Transactions: Volume 118, Issue 4, April 2024

04 Apr 2024

Highlights in this month's Transactions include a systematic review on the cost-effectiveness of One Health interventions for rabies elimination; a meta-analysis on the impact of lamivudine treatment in late pregnancy on the development of the foetal immune response to Hepatitis B virus; a rapid review highlighting the urgent need for studies with a control group to guide evidence-based recommendations for snakebite prevention; and an analysis of patterns of individual compliance with anthelmintic treatment for soil-transmitted helminth infections in southern Ethiopia.

Review Articles

Cost-effectiveness of One Health interventions for rabies elimination: a systematic review. Zinia T Nujum and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad074, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad074 

Toxoplasma gondii infection and ABO blood groups: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Tooran Nayeri, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Abdolhossein Dalimi Asl, Fatemeh Ghaffarifar, Shahabeddin Sarvi, Ahmad Daryani. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad085, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad085

Lack of controlled studies on snakebite prevention: a rapid review. Chaturaka Rodrigo, Ariaranee Gnanathasan. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad088, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad088
 

Original Articles

Impact of lamivudine treatment in late pregnancy on the development of the foetal immune response to hepatitis B virus: a meta-analysis in R with the metafor package. Peng Zhao, Ying Zhao, Minmin Du, Xiuying Chen, Yongchao Lu. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad084, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad084

Epidemiological survey, molecular profiling and phylogenetic analysis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Wasia Ullah and others. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad086, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad086

Clinical characteristics of snakebite patients attending a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou, southeast China. Yuchen Shen, Sipin Hu, Shuhua Bao, Mengyun Tu. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad087, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad087

Evaluation of a computational model for mycetoma-causative agents identification. Hyam Omar Ali, Romain Abraham, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Ahmed H Fahal, Clovis Tauber. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad057, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad057

Prevalence of Cryptosporidium and microsporidial infection in HIV-infected individuals. Hasan Didarlu, Mahmoud Mahami-Oskouei, Mojtaba Varshochi, Kareem Hatam-Nahavandi, Firooz Shahrivar, Saeed Bahadory, Aleksandra Barac, Ehsan Ahmadpour. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad090, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad090

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