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Newsletter - Issue 71 |
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Coccidioidomycosis: physicians and other health care professionals should be alert to this emerging disease
Currently the disease is considered endemic in some Northeastern states: Piauí, Ceará, Maranhão and Bahia A few weeks ago, three people of the same family from Serra Talhada, Pajeú hinterlands (PE), were diagnosed as infected with coccidioidomycosis, a respiratory disease caused by fungus Coccidioides posadasii (C. immitis). This is the first time the disease is reported in the state. The disease has been diagnosed... 
Brazilian EMS committed to donate azithromycin, the antibiotic needed to accelerate the combat to this rare disease For the first time, a pharmaceutical company from an emerging country contributes to definitely eradicate Bouba from the worldDuring the most important week for tropical neglected diseases, Brazilian pharmaceutical EMS announced its support to the World Health Organization's (WHO) initiative to eradicate Bouba from the world until 2020. In this partnership, EMS will supply all azithromycin antibiotics needed. During the first year, EMS is expected... 
As researcher, he studied the main Brazilian diseases, among which, Chagas disease, schistosomiasis and other helminthiases José Rodrigues Coura: a life for science and teachingResponsible for training scientists for over five decades, José Rodrigues Coura was honored, on June 14, at the Fiocruz Campus in Manguinhos, for his 90th birthday. Born on June 15, 1927, in Taperoá, Cariri Region in Paraíba State, José Rodrigues Coura was admitted in 1952 at the National Medical School of Brazil University (today, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Medical School), graduating as a doctor on December, 1957. As a professor at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF)...
Climate change influence over tropical diseases dynamics
Tropical diseases incidence and geographic expansion monitoring should be part of epidemiological surveillance, focused on populations suffering or that will still suffer the impacts of climate change Global shifts in climate systems result from the build, in the high atmosphere, of the so-called "greenhouse gases", from which the most important is carbon gas. |
'We must publish on Tropical Medicine in the most interested countries'
It is unusual for Brazilian medical journals to have high impact Maybe for lack of funding, maybe for lack of professionalism How do researches in tropical medicine most interest? the rich or the poor countries? The answer may seem obvious, but it brings along some important issues. 
Health Ministry announces use of condom and anti-HIV pills for risk groups Aedes can transmit zika, dengue and chikungunya in the same bite, says study Chikungunya challenges Science and already kills more than dengue and zika in the Northeast Scientists hail 'promising cure' for HIV after study in mice Disease-spreading mosquitoes on the rise in Connecticut ‘Kissing bug’ disease more deadly than thought 
Below is a selection of for this month of june of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. Approach to Fever in the Returning Traveler 
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