Antimicrobial susceptibility test of Helicobacter pylori isolated from Jos, Nigeria.

abstract：:The indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test and the amoebic gel diffusion (AGD) test were assessed as tools for differentiating between past and present infection in invasive amoebiasis; in the case of the IFA test the Entamoeba histolytica-specific IgG and IgM were monitored. In a pilot study in which sera from 56 p...

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

authors： Jackson TF,Anderson CB,Simjee AE

更新日期：1984-01-01 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

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：Background:Severe cholera is a life-threatening illness of hypovolemic shock and metabolic acidosis due to rapid and profuse diarrheal fluid loss. Emergency life-saving therapy is i.v. saline, optionally supplemented with potassium and alkali to correct the fluid deficit, potassium losses and acidosis. After this initi...

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

authors： Butler T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health and human rights communities have much in common. Recently, the international community has begun to devote more attention to the right to the highest attainable standard of health ("the right to health"). Today, this human right presents health and human rights professionals with a range of new opportuniti...

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

authors： Hunt P

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal function was monitored in 24 patients with systemic envenoming following proven Russell's viper bite. In all patients, blood clotted within 20 min on admission. In 15 cases severe defibrination (systemic envenoming) developed during the next 3-5 d. None of the patients received antivenom before admission but enz...

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

authors： Thein-Than,Tin-Tun,Hla-Pe,Phillips RE,Myint-Lwin,Tin-Nu-Swe,Warrell DA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades there has been an increase in cases of visceral leishmaniasis complicating the post-transplant phase, mainly following kidney transplantation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reactivity of haemodialysed patients using IFAT. Blood samples of 310 individuals from Natal, RN, Brazil, were col...

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

authors： Souza RM,de Oliveira IB,Paiva VC,Lima KC,dos Santos RP,de Almeida JB,Luz KG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercial dot-blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Dip-S-Ticks dipstick test was compared with the indirect immunoperoxidase (IIP) and Weil-Felix (WF) tests for the diagnosis of scrub typhus, using the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) as the reference standard. With a panel of 117 positive and 75 ...

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

authors： Pradutkanchana J,Silpapojakul K,Paxton H,Pradutkanchana S,Kelly DJ,Strickman D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common comorbidities in HIV-positive patients with CD4+ T lymphocytes below 200 cells/μl. Early diagnosis and treatment of toxoplasmosis reduces the mortality rate in HIV-positive people. The aim of this study was to estimate the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection ...

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

authors： Ahmadpour E,Pishkarie-Asl R,Spotin A,Samadi Kafil H,Didarlu H,Azadi Y,Barac A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to use a modified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling methodology to classify communities according to prevalence of active trachoma and to estimate the prevalence of trachoma and trichiasis in Nioro department, Kaolack Region, Senegal. A survey was conducted using two-stage cluster sampling...

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

authors： Faye M,Kuper H,Dineen B,Bailey R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural host of Plasmodium knowlesi is the kra monkey, Macaca fascicularis, but this parasite, initially mistaken for P. malariae, is now infecting humans in some areas of Southeast Asia. Here we present data from experiments performed in the 1970s in which sera from a few naive M. fascicularis, taken in the cours...

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

authors： Butcher GA,Mitchell GH,Cohen S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin disease is among the most frequent causes of morbidity in Ethiopia, showing high prevalence in the general population and being the sixth most frequent cause of outpatient visits nationwide to health facilities. This study was aimed at describing skin disease patterns in Tigray region, northern Ethiopia through a...

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

authors： Accorsi S,Barnabas GA,Farese P,Padovese V,Terranova M,Racalbuto V,Morrone A

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:We report the successful treatment of envenoming by the Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) and include results of in vitro investigations of the haemostatic properties of the whole venom. The patient was admitted to casualty soon after the bite with chest tightness, dizziness, nausea and swelling at the site of the bite an...

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

authors： McNally T,Conway GS,Jackson L,Theakston RD,Marsh NA,Warrell DA,Young L,Mackie IJ,Machin SJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumour antibiotic bleomycin, supplied as commercial BlenoxaneR (a mixture of bleomycinic acids), at 7 or 14 mg/kg prolonged life greater than 30 days beyond death of controls without relapse or sign of trypanosomes in the peripheral blood of mice infected with Trypanosoma b. brucei EATRO 110. Control mice died...

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

authors： Nathan HC,Bacchi CJ,Sakai TT,Rescigno D,Stumpf D,Hutner SH

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Stool specimens from 90% of the population of 2 marginal communities in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, were examined by the Kato-Katz technique for the estimation of eggs per gram of faeces (epg). Average epg values for Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura were calculated for each family in the community, based on the...

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

authors： Forrester JE,Scott ME,Bundy DA,Golden MH

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania lainsoni has recently been recognized as a new peripylarian species belonging to the subgenus Viannia and the L. braziliensis complex. It has been isolated from its sandfly vector, reservoir host and cutaneous lesions of human patients. Microscopical examination has shown characteristics which are different...

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

authors： Eresh S,de Bruijn MH,Mendoza-León JA,Barker DC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was applied to capillary blood spots dried on filter paper from 20 parasitologically proved cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), 21 subclinical cases, and 11 healthy controls in a longitudinal study of anthroponotic VL in Baringo District, Kenya. Leishmania deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) wa...

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

authors： Schaefer KU,Schoone GJ,Gachihi GS,Muller AS,Kager PA,Meredith SE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-feto protein (alpha-FP) is now accepted as a very useful serum marker of hepatocarcinoma, and since its discovery in 1963, surveys have been carried out in various regions of the world, where hepatoma is particularly prevalent, which have shown that alpha-FP may be detected in 50 to 80% of patients with liver ca...

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

authors： Seggie J,Gelfand M

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Turkey has a national tuberculosis (TB) control program that follows the standards set by the World Health Organization's (WHO) global TB control program. METHODS:In this record-based retrospective study, contact screening and chemoprophylaxis of 469 TB contacts registered at the Samsun Tuberculosis Dispens...

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

authors： Dundar C,Oztomurcuk D,Terzi O

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sickle cell gene was first described in India in a tribal population in the south, leading to the belief that it was confined to tribal groups. The present study confirms that it is widespread in the state of Orissa and spreads throughout Hindu society, being more common in upper and scheduled castes than in triba...

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

authors： Kar BC,Devi S,Dash KC,Das M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:261 individuals were skin tested with leishmanin from Leishmania donovani and with an antigen from a lizard trypanosome isolated in an area endemic for kala-azar in Ethiopia. 83 of the 261 responded positively, with indurations of 5 mm or greater, to one antigen but negatively to the other, and 42 reacted positively t...

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

authors： Fuller GK,Lemma A,Haile T

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Severe febrile illness is a major cause of adult hospital admission in Africa. Studies of non-malarial fever come largely from children or from high HIV prevalence settings. This prospective study of adult admissions with severe febrile illness in a malaria-endemic area with moderate/low HIV prevalence investigated ad...

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

authors： Nadjm B,Mtove G,Amos B,Walker NF,Diefendal H,Reyburn H,Whitty CJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:In French Guiana, American cutaneous leishmaniasis is localized in the skin. The host response appears to be effective since few extra- or intracellular organisms can be found in tissue lesions, and we never observed any cutaneous dissemination or visceral involvement. However, this response is not fully effective sin...

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

authors： Ridel PR,Esterre P,Dedet JP,Pradinaud R,Santoro F,Capron A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper records the incidence of chancroid in northern Nigeria. Out of 776 new patients registered at the Special Treatment Clinic (STC) of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) Zaria during February to August 1982, 34 cases (4.38%) were diagnosed as chancroid. Direct smear examination for Ha...

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

authors： Joshi RM,Lawande RV

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:112 Leishmania isolates, obtained in French Guiana from human lesions, phlebotomine sandflies and wild mammals, were characterized by isoenzyme electrophoresis. Leishmania braziliensis guyanensis and L. mexicana amazonensis were found parasitizing different natural hosts. L.b. guyanensis was the dominant species (103 ...

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

authors： Desjeux P,Dedet JP

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fast agglutination screening test (FAST) for the detection of Leishmania antibodies in human serum samples was evaluated under harsh field conditions in northern Ethiopia. Test performance was compared with a standard serological test, namely the direct agglutination test (DAT), and with parasitology. In total, 103 ...

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

authors： Hailu A,Schoone GJ,Diro E,Tesfaye A,Techane Y,Tefera T,Assefa Y,Genetu A,Kebede Y,Kebede T,Schallig HD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00