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Newsletter - Issue 44
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
March 15, 2015
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The study had satisfactory results in mice. The next step will be testing people infected with the disease
Studies involving a hydrogel membrane can result in a less traumatic and cheaper solution for those with wounds caused by cutaneous leishmaniasis. Since the disease affects especially those living in poor countries, there is an important advantage: this is a low-cost treatment. The feature is described in the research by Dr. Maria Jose Alves de Oliveira, PhD in Science with emphasis in Nuclear Material Technology.
The elimination of parasites would require a new adaptation process for all humanity, due to the new situation where the ability to resist certain infections – selected along thousands of years – would cease to have any adaptive value
A parasite is itself, a being that takes something from a host and gives nothing in return.
We could cut the HIV transmission rate by more than 90 percent, CDC says
Armed conflict, poverty in low-income countries contribute to spread of neglected tropical diseases
AIDS: First case was in a chimpanzee Hunter in 1908
Semen with AIDS is analyzed as a possible temporary barrier against the HIV
Experts explain the increase of malaria cases in Rio de Janeiro
According to Dr. Parham, it seems unquestionable that climate change will affect many, if not all, vector borne diseases
In 2050, countries as Venezuela and Argentina will decrease the number of new Chagas' disease cases, caused by the Trypanosoma cruzi, due to climate changes. However, climate shifting - especially global warming - has contributed to the propagation and maintenance of the East Nile Fever virus in several places as South Europe, East Asia and part of the USA These and other conclusions are...
Countries from the northern hemisphere are more concerned and involved with this issue than Brazil, where they occur endemically or in devastating epidemics
The way Brasilia University (UnB) has treated the Infectious and Parasitic Diseases has concerned the Brazilian medical society. Recently the institution put the subject in second place, removing it from the course's obligatory schedule. According to Dr. João Barberino Santos, the Infectious and Parasitic diseases are the core of Tropical Medicine and since Brazil is one of the largest...
Below is a selection of for this month of march of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
The HIV-positive transplant donor--change born of necessity
Viremic relapse after HIV-1 remission in a perinatally infected child
Meningitis among children up to 9 years of age dropped by half in 7 years
Despite Brazil still has occasional meningitis outbreaks and epidemics, the number of cases has substantially dropped over...
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