TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword H.E. Sunthorn Hongladarom
Secretary-General, SEATO
i
Preamble MAJOR GENERAL Thutchai Dhirathumrong,
MC, RTA
Director General
SEATO Medical Research Project
ii
VIRUS DISEASES OF MAN AND ANIMALS
1
Dengue Infection at the Children’s Hospital of Bangkok
3
Surveillance of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Cases in Thailand,
1973 and 1974
10
Dengue Virus Isolation from Human Plasma Inoculated Into Mosquitoes
19
Rapid Detection of Dengue Virus Antigen and Antibody by
Counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CEP)
22
The Pathogenesis of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. The Role of Biological
Mediators: Histamine and Serotonin
24
Radioimmune Assay Inhibition Test for the Detection of Antibody to
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
27
Anti-Hepatitis B Serum Production in Laboratory Animals
34
Hepatitis B Virus Infections in Americans in Southeast Asia
39-
Continuing Studies of Hepatitis B Antigen Carriers in Thailand
44
The Effect on the Offspring of Maternal Hepatitis B Surface Antigenemia
48
Hepatitis B Virus in Bangkok Families
52
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in Laboratory Reared Mosquitoes
55
Tentative Identification of Langat Virus
57
Experimental Infection of Gibbons with a Group B Arbovirus (T-1674)
60
A Survey for Human Antibody to T-1674
64
Epidemic Influenza in A Hill Tribe in Northwest Thailand
69
Rabies Exposure During Pregnancy
79
Animal Rabies in Thailand: Rabies Diagnostic Laboratory Services
81
Prevalence of Some Viral Infections in the Residents of Phnom-Penh
82
Psittacosis in Birds and Man
88
BACTERIAL DISEASES OF MAN AND ANIMALS
89
Changing Penicillin Resistance of the Gonococcus in Thailand
91
Oropharyngeal Gonorrhea During Pregnancy
97
Effect of a Copper-Containing Intrauterine Device on
Neisseria gonorrhoeae in vitro
98
Microbial Flora Present in the Anterior Urethra of Venereal Disease Patients
100
An Epidemiological Survey of Males with Urethritis Attending a Military
VD Clinic in Thailand
103
Resistance of Gibbons (Hylobates lar) to Gonococcal Infection
104
Clinical Observation of Vibrio parahemolyticus Infection in Thailand
105
Cholera Study at Samutsongkram
110
Detection of Specific Bacterial Antigen by Counterimmunoelectrophoresis
(CEP)
112
Antibiotic-Resistant Typhoid Fever
115
Frequency of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency (G-6-PD)
Among Infectious Diseases and Control Patients at
Children’s Hospital
119
Surveillance of Plague in Thailand
121
Mycoplasma pneumoniae Study
122
PARASITIC DISEASES OF MAN AND ANIMALS
123
Ecology of Bancroftian Filariasis
125
Evaluation of Experimental Antimalarial Drugs in Rhesus Monkeys Infected
with Plasmodium cynomolgi
134
Relationship between Erythrocytic Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
Level and Human Malaria
137
Studies of New Experimental Intermediate and Paratenic Hosts and Modes
of Transmission of Gnathostoma spinigerum
139
Chemotherapy of Gnathostomiasis
141
Toxoplasmic Lymphadenitis
144
MISCELLANEOUS
145
An Epizootic of Tropical Canine Pancytopenia in Thailand
147
Prediction of illicit Drug Use by United States Servicemen
154
A Behavioral Survey of Thai Prostitutes
155
Mosquito Fauna of Thailand
156
Pathogens of Medically Important Mosquitoes of Thailand
157
Evaluation of Systemic Insecticides for Control of Trombiculid Mites
159
Studies on the Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Gibbons in
Captivity
164
Laboratory Animal Disease in Thailand: Its Occurrence and Importance to
Comparative Medicine
167
Vertebrate Reservoirs of Disease
170
Migratory Animal Pathological Survey
175
MALARIA STUDIES
177
The Suppression of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax
Parasitemias by a Diformyldapsone-Pyrimethamine Combination
179
Parasitemias by a Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Combination
185
Evaluation of the Sporontocidal Activity of Pyrimethamine-Sulfadoxine
(Fansidar) Against P. falciparum in Thailand
186
Hospital Survey of Malaria in Trad Province, Southeast Thailand
188
Amodiaquine Resistant Falciparum Malaria in Thailand
191
Falciparum Malaria Semi-resistant to Clindamycin
199
Single-Dose Therapy of Falciparum Malaria Using Pyrimethamine
in Combination with Diformyldapsone or Sulfadoxine
206
Falciparum Malaria Cured by Quinine Followed by Fansider
(Sulfadoxine with Pyrimethamine)
213
Comparison of Mefloquine (WR 142490) and Pyrimethamine with
Sulfadoxine in the Single-Dose Treatment of Falciparum Malaria
219
The Management of Coma in Falciparum Malaria
224
Pulmonary Edema Due to Fluid Overload in Falciparum Malaria
226
Jaundice in Falciparum Malaria
234
Anemia in Malaria and the Role of Blood Transfusion
237
Quinine Dosage and Serum Level in Falciparum Malaria
241
Evaluation of a Direct Counting Technique for Malaria in Thailand
251
Treatment of Severe Malaria in Children
253
A Study of Falciparum Malaria in Vietnam Using Serum Quinine
Concentrations
255
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
256
PUBLICATIONS
258