Editorial Highlights for Tropical Medicine and Surgery

Tropical Medicine encompass conditions that occur solely or principally in the tropics, as well as those that are more difficult to manage or control in the tropics, which might include a range of communicable as well as non-communicable diseases. Communicable diseases include a number of infectious diseases and parasitic diseases includes but is not limited to Acinetobacter infections, Actinomycosis, African sleeping sickness, AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), Amebiasis, Anaplasmosis, Angiostrongyliasis, Anisakiasis, Babesiosis, Bacillus cereus infection, Bacterial pneumonia, Bacterial vaginosis, Bacteroides infection, Balantidiasis, Botulism (and Infant botulism), Malaria, Leishmaniasis, etc., and Tropical and Neglected Tropical Diseases. Noncommunicable diseases often include a number of chronic diseases of growing importance in the tropics, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and diabetes.