A. Rodríguez-Morales, Natalia González-Leal, Maria Camila Montes-Montoya, Lorena Fernández-Espíndola, D. K. Bonilla-Aldana, José María Azeñas- Burgoa, Juan Carlos Diez de Medina, Verónica Rotela-Fisch, Melany Bermudez-Calderon, K. Arteaga-Livias, F. Larsen, J. A. Suárez
{"title":"Cutaneous Larva Migrans","authors":"A. Rodríguez-Morales, Natalia González-Leal, Maria Camila Montes-Montoya, Lorena Fernández-Espíndola, D. K. Bonilla-Aldana, José María Azeñas- Burgoa, Juan Carlos Diez de Medina, Verónica Rotela-Fisch, Melany Bermudez-Calderon, K. Arteaga-Livias, F. Larsen, J. A. Suárez","doi":"10.1007/s40475-021-00239-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00239-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"190 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-021-00239-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43861744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Infante-Fernández, M. Toledo-Bahena, A. Valencia-Herrera
{"title":"Cutaneous Mycobacterial Infections in Returning Travelers","authors":"C. Infante-Fernández, M. Toledo-Bahena, A. Valencia-Herrera","doi":"10.1007/s40475-021-00228-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00228-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"81 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-021-00228-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45895075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scrub Typhus: an Update*","authors":"S. Gaba, Monica Gupta, R. Gaba, S. Lehl","doi":"10.1007/s40475-021-00234-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00234-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"133-140"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-021-00234-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42274623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidemiological Attributes of Candida Species in Tropical Regions","authors":"Flóra Bohner, A. Gácser, R. Tóth","doi":"10.1007/s40475-021-00226-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00226-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-021-00226-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47960595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poverty, Migration, and Chagas Disease","authors":"F. Guhl, J. Ramírez","doi":"10.1007/s40475-020-00225-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-020-00225-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"52-58"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-020-00225-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46560494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. da Silva Ferreira, Diego de Souza Gonçalves, Elisa Gonçalves Medeiros, J. M. Peralta, A. Guimarães
{"title":"“Feast-Fit-Fist-Feat”: Overview of Free-living Amoeba Interactions with Fungi and Virulence as a Foundation for Success in Battle","authors":"M. da Silva Ferreira, Diego de Souza Gonçalves, Elisa Gonçalves Medeiros, J. M. Peralta, A. Guimarães","doi":"10.1007/s40475-020-00220-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-020-00220-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-020-00220-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45272705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul A Kuehnert, Christopher P Stefan, Catherine V Badger, Keersten M Ricks
{"title":"Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV): A Silent but Widespread Threat.","authors":"Paul A Kuehnert, Christopher P Stefan, Catherine V Badger, Keersten M Ricks","doi":"10.1007/s40475-021-00235-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00235-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>This review is aimed at highlighting recent research and articles on the complicated relationship between virus, vector, and host and how biosurveillance at each level informs disease spread and risk.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>While human cases of CCHFV and tick identification in non-endemic areas in 2019-2020 were reported to sites such as ProMed, there is a gap in recent published literature on these and broader CCHFV surveillance efforts from the late 2010s.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>A review of the complex aspects of CCHFV maintenance in the environment coupled with high fatality rate and lack of vaccines and therapeutics warrants the need for a One-Health approach toward detection and increased biosurveillance programs for CCHFV.</p>","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"8 2","pages":"141-147"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-021-00235-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25501647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Ryan M McAdams, Mogomotsi Matshaba, Lineo Thahane, Sabrina M Butteris, James H Conway, Mandy Slutsker, Nicole E St Clair, Heather Haq
{"title":"Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Child Health: a Call to Action.","authors":"Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Ryan M McAdams, Mogomotsi Matshaba, Lineo Thahane, Sabrina M Butteris, James H Conway, Mandy Slutsker, Nicole E St Clair, Heather Haq","doi":"10.1007/s40475-021-00241-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00241-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), continues to affect individuals, communities, and health systems worldwide. Here, we highlight how COVID-19 threatens to jeopardize the tremendous gains made over the last few decades on improving children's health globally.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>In contrast to adults, children with COVID-19 are less likely to develop severe disease requiring hospitalization or die as a direct result of infection. However, the pandemic will likely have other important health impacts disproportionately affecting vulnerable children globally. Possible effects include worsening of poverty and food insecurity; disruption of already strained routine child health services; damage to already imperiled healthcare workforces; a wave of mental health challenges; interruption of education; and increased risks of violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect. These challenges notwithstanding, the response to COVID-19 may also provide opportunities, such as for health system strengthening, that could improve child health after the pandemic.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>The negative impacts of COVID-19 on global child health may be substantial. However, these are not foregone conclusions and much can be done to mitigate the worst outcomes. Child health providers should advocate for an equitable response to COVID-19 that prioritizes the health of vulnerable children and furthers the gains made in global child health.</p>","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":"8 3","pages":"183-189"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-021-00241-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38986681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Will Happen to Biomedical Research in Low-and-Middle Income Countries in the PostCOVID-19 World?","authors":"Gustavo Fontecha, Ana L Sánchez","doi":"10.1007/s40475-020-00223-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-020-00223-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scientific research is essential for a nation's development and is vital for generating solutions to population's health. Individual country's capacities to prevent and respond to public health issues, including health crises, is built with long-term investment in highly qualified professionals, infrastructure, and uninterrupted operating funding. Most Latin American countries, especially those at the bottom of the human development list, have limited capacity even though they are hot spots for tropical and other emerging infectious diseases. This weakness deepens these countries' dependence on nations with higher development and corresponding scientific capacity. The current COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the health of the world's population and the global economy. Countries that lagged behind prior to the pandemic now face a myriad of additional challenges. On a more optimistic note, the pandemic could serve as a wake-up call for governments and funding agencies to strengthen scientific capacity around the world, so that we are better prepared to address the public health issues caused by current and prevalent diseases and by future diseases of pandemic potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":37441,"journal":{"name":"Current Tropical Medicine Reports","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40475-020-00223-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38806153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}