There have been significant advances in both the classical and neglected tropical diseases, with Guinea worm looking set to be the next disease after smallpox to be eradicated. Aided by a combination of enhanced understanding of the biology of the pathogens, intensification of immunisation activities or mass drug administration, together with the development of synergies with control programmes...

OBJECTIVE To assess the current international representation of members of editorial and advisory boards and authors in the leading peer reviewed literature on tropical medicine. DESIGN Systematic review. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Country affiliations, as classified by the human development index, of editorial and advisory board members of all tropical medicine journals referenced by the Instit...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease with protean manifestations resulting from infection by Treponema pallidum. It is systemic early from the outset, the primary pathology being vasculitis. Acquired syphilis can be divided into primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary stages. The infection can also be transmitted vertically resulting in congenital syphilis, and occasionally by blood tran...

John S Schieffelin1, Tan Xu2 and Wenjie Sun3* 1Department of Pediatrics, Section Adult & Pediatric Infectious Disease, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA 2Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2100, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA 3Department of Global Health and Environmental ...

Stephen D. Lawn and Mark P. Nicol Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Microbiology and Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Healt...

1 Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, 2 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 4 Salavan Provincial Hospital, Salavan, Salavan Provin...

The; Darbhanga Medical Research Scholarship at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine has been endowed by His Highness the Maharajah Bahadur of Darbhanga. The scholarship is of the value of Rs. 200 p. m., and will ordinarily be held for three years under the following conditions:? (1) The holder shall be a pure native of India, holding a medical qualification registrable under any Indian Prov...

1Dr, Associate Professor; PhD in Molecular Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2Dr., Research Associate, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 3Dr, Research Associate, Microbiology Group, Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, T...

R J Hassing1,2, I Leparc-Goffart3, H Tolou3, G van Doornum4, P J van Genderen ([email protected])1 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Harbour Hospital and Institute for Tropical Diseases, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 3. Institute of Tropical Medicine, Virology Unit, Army Biomedic...