In the surgery of tropical medicine, two stages are passed through. The recently arrived surgeon in India tends to operate without consideration of such diseases as amcebiasis which mimic surgical conditions of European practice; also he tends to overlook, the effects of a hot climate. After initial mistakes, there is a tendency to diagnose tropical diseases when they are not present, and there...

1Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Germany; 2Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 4Department of Medical ...

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Institute, Rice University, Ho...

Wellcome Trust–Mahosot Hospital–Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK; Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK; National Institute for Health Research, Oxford Biomedical Research C...

1 Department of Palliative Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Palliative Care and Policy, King’s College, London, UK 3 Systematic Reviews Training Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK 4 Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 5 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropica...

1 National School of Tropical Medicine and Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Deerfield, Illinois, United States ...

It is customary to regard 'tropical medicine' as a product of the late nineteenth century, 'its instrument the microscope, its epistemology the germ theory of disease'. The accepted interpretation is that tropical medicine was a European concept: originating in Britain and France and exported to the colonies by pioneering medical scientists. This interpretation is useful inasmuch as 'tropical m...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex...

Jeremy J. Farrar,* Tran T. Hien, Olaf Horstick, Nguyen T. Hung, Thomas Jaenisch, Thomas Junghanns, Axel Kroeger, Ida S. Laksono, Lucy Lum, Eric Martinez, Cameron P. Simmons, Adriana Tami, Kay M. Tomashek, and Bridget A. Wills Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Univers...

Mary Ann McDowell Center for Tropical Disease Research and Training, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, USA Frank Collins Center for Tropical Disease Research and Training, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, USA Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National In...