Shifting of the clinical spectrum of leprosy in an HIV-positive patient: a manifestation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome? CAROLINA TALHARI*,**, PAULO ROBERTO LIMA MACHADO***, LUIZ CARLOS FERREIRA**** & SINÉSIO TALHARI* *Department of Dermatology, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Amazonas, State University of Amazonas, Brazil **State University of Amazonas, Faculty of Medicine, D...

E. H. Gisolf, C. Dreezen, S. A. Danner, J. L. F. Weel, and G. J. Weverling, for the Prometheus Study Group National AIDS Therapy Evaluation Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Department of Internal Medicine, and Departments of Clinical Virology/Medical Microbiology and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Am...

An old proverb tells us that "the ink of science is more precious than the blood of martyrs". Some might argue that point, but no one would deny that we have spilled vast quantities of ink into the vessels we call journals, including those concerned with tropical diseases. But before turning to those journals, we might well ask: What are the tropical diseases? No one is quite sure how to define...

1 Health Care Research Unit, University of Southampton, UK 2 Richard Bright Renal Unit, Southmead Hospital, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, UK 3 Department of Renal Medicine, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK 4 Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 5 Public and Environmental Health Research Unit (PEHRU), London ...

1 Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales ‘‘Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 2 Department of Tropical Medicine, Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States of America, 3 Laboratorio de Parasitología “L. Martini y colaboradores...

1 Centre for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore–Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy, 2 Coordinating resources to assess and improve health status of migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) project study group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495), 3 Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 ...

Robert Colebunders head HIV/STD Unit, Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine 2000 Antwerp, Belgium [email protected] Ludwig Apers clinician Epidemiology Unit, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Greet Dieltiens epidemiologist William Worodria clinician HIV/STD Unit, Clinical Sciences Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda Competing inte...

From the ‡Institute of Molecular Biosciences and §Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia, ¶Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia, and Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Or...

Our colleagues at the Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical have been informed of the demise of Professor Pierre Ambroise-Thomas (1937-2014). However, considering that the tribute we paid to him in 2015 - at the 20th anniversary of the Seminário Laveran & Deane sobre Malária - is equally true today, it is worth sharing it with the readers of the RSBMT, in recognition of his many virtues. Pi...

KATHRIN HAEFNER*, FRIEDERIKE WALTHER**, OLGA ANDRÉ CHICHAVA***, LIANA ARIZA***, CARLOS HENRIQUE ALENCAR***, MARIA DE JESUS FREITAS DE ALENCAR***, ALBERTO NOVAES RAMOS JR.***, JOACHIM RICHTER**** & JORG HEUKELBACH******** *School of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany **School of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany ***Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, ...