VOL. 33 NO. 4

Tropical Biomedicine DECEMBER 2016

KDN PQ / PP1505 (4869) ISSN 01239-5720

TROPICAL BIOMEDICINE

THE MALAYSIAN SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGY AND TROPICAL MEDICINE IMPACT FACTOR 0.685

This journal is abstracted / indexed by Medline, ISI Thompson, CAB International, Zoological Abstracts, SCOPUS

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Vol. 33 No. 4 December 2016

Sero-prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Virus from rural areas of northern Punjab (Sargodha District), Pakistan by Bostan, N., Naeem, M., Afzal, M.S., Shah, Z.H., Mustafa, I., Arshad, M., Haider, W., Khan, A.A., Asif, S., Khan, M.R., Ahmad, S.S., Ali, S., Naveed, M. and Ahmed, H.

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Molecular investigation of Mycoplasma haemofelis in stray cats in Kota Bharu, Kelantan by Aklilu, E., Shaharulnizim, N., Francis, J.J. and Anurrdin, S.H.

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Prevalence of Syphilis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus in expatriates in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates by Eihab A. Abdel Aziz, Mousa AlAzzawi, Adam D. Abakar, Bakri Y.M. Nour, Ra’ed AbuOdeh and Ali ElBakri

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Equine piroplasmosis in Kelantan, Malaysia: Clinico-hemato-biochemical alterations in subclinically and clinically infected equids by Al-Obaidi, Q.T., Mohd Mokhtar, A., Al-Sultan, I.I., Azlinda, A.B. and Mohd Azam, K.G.K.

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Study of hepatic tyrosine aminotransferase from Schistosoma-infected mice by Balbaa, M., Ibrahim, R., Awad, D., Ghareeb, D.A. and Abdel-Monem, N.

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Optimization and Validation of Real Time PCR Assays for Absolute Quantification of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli by Ferdous, J., Hossain, Z.Z., Tulsiani, S., Rashid, R.B., Jensen, P.K.M. and Begum, A.

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Risk factors involved in spread of HCV in patients from sub urban Rawalpindi and their association with existing genotypes by Bostan, N., Amen, N., Safdar, W., Adam, T., Durrani, A.A., Shakoor, A., Ahmed, H., Siddiqui, A.A., Javed, S. and Mahmood, T.

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PCR-DGGE test for direct identification of intestinal bacterial flora in blood feeding ticks in China by Cheng, T.Y., Li, Z.B., Zou, A.D. and Liu, G.H.

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Treatment of Glucantime-resistant/tolerant cutaneous leishmaniasis with Lucilia sericata larvae and its larval secretions: The first study in the world by Erdal Polat, Zekayi Kutlubay and Serhat Sirekbasan

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Structural and antigenic analysis and cloning of surface antigen protein 5 in Toxoplasma gondii by Lu, G., Wang, L., Zhou, A.H., Han, Y.L., Zhou, J., Guo, J.J., Song, P.X., Zhou, H.Y., Cong, H., Hou, M. and He, S.Y.

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PCR-RFLP diagnosis and characterization of Leishmania species causing human cutaneous leishmaniasis and evaluation of treatment times with glucantime in these patients by Hashemi, N., Mohaghegh, M.A., Hashemi, M., Azami, M., Mortazavidehkordi, N., Hashemi, C. and Hejazi, S.H.

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Melioidosis: Overview of seropositivity in Malaysia by Hii, S.Y.F., Kee, C.C. and Ahmad, N.

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Gastro-intestinal helminth parasites of the common North African gerbil Meriones shawi (Duvernoy) in Tunisia: Parasites diversity and habitat anthropization effect by Jrijer, J., Bordes, F., Morand, S. and Neifar, L.

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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in ruminants by using latex agglutination test (LAT) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in Assiut governorate by Kuraa, H.M. and Malek, S.S.

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Potential effects on Rhipicephalus microplus tick larvae fed on calves immunized with a Subolesin peptide predicted by epitope analysis by Lagunes, R., Domínguez-García, D., Quiroz, H., Martínez-Velázquez, M. and Rosario-Cruz, R.

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Prevalence and Distribution of Anti-Amoebic IgG Antibody among Orang Asli (Aborigines) in Peninsular Malaysia by Wong, W.K., Lim, B.H., Hamid Jan, J.M., Foo, P.C., Dony, J.F., Zeehaida, M. and Noordin, R.

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Hypopituitarism in a Dengue Shock Syndrome Survivor without known Pituitary Adenoma by Lim, L.L., Shah, F.Z.M., Ibrahim, L., Paramasivam, S.S., Ratnasingam, J., Chan, S.P., Tan, A.T.B. and Vethakkan, S.R.

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Isolation and characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus from Odisha, India by Mohanty, N.N., Das, B., Sarangi, L.N., Subramaniam, S., Mohapatra, J.K. and Panda, H.K.

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Diagnosis of disseminated microsporidiosis: Detection of circulating Enterocytozoon bieneusi DNA in blood of HIV/AIDS patients by Zainudin, N.S., Nasarudin, S.N.S., Periyasamy, P., Moktar, N., Noordin, R. and Osman, E.

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The malaria vectors of Anopheles flavirostris and Anopheles barbirostris in West Southeast Maluku Regency by Semuel, S., Ivon, A., Melda, S.S., Yustinus, M., Mardi, R.P., Jan, L. and Vatim, D.C.

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Failure to detect viral RNA in bat samples collected in the Balkan region by Cirkovic, V., Stamenkovic, G., Jovanovic, J., Siljic, M., Paunovic, M. and Stanojevic, M.

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Role of RelA and SpoT in Burkholderia pseudomallei survival, biofilm formation and ceftazidime tolerance during nutritional stress by Anutrakunchai, C., Hemsley, C.M., Sermswan, R.W., Titball, R.W., Chareonsudjai, S. and Taweechaisupapong, S.

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Ocular manifestations of dengue fever in University Malaya Medical Centre by Teh, D., Azira, S.A., Hassan, M., Loo, A.V.P., Iqbal, T.B. and Subrayan, V.

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Serological and molecular epidemiology of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Ghaemshahr county in Mazandaran province; Iran by Hosseini-Vasoukolaei, N., Chinikar, S., Telmadarraiy, Z., Faghihi, F. and Hosseini-Vasoukolaei, M.

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Direct tetrazolium microplate assay (TEMA) for rapid drug susceptibility test screening of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Wan Nor Amilah, W.A.W., Mohammad Lukman, Y., Siti Suraiya, M.N. and Noor Izani, N.J.

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The Journal welcomes previously unpublished papers which contribute to the advancement of knowledge of parasitology, tropical medicine and other aspects of biomedical research. Manuscripts which must be in English, should be sent to the Editor, Dr. Indra Vythilingam, by email as attachment – [email protected] (MS Word is what we prefer). Papers should be preceeded by a short abstract and will normally have the following sections: brief Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgements and References. Past issues should be consulted for a suitable format. Information should not be repeated in the text and in tables or figures. The legends to tables and to figures should be sufficiently detailed for the information to be understood without reference to the text. All figures will be printed in black and white. Authors will have to pay for colour printing. Citation of unpublished reports is not permitted. References should be given in alphabetical order with the full title of the journal, for example. Laudau, I. & Boulard, Y. (1978). Life cycles and morphology. In: Rodent Malaria (Editors, R. Killick-Kendrik & W. Peters) pp. 53–84. Academic Press, London. Lim, B.L., Sustriayu, N., Haidi, T.R. & Bang, Y.H. (1980). A study on small mammals in the Ciloto field station area, West Java, Indonesia with special reference to vectors of plague and scrub typhus. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 11: 71–80.

COMMUNICATION REPORT Isolation of bluetongue virus-1 from cattle in India and phylogenetic analysis of the complete coding sequence of the segment-2 gene by Chand, K., Biswas, S.K., Pandey, A.B., Saxena, A., Tewari, N. and Mondal, B.

Reprints 824

CASE REPORTS Recurrence of human wound myiasis due to Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from India: A case report by Jasneet Kaur and Amandeep Singh

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Ascariasis as cause of intestinal occlusion and concurrent appendicitis by Beltran, P., Espinoza, C., Hernandez, C., Chavez, D., Reyna, W., Cruz, G. and Perez Campos, E.

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RESEARCH NOTES Emergence of Enterococcus gallinarum carrying vanA gene cluster displaying atypical phenotypes by Loong, S.K., Che Mat Seri, N.A.A., Mahfodz, N.H., Ahmad Nasrah, S.N., Teoh, B.T. and AbuBakar, S.

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Dirofilaria repens in scrotum of dogs by Ravindran, R., Julie, B., Swapna, S.A., Jerin, F., Jyothimol G., Lenka, D.R., Nandakumar, S. and Sabu, S.M.

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Laboratory contact and topical evaluations of household disinfectants against house dust mites Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides farinae (Acari: Pyroglyphidae) by Suhaili, Z.A., Mariana, A., Baharudin, O., Ho, T.M. and Azima, L.H.

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Burkholderia pseudomallei lectins: occurrence and expression by Koh, S.F., Tay, S.T. and Puthucheary, S.D.

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