Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Although there are very few reports of human anaphylaxis induced by tick bites, two such cases have recently been seen in Salamanca, Spain. To identify the tick species responsible, salivary-gland extracts from six species of hard tick and two of soft tick were prepared and used as allergens/antigens in skin-prick tests and serological analyses. Fo...
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Twelve years ago, some mice inoculated with Leishmania major were found to develop larger lesions, containing more amastigotes, if the inoculum used to infect them contained a lysate of salivary glands from Lutzomyia longipalpis than if no lysate was included. In the present study, outbred golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) were each inoculated...
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
The clinico-epidemiological pattern of malarial infection in a cohort of pregnant women and infants was analysed during a malaria epidemic (1997-1998). The subjects were all members of tribal communities in an isolated and almost inaccessible area of central India. Overall, 151 (55%) of the 274 pregnant women investigated were found to have malaria...
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Among 2,128 women residing in two Egyptian governorates with differing socio-economic backgrounds, who were interviewed after giving birth between 1994 and 1996, 181 experienced an early foetal death, 34 had stillbirths, and 1,908 each had a live birth. Among the live births, there were 35 neonatal deaths and 42 post-neonatal deaths. A high percent...
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
A clinical and parasitological assessment of onchodermatitis was conducted in a rural area of Morogoro district, Tanzania. The study population consisted of 1,005 individuals aged > or = 5 years: 749 from a hyper-endemic community and 256 from a hypo-endemic. The prevalence of troublesome itching was 67.0% in the hyper-endemic community but only 5%...
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Seventy-nine adults with Plasmodium vivax malaria, from the Porto Velho area of Rond nia (western Amazon region, Brazil), gave informed consent to participate in a blind, clinical study of two regimens of treatment with chloroquine (CQ) and primaquine. The effectiveness of the 'classical' regimen (CQ for 3 days, followed by primaquine for 14 days) ...
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Two adjacent communities of differing socio-economic levels were selected, in Accra, Ghana, for the study of the home management of malaria. The youngest child in each selected household, each of which had a child aged
Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology
Ten rural communities in the northern area of Guatemala where cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic were investigated to determine the residents' knowledge of the disease, their related concepts and practices, and their treatment preferences, and to identify the communication channels they use to acquire information. Of 425 heads of household int...
