 3 years (including 1 year prior...

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

authors： Cuzin-Ouattara N,Van den Broek AH,Habluetzel A,Diabaté A,Sanogo-Ilboudo E,Diallo DA,Cousens SN,Esposito F

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large numbers of tuberculosis (TB) patients seek care from private for-profit providers. This study aimed to assess and compare TB control activities in the private for-profit and public sectors in Kenya between 2013 and 2017. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collec...

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

authors： Mailu EW,Owiti P,Ade S,Harries AD,Manzi M,Omesa E,Kiende P,Macharia S,Mbithi I,Kamene M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the number of clients attending for voluntary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing who are able to enter a trial of preventive therapy for tuberculosis, and the factors that determine who receives therapy, we studied 475 consecutive people attending for an HIV test at Lusaka's first voluntary HIV te...

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

authors： Godfrey-Faussett P,Baggaley R,Mwinga A,Hosp M,Porter J,Luo N,Kelly M,Msiska R,McAdam K

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Community-based malaria control with integrated primary health care appears to be the most feasible approach for endemic countries in their struggle against malaria. To plan and implement personal protection and vector control measures, there is the need for comprehensive information about local modes of transmission....

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

authors： Habluetzel A,Esposito F,Lombardi S

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have proven highly effective in reducing malaria morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Artemether-lumefantrine (AL) was introduced in 2005 as a first-line ACT for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Rwanda. Monitoring the therapeutic efficacy of ACTs is necessa...

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

authors： Uwimana A,Penkunas MJ,Nisingizwe MP,Warsame M,Umulisa N,Uyizeye D,Musanabaganwa C,Munyaneza T,Ntagwabira E,Hakizimana D,Muvunyi CM,Kayobotsi C,Kabera M,Murindahabi M,Mbituyumuremyi A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaysian, British and New Zealand soldiers were tested for evidence of infection with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi after several weeks' exposure to the infection during field exercises in Malaysia. 39 (5.0%) of 787 British and New Zealand soldiers developed immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) to R. tsutsugamushi to a titre ...

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

authors： Brown GW,Shirai A,Groves MG

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The state of Rio de Janeiro has been important since 1986 as a portal for the introduction of dengue virus (DENV) into Brazil and dissemination of the virus throughout the country. This study describes an active surveillance of DENV in the state of Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2008. METHOD:A total of 14 408 ...

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

authors： Macedo GA,de Araújo JM,Schatzmayr HG,Costa FA,de Filippis AM,Santos FB,Nogueira RM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Night blood surveys for filariasis were carried out in two camps of repatriates from Bangladesh. The sample consisted of 1,101 Biharis above one year of age of whom 9.0% were found infected with Wuchereria bancrofti. The infection rate was significantly higher in males (10.2%) than in females (6.7%). Of the three mosq...

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

authors： Aslamkhan M,Pervez SD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a recently developed sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to determine the kinetics of Schistosoma mansoni circulating soluble egg antigen (CSEA) after chemotherapy and compared these with previously determined levels of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA). Urine samples were collected from 35 Egyptian pa...

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

authors： Nibbeling HA,Van Lieshout L,Deelder AM

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:Using the IgG fraction of a monospecific sheep antiserum against the circulating anodic antigen (CAA) of Schistosoma mansoni, an indirect haemagglutination reaction for the determination of this antigen was developed. This is the first time that an IHA has been applied to the detection of circulating antigens in paras...

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

authors： Deelder AM,Eveleigh PC

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the early 1900s, visceral leishmaniasis (VL; kala-azar) has been among the most important health problems in Sudan, particularly in the main endemic area in the eastern and central regions. Several major epidemics have occurred, the most recent--in Western Upper Nile province in southern Sudan, detected in 1988--...

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

authors： Zijlstra EE,el-Hassan AM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study intended to implement a novel intervention strategy, in Brazil, using an ecohealth approach and analyse its effectiveness and costs in reducing Aedes aegypti vector density as well as its acceptance, feasibility and sustainability. The intervention was conducted from 2012 to 2013 in the municipali...

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

authors： Caprara A,Lima JW,Peixoto AC,Motta CM,Nobre JM,Sommerfeld J,Kroeger A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report in which a marine mollusc, Oliva vidua fulminans (olives), generally not known to be poisonous, was responsible for death in five children after consuming boiled olives with tamarind. The onset of symptoms was rapid 10 to 20 min after consumption of the olives. Signs and symptoms included naus...

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

authors： Kan SK,Singh N,Chan MK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of patients with Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL) suppressed the natural killer cell (NK) activity of normal human PBMC in vitro in a dose-dependent manner. Adherent monocytes, but not the non-adherent lymphocytes of VL patients suppressed NK activity through soluble mediato...

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

authors： Chakrabarti G,Basu A,Manna PP,Bhattacharya S,Sen S,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:Microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia pahangi, which were inoculated into Meriones unguiculatus and Mastomys natalensis respectively, were found in the peripheral blood of the rodents until the ninth day after infection, but no microfilarial periodicity was observed. Microfilariae of W. bancrofti disappeare...

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

authors： Zielke E

更新日期：1980-01-01 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 survey of 102 blind and 218 deaf children in 2 specialized schools in Guatemala revealed distinctly different age-intensity profiles of infection with the intestinal helminth, Trichuris trichiura. In the school for the deaf, intensity (measured as eggs per gram of stool) peaked in the children 7 to 8 years old and d...

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

authors： Scott ME,Santizo MC,Zepeda E,Ramirez I,Forrester JE

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Entamoeba histolytica has been separated in recent years into 2 morphologically identical species: the apathogenic E. dispar and the pathogenic E. histolytica, only the latter being pathogenic. Although various laboratory techniques allow discrimination between the 2 species there is a lack of field data about the sui...

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

authors： Heckendorn F,N'Goran EK,Felger I,Vounatsou P,Yapi A,Oettli A,Marti HP,Dobler M,Traoré M,Lohourignon KL,Lengeler C

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the morphological and biochemical characterization of the species of Schistosoma infecting humans in the Republic of São Tomé and Principe. The eggs are typical in shape and size of S. intercalatum, measuring on average between 174.5 microns and 189.1 microns. The eggs are voided in the faeces and n...

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

authors： Southgate VR,Rollinson D,Kaukas A,Almeda J,Sousa AM,Castro F,Soares E,Corachan M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trachoma surveys conducted in sub-Saharan countries showed different geographical distributions of active trachoma and trichiasis. Trichiasis is more common in southern regions. We analysed the role of geoclimatic factors in determining the distributions of active trachoma and trichiasis in Mali. In each regio...

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

authors： Schémann JF,Laffly D,Sacko D,Zephak G,Malvy D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that cow's milk formula and weaning diet may damage the gut mucosa, the gastrointestinal permeability of 77 healthy English and Gambian infants was measured from the urinary recovery of the markers lactulose and mannitol included in feeds. All infants were born at term and studied at 6, 12 and 1...

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

authors： Weaver LT

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00