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The Harvest of Tropical Wildlife for Bushmeat and Traditional Medicine

open access: yes, 2020
Bushmeat is not only an important source of fat, micronutrients, and macronutrients, but it also has medicinal uses.
T. Lee   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Toxocariasis Diagnosed in International Travelers at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, from 2000 to 2013

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
Although infection with Toxocara canis or T. catis (commonly referred as toxocariasis) appears to be highly prevalent in (sub)tropical countries, information on its frequency and presentation in returning travelers and migrants is scarce.
S. Van Den Broucke   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building a research data management service for the London school of hygiene & tropical medicine

open access: yesProgram, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of work performed at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to set-up a Research Data Management Service and tailor it to the needs of health researchers.
G. Knight
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Tropical Medicine

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 1928
Tropical medicine is perceived by many to be the preserve of pith helmeted colonialists who talk of obscure parasitic diseases. Reality in the late twentieth century is somewhat different, with post colonial clinicians, basic scientists, and ...
D. Lockwood, G. Pasvol
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease (1908-1909): tropical medicine in Brazil A descoberta do Trypanosoma cruzi e da doença de Chagas (1908-1909): medicina tropical no Brasil

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2009
This article analyzes the discovery of Chagas disease and the parasite that causes it (Trypanosoma cruzi) by Carlos Chagas in 1908/1909, with a special focus on the scientific and social context in which this occurred.
Simone Petraglia Kropf   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

No Time for Empathy

open access: yesJournal for the History of Knowledge, 2023
Between 1956 and 1964, in Calcutta, India, at least seven young children with congenital hemoglobinopathies, perhaps more, were injected with various strains of malaria to test their possible immunity. Some of the children were tested on repeatedly. The
Projit Bihari Mukharji
doaj   +1 more source

Committee to advise on tropical medicine and travel (CATMAT).

open access: yesCanada diseases weekly report = Rapport hebdomadaire des maladies au Canada, 2014
Typhoid fever is an enteric febrile illness with symptoms that range from mild to potentially fatal. Among Canadians it is usually acquired during travel to typhoid endemic countries.
C. Greenaway   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Manual of Tropical Medicine

open access: yesThe Indian medical gazette, 1913
This vapidity with which Castellani and Chalmers Tropical Medicine established itself as the standard book on the subject is remarkable and is a tribute to the thoroughness with which the book was written.
S. Freguia
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The global fight to develop antipoverty vaccines in the anti-vaccine era

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Antipoverty vaccines are the vaccines targeting a group of approximately 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), as currently defined by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Peter J. Hotez
doaj   +1 more source

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

open access: yesThe Hospital and health review, 1924
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Director of the School is Dr. Andrew Balfour,, C B., C.M.G., and an article on the scope of the work of the School, which is not yet built, appeared in our last issue. Mr.

semanticscholar   +1 more source

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