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Professor Teófilo Josenando: a colleague who became a friend

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Sleeping Sickness: towards elimination?

Sleeping Sickness (SS) is being controlled in most African countries after the epidemic that started in the 1990’s. WHO had a major role in building awareness and implementing solutions that covered capacity building, diagnosis optimization, drug availability and distribution and vector control measures. Although much remains to be done specially in countries with civil instability, the Atlas of Human African T...

Travel medicine in Portugal: workshop and launch of the portuguese society of t...

Travel Medicine, as we know it today, started in Portugal during the late 1990’s. The recent wave of Portuguese citizens migrating to tropical countries gave a new impulse to this discipline. This Workshop on Travel Medicine was an excellent opportunity to invite representatives of Portuguese travel medicine clinics to discuss the problems of this practice, and the right moment to launch the Portuguese Society ...

MEDICINA DO VIAJANTE: IMPORTÂNCIA E CONCEITOS

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CONSULTA DO VIAJANTE, OU ONDE A COMUNICAÇÃO PARA A SAÚDE SE ENCONTRA COM A COMU...

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From the Americas to the world: the challenge of Chagas disease globalization

Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi and can be transmitted to humans by a triatomine vector (only in Latin America), from mother to child, transfusion, transplant or orally. After an acute phase of several weeks, the disease progresses asymptomatically for decades. Approximately 40 % of the subjects in this phase progress to the chronic phase, which is characterized by progressive heart ...

Medical Emergencies in Travel Medicine

This paper describes the most important travel medicine diseases that might require an emergency medical action. Fever in the traveller is the first alert. The medical geography, the epidemiology, and a careful anamnesis which includes the knowledge about previous contact with other tropical febrile illnesses, are critical in characterizing the disease and its severity. Malaria, arbovirus and hemorrhagic fevers...

TRIPANOSSOMOSE HUMANA AFRICANA

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INFORMAÇÃO EM MEDICINA DAS VIAGENS: TER OU NÃO TER, EIS A QUESTÃO

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