| childhood malaria in edinburgh 1961-1982. | forty one cases of malaria in children less than 15 years of age were identified from the records of edinburgh hospitals between 1961 and 1982. annually children constitute 10 to 20 per cent of all cases of malaria in scotland and since 1971 at least one case has been admitted to an edinburgh paediatric unit every year. non-immune children visiting relatives in the indian sub-continent are the largest group at risk. prophylaxis was not usually taken by the patients visiting asia and the cases fr ... | 1983 | 6359413 |
| the seasonal pattern of plasmodium vivax malaria in glasgow. | the relationship between exposure to plasmodium vivax infection and the onset of fever in travellers returning to glasgow from the indian subcontinent is presented. infection appears more likely in those who travel during the second half of the year and following the monsoon. most attacks of malaria begin during the summer months in scotland irrespective of the dates of travel. | 1983 | 6363564 |
| royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene meeting at manson house, london, 10 december 1992. george carmichael low frcp: twelfth president of the society and underrated pioneer of tropical medicine. | george carmichael low, like so many early pioneers of tropical medicine, had his origin(s) in scotland. following a distinguished undergraduate (and early postgraduate) career, he joined dr patrick manson at the newly established london school of tropical medicine in 1899. his first major contribution to the specialty (in 1900) was to demonstrate filariae in the proboscis sheath of mosquitoes which had been infected with filaria bancrofti in australia, using a technique recently learned in heide ... | 1993 | 8249057 |
| malaria in aberdeen: an audit of 110 patients admitted between 1980-1991. | all 110 patients seen in north east scotland after contracting malaria from foreign travel were treated in the regional infection unit in aberdeen. those patients managed there from january 1980 to march 1991 are described. there were 54 episodes of plasmodium falciparum malaria (49%) and 26 episodes (23%) of plasmodium vivax malaria. the remainder had either mixed infection or were diagnosed as malaria on high clinical probability. the majority of the patients were male (80%) and under 40 years ... | 1992 | 1411477 |