Transactions: Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024
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 Editors Choice article is on Mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease (NTD) with devastating morbidity and stigma. Other articles include the first insight into the prescence of Trypanosoma dionisii in sylvatic bats from Yucatan, Mexico, and an investigation into the knowledge, attitudes and stigma towards leprosy in Nigeria.
Lessons from the Field
Rectal artesunate: lives not saved
N J White, T Peto, J A Watson
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 639–641, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae036
Adaptation of lot quality assurance sampling to monitor seasonal malaria chemoprevention delivery performance
Sol Richardson, Taiwo Ibinaiye, Olusola Oresanya, Chibuzo Oguoma, Chukwu Okoronkwo, Emanuel Shekarau, Daniel Sprague, Kevin Baker, Monica Anna de Cola, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Chuks Nnaji, Christian Rassi
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 642–645, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae051
Review article
Towards enhanced control of mycetoma: a roadmap to achieve the UN's sustainable development goals by 2030
Ahmed Fahal, Dallas J Smith, Borna Nyaoke, Kingsley Asiedu, Fabiana Falves, Supriya Warusavithanas, Daniel Argaw, Roderick Hay on behalf of the Global Mycetoma Working Group
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 646–651, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae016
Original articles
Predictors of 28-day mortality in melioidosis patients presenting to an emergency department: a retrospective cohort study from South India
S Nisarg, Praveen Kumar Tirlangi, Prithvishree Ravindra, Rachana Bhat, Sachin Nayak Sujir, Sai Deepak Alli, Soumi Chowdhury, Venkat Abhiram Earny, Nitin Gupta, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 652–658, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae017
Presence of Trypanosoma cruzi TcI and Trypanosoma dionisii in sylvatic bats from Yucatan, Mexico
Joel Israel Moo-Millan, Weihong Tu, Teresa de Jesús Montalvo-Balam, Martha Pilar Ibarra-López, Silvia Hernández-Betancourt, Irving Jesús May-Concha, Carlos Napoleón Ibarra-Cerdeña, Christian Barnabé, Eric Dumonteil, Etienne Waleckx
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 659–665, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae023
Community engagement around scrub typhus in northern Thailand: a pilot project
Carlo Perrone, Nipaphan Kanthawang, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Daranee Intralawan, Sue J Lee, Supalert Nedsuwan, Benjarat Fuwongsitt, Tri Wangrangsimakul, Rachel C Greer
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 666–673, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae028
Assessing the knowledge, training and capacity of health workers in the diagnosis and management of soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis in eastern Uganda
Raymond Bernard Kihumuro, Timothy Mwanje Kintu, Lorna Atimango, Andrew Marvin Kanyike, Joel Bazira
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 674–681, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae029
Comparative functional characterization and in vitro immunological cross-reactivity studies on Daboia russelii and Craspedocephalus malabaricus venom
Karthika Rajan, Aswathy Alangode, Jaideep C Menon, Dileepkumar Raveendran, Sudarslal Sadasivan Nair, Margaret Reick, Bipin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Martin Reick, Muralidharan Vanuopadath
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 682–696, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae038
Investigation of community knowledge, attitudes and stigma towards leprosy in Nigeria: a mixed-methods study
Ngozi Murphy-Okpala, Tahir Dahiru, Chinwe Eze, Charles Nwafor, Ngozi Ekeke, Suleiman Abdullahi, Francis S Iyama, Anthony Meka, Martin Njoku, Okechukwu Ezeakile, Kingsley N Ukwaja, Chukwuma Anyaike, Omayeli Sesere, Joseph Chukwu
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 697–709, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae050