Scholarly Note: American Medical Development in Colonial Puerto Rico [PDF]
, 2011 Consistent with its civilizing mission, the United States sought to enhance healthcare development in its new Puerto Rican colony, one of the spoils of the Spanish-American War.
Brock, Darryl E.
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Evaluation of a mass distribution programme for fine-mesh impregnated bednets against visceral leishmaniasis in eastern Sudan. [PDF]
, 2007 During an epidemic of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in eastern Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières distributed 357,000 insecticide-treated bednets (ITN) to 155 affected villages between May 1999 and March 2001.
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Spectrum of Viral Pathogens in Blood of Malaria-Free Ill Travelers Returning to Canada
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 Malaria is the most common specific cause of fever in returning travelers, but many other vectorborne infections and viral infections are emerging and increasingly encountered by travelers.
Ruwandi Kariyawasam +6 more
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Risk factors for in-hospital mortality of visceral leishmaniasis patients in eastern Uganda. [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors for in-hospital mortality in patients treated for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Uganda. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of VL patients' clinical data collected for project monitoring by Médecins Sans Frontières in ...
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2005 To determine the features of papers, authors, and citation of eleven journals in tropical medicine indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, the database of the Institute for Scientific Information, we analyzed original articles, editorials, reviews ...
Yang Hua
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Human African trypanosomiasis amongst urban residents in Kinshasa: a case-control study. [PDF]
, 2004 BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) cases have been reported in urban residents of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo since 1996. We set up a case-control study to identify risk factors for the disease.
Bilengue CM +15 more
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Tropical medicine in and out of the tropics
The Lancet, 1996 D.J. Weatherall +20 more
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Global Health’s Evolution and Search for Identity
Emerging Infectious DiseasesDespite earlier attempts to define global health, the discipline’s boundaries are unclear, its priorities defined more by funding from high-income countries from the Global North than by global health trends.
Kevin M. De Cock
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West Nile virus can be transmitted within mosquito populations through infectious mosquito excreta
iScienceSummary: Understanding the transmission routes of arboviruses is key to determining their epidemiology. Here, we tested whether West Nile viruses (WNVs) are transmitted through mosquito excreta. First, we observed a high concentration of infectious units
Rodolphe Hamel +8 more
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Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change? [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2023 Affun-Adegbulu C +9 more
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