Volume 85, Issue 6, November 1991
Obituaries
C. E. Gordon Smith, CB, MD, FRCP, FRCPath President 1975–1977
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Lieutenant General Sir Robert Drew President 1971–1973
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Leading article
Global inequalities in cancer care
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Short report
The metabolic effects of quinine in children with severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Dar es Salaam
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Correction
Correction
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Pharmacokinetics of quinine in young and elderly subjects
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Comparative trial of oral versus intramuscular chloroquine in children with cerebral malaria
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Reversal of chloroquine resistance of ‘wild’ isolates of Plasmodium falciparum by desipramine
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Activity of dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors on the hepatic stages of Plasmodium yoelii yoelii in vitro
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Bromo-deoxyuridine is not incorporated into DNA of malaria parasites
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Presumptive diagnosis of malaria results in a significant risk of mistreatment of children in urban Sahel
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Prolonged infection with Plasmodium falciparum in a semiimmune patient
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Increased cerebrospinal fluid protein and lipid peroxidation products in patients with cerebral malaria
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in Amazonian Brazil, and the significance of a negative Montenegro skin-test in human infections
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Experimental dual infection of Leishmania in Phlebotomus langeroni (Diptera: Psychodidae)
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Chagas disease in north-west Argentina: infected dogs as a risk factor for the domestic transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi
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A modification of Diamond's medium for the axenic culture of Entamoeba histolytica
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Evaluation of specific serum anti-Giardia IgM antibody response in diagnosis of giardiasis in children
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Toxoplasma antibodies in HIV-positive patients from Nairobi
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Effect of praziquantel on the distribution of interstitial collagen types I and III and basement membrane collagen types IV and V in murine hepatic schistosomiasis
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Levels of the schistosome circulating anodic and cathodic antigens in serum of schistosomiasis patients from Brazil
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Short report
Induced larval motility: a possible viability test for embryonated Ascaris lumbricoides ova
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Articles
Prevalence and symptoms of Enterobius vermicularis infections in a Peruvian shanty town
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Quantitative post-mortem study of Opisthorchis viverrini in man in north-east Thailand
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Seroprevalence of Echinococcus granulosus infection in a Uruguayan rural human population
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Evaluation of a rapid dot-elisa as a field test for the diagnosis of cystic hydatid disease
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Articles
Estimating prevalence of community morbidity due to intestinal helminths: prevalence of infection as an indicator of the prevalence of disease
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One year evaluation of immunogenicity conferred by a Chinese hamster ovary cell recombinant hepatitis B vaccine in a French Polynesian newborn immunization programme
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Short report
Simultaneous injection of hepatitis B and measles vaccines
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Presumed first case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in north-eastern Italy
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The emergence of antimicrobial resistant Salmonella typhi in Qatar: epidemiology and therapeutic implications*
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Factors reducing mortality in typhoid ileal perforation
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Acute diarrhoeal diseases in infants aged below six months in hospital in Calcutta, India: an aetiological study
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Short report
Acute pericarditis in mediterranean spotted fever
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Density-dependent timing of defaecation by Triatoma infestans
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The use of lemon essential oil as a sandfly repellent
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Articles
Bites by Russell's vipers (Daboia russelii siamensis) in Myanmar: effect of the snake's length and recent feeding on venom antigenaemia and severity of envenoming
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A home nutritional rehabilitation programme in a Peruvian peri-urban shanty town (pueblo joven)
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Risk factors for high diarrhoea frequency: a study in rural Zimbabwe
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Hand-washing reduces diarrhoea episodes: a study in Lombok, Indonesia
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Health status of the mother: is it an overlooked risk factor for diarrhoeal disease in children?
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Articles
Trachoma and water use; a case control study in a Gambian village
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Severe anaemia in pregnancy: a problem of primigravidae in rural Zaire
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Short report
Extended use of the micro-haematocrit capillary specimen in Third World blood banks
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Chronic Gaucher's disease masquerading as tropical splenomegaly syndrome in a Nigerian woman
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Auto-allergy, sunshine and the skin with special reference to pemphigus
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Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Scottish Branch Laboratory Meeting, Glasgow, 8 May 1991
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Correspondence
Bacteriological studies on snakes
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Medicinal plants and traditional alcoholic drinks
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Book Reviews
WHO model prescribing information: Drugs used in parasitic diseases. Price SW. fr. 21; US $ 18.90; in developing countries, SW. fr. 14.70. ISBN 92-4- 140102-8
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Practical chemotherapy of malaria. Report of a WHO Scientific Groun. Geneva: World Health Oreanization, 1990. Technical Report Series, no. 805. 141 pp. Price US$ 14, SW. fr. 16 (in developing countries, SW. fr. 11.20). ISBN 92-4-120805-8
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Introduction to tuberculosis and mycobacteria. Komi Kanai, Tokyo: Southeast Asian Medical Information Center/International Medical Foundation of Japan (SEAMIC publication no. 60), 1991. 221 pp. Price not stated
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Color Atlas/Text of Ophthahnic Parasitology. B. H. Kean, Tsieh Sun & R. M. Ellsworth. New York & Tokyo: Igaku-Shoin, 1991. xiv+233 pp. Price US$ 110. ISBN o-89640-193-6 (New York), 4-260-14193-7 (Tokyo)
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Atlas of Human Parasitology, 3rd edition. L. R. Ash & T. C. Orihel. New York, NY: ASCP Press (Raven Press), 1990. ix+262 pp. Price US$ 142. ISBN 0-89189-2292-3
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Books Received
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