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Bedu-Addo, G. "Massive splenomegaly in tropical West Africa." Postgraduate Medical Journal 76, no. 892 (February 1, 2000): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pmj.76.892.107.

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Loefler, I. "Principles of Medicine in Africa Third edition; Textbook of Tropical Surgery." JRSM 97, no. 9 (August 31, 2004): 451–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.97.9.451.

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Weinke, Th, G. Weber, U. Schultes, W. Hopfenmüller, and K. Janitschke. "Malaria prophylaxis in travellers to tropical Africa." Klinische Wochenschrift 68, no. 5 (March 1990): 277–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02116057.

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Brocklesby, Helen. "David William Brocklesby." Veterinary Record 185, no. 15 (October 18, 2019): 488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.l6078.

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Fleming, Alan F. "Tropical obstetrics and gynaecology. 1. Anaemia in pregnancy in tropical Africa." Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83, no. 4 (July 1989): 441–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(89)90241-1.

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Wiland-Szymańska, Justyna. "The genus Hypoxis L. (Hypoxidaceae) in the East Tropical." Biodiversity: Research and Conservation 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 1–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10119-009-0011-5.

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The genusHypoxisL. (Hypoxidaceae) in the East TropicalA complete key with full descriptions and distributions of all knownHypoxistaxa found in the East Tropical Africa is presented in the monograph. The morphology of all species, subspecies and varieties is described, including such important taxonomic characters for this genus like tuber flesh color, tunic type, indumentum and seed testa sculpture. A succulent leaf structure is described forH. kilimanjaricavar.prostrata.The anatomical studies were conducted as a part of taxonomical analysis. They have positively evaluated a taxonomic significance of leaf anatomy characters, such as succulent structure, occurrence of bulliform cells in epidermis outside the keel zone, type and distribution of trichomes. The studies of theHypoxisleaf anatomy added new data concerning anatomical differentiation of the cataphylls and the inner leaves. Also differentiated mesophyll and simultaneous presence of different types of stomata on one leaf are reported. It has been shown that in some species mucilage canals are present in the inner leaves and that this character is not constant. The number of vascular bundles, which can be determined only on the basis of a leaf section, is useful only in species with a small number of veins, not increasing with a plant age. Because of lack of constancy in distribution, number of stomata accessory cells cannot be used as a diversifying character for the East African species ofHypoxis.The wax crystals are revealed to exist in many species ofHypoxis.The anatomical characters of scapes were also studied in a taxonomic context. A sclerenchyma distribution, as well as number of vascular bundles can be used for a species determination. The presence of sclerenchyma prevents the scapes from bending down after anthesis. The studies of phenology revealed that there are two groups of taxa, one with a resting period and the other without it. It is connected with a climate in which the species occurs. The study of distribution maps of the species occurring in the East Africa are provided for this area, as well as for their entire range. This new knowledge, along with a revision of literature data, led to a new conclusion as to a number of allHypoxisspecies in Africa, which is now estimated to be 55. The revision demonstrates that distribution of many of theHypoxisspecies is connected with White's phytochoria. It proves that not only South Africa, but also the Zambesian Region is a very important center of diversity of this genus. The number of endemic taxa ofHypoxisfor the East Tropical Africa is very low, including only one species and one subspecies. Additionally, a study of vertical ranges ofHypoxisis presented. It reveals that most of the species in East Africa grow in the mountains and they show preferences of dispersal in particular altitudinal levels. The analysis of the vertical distribution within the entire ranges of different taxa has showed differences in the altitudinal position depending on the geographic location. The human influence onHypoxisis studied in terms of their use in folk medicine and believes. Most of the species ofHypoxissurvive quite well in East Africa, being a visible component of various types of grasslands. Some species however are under threat of extinction. This is due to their incapability of surviving in changed habitats, especially in shade of cultivated plants. Another threat is a large-scale collection of species believed to cure the HIV, or sold as a substitute of similar taxa, assumed to possess such qualities. The IUCN categories are proposed for the East African taxa ofHypoxis.
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Merdin, Alparslan, Ozer Birge, and Fatma Avci Merdin. "Approach to Fever in Sub-Saharan Tropical Africa." Turkish Journal of Parasitology 39, no. 4 (January 26, 2016): 326–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5152/tpd.2015.4427.

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GESSAIN, A. "HTLV-I AND TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS IN AFRICA." Lancet 328, no. 8508 (September 1986): 698. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(86)90218-7.

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Adebajo, AO. "Low frequency of autoimmune disease in tropical Africa." Lancet 349, no. 9048 (February 1997): 361–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)62867-x.

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Gewurtz, Margo S. "Transnationalism in Missionary Medicine." Social Sciences and Missions 30, no. 1-2 (2017): 30–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03001001.

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Kala-azar is a parasitic disease that was endemic in India, parts of Africa and China. During the first half of the twentieth century, developing means of treatment and identification of the host and transmission vectors for this deadly disease would be the subject of transnational research and controversy. In the formative period for this research, two Canadian Medical missionaries, Drs. Jean Dow and Ernest Struthers, pioneered work on Kala-azar in the North Henan Mission. The great international prestige of the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Indian Medical Service would stand against recognition of the clinical discoveries of missionary doctors in remote North Henan. It was only after Struthers forged personal relations with Dr. Lionel. E. Napier and his colleagues at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine that there was a meeting of minds to promote the hypothesis that the sand fly was the transmission vector.
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Sunyoto, Temmy. "Access to leishmaniasis care in Africa." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667473.

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Leishmaniasis is a group of diseases caused by an obligate protozoan Leishmania and transmitted by sand flies. As a neglected tropical disease (NTD), leishmaniasis disproportionately affects the poorest populations and those living in rural, remote areas or conflict zones with limited or no access to health care. Manifesting in cutaneous, mucocutaneous or visceral symptoms, the diseases’ complexity and diversity across regions contribute to the challenges in the control efforts. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is fatal without treatment, and the indelible scars left by cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) may have important psycho-social impact. Eastern Africa region currently bears most of the world’s VL burden. However, underestimation of true disease burden is likely, as the paucity of data from unstable contexts may contribute to inaccurate disease estimates. Both VL and CL are known to have limited geographic distribution but may show high variability inter- and intra-countries. Population movement due to conflict or drought, combined with weak or poorly functioning health system have led to epidemics and spread in new areas. Without vaccine or effective vector control, the pillar of control strategy in Africa remains diagnosis and treatment. Access to adequate, quality diagnostic and treatment services in Africa is challenging. The rk39 rapid test is less accurate and treatment options are limited. A 17-day combination of antimonial and paromomycin is the first line treatment for VL in the region, requiring prolonged hospitalisation and increased economic burden for the patients and their households. Despite the progress in tackling NTDs, access to care for leishmaniasis is often taken for granted. Especially in Africa, access remains problematic and the current body of literature shows critical evidence gaps. Low coverage of the health services, accessibility and availability of quality care, limited diagnostic and therapeutic options along with inefficient procurement and supply remain significant challenges in the region. Delay in seeking treatment not only increase morbidity and mortality but also sustain transmission. The hypothesis informing the project is that access to care for leishmaniasis in Africa is still inadequate. The general objectives of this thesis are to improve our understanding on access to care in Africa, by documenting availability, affordability and accessibility of care, explore novel ways of enhancing such care, and provide insights into specific elements of access to formulate coherent policy recommendations for leishmaniasis in eastern Africa. Three specific objectives were formulated: the first is to update the disease burden, second to examine access issues ‘upstream' i.e. the R&D process and third, assess access issues ‘downstream’.
La leishmaniasis es un grupo de enfermedades causadas por un protozoo (Leishmania) y transmitidas por flebótomos. Como enfermedad tropical desatendida (NTD, por sus siglas en inglés), la leishmaniasis afecta de manera desproporcionada a las poblaciones más pobres y a las personas que viven en zonas rurales, remotas o en zonas de conflicto con acceso limitado o nulo a la atención médica. Las distintas formas clínicas (cutánea, visceral), la complejidad y la distribución de la leishmaniasis en distintas regiones son algunos de los desafíos para controlar la enfermedad. La leishmaniasis visceral (LV) es mortal si el paciente no recibe tratamiento a tiempo, y las cicatrices dejadas por la leishmaniasis cutánea (LC) pueden tener un importante impacto psicosocial. Actualmente la mayor carga de LV se concentra en la región de África oriental aunque las cifras disponibles son probablemente una subestimación del número real de casos debido a la falta de datos fiables. Se sabe que tanto la LV como la LC tienen una distribución geográfica limitada, pero pueden mostrar una alta variabilidad tanto entre países como entre zonas en un mismo país. Los movimientos poblacionales debidos a conflictos o sequías, combinado con un sistema de salud débil o con un funcionamiento deficiente, provocan la expansión de la enfermedad a nuevas áreas y la aparición de epidemias. Al no existir una vacuna ni un control efectivo de vectores, el control de la leishmaniasis en África se sigue basando en el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de los casos. La hipótesis inicial de este proyecto es que es que el acceso al cuidado de la leishmaniasis en África sigue siendo inadecuado. Los objetivos generales de esta tesis son mejorar el conocimiento sobre el acceso a la atención de los casos de leihmaniasis en África, documentando la disponibilidad, la asequibilidad y la accesibilidad de los servicios sanitarios, explorar nuevas formas de mejorar dicha atención y formular recomendaciones de políticas de acceso al cuidado de la leishmaniasis en África oriental. Los tres objetivos específicos son: actualizar los datos sobre carga de enfermedad así como estudiar los problemas de acceso tanto a nivel de I+D como sobre el terreno.
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Ongore, Dismas. "Risk factors for infection and disease with the malaria parasite in children less than five years of age in Kisumu District Nyanza Province Kenya." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385095.

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Johnson, R. M. "Networks of imperial tropical medicine : ideas and practices of health and hygiene in the British Empire, 1895-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7fabecbf-d431-45db-924c-3644791c20d1.

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This thesis investigates several previously neglected networks of imperial tropical medicine (ITM) in Britain and its tropical colonies at the turn of the twentieth-century. It argues for the need to bring back the ‘imperial’ to the study of medicine in colonial localities; and, in doing so, redefines the ‘imperial’ in relation to tropical medicine during this period. To accomplish this, the first part of the thesis considers largely ignored popular networks of ITM, including the 1900 London Livingstone Exhibition; guidebooks and manuals for tropical travel, health and hygiene; and commodities such as Burroughs Wellcome & Co.’s (BWC) Tabloid brand medicine chests and tropical clothing. The second part of the thesis investigates important, but under researched professional networks of ITM, including the training and experiences of non-medical missionaries educated at Livingstone College, London and the London Missionary School of Medicine (LMSM); and the formation and reform of the West African Medical Staff (WAMS). All of the popular and professional networks discussed in this thesis were, for the most part, a response to the urgency generated by domestic and international high politics to ‘improve’ and ‘develop’ Britain’s tropical possessions. While representing a diversity of individuals and interests, one concern that they all shared was the supposed need to preserve Anglo-Saxon health in tropical climates. Such a disparate set of ‘agents of empire’, connected through a common interest, led to a complex set of ideas and practices of ITM, which were informed as much by the environment and climate, as new disciplines such as parasitology. This thesis also demonstrates that a significant fissure existed — within and outside the imperial state — between ideas of ITM and their practice. Ideas of ITM were often aggressively imperial in rhetoric but in practice they generally were not. Therefore, at the start of the twentieth-century ITM was not always working — directly — as a ‘tool of empire’. Nonetheless, this thesis demonstrates that the ‘imperial’ is still the most useful analytical category and organising principle for understanding Western medicine’s relationship to Britain’s tropical possessions during this period. By focusing on both the colony and the metropole, and the uneven power relationship that existed between them, it demonstrates that ideas and practices of medicine and hygiene intended for Britain’s tropical empire were neither colonial nor metropolitan, but imperial.
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De, Araújo Barros e. Silva Sebastião Nuno. "The land of flies, children and devils : the sleeping sickness epidemic in the island of Príncipe (1870s-1914)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669806.

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bivens, dana. "African Sleeping Sickness in British Uganda and Belgian Congo, 1900-1910: Ecology, Colonialism, and Tropical Medicine." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3723.

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This thesis deconstructs the social, ecological, and colonial elements of the 1900-1910 Human African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness) epidemic which affected British Uganda and Belgian Congo. This paper investigates the epidemic’s medical history, and the subsequent social control policies which sought to govern the actions of the indigenous population. In addition, this paper argues that the failure to understand and respect the region’s ecological conditions and local knowledge led to disease outbreaks in epidemic proportions. Retroactive policies sought to inflict western medical practices on a non-western population, which resulted in conflict and unrest in the region. In the Belgian Congo, colonial authorities created a police state in which violence and stringent control measures were used to manage the local population. In Uganda, forced depopulation in infected regions destabilized local economies. This thesis compares and contrasts the methods used in these regions, and investigates the effects of Germ Theory on Sleeping Sickness policy and social perceptions during the colonial period in Africa.
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Cecchi, Giuliano. "Biogeographical patterns of African trypanosomoses for improved planning and implementation of field interventions." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209787.

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Spatially-explicit information is essential for planning and implementing interventions against vector-borne diseases. This is also true for African trypanosomoses, a group of diseases of both humans and animals caused by protozoa of the Genus Trypanosoma, and transmitted by tsetse flies (Genus Glossina).

In this thesis the knowledge gaps and the requirements for an evidence-based decision making in the field of tsetse and trypanosomoses are identified, with a focus on georeferenced data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Datasets, tools and analyses are presented that aim to fill some of the identified knowledge gaps.

For the human form of the disease, also known as sleeping sickness, case detection and treatment are the mainstay of control, so that accurate knowledge of the geographic distribution of infections is paramount. In this study, an Atlas was developed that provides village-level information on the reported occurrence of sleeping sickness. The geodatabase underpinning the Atlas also includes the results of active screening activities, even when no cases were detected. The Atlas enables epidemiological maps to be generated at a range of scales, from local to global, thus providing evidence for strategic and technical decision making.

In the field of animal trypanosomosis control, also known as nagana, much emphasis has recently been placed on the vector. Accurate delineation of tsetse habitat appears as an essential component of ongoing and upcoming interventions against tsetse. The present study focused on land cover datasets and tsetse habitat. The suitability for tsetse of standardized land cover classes was explored at continental, regional and national level, using a combination of inductive and deductive approaches. The land cover classes most suitable for tsetse were identified and described, and tailored datasets were derived.

The suite of datasets, methodologies and tools presented in this thesis provides evidence for informed planning and implementation of interventions against African trypanosomoses at a range of spatial scales.
Doctorat en Sciences agronomiques et ingénierie biologique
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Marsh, Victoria Mary Chuck. "Sharing findings on sickle cell disorder in international collaborative biomedical research : an empirical ethics study in coastal Kenya." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b693b762-5ce8-4109-82ea-4cf7ba38675e.

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Against the background of a dilemma experienced by researchers during a genomics study at an established biomedical research centre in Kenya, the broad aims of this thesis are to develop appropriate responses to important ethical questions on sharing information on a common and serious genetic condition, sickle cell disorder, and assess the responsibilities of researchers in this regard. Using an empirical approach to normative reflection across two phases of qualitative research, I explore the nature of important moral concerns related to sharing sickle cell disease information from researchers’ and community members’ points of view; and develop a bottom-up normative analysis around the questions generated. This analysis interweaves community experiences, processes of community reasoning and ex situ normative reflection; placing community views and values centrally while referencing these to wider ethical debates, commentaries and guidelines in the literature. Two main outputs of this thesis are to provide recommendations for information sharing on SCD findings in the genomics study in Kilifi; and to propose a set of key issues to consider for this type of information in other studies and geographic settings. I conclude that researchers have a strong responsibility to share SCD information on affected children with families as a form of ancillary service (validating tests, counselling and care); but less responsibility to actively share carrier information. Concurrent responsibilities are working collaboratively with the Ministry of Health/District General Hospital to plan and implement services for SCD; ensuring counselling services support family stability as far as reasonably possible; and to build forms of community engagement and informed consent that counter risks of diagnostic interpretations of research.
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SEIXAS, Jorge. "Investigations on the encephalopathie syndrome during melarsoprol treatment of human african trypanosomosis." Doctoral thesis, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/56814.

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Fye, Haddy K. S. "Protein profiling for hepatocellular carcinoma biomarker discovery in West African subjects." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8b9cddda-5c65-45f0-9354-9343c317bef6.

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Background: Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is the third most common cause of cancer related death worldwide and is often diagnosed by measuring serum Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP); a stand-alone biomarker with limited diagnostic proficiency. To compensate for this, AFP is commonly used in conjunction with high performance imaging and radiological methods. However, as the burden of HCC is predominantly in the developing world where such technologies are not readily available, it is imperative that efforts are made to pursue the discovery of novel, high performance, easy to measure and robust biomarkers. With the aim of improving on the diagnostic ability of AFP, our project focuses on the study of plasma proteins as identified by Mass Spectrometry (MS) in order to investigate differences seen in the respective proteomes of controls and subjects with liver cirrhosis (LC) and HCC. Methods: Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight MS (MALDI-TOF MS) was first attempted on weak cation exchange (WCX) fractionated plasma in a pilot selection of forty subjects. On the main case-control group, quantitative MS analysis using liquid chromatography electro spray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight (LC-ESI Q-TOF) was conducted on 339 subjects using a pooled expression profiling approach. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and 1 and 2Dimentional electrophoresis methods were performed to validate and detail candidate protein levels and modification patters in individual and pooled subjects. The human plasma used for the MS based protein discovery experiments was collected as part of a five year Liver Cancer Case-control Study (Gambia, West Africa). A smaller set of samples from subjects who formed a spectrum of non-liver disease controls, LC and HCC were obtained from the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in Nigeria and ELISA and gel electrophoresis assays conducted on them to confirm the trends and differences seen in the Gambian subject set. Results: Bioinformatic evaluation of MALDI-TOF data highlighted peak masses 2444m/z, 2583m/z and 2559m/z to have high diagnostic abilities based on area under curve (AUC) statistics of >0.75. Of these polypeptide fragments, one was identified as the plasma glycoprotein, alpha chain fibrinogen. Results from the large-scale label free discovery experiments indicated twenty-six proteins to be differentially expressed between the three subject groups. These prospective markers include proteins previously linked to HCC as well as novel candidates, namely glutathione peroxidase 3, serum amyloid p, carboxypeptidase N and complement factors I and H which have not been implicated in the context of HCC diagnostics. Direct measurement of Hemopexin (HPX), alpha-1-antitrypsin (α1AT), apolipoprotein A1 (Apo A1) and complement component 3 (CC3) levels confirmed their change in abundance in LC and HCC versus control patients. Further biochemical characterization of glycosylated HPX isolated from glycoprotein enriched plasma sample pools showed evidence of isoelectric point shifts, indicating differential glycosylation patterns in high mannose structures of HPX which may be disease stage linked. The direct measurements of HPX, α1AT, Apo A1 & CC3 conducted on the independent Nigerian subject group also confirmed much of the trends reported from the Gambia Liver Cancer Study (GLCS) plasma. Conclusions: The independently validated, significant changes in the quantitative expression of ApoA1, α1AT, CC3 and HPX could be exploited for development into high-performance affordable assays, usable in the diagnosis and monitoring of HCC and LC patients. The unique signatures observed for most of these proteins, from liver disease free controls to LC and HCC suggest their involvement in independent pathways. As such, combining some or all of these four markers within a diagnostic panel could offer a much-needed boost in robustness and accuracy for AFP. The differences in the processing and molecular weight separation of these proteins also offers a novel inroad into biomarker identification. These suggested disease specific signatures could with further study offer highly specific biomarkers able to discern the key stages that predispose individuals to hepatocarcinogenesis. Impact: This is the first MS based discovery and extensive validation study on West African subjects whose primary cause of HCC are the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and fungal toxins.
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Prapansilp, Panote. "Molecular pathological investigation of the pathophysiology of fatal malaria." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e966a2f2-a37d-4586-b09e-2bb616e5dce2.

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Malaria remains one of the world's major health problems, especially in developing countries. A better understanding of the pathology and pathophysiology of severe malaria is key to develop new treatments. Different approaches have been used in malaria research including the in vitro co-culture models with endothelial cells and both murine and simian animal models. However these are open to controversy due to disagreement on their representativeness of human disease. Using human post-mortem tissue in malaria research is another important approach but is practically challenging, limiting the availability of post mortem samples from malaria patients. The work in this thesis had two main themes. First I examined the role of the endothelial signalling Angiopoetin-Tie-2 receptor pathway in malaria. Ang-2 has been shown to be a significant biomarker of severe and fatal malaria. I examined the tissue specific expression of proteins from this pathway in post-mortem brain tissues from fatal malaria cases, but found no difference between cerebral malaria and non-cerebral malaria cases. Ang-2 correlated with the severity of malaria in these patients. An attempt to examine the interaction of hypoxia and the Ang-Tie-2 pathway in vitro using a co-culture model of human brain endothelial cells was unsuccessful due to contamination of the cell line. The second part of the thesis aimed to utilise molecular pathology techniques including miRNA and whole-genome microarrays. I have shown for the first time that these can be successfully applied to human post-mortem tissue in malaria. First I used archival tissues to examine the microRNA signature in the kidney of patients with malaria associated renal failure. Second I optimised a protocol to preserve post mortem tissue for molecular pathology, from an autopsy study in Mozambique. Using the subsequent total mRNA transcriptomic data and bioinformatics analysis this work has expanded our knowledge of differential gene expression and the families of genes which are dysregulated in the brain in response to malaria infection.
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Books on the topic "Tropical medicine; Africa"

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Davey, W. W. Davey's companion to surgery in Africa. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1987.

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Davey, W. W. Davey's companion to surgery in Africa. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1997.

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Principles of medicine in Africa. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Convegno internazionale: Medicina e salute in Africa : una sfida globale : Roma, 17-19 settembre 2003. Roma: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 2005.

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Networks in tropical medicine: Internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Tolmie, Penny. Medicine and public health in British Tropical Africa: Materials collected by the Oxford Development Project. Oxford: Oxford Development Records Project, 1985.

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Staying healthy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 5th ed. Emeryville, Calif: Moon Travel Handbooks, 2000.

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Staying healthy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Chico, Calif: Moon Publications, 1993.

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Filmer, Deon. Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C: World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Services, 2002.

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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Tropical medicine; Africa"

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Gradmann, Christoph. "Africa as a Laboratory: Robert Koch, Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology." In Epidemien und Pandemien in historischer Perspektive, 325–35. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13875-2_24.

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Byass, Peter. "A Probabilistic Approach to Health Care Delivery in Tropical Africa." In Expert Systems and Decision Support in Medicine, 136–41. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48706-4_21.

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Lejon, Veerle, Epco Hasker, and Philippe Büscher. "Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Human African Trypanosomiasis." In Revolutionizing Tropical Medicine, 159–69. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119282686.ch8.

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"Sleeping Sickness Campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa." In Networks in Tropical Medicine, 138–64. Stanford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804778138.003.0006.

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"Sleeping Sickness Campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa." In Networks in Tropical Medicine, 138–64. Stanford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqsf0bd.10.

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"5. Sleeping Sickness Campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa." In Networks in Tropical Medicine, 138–64. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780804781053-008.

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Stich, August. "Human African trypanosomiasis." In Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 1119–27. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199204854.003.070810_update_001.

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Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) is caused by two subspecies of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei: T. b. rhodesiense is prevalent in East Africa among many wild and domestic mammals; T. b. gambiense causes an anthroponosis in Central and West Africa. The disease is restricted to tropical Africa where it is transmitted by the bite of infected tsetse flies (...
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"Africa Years: Robert Koch's Research in Tropical Medicine." In Robert Koch, 237–66. Washington, DC, USA: ASM Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/9781555818272.ch20.

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Tchuem, Louis-Albert. "Control of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Prospects." In Current Topics in Tropical Medicine. InTech, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/28248.

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"Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa." In Warm Climates and Western Medicine, 160–80. Brill | Rodopi, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004418448_012.

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