MedTrop 2020s theme is “Tropical Diseases and Neglected Populations: The Challenge of Knowing, Watching and Caring”

The 56th edition will have a varied theme, focused on the advances and challenges of the implementation of new technologies in health innovation directed at diagnosis, treatment and surveillance and control measures

Mycetoma: A Silent Killer

Mycetoma patients receive little attention and virtually no research has met their needs so far

Danger of Polio Reintroduction

After measles and yellow fever, polio can return to Brazil. According to the Ministry of Health, one hundred Brazilian municipalities have vaccination coverage below 50%

Plague: silent threat and global public health problem

Pulmonary or pneumonic plague is very severe and can be fatal, with human mortality rates close to 100% if left untreated

Article

Active search for locally unknown diseases in “non-endemic” countries and regions

Lessons learned from work to reveal Visceral Leishmaniasis in previously unknown focus in Northern Somalia

By Dr. Mikko Aalto

Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
Center for Tropical Medicine - UnB
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Brasilia - DF - Phone/Fax: (61) 3307-1154

Chief-editor:
Carlos Henrique Nery Costa

Assignment editors:
Alberto Novaes
André Siqueira
Guilherme Werneck
Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis

Journalism:
Denise de Quadros
MTb 8458 DRT/RS

Translation:
Pedro Costa

Graphics and diagramation:
Leandro Matos