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Black Immigrants in Portugal: Luso–Tropicalism and Prejudice

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, 2008
This article analyzes the relationship between the luso–tropicalist representation of the history of Portuguese colonization and overt as well as covert expressions of anti-immigrant prejudice.
Jorge Vala, Diniz Lopes
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Tropical Mycoses

Chemotherapy, 2009
The most common tropical subcutaneous and deep mycoses include chromomycosis, sporotrichosis and mycetoma. All are commonly found in Natal and in other subtropical countries. Although blastomycosis is endemic in North America, only 4 cases have been identified in Natal during the last 25 years, and all presented with atypical clinical features. African
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Tropical dermatology: Bacterial tropical diseases

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2006
Bacterial infections are common in tropical parts of the world and can include those species also seen regularly in temperate climates. Many tropical bacterial infections, however, are rarely diagnosed in temperate parts of the world and include bartonellosis, tropical ulcer, tropical pyomyositis, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, yaws ...
Omar, Lupi   +2 more
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Tropical dermatology: Fungal tropical diseases

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2005
Fungal infections are common in tropical countries and can have an important impact on public health. Lobomycosis is a common fungal infection in the tropical rain forest of South America, and paracoccidioidomycosis (South American blastomycosis) is a widespread and sometimes severe illness. Penicilliosis marneffei is an opportunistic infection of AIDS
Omar, Lupi   +2 more
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Tropical trials: the problems of research in the tropics

Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 1997
Eleven scientists who, like Herbert Gilles, have spent many years in the study of tropical disease, responded to an inquiry about the most problematic aspects of conducting intervention trials in the tropics. Areas of challenge or difficulty that figured most frequently in the replies were: (1) the proper interests, involvement and perceptions of the ...
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Tropical Waves and Tropical Depressions

2013
Tropical waves can be very difficult to locate on synoptic maps, especially in the western Pacific and in the Southern Hemisphere. Such waves, referred to as tropical waves, easterly waves, African waves, etc., are perturbations of the tropical easterlies that propagate westward, at a phase speed of roughly 5–7° longitude/day, sometimes accompanied by ...
T. N. Krishnamurti   +2 more
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Tropical Pyomyositis

World Journal of Surgery, 1996
AbstractTropical pyomyositis (TP), a suppurative disease caused predominantly by Staphylococcus aureus, is responsible for 3% to 4% of surgical admissions in some hospitals in certain tropical countries. This study describes the clinical features of 35 patients with TP (20 males, 15 females; mean ± SD age 28.3 ± 14.1 years) admitted to our hospital ...
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