Transactions: Volume 117, Issue 4, April 2023
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was founded in 1908. Take a look at the articles featured in Volume 117, Issue 4.
The WHO tablet pole facilitates the distribution of praziquantel in large-scale treatment campaigns for the control of schistosomiasis. However, it has been reported that overweight and obese individuals are often underdosed. This month’s Editor’s Choice article by Antonio Montresor and colleagues proposes an adjustment in the number of praziquantel tablets for these patient groups based on their body mass index, which has important policy implications for current and future schistosomiasis programmes.
This issue also includes a review article on dengue and COVID-19 co-infections in the tropics. Original articles in this issue include research on visceral leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection, the value of whole-body MRI, and hantavirus infection in neotropical bats.
Please find all articles linked below.
Review Article
Dengue and COVID-19 co-infections: an important consideration in the tropics
Chamara Dalugama, Suranjith L Seneviratne
Original Articles
Editor's Choice: Adjustments in case of overweight and obesity to the WHO tablet pole for praziquantel administration
Antonio Montresor, Pauline Mwinzi, Amadou Garba
Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection in Brazil: epidemiological profile and spatial patterns
Iolanda Graepp-Fontoura, David Soeiro Barbosa, Volmar Morais Fontoura, Rosane Nassar Meireles Guerra, Solange de Araújo Melo, Maria Neyrian de Fátima Fernandes, Perpetua do Socorro Silva Costa, Sergiane Maia Maciel, Yara Andrade Goiabeira, Floriacy Stabnow Santos, Marcelino Santos-Neto, Leonardo Hunaldo dos Santos, Maria Aparecida Alves de Oliveira Serra, Ana Lúcia Abreu-Silva
Value of whole-body MRI for the assessment of response to albendazole in disseminated neurocysticercosis: a prospective follow-up study
Kinzang Wangda, Neeraj Kumar, Ravindra Kumar Garg, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Imran Rizvi, Ravi Uniyal, Shweta Pandey, Kiran Preet Malhotra, Rajesh Verma, Praveen Kumar Sharma, Anit Parihar, Amita Jai
Prevalence and clinical course of patients with chronic heart failure secondary to chronic Chagas heart disease associated with obstructive coronary artery disease
Ana Paula Otaviano, Augusto Cardinalli-Neto, Marcelo A Nakazone, Paulo R Nogueira, Reinaldo B Bestetti
Serial changes in renal indices in chronic HCV patients with and without HIV co-infection receiving sofosbuvir and tenofovir-based therapies
Shereen Abdel Alem, Naeema El Garhy, Engy El Khateeb, Mahmoud Khalil, Ahmed Cordie, Aisha Elsharkawy, Rabab Fouad, Gamal Esmat, Mohammad Salah Abdelbary
Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in neotropical bats in an urban area of São Paulo State, Brazil
Larissa M Bueno, Danilo M Melo, Roberta D Azevedo, William M de Souza, Luiz T M Figueiredo
Spatiotemporal analysis of malaria incidence in Côte d'Ivoire from 2015 to 2019
Konan R M Azongnibo, Negnorogo Guindo-Coulibaly, Emmanuel Bonnet, Maimouna N W Kokro-Djahouri, Konan F Assouho, Mathieu G Niamke, Florence Fournet, Paul K Anoh, Serge-Brice Assi, Akré M Adja
Short Communications
Cost, health impacts and cost effectiveness of iceless refrigeration in India's last-mile vaccine cold chain delivery
Katherine Plewes, Panarasri Khonputsa, Nicholas P J Day, Yoel Lubell
The use of residual serum samples to perform serological surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in Dili and regional areas of Timor-Leste
Nevio Sarmento, Lourenço C Ico, Sarah L Sheridan, Maria Y Tanesi, Celia G Santos, Ismael Barreto, Nelia Gomes, Tessa Oakley, Anthony D K Draper, Nicholas S S Fancourt, Jennifer Yan, Kristine Macartney, Joshua R Francis, Paul Arkell