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Newsletter - Issue 51
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
October 15, 2015
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Estimates are some 240 thousand Brazilian women in fertile age are infected by the AIDS virus and most of them are unaware of their infection
Cuba is the first country to eliminate maternal transmission of HIV , according to World Health Organization. Brazil still has a long way to go to accomplish this feat, although statistical data show some progresses in the right direction.
According to the researcher Javier Martin, since these viruses lost their original attenuating properties from the vaccine strains, they could potentially cause poliomielitis in susceptible people
A British patient who expels the poliomielitis virus for 28 years...
Leptospirosis is growing threat to world’s poor
Invasive herb could hamper East Africa’s fight against malaria
Snakebites deadly as other diseases in West Africa
Malaria has never been so close to being eradicated, but there is still a long way to go
Crack epidemic strikes 2 million and Brazil leads world consumption ranking
Cirrhosis in hepatitis C patients is being underestimated, says study
Publishing the article on PLOS allowed a parnership with Stanford University to expand the studies about dengue transmission in the assessed community
Granted 3rd place last August in the 2014 Young Researcher Award, PhD student Mariana Kikuti has quickly evolved in the scientific community since then. Her work - about different risk areas for dengue in the same socially vulnerable community - was published this June in the renowned magazine PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD).
According to Dr. Ian Wilson, the goal is to make this vaccine available worldwide as a seasonal vaccine
High fever, head and body aches, malaise, cough and runny nose. These are the symptoms of one of the planet's most common viruses: the influenza, better known for causing the flu. Despite the disease's popularity is given to its easy infection, the virus kills from 250 thousand to 500 thousand people every year. For this reason, health professionals are very excited with the advances achieved by researches that aim to develop a universal vaccine against the flu. In an article published on Science Magazine, two...
Below is a selection of for this month of october of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
Development of maraviroc, a CCR5 antagonist for treatment of HIV, using a novel tropism assay
Viral Vectors Take On HIV Infection
Research investigated whether MICA-129 genetic variations are related to the severy of LVSD in patients
Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy affects at least a third of all patients with Chagas' disease, and it is the most important cause of death associated to the disease. One of the reasons that can aggravate the condition among infected people may be a genetic factor called MICA-129.
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