Transactions: Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (TRSTMH) was founded in 1908 and offers a respected voice for clinicians, health-related scientists, development organisations and students.
This month’s Editor’s Choice article by N Salahuddin and colleagues describes a case series of rabies deaths in Pakistan. Their work highlights the continuing public health burden of this deadly but preventable disease in LMICs, and the need for free and widely available high quality post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). It also highlights the low public awareness of rabies and of the need for PEP, and the often-incomplete nature of the PEP when it was given.
Transactions Editor in Chief, Professor Nick Day, noted that “GAVI agreed in 2018 to support PEP scale up in GAVI-eligible countries from 2021, though unfortunately the roll out of this initiative has been yet another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the pandemic now abating this paper is a timely reminder that the 2030 global target for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies is only 7 years away. A target looks increasingly under threat unless considerable resources and political will are mobilised to address this ultimately tractable One Health problem.”
Other highlights include a Lessons from the Field article which explores Challenges and prospects of managing non-acute medical conditions among pastoral populations in sub-Saharan Africa; a Review and case series which documents unusual clinical presentations in leprosy; and a Commentary which argues that the WHO should accelerate, not stall, rectal artesunate deployment for pre-referral treatment of severe malaria.
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Original article
Analysis of human rabies deaths reported at two hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan: a call to save lives by reforming rabies prevention facilities
N Salahuddin and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 479–484, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad004
Lessons from the Field
Challenges and prospects of managing non-acute medical conditions among pastoral populations in sub-Saharan Africa
Emmanuel Ekeria and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 485–488, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad008
Review article
Unusual clinical presentations in leprosy: a case series and review
Gitesh Upendra Sawatkar and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 489–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad003
Original articles
Zika virus knowledge, attitudes and prevention behaviors among pregnant women in the ZEN cohort study, Colombia, 2017–2018
Veronica K Burkel and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 496–504, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad005
Lifetime prevalence and knowledge of snakebite among graduates in Nigeria
Godpower C Michael and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 505–513, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad006
Predisposition to soil-transmitted helminth reinfection after four rounds of mass drug administration: results from a longitudinal cohort in the Geshiyaro project, a transmission elimination feasibility study in the Wolaita zone of southern Ethiopia
Santiago Rayment Gomez and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 514–521, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad007
The usefulness of the exercise stress test to predict outcome in patients with chronic Chagas disease: a longitudinal cohort study
Luciano Vaccari Grassi and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 522–527, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad009
Rectal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriales among neonates admitted into a special care baby unit, southwest Nigeria
Temitope O Obadare and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 528–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad010
Commentary
WHO should accelerate, not stall, rectal artesunate deployment for pre-referral treatment of severe malaria
Thomas J Peto and others
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 536–538, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad002