Transactions: Volume 117, Issue 1, January 2023

09 Jan 2023

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was founding in 1908. Take a look at the articles featured in Volume 117, Issue 1.

This issue includes a review article on the mycetoma profile in Egypt, as well as original articles on mycetoma management and clinical outomes, and patterns of cutaneous leishmaniasis during the COVID-19 pandemic in four endemic regions of Iran. It also includes short communication articles on research such as the molecular and clinical characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected at a tertiary hospital in northern China, and malaria diagnosis in an emergency department before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please find all articles linked below.

Review Article

A scoping review of mycetoma profile in Egypt: revisiting the global endemicity map 
Sarah A Ahmed, Tamer A El-Sobky, Sybren de Hoog, Sherif M Zaki, Mohamed Taha

Original Articles

Mycetoma management and clinical outcomes: the Mycetoma Research Center experience
Esraa Abdelgadir Musa, Iman Hassan Abdoon, Sahar Mubarak Bakhiet, Bashier Osman, Safa A Abdalla, Ahmed Hassan Fahal

Scrub typhus seroprevalence from an eastern state of India: findings from the state-wide serosurvey
Debaprasad Parai, Matrujyoti Pattnaik, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Usha Kiran Rout, Annalisha Peter, Rashmi Ranjan Nanda, Subrat Kumar Sahoo, Asit Mansingh, Hari Ram Choudhary, Girish Chandra Dash, Ira Praharaj, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Sanghamitra Pati

Utility of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra and digital chest radiography for the diagnosis and treatment of TB in people living with HIV: a randomised controlled trial (XACT-TB) 
Madalo Mukoka, Hussein H Twabi, Chisomo Msefula, Robina Semphere, Gabriel Ndhlovu, Trancizeo Lipenga, Tionge Daston Sikwese, Kenneth Malisita, Augustine Choko, Elizabeth L Corbett, Peter MacPherson, Marriott Nliwasa

Patterns of cutaneous leishmaniasis during the COVID-19 pandemic in four endemic regions of Iran 
Samaneh Mazaherifar, Kavous Solhjoo, Sima Rasti, Seyede Manizhe Heidarnejadi, Amir Abdoli

Litchi consumption and missed meals continue to be associated with acute encephalopathy syndrome among children: an investigation of the 2019 outbreak in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, India
Manickam Ponnaiah, Tanzin Dikid, Rajesh Yadav, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Saravanakumar Velusamy, T P Vaisakh, Binoy Babu, Abhishek Mishra, Purvi Patel, Mohan Papanna, Anoop Velayudhan, Rajeev Sharma, Aakash Shrivastava, S K Jain, Ravindra Prasad, Sanjay Kumar, Varsha Singh, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Manoj Murhekar

Short Communications

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of dengue and COVID-19 coinfected patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh 
Tabiha Binte Hannan, Zazeba Hossain, Md Nazmul Hasan, Abed Hussain Khan, Md Rafiqul Alam, Md Mujibur Rahman, Shohael Mahmud Arafat, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury

Molecular and clinical characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected at a tertiary hospital in northern China
Hua Wang, Zhi Yan, Lan Mu, Xiang-Yu Gao, Jia-Ying Li, Zhi-De Hu, Jun-Rui Wang, Wen-Qi Zheng

Persistence of Trypanosoma cruzi vector-borne transmission among school-age children in the Bolivian Chaco documented by 24-month longitudinal serosurveillance 
Michele Spinicci, Fabio Macchioni, Herlan Gamboa, Veronica Poma, Ana Liz Villagrán, Marianne Strohmeyer, Mimmo Roselli, Roberto Vargas, Alessandro Bartoloni, Simona Gabrielli

Detection of neutralizing antibodies against flaviviruses in free-ranging birds, Paraguay (2016–2018)
Fátima Cardozo, Cynthia Bernal, Alejandra Rojas, Adrián Diaz, Lorena Spinsanti, Malvina Páez, Yvalena Guillén, Arne Lesterhuis, Alberto Yanosky, Marta Contigiani, Laura Mendoza

Malaria diagnosis in an emergency department before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective study 
Sophie Demotier, Marion Gornet, Arianna Belli, Antoine Huguenin, Yohan N'Guyen