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Newsletter - Issue 39
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
October 15, 2014
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A journalist from the Daily Mirror believes the low financial interest in the region releases a slow response by the international community
The example of neglect with the tropical diseases has its greatest figure in the current Ebola outbreak in Africa, especially in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The help delay from the rich nations to the affected countries has contributed to the constant victims and infected people increase. The Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontieres – MSF) – the first international group...
Following what happens in other large events, tropical medicine shows its relevance in the country through researches focused on tropical diseases
For the fourth time in South America, the eighth edition of the ISOPS – International...
Ebola Co-Discoverer: ‘This Was an Avoidable Catastrophe’
British team awarded $1.6 million for leishmaniasis research
Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — West Africa, September 2014
Despite the protection measures, the poverty diseases persist in the Country
Scientists honor Luiz Hildebrando
The honor will be granted during the opening of the Congress of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, to be held in New Orleans
One of the main recognitions to the PhD in Human Pathology and president of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (BSTM), Dr. Mitermayer Galvao, is granted not only by colleagues, but by the Bahia population, who currently have access to the facilities of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Salvador (BA).
Despite the small number of researchers dedicated to the disease, recent advances may allow early and more precise diagnosis. Brazil and India are the countries with the largest illness indexes in the world
Taking a simple asprin may be efficient for most people, but for others, rather useless or toxic. This happens because humans, despite the biologic similarity, respond differently to drugs. For this reason, science has seeked new solutions, as the production of genetically customized drugs. According to Dr. Milton Moraes, PhD in Cellular...
Below is a selection of for this month of October of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
Prednisolone and Mycobacterium indicus pranii in tuberculous pericarditis
Influenza vaccination of pregnant women and protection of their infants
The study analyzes the relation between the presence of LRV1 (present specimen in the Americas) and the mucosal manifestation in patients infected with American integumentary leishmaniasis
After a study by scientists from the Lausanne University, in Switzerland, was published on Science Magazine, the vírus known as LRV1 (Leishmania RNA Virus 1) was associated to the aggravation human integumentary leishmaniasis. Since then, researchers from Fiocruz in Rondonia and from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), coordinated by Dr. Ricardo Godoi...
November 2 and 6 - 2014
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting
Sheraton New Orleans – USA
November 16 and 21 - 2014
Malaria Control: From the Bench to the Field Course Agenda
Porto Velho/RO
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