Evaluating Interventions against Tropical Diseases

Apoptosis as a Potential Target in Therapeutic and Vaccine Interventions against Parasitic Diseases

Apoptosis is a physiological cell death that occurs under normal conditions in major biological processes, including the removal of old, damaged, extra, or harmful cells. It plays an important role in natural evolution, tissue homeostasis, removal of cells damaged or infected by viruses, and removal of immune cells activated against self-antigens. The purpose of this review was to examine the r...

Unprecedented Progress against Neglected Tropical Diseases, Who Reports

Yemen: Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases against All Odds

1 The END Fund, New York, New York, United States of America, 2 Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 4 James A Baker III Institute...

of Tropical Diseases Tropical Sprue

One of the more mysterious and still rather poorly understood diseases seen in the tropical regions of the world is Tropical Sprue (TS). TS is a clinical syndrome with an unknown etiology typically characterized by an acquired chronic diarrheal illness, small bowel mucosal abnormalities and malabsorption resulting in nutritional deficiencies and weight loss [1]. These are vague symptoms which c...

Tropical Diseases

This is a reprint of various lectures delivered by the Author on different occasions and of some papers contributed to the medical press. The Lettsomian Lectures on tropical dysentery and diarrhoea delivered in 1881 make up nearly one-half of the volume. The other subjects treated of are the Bael fruit, Liver Abscess, Malarial Splenic Cachexy, Beri-Beri, Bronchocele, Elephantiasis, Arabum, Fila...