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Enteric fevers in Africa
Antunes, Maria Lina; Seixas, JorgeIntroduction: Although typhoid fever has been largely eliminated in high-income regions, the disease remains a significant public health burden in resource-limited settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the global burden of typhoid fever at 11 to 20 million cases per year, resulting in about 140,000 deaths. The impact of typhoid fever is aggravated by increased antimicrobial resistance, severe ...
Progress in the diagnosis of febrile syndromes in adults in tropical regions
Marques, Nuno; Seixas, JorgeIntroduction: Febrile syndromes in adults living in regions with a tropical and/or subtropical climate represent a significant challenge for clinical practice and public health due to their infectious and non-infectious etiological diversity, as well as the lack of effective diagnostic resources. Furthermore, many of these tropical febrile illnesses have similar symptoms, which makes identifying the etiological...
Professor Teófilo Josenando: a colleague who became a friend
Seixas, Jorge; Atouguia, Jorge; Fortes, Filomeno.
Erythematous Skin Nodules in a Patient Living in Southern Africa: Pseudolymphoma
Borges-Costa, João; Seixas, Jorge; Soares de Almeida, Luís; Kutzner, HeinzThe differential diagnosis of long-lasting erythematous skin nodules in patients living in Africa is broad. We report a clinical case of a 65-year-old Caucasian male, living in a Southern African Country, presenting to our department with an eight- -month history of erythematous skin nodules on the trunk and limbs. The diagnosis was B-pseudolymphoma and we discuss its aetiology and differential diagnosis.; O di...
Strengthening Bioethics Committees from Portuguese Speaking African Countries
Schwalbach, João; Sevene, Esperança; Branco Fernandes, Ema Cândida; Monteiro de Pina Araújo, Isabel Inês; Pereira de Melo, HelenaIn the last decade, in lusophone African countries, like in other countries from Africa, health research has increased and in response Research Ethics Committees have been established namely in Universities, Research Centers and Ministries of Health. But these committees still face a serious lack of staff trained in research ethics, and the “language divide” is an important barrier faced by them, as the main et...
Sleeping Sickness: towards elimination?
Seixas, Jorge; Atouguia, JorgeSleeping 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...
Conceição, Cláudia; Teodósio, Rosa; Pereira, Filomena; Racha Pacheco, Ricardo; Araújo, Carlos; Seixas, Jorge; Atouguia, JorgeTravel 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
Marques, Nuno; Seixas, Jorge; Teodósio, Rosa; Atouguia, Jorge.
From the Americas to the world: the challenge of Chagas disease globalization
Ferrão, Ana Rita; Sousa Silva, Marcelo; Atouguia, Jorge; Seixas, JorgeChagas 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
Marques, Nuno; Abreu, Cândida; Costa Ribeiro, João; Seixas, Jorge; Atouguia, JorgeThis 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...