Transactions: Volume 118, Issue 2, February 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.
Highlights this month include a joint-Editorial with over 200 health journals which calls on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe; a 13 year ecological study on snakebite epidemiology in Mexico; an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of efficacy and safety artesunate-mefloquine (ASMQ) for the treatment of uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria; and surveillance study investigating the molecular detection of dengue and chikungunya viruses in surveillance of wild caught Aedes mosquitoes in Punjab, North India.
Editorial
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency. Kamran Abbasi and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 81–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad075
Review Article
Artesunate-mefloquine therapy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of efficacy and safety. Beatriz Sales de Freitas and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 84–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad069
Original Article
Molecular detection of dengue and chikungunya viruses in surveillance of wild-caught Aedes mosquitoes in Punjab, North India. Taruna Kaura and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 95–101, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad054
Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in blood donors in a population from the northwestern region of São Paulo state, Brazil. Letícia Carolina Paraboli Assoni and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 102–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad060
No secondary impact of ivermectin mass drug administration for onchocerciasis elimination on the prevalence of scabies in northwestern Ethiopia. Robel Yirgu and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 110–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad061
Snakebites epidemiology in Mexico: a 13-year ecological analysis. Ricardo Méndez-Molina and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 118–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad070
Evaluating the sensitivity and specificity of Determine™ HIV-1/2 rapid test using a 0.01M phosphate-buffered saline produced at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia for the diagnosis of HIV. Anna Boté-Casamitjana and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 127–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad071
Corrigendum
Corrigendum to: Case report: recurrence of Plasmodium vivax malaria due to defective cytochrome P450 2D6 function in Pos Lenjang, Pahang, Malaysia. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Page 136, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad076
