The Impact of Emerging Tropical Diseases in Neurology: Challenges to Accurate Diagnosis
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Copyright: © 2012 Carod-Artal FJ. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In western countries, the progressive appearance of tropical diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS) has been associated with increased human migration, global warning, and tourism to tropical regions. At the same time, population growth, urbanisation, and deficiencies in water and sanitation systems lead to a re-emergence in endemic countries. Changes in world ecology have also modified the distribution of vectors involved in the transmission of some parasitary diseases [1].
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