Hoque, B A Mahalanabis, D Pelto, B Alam, M J
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Handwashing has been universally promoted for health interventions, but it is essential that the factors related to behaviour are understood in order to develop appropriate handwashing messages. We found the study of behaviour complex and had to combine several methods: in-depth interviewing, questionnaire; observational and bacteriological. Here w...
Chunge, R N Karumba, N Ouma, J H Thiongo, F W Sturrock, R F Butterworth, A E
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Formol-ether concentration supplemented by fresh saline smears was used to study intestinal parasites in two communities, Miu and Kitengei, in Machakos District, Kenya. These communities differed markedly in schistosome associated morbidity, in spite of similar prevalence and intensities of infection as revealed by Kato examination, Seven helminth ...
Bryan, J H Dagoro, H Southgate, B A
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Entomological studies were undertaken in three villages in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. The inhabitants of one village, Nanaha, had been treated with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) to reduce the prevalence and density of microfilaraemia of Wuchereria bancrofti. No intervention was undertaken in the other two villages, Yauatong and Musenau...
el Mugamer, I T Ali Zayat, A S Hossain, M M Pugh, R N
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
In the United Arab Emirates, coronary heart disease has emerged as the leading cause of mortality over a 20-year period of rapid socioeconomic development. CHD risk factors of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), obesity and hypertension were investigated by community based survey among a bedouin-derived Emirati population sample of 322...
Vorachit, M Lam, K Jayanetra, P Costerton, J W
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
The mode of growth of Pseudomonas pseudomallei in culture media and in the lung tissue of infected humans and animals was studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In culture media, P. pseudomallei cells were seen to be entrapped in microcolonies within large amounts of intercellular fibrous materi...
Freland, C Fur, J L Nemirovsky-Trebucq, B Lelong, P Boiron, P
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
We report two cases of primary cutaneous nocardiosis due to Nocardia otitidiscaviarum. The first case is a mycetoma, the second, a cutaneous abcess: these two cases were imported into France (Vietnam, Zimbabwe). The literature on primary cutaneous nocardiosis due to N. otitidiscaviarum is reviewed.
Ghandour, A M Zahid, N Z Banaja, A A Kamal, K B Bouq, A I
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Six hundred and thirty-three faecal samples were randomly collected and examined for ova and cysts of intestinal parasites from five groups of hamadryas baboons of different population densities, with different human contact and in different ecological conditions (Al-Baha, Turabah and Al-Taif in south-western and Al-Rihat and Al-Akhal in north-west...
Fan, P C Peng, H W Chen, C C
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
From May to December 1993, a house-by-house survey was conducted on the changes in clinical manifestations of filariasis among 814 pre-control mf carriers in 88 villages of five towns/districts on Kinmen Islands. Four hundred and sixteen (51%) pre-control mf carriers were examined physically with history taking. The rates of disappearance, improvem...
Ribeiro, M A Souza, C C Almeida, S H
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
A dot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay which uses a proteinase-K resistant antigen (PK-Dot-ELISA) to detect antileptospiral IgM antibodies was compared to the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). The assay was evaluated in serum samples from patients with leptospirosis (n = 89), typhoid fever (n = 10), malaria (n = 19), syphilis (n = 20), hepatit...
Bansal, A S Venkatesh, S Jones, S R Williams, W
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The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Motor aphasia complicating bacteriologically confirmed typhoid fever in a 20-year-old adult female is presented. Neither the cause of death nor the aetiology of this isolated neurological deficit could be determined from detailed post-mortem examination. An immune related mechanism is suggested based on the temporal characteristics of this complica...
