Sentences with phrase «of tropical medicine»

How has the field of tropical medicine progressed over the years?

Journal of the Institute of Tropical Medicine of São Paulo, 2004.

Sarah Cleaveland, Ph.D., of the Center of Tropical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, started the program in 1997 to eradicate rabies in the Serengeti.

Department of Tropical Medicine and Center for Infectious Diseases, Tulane University, Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.

Well - mannered and handsome, Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) is a highly educated and respected doctor in the field of tropical medicine, a perfect Prince Charming.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1997; 57 (3 Suppl / 1): 434.

Researchers at the Department of Tropical Medicine at Egypt's Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital evaluated stool samples from patients suffering from diarrhea and flatulence and found that harmful organisms infected over 60 % of those evaluated.

«We are seeing an unprecedented uptick in vector borne diseases and we are not sure why,» says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (who was not involved in the recent studies).

Researchers from the University of York, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council and Stellenbosch University carried out a Cochrane review to assess the impact and effectiveness of school - based interventions.

Alister Craig has been associated with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) since 1999, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Molecular Parasitology and is Dean of Biological Sciences.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

As dengue fever continues to spread from Key West north into the Florida mainland, it remains a mystery as to why this dangerous mosquito - borne illness is not yet common around Tucson, Arizona — even though outbreaks routinely occur in nearby Mexico and mosquitoes that can carry dengue are now common in the state, according to a new research presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

Malaria Unit, Department of Pathology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

The new report by Islam and his team, published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, found that a number of pesticides — including endosulfan — were being used.

Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo Associate Professor at the Department of Infectious Disease, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, BRAZIL

«The biggest hurdle will be conducting safety trials in the most important target population — women who are pregnant or planning pregnancies,» said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

Awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society for his work on thalassemia; awarded the Fothergillian Prize by the London Medical Society; the Manson Medal by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the Lasker Award.

TRAC is a large - scale collaboration coordinated by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises research groups and National Malaria Control Programmes in each of the study - site countries, along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO GMP).

He serves on several editorial review committees, has served as a member of the Tropical Medicine Review Board of the National Institutes of Health, and has served as a member of diagnostic and vaccine steering committees of the World Health Organization.

Malcolm serves as a member of the Editorial Boards of Infection and Immunity (2012 - 17) and Journal of Advances in Diseases Diagnosis (2014 --RRB- and is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Microbiology and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and British Society for Immunology.

Prof. Luis Cuevas, Professor of International Health and Epidemiology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and visiting Professor of Epidemiology, University of Sergipe in northeast Brazil, said:

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium Immune Lessons from Parasites Monday, May 7, 8:00 AM — 10:00 AM, Room 10AB Chairs: Christine Peterson, Univ. of Iowa Noah Butler, Univ. of Iowa

Yet, Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, has fears.

But Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, said its findings offer «potentially important» new information about the link between Zika and microcephaly.

The RV144 study was conducted in partnership with the Thai Ministry of Public health and the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 83 (6), 1178 - 1182.

«This RMSF epidemic largely affects children and young adults who were previously healthy, who would otherwise have the most potential to contribute economically to society,» the researchers reported in their study published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Continued Need for Comprehensive Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Viruses: Benefits of Complementing Sequence Analyses with Functional Determinations — Aaron C Brault — The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Dr Nick Feasey, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine said: «The rise of antibiotic resistance among Salmonellae in Africa is a major threat and concern.

«Predatory fish will not eat those fishes because they think they are venomous and going to cause them harm, but this protection provided also allows some of these mimics to get very close to unsuspecting fish to feed on them, by picking on their scales as a micropredator,» says study co-author Nicholas Casewell of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

In her doctoral thesis, Dr Josefien van Olmen of the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) says that much - touted mobile technologies for self - management alone will not solve the problem.

David G. Lalloo, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool, United Kingdom, E-mail: [email protected].

The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, provides evidence that China may be at increased risk for more frequent and severe dengue fever outbreaks similar to the 2014 outbreak in Guangdong Province that sickened more than 40,000 people.

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 78, 364 - 369.

«This research illustrates the ever - changing world we live in and why we must sustain our nation's investment in research into these types of diseases that the majority of Americans will never hear of,» said David H. Walker, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, whose research has included a focus on tick - borne diseases.

Materials provided by American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The findings were published online today in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

«At present, the standard of practice is no identification at all, a diagnosis from the symptoms, or more rarely identification of dead snakes that victims occasionally bring to the clinic,» says François Chappuis of Geneva University Hospitals in Switzerland, who presented the work this week at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting in New Orleans.

Chris Kenyon, from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium, and colleagues asked whether there are lessons to be learned from the way syphilis rates have changed over time.

Mosquitoes are capable of carrying Zika and chikungunya viruses simultaneously and can secrete enough in their saliva to potentially infect humans with both viruses in a single bite, according to new research presented today at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

Today, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), which begins on Sunday in New Orleans.

«It's very unfortunate and could potentially be counterproductive by preventing health care workers from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea from sharing their experiences and findings at one of the most important tropical disease meetings globally,» adds Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

This week, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which begins on Sunday in New Orleans.

The work by scientists from Colorado State University is one of several new Zika - related studies being presented at the world's largest gathering of tropical medicine experts, including probing the implications of having three mosquito - borne viruses — dengue, Zika and chikungunya — circulating in the Americas and parts of Asia at the same time.

Dan Bausch is in the Department of Tropical Medicine and Section of Infectious Diseases at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center.

Depending upon the type of medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred to as counterfeit, fraudulent, and substandard) can be quite real, yet the full scope and prevalence of the problem is poorly understood, say researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Data from that study were presented at the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in October and are expected to be submitted in the next month for publication.