abstract：:Hungry Anopheles funestus females were caught in CDC light traps positioned overnight in village houses in which the occupants were protected by bed nets. The sampling was performed in six huts near Muheza, in North-eastern Tanzania, September to November 1972. Parous, unfed mosquitoes were carefully examined, usually...

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

authors： Krafsur ES,Garrett-Jones C

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two hydatid cysts have been accurately located in the abdomens of seven patients by ultrasound B-scanning. Lapartomy has confirmed the presence of 19 of these cysts. Grey-scale techniques do not appear to add appreciably to the ease of diagnosis in this condition. Ultrasound can give the clinician a good idea o...

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

authors： Vicary FR,Cusick G,Shirley IM,Blackwell RJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of a defined medium (STEIGER & STEIGER, 1976) has enabled studies on the nutritional requirements of promastigotes of L. donovani and L. braziliensis (STEIGER & STEIGER, 1977). As outlined elsewhere (STEIGER & MESHNICK, 1977), the present paper describes preliminary experiments dealing with the utiliz...

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

authors： Steiger RF,Meshnick SR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of phlebotomines has been made in the area of the Province of Grosseto (Tuscany, Italy) where human cases of both visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis have recently occurred. 12 collecting stations, placed around the leishmaniasis foci, were divided into three groups of localities, the Argentario Promontory, ...

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

authors： Maroli M,Bettini S

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolations were attempted from blood samples obtained from rats captured in four adjacent habitats near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Antibody surveys were also made. Rickettsial infections were most frequent in rats captured in the forest and in lalang grass (Imperata cylindrica) and least frequent...

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

authors： Muul I,Lim BL,Walker JS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new antihookworm compound, C.9333 Go./CGP 4540, was evaluated clinically in 65 adult patients with hookworm infection. Several dosage schedules were evaluated to determine an effective, well tolerated and convenient regime. The lowest effective dose was 125 mg administered at four-hourly intervals for three doses. T...

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

authors： Vakil BJ,Dalal NJ,Shah PN

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcal infection remains almost the sole cause of the clinical syndrome of acute glomerulonephritis in African children. Evidence for this is in elevated levels of antistreptolysin "O" (ASO) titre in 93% of 28 patients and growth of Group Abeta haemolytic streptococci from the skin and throat in 32%. Spread of ...

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

authors： Hallett AF,Adhikari M,Cooper R,Coovadia HM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective seroepidemiological survey for latent congenital toxoplasmosis was carried out among 4,136 women and 3,787 of their offspring in and around Montreal. The indirect immunofluorescent antibody test was used to titrate specific IgG and IgM antibodies and results were standardized in international units. The ...

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

authors： Viens P,Auger P,Villeneuve R,Stefanescu-Soare I

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The red fox is considered to be the main reservoir of the present European rabies epizootic which began in Poland in 1939-40. Its usual rate of spread is 20 to 60 km a year. Mortality among rabies-infected fox populations is estimated variously to be 20 to 60%. The infection spreads more rapidly among foxes in the aut...

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

authors： Lloyd HG

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebic liver pus has an acidic pH. Hence the pleural aspirate from an amoebic empyema due to rupture of an amoebic liver abscess has an acidic pH. In contrast, the pH of pleural aspirates from effusions and empyema of non-amoebic aetiology were noted to have an alkaline pH. The clinical significance of these observat...

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

authors： Ramachandran S,Induruwa PA,Perera MV

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis was carried out of the mortality rate on the medical wards of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, over a 14-year period (1960-73). A total of 4,568 cases were reviewed with an annual death rate of between 300 and 400. Most of the deaths resulted from cardiovascular diseases, especially hypertension, t...

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

authors： Adetuyibi A,Akisanya JB,Onadeko BO

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidneys were studied by light microscopy in 246 consecutive autopsies in Cairo, Egypt. Glomerulonephritis was not related to the presence or intensity of either S. haematobium or S. mansoni infection, and mesangial thickening and proliferation were also unrelated to schistosome infection. Acute and chronic pyelonephri...

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

authors： Sadigursky M,Andrade ZA,Danner R,Cheever AW,Kamel IA,Elwi AM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leishmanin skin test was used in four different areas of the Italian Adriatic coast (Emilia Romagna, Marche, San Marino and Abruzzi), old endemic areas for cutaneous leishmaniasis. The test was found to be postitive in 80% of past infections, the 20% negative reactions being found in those who had been infected 20...

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

authors： Pampiglione S,Manson-Bahr PE,La Placa M,Borgatti MA,Micheloni F

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow cultures in 15 Plasmodium falciparum patients were studied both during and after parasitaemia. Abnormalities were observed only in the group during parasitaemia. These abnormalities included: (1) decreased normoblastic number and cellular iron incorporation in all cases; (2) premature death of normoblasts ...

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

authors： Srichaikul T,Siriasawakul T,Poshyachinda M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using two serological techniques, eight Nigerian West Nile virus isolates were investigated to determine antigenic relationships among them, and to find out if these virus isolates were related to West Nile virus strains from the different zoogeographic areas of the world. One virus differed significantly from the sev...

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

authors： Odelola HA,Fabiyi A

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites isolated in Robinson's medium from faeces containing cysts, transported from India, have been tested in vitro against the drugs furazolidone, iodochlorhydroxyquin, and both drugs combined as Dependal. Results show the levels at which drug action is significant and that interaction be...

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

authors： Sargeaunt PG,Lumsden WH

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of Sarcocystis infection is reported from West Malaysia. A cyst was seen as an incidental finding in a biopsy specimen from the larynx of the patient. The cyst and the cystozoites were of the small size with no evidence of cytophaneres or compartments. ...

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

authors： Kutty MK,Dissanaike AS

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) were fed a protein-free diet. Sixteen animals of the same species received a standard monkey diet. The protein-depleted patas showed reduced absorption of folic acid but not D-xylose, and 5 out of 6 had a decrease in the exocrine pancreatic function. Animals with reduced folic ac...

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

authors： Gyr K,Felsenfeld O,Wolf RH

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：: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：:In the irrigated zones of North-eastern region of Afghanistan malaria transmission is sustained by A. pulcherrimus and A. hyrcanus despite many years of DDT spraying. A. hyrcanus is an exophilic and exophagic mosquito, strongly resistant to DDT. A. pulcherrimus is still largely susceptible to the insecticide but seems...

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

authors： Onori E,Nushin MK,Cullen JE,Yakubi GH,Mohammed K,Christal FA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00