Mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. Vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for Japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. There are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and West Nile virus infection. In this articl...

mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

conclusions schistosomiasis is one of the major tropical and communicable diseases in the eastern mediterranean region (emr). however, today it is eliminated in iran by schistosomiasis control practices. results on the basis of our results, using a national program for schistosomiasis control based on active and passive case finding, snail control programs, education of people, conducting train...

BACKGROUND Understanding geographic and temporal trends in imported infections is key to the management of unwell travellers. Many tropical infections can be managed as outpatients, with admission reserved for severe cases. METHODS We prospectively recorded the diagnosis and travel history of patients admitted between 2000 and 2015. We describe the common tropical and non-tropical infectious ...

We aimed to explore Campylobacter genotype-specific risk factors in Australia. Isolates collected prospectively from cases recruited into a case-control study were genotyped using flaA restriction fragment-length polymorphism typing (flaA genotyping). Exposure information for cases and controls was collected by telephone interview. Risk factors were examined for major flaA genotypes using logis...

conclusion we believed that the nonspecific clinical and laboratory finding of the present case and also the rarity of disease in our area especially in immunocompetent patients made his diagnosis confounding. patient we report an immunocompetent 43 years old iranian man who was in excellent health status until 3 weeksbefore hospitalization when he developed headache. he experienced a 5-week de...

M. N. BURATTINI, F. A. B. COUTINHO, L. F. LOPEZ, R. XIMENES, M. QUAM, A. WILDER-SMITH AND E. MASSAD* School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil Hospital São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, SP, Brazil CIARA, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang, Singapo...