Transactions: Volume 116, Issue 12, December 2022
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was founded in 1908. Take a look at the articles featured in Volume 116, Issue 12.
This issue includes a review article on sickle cell disease treatment and management in India, as well as a commentary article on whether helminth and malaria infections affect sex ratio at birth in sub-Saharan Africa. It also includes original articles including one on the prevalence of anaemia and its associated factors among lactating mothers in eastern Sudan, and on exporing the treatment outcomes and risk factors of death in childhood tuberculous meningitis in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Review Article
Sickle cell disease treatment and management in India: a systematic review of interventional studies
Parikipandla Sridevi, Yogita Sharma, Sunnam L Balakrishna, Bontha V Babu
Original Articles
In the footsteps of Albert Calmette: an ecological study of TB, leprosy and potential exposure to wild-type Mycobacterium bovis
Jacques Pépin, Aicha Fox, Louiselle LeBlanc, Philippe De Wals, Marie-Claude Rousseau
Prevalence of anaemia and its associated factors among lactating mothers in eastern Sudan: a cross-sectional study
Omer M Abdelbagi, Bahaeldin Hassan, Reem Eltayeb, Nadiah ALhabardi, Ishag Adam
Postdischarge outcomes of COVID-19 patients from South Asia: a prospective study
Visula Abeysuriya, Suranjith L Seneviratne, Arjuna P De Silva, Riaz Mowjood, Shazli Mowjood, Thushara de Silva, Primesh de Mel, Chandima de Mel, R S Wijesinha, Amitha Fernando, Sanjay de Mel, Lal Chandrasena
A qualitative study of factors resulting in care delays for adults with meningitis in Zambia
Melissa A Elafros, Chiti Bwalya, Godfrey Muchanga, Mwangala Mwale, Nachizya Namukanga, Gretchen L Birbeck, Mashina Chomba, Anchindika Mugala-Mulenga, Michelle P Kvalsund, Izukanji Sikazwe, Deanna R Saylor, Peter J Winch
Sarcopenia, body composition and factors associated with variceal gastrointestinal bleeding and splenectomy in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni
Fernanda A Barbosa, Mateus J Nardelli, Guilherme G L Cançado, Catherine F Silva, Fernanda M F Osório, Rodolfo F Q Melo, Daniela O L Taranto, Teresa C A Ferrari, Claudia A Couto, Luciana C Faria
Pretreatment attrition and treatment initiation delay among rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis patients in Lagos, Nigeria: a retrospective cohort study
Olusola A Adejumo, Olusoji Daniel, Victor A Adepoju, Moses O Onoh, Olusola D Sokoya, Hussein Abdur-Razzaq, Olanike Moronfolu, Omolara M Oyadotun, Bolanle Olusola-Faleye
Limited genetic diversity and expression profile of Plasmodium falciparum haem detoxification protein: a possible diagnostic target
Shrikant Nema, Sri Krishna, Archana Tiwari, Praveen Kumar Bharti
Screening adults with tuberculosis for severe illness at notification: programme experience from Gujarat, India
Bharatkumar Hargovandas Patel, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Kajal Bhagavanjibhai Davara, Kedar Gautambhai Mehta, Bhavesh Vitthalbhai Modi, Monark Jitendrabhai Vyas, Hosadurga Jagadish Deepak Murthy, Basavarajachar Vanitha, Ajay M V Kumar
Treatment outcomes and risk factors of death in childhood tuberculous meningitis in Kandahar, Afghanistan: a prospective observational cohort study
Bilal Ahmad Rahimi, Najeebullah Niazi, Ahmad Farshad Rahimi, Muhammad Ishaque Faizee, Mohmmad Sidiq Khan, Walter R Taylor
Gastrointestinal parasites diagnoses at the primary health care units: a comparative analysis of diagnostic abilities of parasitology staff technicians versus medical parasitologists in Ismailia, Egypt
Shahira Abdelaziz Ali Ahmed, Samar Farag Mohamed, Ahmed Mahmoud Fouad, Panagiotis Karanis
Genomic surveillance of Salmonella spp. in the Philippines during 2013–2014
Marietta L Lagrada, Silvia Argimón, Janice B Borlasa, Jaywardeen P Abad, June M Gayeta, Melissa L Masim, Agnettah M Olorosa, Victoria Cohen, Benjamin Jeffrey, Khalil Abudahab, Sonia B Sia, Charmian M Hufano, John Stelling, Matthew T G Holden, David M Aanensen, Celia C Carlos
Acceptability of contact management and care of simple cases of COVID-19 at home: a cross-sectional study in Senegal
Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Valéry Ridde, Amadou Ibra Diallo, Jean Augustin Diégane Tine, Babacar Kane, Ibrahima Gaye, Zoumana Traoré, Emmanuel Bonnet, Adama Faye
Short Communication
The observed relationship between the degree of parasite aggregation and the prevalence of infection within human host populations for soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections
Klodeta Kura, James E Truscott, Benjamin S Collyer, Anna Phillips, Amadou Garba, Roy M Anderson