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Newsletter - Issue 46
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
May 15, 2015
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Dr. Croda represented the BSTM in a workshop by Rede TB, which works along with the WHO to build a national research agenda to serve as model to the rest of the world
Currently Brazil is the 17th place among those with most cases of the disease. With disease records...
In 2007, children responded for 65% of the total severe cases in the Northeast. During the 2008 epidemic, in Rio de Janeiro, 42% of the deaths involved people under 15 years-old
A current study in Manguinhos Fiocruz, in Rio de Janeiro, which aims to estimate the virus’ incidence in the region...
The missing link in artemisinin resistance
Final trial results for world's most advanced malaria vaccine published
Mosquito Bites Caused by Genetics?
Impacting photos of the Ebola outbreak in África
Why is dengue fever and 9 other diseases more common in countries as Brazil? A physician answers
Resistant bacteria is already a global threat, says WHO
Out of 14 analyzed studies, 11 were unable to demonstrate significant effects because the result’s precision was damaged by the small number of donors within the profile
A research conducted by the Belgium Red Cross contests the restriction for men who have sex with men to donate blood – a rule in at least 50 countries. The institution’s Evidence-based Practice Center conducted a kind of literature revision on the matter and concluded that, despite the existence of a connection between homosexual blood donors and HIV infection, the application of a prohibition policy is...
Among the speakers is Peter Agre, head of the Malaria Research Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Nobel Prize winner in 2003
An international course about one of the main tropical diseases of thee days, malaria, will be held in the Sao Paulo University (USP) from September 22nd to October 2nd, 2015. At no cost, the course Sao Paulo School of Advanced Sciences presents Science of Eradication: Malaria, will be presented in English and offers 100 seats, half of these for Brazilian students.
Below is a selection of for this month of may of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
Virology. Mutation rate and genotype variation of Ebola virus from Mali case sequences
Trial of early, goal-directed resuscitation for septic shock
The head of the Malaria Pathogenesis and Human Immunity Unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Rick Fairhurst, reported that children with sickle cell trait presented a greater reduction in the rick to acquire the disease
North-American researchers discovered that certain traits of children’s red cells could increase or decrease the risk of malaria infection. The report, made by members of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - NIAID, from the USA, could assist the identification of future targets for new drugs and vaccines...
May 14 and 17 May - 2015
I Conference North / Northeast of Neglected and Reemerging Diseases
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