Transactions: Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026
Highlights from this issue include a review on the Indian government's plan to achieve zero transmission of leprosy throughout the country by 2027, and an original article on how China is handling the residual cases of Bancroftian filariasis by stockpiling technologies and preventing re-emergence. In addition, there are original articles focusing on Zika and dengue viruses in Myanmar and detecting human otoacariasis in Malaysia.
Reviews
Leprosy in India: challenges, advances and the path to eradication
Sayanti Chatterjee, Pragya Santra, Riddhi Paul, Asesh Banerjee, Prabuddha Gupta
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 87–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf107
Chagas disease: host responses, parasite evasion and vaccine advances
Héctor Serrano-Coll
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 95–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf109
Original Articles
Effect of introducing ethambutol and integrating drugs into fixed-dose tablets on mortality in tuberculosis patients
Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano, Patricia Bartholomay, Kleydson Bonfim Andrade, Daniele Maria Pelissari, Denise Arakaki-Sanchez, Fernanda Dockhorn Costa, Rejane Sobrino Pinheiro
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 107–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf100
Epidemiological insights into the co-circulation of Zika and dengue viruses in Yangon, Myanmar (2017–2019)
Maurine Mumo Mutua, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Khine Mya Nwe, Htin Lin, Merveille Kapandji, Shingo Inoue, Kyaw Zin Thant, Yuki Takamatsu, Wah Wah Aung, Aye Aye Khin, Hlaing Myat Thu, Takeshi Urano, Kouichi Morita
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 118–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf102
Molecular detection of a relapsing fever Borrelia in Dermacentor auratus infesting a human, with a brief review of human otoacariasis cases in Malaysia
Abdul Rahman Kazim, Sze Yin Ng, Nur Adilla Zaini, Van Lun Low, Jamal Houssaini, Dennis Tappe, Chong Chin Heo
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 126–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf106
Exploring the role of onchocerciasis in epilepsy: insights from a mouse model study
Blendin Gemuh Serri, Rene Bilingwe Ayiseh, Lewis Enchaw Enchaw, Fidelis Cho-Ngwa, Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 147–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf115
Elimination is not the end: experience in handling the last residual filariasis focus in China
Chuizhao Xue, Ying Wang, Yue Shi, Biying Tao, Weiping Wu, Shuai Han
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 135–146,https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf114
Lessons from the Field
Local attitudes towards malarial disease in a high-burden area of rural Ghana: a cross-sectional household survey
Oliver B Gregory, Mohammed Malle Abdulai, Julia E Taylor, Victor Mogre, Michael G Head
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 79–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf099
Global health partnerships in ophthalmology: lessons from the UK–Ugandan global health exchange placement
Smith L Chanelle, Primrose Magala, Ian Yeung, Ibrahim Bwaga, Moses W Mulimira, Tom Didimus Ediamu, Sheba G Nakacubo, Noreen Atwijukire, Innocent Ayesiga
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 83–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf111
Short Communications
Prevalence of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in school children in Kpone Katamanso Municipality, Greater Accra, Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Esther Priscilla Biamah Danquah, Bright Osei, Barnabas Atangongo, Felix A Tetteh, Shadrach Darko, Mercy Abbey, Michael G Head
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 157–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf113
Inhibition of butyrylcholinesterase in a population exposed to insecticides during a campaign against Aedes aegypti
Luis A Chávez-Almazán, Hugo A Saldarriaga-Noreña, Diana Garibo-Ruiz, Ma Concepción Arcos-Cuevas
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 2, February 2026, Pages 154–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf108
