
Volume 85, Issue 5
September-October 1991
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Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991
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Tropical medicine in central and eastern Europe
M. Giboda and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90342-V
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Susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum in vitro to chloroquine, mefloquine, quinine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine in Somalia: relationships between the responses to the different drugs
M. Warsame and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 565–569, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90343-W
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 569, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90344-X
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Positive relationship between the response of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine and pyronaridine
M. Warsame and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 570–571, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90345-Y
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 571, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90346-Z
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Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in a village in eastern Sudan. 1. Diversity of enzymes, 2D-PAGE proteins and antigens
Hamza Ali Babiker and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 572–577, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90347-2
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 577, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90348-3
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Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in a village in eastern Sudan. 2. Drug resistance, molecular karyotypes and the mdr1 genotype of recent isolates
Hamza Ali Babiker and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 578–583, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90349-4
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 583, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90350-8
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The relationship between anthropometric measurements and measurements of iron status and susceptibility to malaria in Gambian children
R.W. Snow and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 584–589, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90351-X
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 589, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90352-Y
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Isolation and characterization of Leishmania major from Phlebotomus papatasi and military personnel in north Sinai, Egypt
N.S. Mansour and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 590–591, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90353-Z
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 591, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90354-2
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in south-eastern Paraguay: a study of an endemic area at Limoy
Yoshihisa Hashiguchi and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 592–594, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90355-3
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Leishmania tropica in Morocco: infection in dogs
J. Dereure and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 595, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90356-4
Recovery of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis from hepatic aspirates of the black-plumed marmoset, Callithrix penicillata
A. Vexenat and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 596, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90357-5
Aconitate hydratase (ACON), an enzyme that distinguishes Leishmania of the subgenus Viannia from other trypanosomatids
J.J. Shaw and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 597–598, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90358-6
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The use of DNA hybridization for the detection of Leishmania aethiopica in naturally infected sandfly vectors
Tamás Laskay and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 599–602, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90360-B
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Lactation reduces mortality but not parasitaemia during the acute phase of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice
M.T. Rivera and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 603–604, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90361-2
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 604, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90362-3
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Accumulation of brown adipose tissue in patients with Chagas heart disease
Fernando Augusto Soares and Teresa Cristina Pantozzi Silveira
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 605–607, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90363-4
Pentamidine concentrations in plasma, whole blood and cerebrospinal fluid during treatment of Trypanosoma gambiense infection in Côte d'Ivoire
Ulf Bronner and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 608–611, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90364-5
Trypanosoma brucei brucei: differences in the trypanocidal activity of human plasma and its relationship to the level of high density lipoproteins
Michael P.T. Gillett and James S. Owen
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 612–616, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90365-6
Effect of human milk and infant milk formulae on adherence of Giardia intestinalis
A.A. Crouch and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 617–619, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90366-7
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 619, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90367-8
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The activity of azithromycin against stocks of Giardia intestinalis in vitro and in vivo
P.F.L. Boreham and J.A. Upcroft
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 620–621, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90368-9
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in rural India: a preliminary study
Ronald J. Bowerman
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 622, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90369-A
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Schistosoma japonicum infection among migrant fishermen in the Dongting Lake region of China
Y.S. Li and D.B. Yu
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 623–625, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90370-E
The epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Burundi and its consequences for control
B. Gryseels
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 626–633, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90371-5
The effect of antimalarial chloroquine therapy and prophylaxis on concurrent infection with Onchocerca volvulus in Ecuador
R.H. Guderian and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 634–638, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90372-6
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 638, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90373-7
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Onchocerciasis in Ecuador: dermal depigmentation, ‘leopard skin’ and comparison with treponemal infection
Ronald H. Guderian and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 639, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90374-8
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A placebo-controlled double-blind trial for the treatment of Bancroftian filariasis with ivermectin or diethylcarbamazine
M. Sabry and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 640–643, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90375-9
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Anopheles (Cellia) jamesii: a potential natural vector of Bancroftian filariasis in Sri Lanka
W. Abeyewickreme and Prasad Wanniarachchi
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 644, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90376-A
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Detection of serum antibodies in human Hymenolepis infection by enzyme immunoassay
A. Gómez-Priego and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 645–647, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90377-B
Albendazole treatment in human taeniasis
Rina Girard de Kaminsky
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 648–650, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90378-C
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 650, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90379-D
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No association between meningococcal disease and human immunodeficiency virus in adults in Nairobi, Kenya
Richard Brindle and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 651, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90380-H
Low prevalence of hepatitis D (delta) virus infection in a nephrology unit in south India
Paulose P. Thomas and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 652–653, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90381-8
Prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies in Cameroon
P. Mencarini and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90382-9
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 655, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90383-A
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Horizontal or vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus? A serological survey in family members of hepatitis B carriers in Singapore
C.C. Tan and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 656–659, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90384-B
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 659, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90385-C
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Platelet dysfunction contributes to the haemostatic defect in haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Thomas M. Cosgriff and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 660–663, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90386-D
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 663, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90387-E
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Effect of duration of diarrhoea and predictive values of stool leucocytes and red blood cells in the isolation of different serogroups or serotypes of Shigella
Md Anowar Hossain and M.John Albert
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 664–666, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90388-F
Diarrhoeal disease in children less than one year of age at a children's hospital in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China*
Zhao Feng Ming and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 667–669, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90389-G
Randomized treatment of patients with typhoid and paratyphoid fevers using norfloxacin or chloramphenicol
P.S.A. Sarma and P. Durairaj
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90390-K
Amoxycillin-clavulanic acid treatment of melioidosis
Y. Suputtamongkol and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 672–675, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90391-B
Dispersive flight by Triatoma sordida
C.J. Schofield and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 676–678, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90392-C
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Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 678, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90393-D
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Which species of Rhodnius is invading houses in Brazil?
J.P. Dujardin and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 679–680, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90394-E
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Hygiene, skin infections and types of water supply in Venda, South Africa
P.E. Verweij and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 681–684, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90395-F
Complications and outcome of disease in patients admitted to the intensive care unit of a diarrhoeal diseases hospital in Bangladesh
Amal K. Mitra and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 685–687, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90396-G
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Kwashiorkor-marasmus syndrome and nutritional rickets—a bone biopsy study
A. Mukherjee and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 688–689, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90397-H
Hypernatraemic dehydration of infancy
Hisham Nazer
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 690–691, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90398-I
Laboratory Meeting, The London Hospital Medical College, 18 April 1991
New technologies and technologies appropriate for developing countries
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 692–696, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90399-J
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Reinfection of Somali children with Trichuris trichuria
John Horton
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 697, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90400-S
Protecting the health of the traveller
W.R.J. Taylor
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 697, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90401-J
Immunosuppression as a factor promoting drug resistance in malaria
M.J. Doenhoff
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 697–698, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90402-K
Differentiation between heterozygous carriers and homozygotes for haemoglobin S using a solubility test
M.C. Willcox
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 698, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90403-L
Leptospirosis, renal failure and raised amylase levels
C.F. Ramos-Filho and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 698–699, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90404-M
Leptospirosis in Kerala State, India: a reply
Mariamma Kuriakose
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 699, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90405-N
Combined praziquantel-oxamniquine treatment of schistosomiasis: synergy in low dosage
R.N.H. Pugh
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 699, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90406-O
Alternative hypothesis for the evolution of chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Africa
Anders Björkman
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 700, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90408-Q
The Becton Dickinson QBCII® analyser
Jaturaporn Pornsilapatip and Henry Wilde
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 700, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90409-R
Entamoeba histolytica and airline personnel
A. García-Forcada and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 700–701, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90410-Z
Entamoeba histolytica and airline personnel: a reply
G. Weber and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 701, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90411-Q
Book Review
New antibacterial strategies (frontiers of infectious diseases series) H. C. Neu (editor). Edinburgh etc.: Churchill Livingstone, 1991. xii + 312 pp. Price £27.50. ISBN 0-443-04448-1
G.C. Cook
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 702, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90412-R
The snakes of Thailand and their husbandry Merel ‘Jack’ Cox. Malabar, Florida: Krieger, 1991. xxxviii + 526 pp. Price £37; US$ 69.50. ISBN 0-89464-437-8
David A. Warrell
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 702–703, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90413-S
Maladies tropicales et grossesse P. Bourée & M.-F, Lemétayer. Paris: Éditions Pradel, 1990. iii + 228pp. Price: FF140. ISBN 2-907516-19-1
G.C Cook
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 703–704, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90414-T
Parasitic helminths and Zoonoses in Africa C. N. L. Macpherson & P. S. Craig (editors). London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. xx + 281 pp. Price £40. ISBN 0-04-445565-8
R.F. Sturrock
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Page 704, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90415-U
Neurosurgery in Africa A. Adeloye. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press 1989 (distributed by African Books Collective, The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, UK), xii + 368 pp. Price £39.50 (US $60). ISBN 978-121-193-2
Huw B. Griffith
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 704–705, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90416-V
Paediatric surgical care for developing countries J. K. Shija. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1989 (distributed by African Books Collective Ltd, The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, UK), xiv + 154 pp. Price £10; US $15. ISBN 9966-46-877-3
R.D. Spicer
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 705–706, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90417-W
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