Editorial

Rita Isaac, Reginald G Alex, and Tamsin A Knox

Malabsorption in wasting HIV disease: diagnostic and management issues in resource-poor settings
Trop Doct 38(3): 133-134; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080087 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Articles

U U Aniebue and P N Aniebue

A risk assessment for pregnancy using the World Health Organization classifying form in primary health-care facilities in Enugu, Nigeria
Trop Doct 38(3): 135-137; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amanda Martinot, Annelies Van Rie, Sabue Mulangu, Marie Mbulula, Nikki Jarrett, Frieda Behets, Valentin Bola, and Etienne Bahati

Baseline assessment of collaborative tuberculosis/HIV activities in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Trop Doct 38(3): 137-141; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

A O A Aderounmu, S A Afolayan, T A Nasiru, J A Olaore, M L Adeoti, and M Adelasoye

Rotational rural surgery for the poor in developing countries
Trop Doct 38(3): 141-144; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jessie Lionel, T K Aleyamma, Lilly Varghese, Jessica Buck, Geetha Gopalakrishnan, Sreekanth Chaguturu, Susan Cu-Uvin, and Kenneth Mayer

HIV and obstetric complications and fetal outcomes in Vellore, India
Trop Doct 38(3): 144-146; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G O Igberase and P N Ebeigbe

Exploring the pattern of complications of induced abortion in a rural mission tertiary hospital in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Trop Doct 38(3): 146-148; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Zimmerman, Maurice Lee, and Samson Retnaraj

Non-doctor anaesthesia in Nepal: developing an essential cadre
Trop Doct 38(3): 148-150; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christoph H Blanke, Godson B Naisabha, and Christine R Lange

Traditional medicine, delays and hospital mortality of children under five years of age in the rural district of Kigoma, western Tanzania: an observational hospital-based study
Trop Doct 38(3): 150-152; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods and Devices

Dipankar Ray

The proctoscope
Trop Doct 38(3): 153; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070133 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Akhilesh KR Agarwal and Nirjhar Bhattacharya

Histopathology slide projector a simple improvisation
Trop Doct 38(3): 153-154; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070180 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Short Reports

Vipa Thanachartwet, Srivicha Krudsood, Noppadon Tangpukdee, Weerapong Phumratanaprapin, Udomsak Silachamroon, Wattana Leowattana, Polrat Wilairatana, Gary M Brittenham, Sornchai Looareesuwan, and Guy H Neild

Hyponatraemia and hypokalaemia in adults with uncomplicated malaria in Thailand
Trop Doct 38(3): 155-157; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P N Aniebue and G O Onyema

Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Nigerian medical undergraduates
Trop Doct 38(3): 157-158; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070202 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Damas Ngoma, Simon D Makombe, Kelita Kamoto, and Anthony D Harries

World Health Organization Clinical Stage 3 disease conditions in HIV-infected patients who start antiretroviral therapy in Malawi
Trop Doct 38(3): 159-160; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070244 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toos van't Veer, Hanneke Meester, Dan Poenaru, Agnes Kogei, Kimberly Augenstein, and Richard Bransford

Quality of life for families with spina bifida in Kenya
Trop Doct 38(3): 160-162; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S R Ramphal, G Kalane, T Fourie, and J Moodley

An audit of obstetric fistulae in a teaching hospital in South Africa
Trop Doct 38(3): 162-163; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070087 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thambu David Sudarsanam, Geeta Chacko, and Rani Diana David

Postmortem trucut transnasal brain biopsy in the diagnosis of encephalitis
Trop Doct 38(3): 163-165; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ally Ibrahim Olotu, S Mithwani, and C R J C Newton

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome in children admitted to a rural district hospital in Kenya
Trop Doct 38(3): 165-167; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J Gollogly, N Oucheng, G Lauer, T Pinzer, F Lauwers, F E Roux, W Singleton, and S Douglas

Frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocoele repair in Cambodia: outcomes and cost comparisons
Trop Doct 38(3): 167-170; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Zaid Ahmed Wani, Shabir Ahmed Dhar, Arshad Hussain, and Waseem Qureshi

The unreported morbidity of suicidal poisonings during an insurgency: a 16-year Kashmir experience
Trop Doct 38(3): 170-171; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070158 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dominic Saldanha, Nitika Gupta, Shalini Shenoy, and Vishwas Saralaya

Prevalence of opportunistic infections in AIDS patients in Mangalore, Karnataka
Trop Doct 38(3): 172-173; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070171 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S Lamina and S Hanif

Paralytic poliomyelitis during the pre-, peri- and post-suspension periods of a polio immunization campaign
Trop Doct 38(3): 173-175; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070196 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sumit Rai, Anita Chakravarti, Monika Matlani, Preena Bhalla, Vijay Aggarwal, N Singh, and R Diwan

Clinico-laboratory findings of patients during dengue outbreak from a tertiary care hospital in Delhi
Trop Doct 38(3): 175-177; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070229 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Srujana Mohanty, Monorama Deb, and Pushpa Aggarwal

Neurocysticercosis in a north Indian hospital
Trop Doct 38(3): 177-179; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070231 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ndifreke E Udonwa, Sunde M Udoh, Bassey Ikpeme, and Iniobong Andy

Intra-family transmission of Vibrio cholerae during a cholera epidemic in rural south-southern Nigeria
Trop Doct 38(3): 179-180; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070249 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oral Oncul, Gurol Emekdas, Saban Cavuslu, Cigdem Artuk, and Ali Aksoy

The sixteen-year trend of syphilis in Turkey: data from blood donors
Trop Doct 38(3): 181-182; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070255 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jose Manuel Ramos, Francisco Reyes, and Abraham Tesfamariam

Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus among blood donors in a rural Ethiopian Hospital
Trop Doct 38(3): 182-183; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H Trotman and C Lord

Predictors of survival in very low birth weight infants at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica
Trop Doct 38(3): 183-185; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070203 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case Series and Case Reports

Moslehi Mohammad Ashkan and Kadivar Mohammad Rahim

Visceral leishmanisis in paediatrics: a study of 367 cases in southwest Iran
Trop Doct 38(3): 186-188; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070259 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tanuj Kanchan and Ritesh G Menezes

Accidental childhood fatalities in Manipal, India
Trop Doct 38(3): 188-189; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070274 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chisara C Umezurike

Caesarean myomectomy in Aba, southeastern Nigeria
Trop Doct 38(3): 189-190; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070042 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shon A Remich, Walter Otieno, Mark E Polhemus, Bernhards Ogutu, and Douglas S Walsh

Bullous erythema multiforme after treatment with Malarone^®, a combination antimalarial composed of atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride
Trop Doct 38(3): 190-191; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070192 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lin Chaoshuang, Zhao Zhixin, Wang Xiaohong, Huang Zhanlian, and Gao Zhiliang

Clinical analysis of 52 cases of neurocysticercosis
Trop Doct 38(3): 192-194; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research Letters

O M Abiodun and A P Aboyeji

From home delay to institutional neglect: an emerging trend in obstructed labour
Trop Doct 38(3): 195; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070177 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Subramanian Kannan, Shriraam Mahadevan, Anjali Sathya, and Usha Sriram

Prolactin and alternative medicines: a word of caution
Trop Doct 38(3): 195-196; doi:10.1258/td.2007.070182 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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