Transactions: Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026
The highlights of the first issue of the new year include a case study describing eight uncommon presentations of leprosy in addition to a short communication looking into the increase of pneumonia in Brazil in 2024, despite a global decline since the global COVID-19 pandemic. This issue also includes original articles on the impact of Chagas disease on patients with heart failure and how using digital annual household survey results can help prioritise high-risk villages when it comes to tuberculosis outbreaks in India.
Find these, and more, in this months issue of Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Review
Butterflies in the stomach: a critical analysis on human scoleciasis
Michele Calatri
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf095
Original Articles
Integrating the crowdsourced image-based morbidity hotspot surveillance for neglected tropical diseases (CIMS-NTDs) into Nigeria's healthcare system: a mixed methods study
Ayoola O Bosed,Christopher S Oyamienlen, Uzochukwu G Ekeleme, Obinna G Udujih, Chinwe E Metuh, Evangeline T Oparaocha, Uchechukwu M Chukwuocha.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 36–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf091
Using digital annual household survey data to prioritize high-risk villages for tuberculosis active case-finding
Hamid Abdullah, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Manickam Ponnaiah, Mohammad Sarparajul Ambiya, Ruchit Nagar, Mohammed Shahnawaz, Rajeev Singh Dhakad, Kartik Sharma, Kalika Gupta, Purushotam Soni.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 18–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf089
Social inequalities as effect modifiers of active case-finding strategies for tuberculosis in Brazil: an ecological study
José Mário Nunes da Silva, Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 9–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf086
Poliovirus surveillance in Mayotte, Indian Ocean, reveals encephalomyocarditis virus type 1 and a wide diversity of non-polio enteroviruses
Ambre Tinard, Marie-Line Joffret, Morgane Levert, Sébastien Wurtzer, Maël Bessaud.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 28–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf090
Clinical presentation and treatment outcomes of patients with mycetoma in Ethiopia: a case series
Wosen Ketema Bedaso, Debisa Eshatu Wendimu, Samira M E Hussein, Ali Awadallah Saeed.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 61–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf098
Spatio-temporal analysis of human visceral leishmaniasis in the Central-West region of Brazil from 2010 to 2019
Isabela Resende Ávila, Diogo Tavares Cardoso, Francisco Eduardo Almeida-de-Souza, David Soeiro Barbosa, Juliana Maria Trindade Bezerra.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 46–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf092
Clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized due to heart failure with Chagas disease vs other etiologies in the USA
Luis E Echeverría, Lyda Z Rojas, Carolina Duque, Rachel Marcus, Johana Contreras, Sergio A Gómez-Ochoa.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 55–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf093
Case Report
Unusual clinical presentations in leprosy: a case series and review
Gitesh Upendra Sawatkar, Apoorva Sharma, Vinay Keshavamurthy, Hitaishi Mehta, Debajyoti Chatterjee, Tarun Narang, Sunil Dogra.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 489–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad003
Short Communication
Increase in Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in 2024: experience of a tertiary-care hospital from Porto Alegre, Brazil
Guilherme Geraldo Lovato Sorio, Gabriela Luchiari Tumioto Giannini, Muriel Gorges, Luiza Martinez Perez, Renata Dortzbacher Feil Klafke, Erik Menezes Martins, Letícia Camargo Marinho, Gabriela Pereira Flores, Cristiane Tejada da Silva Kawski, Andressa Braga, Jaysa Pizzi, Beatriz Arns, Alexandre Prehn Zavascki.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 68–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf105
The activity of combinations of currently used antigiardial drugs against Giardia duodenalis
Keely Fayd'Herbe, Chun Kit Lam, Christopher J S Hart, Tina S Skinner-Adams.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 71–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf101
Letter to the Editor (Other)
Comment on: Diagnostic sensitivity of formalin-fixed faecal microscopy for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths
Nathkapach Kaewpitoon Rattanapitoon, Schawanya Kaewpitoon Rattanapitoon
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages e1–e2, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf096