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Newsletter - Issue 49
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
August 15, 2015
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Brazil has a great potential to produce its own drugs, taking advantage of the
Country's biodiversity, the experience developing researches and formation programs
Brazil has leading-edge scientists and is affected by great part of the world's neglected diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, what eases the development of studies. So, why is the country still not a reference producing drugs against these diseases? The answer may be the need to enhance work management, as integration between scientists from different fields.
The virus are killed by oxidation, keeping the agent's structures
Na H2O2-based vaccine approach could produce, in the next few years, products able to immunize against the Nile Virus and Ebola. The studies are conducted by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, USA.
The Impact of Ventilation and Early Diagnosis on Tuberculosis Transmission in Brazilian Prisons
Armadillos cause spike in leprosy cases in Florida
European drugs regulators approve world's first malaria vaccine
Research warns the increase of AIDS among young Brazilians
Bahia has triple outbreak of Aedes aegypti transmitted diseases
AIDS drug prevention is still poorly recommended, says study
The urge to eliminate P. falciparum is also due to the imminent risk of the parasite developing resistance to the drugs currently used in the world
The number of malaria cases has decreased in Brazil, especially in the Amazon. In Amazonas State, for example, the total of infected people dropped from 232 thousand in 2005 to 66.6 thousand last year. Yet still, such reduction demands some challenges, as maintaining the drop and, meanwhile, advance towards eliminating the disease from the Country, keeping the political commitment and...
We were able to descibre the first outbreak, which is still happening in Feira de Santana, but we do not have laboratorial capacity to know whether the virus is circulating only in Bahia
The chikungunya virus, this year alone, has struck over 8 thousand people in 12 Brazilian States and the Federal District. The disease, identified last year in Brazil has quickly spread since it is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti, the same vector as dengue. It would be natural that the index cases' genotype - the first case among others of similar type and...
Below is a selection of for this month of Aaugust of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
HIV. The modern era of HIV-1 vaccine development
Can mass media interventions reduce child mortality?
Data from the paper was basis to suggest the use of processes and methods for the National Program of Leishmaniasis Control from the Health Ministry
The adequate treatment of visceral leishmaniasis cases is just as important as the correct and fast diagnosis of the disease. Currently, the Health Ministry recommends this test is based on results of one of the following exams: direct exam or culture of bone marrow aspiration, indirect immunofluorescence (RIFI)...
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