TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction     

Air Vice Marshal Sithibun Purnaveja, MC, RTAF Director General

Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences

 

 

Introduction

LTC Herbert E. Segal, MC

Director, US Army Medical Component

 

 

TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL DISEASES

 

Etiology of Pediatric Diarrhea at Children’s Hospital, Bangkok

3

The Effect of Antibiotic Usage on the Prevalence of Bacterial Enteric Pathogens

10

Etiology of Travelers’ Diarrhea in Peace Corps Volunteers During Their First Five

Weeks in Thailand

 

11

Etiology of Diarrhea in a Neonatal Nursery : Role of Maternal Stool as a Source

of Infection for Their Infants

 

13

Resistance to Penicillin and Identification of Penicillinase Producing

Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Clinical Isolates in Thailand

 

17

Epidemiological and Ecological Studies of Scrub Typhus in Royal Thai Army

Field Training Facilities

 

25

Seroepidemiologic Survey of R. tsutsugamushi Infection in a Rural Thai Village

29

Ectoparasite and Rickettsia tsutsugamushi Studies in Thailand

32

A Peroxidase Enzyme-Linked Paper Immunosorbent Technique (PELISA)

Compared to Microimmunofluorescence (MIFA) for the Detection of Human Serum Antibodies to the Rickettsia, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

 

 

39

Mosquito Cytogenetics, Electrophoresis and Cross Mating Studies

48

Mosquito Survey and Taxonomic Studies

57

Studies on Filariasis in Small Mammals in Northeast Thailand

62

Studies on Canine Viral Enteritis

67

Ecology and Epidemiology of Dengue Viruses in Din Daeng District, Bangkok

73

A Serological Survey for Togaviruses(Arboviruses) in a well Defined Rural Thai

Population

 

113

A Longitudinal Serologic Study of A Bangkok School Population

118

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Bangkok : Correlation of Monthly Incidence

Rates with Total Yearly Incidence Rates

 

123

Fluctuations in the Relative Proportion of Dengue Virus Serotypes Isolated from

Patients with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Bangkok, 1962-1978

 

130

Epidemiological Factors Relating to the Successful Isolation of Dengue Viruses

134

Isolation of Dengue Virus from Plasma and Cellular components of Blood

142

Comparison of the Mosquito Inoculation Technique with Cell Culture Techniques

for Isolating Dengue Viruses from Dengue Patients

 

154

Evaluation of Toxorhynchitee splendens (Diptera : Culicidae) as a Bioassay Host

for Dengue Viruses

 

167

Evaluation of the C6/36 Aedes albopictus Cell Line as a Substrate for Dengue

Virus Growth

 

178

Isolation of Dengue Viruses From Aedes aegypti Collected in Bangkok, Thailand

185

Longevity and Developmental Studies of Aedes aegypti

189

Effects of Temperature on the In Vitro Replication of Dengue Viruses

197

Prevalence of Anti-dengue HAI Antibody in Bangkok Infants

216

Effect of Intravenous Inoculation of Bordetella Pertussis Vaccine on the In vivo

Viremia and Antibody Response to Flavivirus Infection in Rhesus Monkeys

 

 

219

HLA Antigens of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Patients

229

Suppression of Lymphocyte Blastogenic Response by Sera from Patients with

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF)

 

231

Lymphocytotoxins in Serum from Patients with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

(DHF)

 

233

Detection of Infectious Virus and Viral Antigens In Tissue Specimens from Fatal

Cases of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

 

235

Isolation of Flaviviruses from Blood Specimens from Palm oil and Rubber

Plantation Workers in Central Malaysia

 

239

Lack of Relationship of Parental Response to Infection with HBV and Offspring

Gender in Thailand

 

248

Heterologous Hepatitis B Virus Challenge in a Chronically Antigenemic Gibbon

251

Evaluation of the HAVAB® Kit for Assay of Hepatitis A Antibodies

253

Age-Specific Prevalence of Anti-Hepatitis A Virus Antibody in Thailand

258

Susceptibility of Gibbons, Rhesus Monkeys, and Cynomologous Monkeys to

Infection with the Hepatitis A Virus (HAV)

 

263

Evaluation of the Staphylococcus Protein A Absorption Method for Detecting

Anti-Hepatitis A Virus Immuno-Globulin M

 

265

Determination of the Etiology of Acute Hepatitis Infections in Bangkok : A Pilot

Study

 

274

Simultaneous Infection with Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) and Hepatitis B Virus

(HBV)

 

278

Epidemiologic Investigation of Cases of Acute Hepatitis Among Troops of the

The Thanarat Army Base, 30 October – 2 November 1978

 

280

Studies on the Etiology of Acute Encephalitis in Patients at Bangkok

Children’s Hospital

 

302

Detection of Viruses in the Stools of Thai Children with Gastroenteritis by

by Electron Microcopy

 

306

Antibody Titers of Department of Virology Personnel to Selected Viruses

310

Investigation of  the Epidemiology  and Microbiology of Wounds and Wound

Infections in the Royal Thai Army (RTA)

 

313

Hematologic Values in a Selected Normal Group of Bangkok School Children

323

Support Activities of the Department of Veterinary

327

 

 

MALARIA STUDIES

 

Treatment of the Acute Attack of Malaria Caused by Plasmodium falciparum :

A Comparison of Mefloquine with Standard Therapy

 

335

Treatment of the Acute Attack of Malaria Caused by Plasmodium vivax :

A Comparison of Mefloquine with Standard Therapy

 

339

In Vitro Evaluation of Antimalarial Drugs Against P. falciparum : A Micro

Technique

 

343

Investigation of Possible Quinine and Fansidar Resistant Cases of Falciparum

Malaria in a Refugee Camp

 

344

Evaluation of Experimental Antimalarial Drugs for Radical Curative Activity in

the Rhesus Monkeys

 

352

Drug Tolerance Study of WR 225448 in Rhesus Monkeys

356

Comparative Study of WR 225448 and Primaquine in the Plasmodium cynomolgi

- Rhesus Monkey Radical Curative Model, Phase II

 

359

Evaluation of Macaca fasicularis as a Laboratory Model for Malaria and Hepatitis

Research

 

364

Partial Characterization of Mitogenesis Inhibiting Factor in Malaria Serum

367

Nature of Malaria Cold-Reactive Anti-Lymphocytotoxin Antibody

370

Fansidar and Human Lymphocyte Immune Response to Plant Lectins

372

Cryogenic Preservation of Malaria Lymphocytes

375

Gametocytocidal and Sporontocidal Studies of Experimental Antimalaria

Therapeutic Regimens

 

378

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

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