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

The Suppression of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax

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