1 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Childre...

1Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 3Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 4Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, ...

1 George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics (Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine) and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Nationa...

1 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2 Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 3 Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 4 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 5 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 6 Division of Infectious Di...

1 Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (NVTG), Wageningen, The Netherlands 1 2 Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Public Health, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 4 ETC Crystal, Leusden, The Netherlands 5 Institute of Health Policy and Management, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The N...

This article explores the scientific and entrepreneurial incentives for malaria research in the tea plantations of north Bengal in colonial India. In the process it highlights how the logic of 'location' emerged as the central trope through which medical experts, as well as colonial administrators and planters, defined malaria research in the region. The paper argues that the 'local' emerged as...

1 ISGlobal, Barcelona Center for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2 Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Medicine, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal, 4 Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India...

Carlos Chagas, a Brazilian physician, discovered the American trypanosomiasis in 1909. Like other remarkable discoveries of those days, his work helped to articulate the insect-vector theory and other theoretical guidelines in tropical medicine. Unlike all other discoveries, all the stages of this work were accomplished in a few months and by a single man. Chagas' discovery was widely recognize...

Sección de Medicina Tropical, Centro de Salud Internacional, Hospital Cĺınic i Provincial, Centre de Recerca en Salut Internacional de Barcelona (CRESIB), Barcelona, España Consulta de Salud Internacional, Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Roćıo, Sevilla, España Servicio de Gastroenteroloǵıa, Hospital Cĺınic i Provincial, Barcelona, España Unidad de Salu...

Acquisition and longevity of antibodies to Plasmodium vivax pre-erythrocytic antigens in 1 western Thailand 2 3 Running Head: Acquisition of antibodies to Plasmodium vivax 4 5 Rhea J. Longley, Arturo Reyes-Sandoval, Eduardo Montoya-Diaz, Susanna 6 Dunachie, Chalermpon Kumpitak, Wang Nguitragool, Ivo Mueller, Jetsumon 7 Sattabongkot# 8 9 Mahidol Vivax Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine,...