NEWSLETTER - Issue 96 - July 15, 2019

West Nile fever: health professionals are not prepared to identify the disease

The West Nile virus is still little known, and the suspicion of clinical cases caused by it may not be done, due to the absence of thinking of it as a disease agent in Brazil

CIATEN: Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, Tuberculosis and Leprosy gain visibility in Piauí

Leishmania can reproduce sexually, study finds

This type of reproduction has a direct effect on evolutionary and speciation processes

BSTM announces the winners of the 2019 Tropical Journalist Award

Luiz Henrique da Silva Gomes, Valéria Dias da Silva, Éricka Flávia Marques de Araújo and Ana Graziela Aguiar are, in this order, the winners of the printed media, online, radio and TV categories.

INTERVIEW

Discovery clears way to find genes that help Leishmania cause disease

The importance of this scientific research lies in the ability of organisms to cross, in the mechanisms they use to do this and in the diversity of evolution

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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