Transactions: Volume 118, Issue 6, June 2024
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 Systematic Review which summarises cases of COVID-19-associated parasitic infections (CAPIs) in Iran; an Original Article reporting the temporal trends and spatial and spatiotemporal distribution of schistosomiasis mansoni in northeast Brazil between 2005 and 2016; a school-based cross-sectional study exploring seroprevalence of toxocariasis and related risk factors in children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and a Lessons from the Field which shares recommendations for the emergency management of patients presenting with acute pesticide poisoning in the rural tropics.
Review Article
Insights into parasites and COVID-19 co-infections in Iran: a systematic review. Soheila Molaei, Shabnam Asfaram, Zahra Mashhadi, Behnam Mohammadi-Ghalehbin, Sohrab Iranpour. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trae001, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae001
Original Articles
Phylogenetic analysis of Acanthamoeba isolated from soil samples and nasal cavities of patients with malignancy: a public health concern in the northwest of Iran. Ali Pezeshki, Shadi Tajic, Parvin Farahmandian, Ali Haniloo, Abbas Mahmmodzadeh, Maryam Niyyati, Hamed Behniafar Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad100, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad100
Task sharing for the management of leprosy by nurses in a tertiary healthcare setting of Northern India. Pratibha, Kavita, Hitaishi Mehta, Tarun Narang, Shubhmohan Singh. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad101, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad101
Temporal trends and spatial and spatiotemporal distribution of schistosomiasis mansoni in northeast Brazil between 2005 and 2016. Vitória Jordana Bezerra Alencar, Pedro Dantas Lima, João Paulo Vieira Machado, Maria Wilma da Silva Lima, Sheilla da Conceição Gomes, Wandklebson Silva da Paz, Rosália Elen Santos Ramos, Letícia Pereira Bezerra, Israel Gomes de Amorim Santos. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad099, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad099
The seroprevalence of toxocariasis and related risk factors in children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: results from a school-based cross-sectional study. Thieu V Ha, Tien T N Vo, Duy K H Dang, Y M L Tran, Thanh V Kim, Duc H Le, Lan-Anh T Do, Hong K Tang. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad102, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad102
Clinical characteristics, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of patients living with HIV and co-infected with tuberculosis and histoplasmosis: a 5-y retrospective case series. María Eugenia Castellanos Reynosa, Maria Eugenia Caal, Danicela Mercado, Narda Medina, Juan Carlos Pérez, Theophilus I Emeto, Eduardo Arathoon. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad104, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad104
Prevalence of delayed initiation of rabies postexposure prophylaxis and factors influencing it among animal bite victims from Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Imran Ahmed Khan, MD Abu Bashar, Sufiya Mohsin, D K Shrivastava.Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trae002, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae002
Lessons from the Field
Lessons from the field: Compound-specific management in acute pesticide poisoning. Vasundhara R Verma, Thomas Lamb, Md Abdus Sattar, Aniruddha Ghose, Michael Eddleston. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trae003. https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae003
Letter to the Editor
Lepromatous leprosy masquerading as lichenoid infiltrated rash – A diagnostic predicament. Kittu Malhi, Sukhdeep Singh, Anuradha Bishnoi, Debajyoti Chatterjee, Tarun Narang, Sunil Dogra Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad095, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad095
