Yamamoto, L Mejia, E López, R M Gallardo, E Gómez, B
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Tropical and geographical medicine
Susceptibility to rubella in 428 Mexican females of childbearing age from four sanitary areas confined to a Mexican State (Queretaro) was determined. Members of the group were residents of urban and rural communities and selected by random sampling. Anti-viral antibodies were determined by inhibition of haemagglutination. Concentration was expresse...
Feldmeier, H Poggensee, G Krantz, I Helling-Giese, G
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Tropical and geographical medicine
Female genital schistosomiasis has been neglected as a disease entity during a period when considerable progress has been achieved for schistosomiasis as such. The pathophysiology and immunology are imperfectly understood, appropriate diagnostic tools are not at hand, therapeutic rationales do not exist, the natural history is not well known and wo...
Adamolekun, B
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Tropical and geographical medicine
The prevention of epilepsy in tropical Africa is highly desirable because of the morbidity, mortality and social ostracisation that is associated with the disease. Such prevention depends on the identification of the aetiologies of epilepsy endemic to the region. There is a need for prospective epidemiological research to elucidate further the role...
van Willigen, L H Hondius, A J van der Ploeg, H M
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Tropical and geographical medicine
Research was carried out on the medical, i.e. somatic and mental, and social complaints of refugees in The Netherlands. This research consisted of a literature study and a retrospective and prospective, or cross-sectional patient study. The most important assumption which formed the base of the study was: refugees who underwent torture present the ...
Saha, G K Modak, A Tandon, N Choudhuri, D K
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Tropical and geographical medicine
Immediate type allergy towards house dust and house dust mites was measured in 188 dust-sensitive asthmatic patients in and around Calcutta by using the skin prick test. Of the 131 positive patients, 82% reacted to Dermatophagoides mites, 80% to D. farinae, 46% to D. pteronyssinus, and 43% to both species of mites. Sixty-two per cent of the positiv...
Lin, T J Yang, C C Yang, G Y Ger, J Tsai, W J Deng, J F
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Tropical and geographical medicine
In order to define characteristics that would help differentiate a centipede bite from a viper bite, we designed a prospective study using the data collection system of a Poison Control Center. The clinical goal is to rapidly distinguish envenomations for which antitoxin may be indicated (viper) from those for which palliative care only is appropri...
Varkevisser, C M
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Tropical and geographical medicine
There is reason to pay extra attention to women's health. Not only do complications related to reproduction pose risks to women's health; environmental, in particular cultural factors do so as well. The combination of sexual and economic subordination of women in many societies leads to discrimination which has a detrimental effect on the health of...
Sowunmi, A Ohaeri, J U Falade, C O
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Tropical and geographical medicine
A 15-year-old male presented on three occasions with fever, aggressive behaviour, poor sleep and mixed affective and schizophreniform symptoms in association with falciparum malaria. The symptoms resolved promptly following anti-malarial treatment. Prophylaxis with proguanil prevented recurrence of the illness.
van den Broek, N R
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Tropical and geographical medicine
Rupture of the urinary bladder which is not associated with instrumental or external trauma is uncommon. Two cases of spontaneous bladder perforation were seen in a district general hospital in the Ashanti region, Ghana. Both cases presented with the primary clinical picture of an acute abdomen suggestive of a ruptured viscus. At laparotomy pin-poi...
Harries, A D Mvula, B
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Tropical and geographical medicine
There is considerable mortality in sub-Saharan Africa relative to other regions in the world. No country in Africa, however, has a system of vital registration capable of providing reliable national data on mortality. Accurate information on the causes of adult mortality is therefore very limited. This lack of knowledge is becoming especially impor...
