Transactions: Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024

18 Oct 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