Transactions: Volume 117, Issue 2, June 2023
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 from our June issue include a new Lessons from the Field article which reports results from a hepatitis B pilot study in the UK; a Commentary on COVID-19 vaccine equity in Africa; a review on schistosomiasis in Ghana; a cross-sectional study from Northeast Brazil on neuropathic pain, functional activity limitation and quality of life in people affected by leprosy; and a prospective study of snakebite in a tertiary care hospital in south-western Nepal.
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Lessons from the Field
Geographically targeted chronic infection screening: lessons from a hepatitis B pilot study in the UK
Angus M O'Ferrall, Alison MacElhinney-West, Mark S Bell, Michael P Haslam, Gemma Walker, Donna Norton, Sean A Burns, Graham Ferrier, Nicholas J W Easom
Review
A literature review of schistosomiasis in Ghana: a reference for bridging the research and control gap
Enoch Mensah Boateng, Jan Dvorak, Irene Ayi, Marta Chanova
Original Articles
A global spatial analysis of factors associated with case and mortality rates for coronavirus disease 2019 during the first year of the pandemic
Hsiang-Yeh Chen, Johnny Kuang-Wu Lee, Charles Tzu-Chi Lee, Chin-Mei Liu
Decomplexation proteomic analysis and purity assessment of a biologic for snakebite envenoming: Philippine Cobra Antivenom
Praneetha Palasuberniam, Kae Yi Tan, Yi Wei Chan, Francis Bonn Blanco, Choo Hock Tan
A prospective study of snakebite in a tertiary care hospital in south-western Nepal
Deb Prasad Pandey, Bhola Ram Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Khagendra Jang Shah, Chhabilal Thapa-Magar, Ishwari Prasad Dhakal, Fahim Mohamed, Geoffrey K Isbister
Is there added value from using three serial samples when surveying the occurrence of intestinal parasites in children?
Luis Enrique Jerez Puebla, Fidel A Núñez-Fernández, Edel La Rosa Osoria, Iraís Atencio Millán, Iredys Cruz Rodríguez, Lázara Rojas Rivero, Yanet Fresco Sampedro, Laura Rodríguez Moreno, Lucy J Robertson
Assessment of neuropathic pain, functional activity limitation and quality of life of people affected by leprosy in an endemic area in Northeast Brazil: a cross-sectional study
Sara Ribeiro Silva, Stéphany Nogueira de Souza, Marya Fernandha Santos Santana, Adriana Maia Domingos, Nathálya da Silva Martins, Hidyanara Luiza de Paula, Heloisa Antunes Araujo, Glicya Monaly Claudino dos Santos, Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho, Victor Santana Santos
Forty years (1980–2019) of visceral leishmaniasis in Nepal: trends and elimination challenges
Kishor Pandey, Shyam Prakash Dumre, Yogendra Shah, Bipin Kumar Acharya, Laxman Khanal, Uttam Raj Pyakurel, Osamu Kaneko, Basu Dev Pandey
Commentary
COVID-19 vaccine equity in Africa
Natasha Turyasingura, Wilmot G James, Sten H Vermund
Short Communications
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy for leishmaniasis: 13 years’ experience at a large UK infectious diseases centre
Vivak Parkash, Nicholas Laundy, Oyewole Christopher Durojaiye
