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The man from the stars: a narrative approach to neglected diseases
Italian Journal of MedicineIn this narrative medicine essay, a young migrant suffering from schistosomiasis unveils his story and his journey from Africa to the Alps. The hardships of a long voyage and the clinical history of the disease are described, combining the form of ...
Paolo Agostinis +3 more
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2009 Aborda o papel das viagens científicas realizadas por médicos, durante a primeira metade do século XX, na imaginação social sobre o Brasil. Com esse objetivo, são analisados dois textos: o relatório de Arthur Neiva e Belisário Penna, publicado em ...
Nísia Trindade Lima
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Background: There is a lack of information about health problems after returning from tropical countries among travelers from Poland. The aim was to create characteristics of diseases imported to Poland from tropical regions and to determine the changes ...
Martyna Bykowska-Tumasz +2 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1996 Neurocysticercosis is the central nervous system infestation by Cysticercus cellulosae, the larval form of Taenia solium. It is related to poor hygiene habits and sanitation; although Northeast is poorest Region of Brazil, it has been always stated as a ...
Thiago D. Gonçalves-Coêlho +1 more
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Wanda Maria Błeńska and her contribution to fight against leprosy in the world
Annales Missiologici Posnanienses, 2015 The article includes biography and data on professional and social activities of Dr. Wanda Maria Błeńska (1911-2014), a high-minded person fully dedicated to medical help and humanitarian aid for the people in Africa and other countries of the world. Dr.
Andrzej Łukaszyk
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Global Medicine, Parasites, and Tasmania
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 Until the 1970s, infectious disease training in most medical schools was limited to those diseases common in the area of instruction. Those wishing to explore a more globalised curriculum were encouraged to undertake specialist postgraduate training at ...
John Goldsmid, Silvana Bettiol
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2009 Analisa o debate sobre a doença de Chagas, descoberta em 1909, em sua relação com a campanha pelo saneamento rural do Brasil (1916-1920). Argumenta que as bandeiras desse movimento estiveram diretamente referidas à definição e à legitimação dessa ...
Simone Petraglia Kropf
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2007 Muestra el proceso que condujo a la medicina colombiana al descubrimiento y aceptación de las causas del paludismo, una enfermedad que aún azota en el país a grandes zonas cálidas y húmedas.
Victoria Estrada Orrego +1 more
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Discoveries in Tropical Medicine [PDF]
Nature, 1922 IN NATURE of April 29, p. 549, Sir E. Ray Lankester criticises an obituary notice on Sir Patrick Manson which appeared in the Times of April 10. The statement chiefly objected to is that “modern tropical medicine was born the day that Manson discovered the part played by the mosquito in the transmission of Filaria sanguinis hominis.” But all ...
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2011 Analisa a proposta de criação da cátedra de medicina tropical nas faculdades de medicina da América Latina feita em 1913, por ocasião do 5º Congresso Médico Latino-americano, em Lima.
Marta de Almeida
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