MEDICINE plays an increasingly important role in international relations, and particularly in our interdependence with Latin America. For the countries south of the Rio Grande, the practice of tropical medicine is of major significance. Tropical medicine is not only curative medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases that tend to occur more frequently in the tropics, but also preventive medi...

1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3 Médecins Sans Frontières United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre de Recherche Clinique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, ...

The author reviews the history of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In 1912, Dr. Creighton Wellman published a groundbreaking paper entitled "The New Orleans School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene," outlining a clear plan for a new independent school of public health. He became the founding dean of the Tulane School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Wellman had spen...

FANNY N. LAUW, ANDREW J. H. SIMPSON, JAN M. PRINS, SANDER J. H. VAN DEVENTER, WIPADA CHAOWAGUL, NICHOLAS J. WHITE, AND TOM VAN DER POLL* Laboratory of Experimental Internal Medicine and Department of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; C...

1 Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 2 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 3 Department Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 4 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 5 University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 6 Sihanouk Hospital ...

Polrat Wilairatana1,2*, Noppadon Tangpukdee1,2 and Srivicha Krudsood1,3 1Malaria Clinical Research Unit, Malaria Excellence Center, Mahidol University, Thailand 2Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand 3Department of Tropical Hygiene, Mahidol University, Thailand *Corresponding author: Polrat Wilairatana, Malaria Clinical Research Unit, Malaria Excellence Center a...

1 Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 2 Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Asia Research Programme, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 3 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 Centre of Pove...

1 Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 2 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Medical Research Council C...

Rebecca M. Flueckiger, Emory University Birgit Nikolay, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Huub C. Gelderblom, Emory University Jennifer L. Smith, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Danny Haddad, Emory University Wesley Tack, Avia GIS Guy Hendrickx, Avia GIS David Addiss, Emory University Jorge Cano, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Danny R. Hatcher, Environmenta...

1 Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Clinical Hepatology of Hospital das Clinicas, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil, 2 Laboratory of Immunopathology of Schistosomiasis, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 3 Laboratory of Tropical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, São Pa...