Kaolin in West Malaysia

Ocular leprosy in West Malaysia

The publication of an earlier communication by the author (i969) on ocular leprosy inadvertently posed a problem, that of the posterior segment lesion. Suggestions had been put forward previously by other workers, notably Chatterjee and Chaudhury ( I964a, i964b), but it was not till Choyce (i964, I967, i969) made rather more emphatic statements that the problem was brought into the arena of dis...

Leptospirosis in animals in West Malaysia.

INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis in man and animals i s caused by the pathogenic species Leptospira interrogans and i s characterised by a variety of syndromes. The pathogenic L. interrogans encompasses over a hundred serotypes which are grouped under 18 serogroups on the basis of their antigenic characteristics. Pathogenic leptospires occur naturally in a wide variety of wild and domesticated animal...

Medical services to the aborigines in West Malaysia.

Leptospirosis in West Malaysia--epidemiology and laboratory diagnosis.

Soil-transmitted helminthiasis among children in Pulau Ketam, West Malaysia.

Only 8.4% of 1,286 Chinese boys and girls from the ages of 5-12 years in Pulau Ketam were infected with soil-transmitted helminths. The majority of these children had single infections with Trichuris or Ascaris alone. Mixed infections made up less than 5% of all infected cases. The worm burdens of infected children were very low. There was no definite pattern of distribution of infection among ...