abstract：:WHILE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HAS PRODUCED GREAT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF YELLOW FEVER AND IN TECHNIQUES FOR ITS CONTROL IN URBAN AREAS, THE ESSENTIAL METHOD OF CONTROL HAS NOT CHANGED: it is still the elimination of the urban vector, Aëdes aegypti. The aim of those responsible for yellow fever control in Afr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MAHAFFY AF

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a basis for considering the forms and patterns of national committees on vital and health statistics in the future, the author first discusses the six main objectives of national systems of those statistics. Turning then to the aims of the national committees themselves, he observes that such is the variety of stat...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： DUNN HL

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three diphtheria toxoid preparations, fractionated at various concentrations of ammonium sulfate, having various grades of purity, and showing striking differences in immunizing potency when compared at the same Lf dose, were examined for similarity of the effective constituents in the fractions. No evidence of deviat...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KUROKAWA M,NAKANO T,KONDO H

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews recent experimental evidence in support of inoculation with antirabies serum, the value of which, as a prophylactic measure, is compared with that of vaccine treatment alone. The author concludes that the chief advantages of combined antiserum-vaccine prophylaxis lie in the rapid treatment of cases ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： HABEL K

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the results of a six-month survey of the nature and extent of venereal diseases in Turkey which was undertaken by the author, on behalf of WHO, at the request of the Turkish Government. The first part of the report outlines the present venereal-disease-control system and includes descriptions of t...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： CHRISTIANSEN S

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author reviews the agricultural use of night-soil, sewage, and sewage sludge from two points of view: the purely agricultural and the sanitary.Knowledge of the chemistry and bacteriology of human faecal matter is still rather scant, and much further work has to be done to find practical ways of digesting night-soi...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： PETRIK M

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood samples from 58 leprosy patients were tested by the MK1R and VDRL slide tests, the latter being performed on normally inactivated sera and on the same sera heated for 5 minutes at 65 degrees C. The MK1R test showed fewer false positive reactions than the VDRL test on normally inactivated sera. The VDRL test on t...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： NARULA RN,GUPTA VP

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research carried out on kwashiorkor in Kampala, Uganda, is discussed. The first essential in both the treatment and the prevention of this disease being a diet rich in protein (preferably animal protein, to ensure an adequate intake of vitamin B(12) and a satisfactory mixture of amino-acids), methods of incorpo...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： DEAN RF

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatively recent development of more-effective pulicides has been paralleled by the discovery of more-efficient rodenticides. Eight of the latter-namely, warfarin, pival, red squill, alpha-naphthylthiourea (ANTU), zinc phosphide, arsenic trioxide, thallium sulfate, and sodium fluoroacetate (1080)-are discussed wi...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： LINK VB,MOHR CO

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A test procedure involving simply-constructed, portable test-equipment has been developed for detecting resistance to DDT residual applications by adult mosquitos. The procedure involves timed exposures of adult female mosquitos to DDT residues in chambers made of paper and screen wire, and the determination of the su...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： FAY RW,KILPATRIK JW,CROWELL RL,QUARTERMAN KD

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contributions made by five groups of investigators to the knowledge of the stability of different iodine compounds in salt, and of the extent of the losses of iodine which may occur when iodized salt is exposed to different conditions of storage and use, are discussed by the author.STABILITY OF THE IODINE COMPONENT IN...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KELLY FC

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic qualities of influenza virus particles may be studied at the biological level from two points of view:(1) The surface structures associated with adsorption to the surface of the susceptible cell and entry into its substance are regarded as essentially somatic in character. Infection is possible only when...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： BURNET M

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five strains of poliomyelitis virus isolated from paralytic cases in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany were classified either by testing resistance of immunized monkeys, or by neutralization. Seventeen strains (68%) were classified as type 1, 7 (28%) as type 2, and 1 (4%) as type 3. Strains of type 2 are pr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Verlinde JD,Hofman B,Nihoul E

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author examines in detail the symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment of plague, and outlines the problem of the length of the incubation period.The clinical features commonly met with in all severely-affected plague patients, regardless of the primary localization of the infection, are described. The author then...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： POLLITZER R

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of lectures on the tubercle bacillus by eminent authorities from various countries was organized at the Institut d'Hygiène et de Bactériologie of the University of Lausanne by Professor Paul Hauduroy, from 22 to 25 April 1949. Through the kindness of Professor Hauduroy it has been possible for the World Healt...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1949-01-01 00:00:00