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CURRENT TOPICS IN
TROPICAL MEDICINE
Edited by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
Current Topics in Tropical Medicine
Edited by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Tropical Diseases Due to Bacteria and Viruses 1
Chapter 1 Rickettsiosis as Threat for the Traveller 3
Aránzazu Portillo and José A. Oteo
Chapter 2 Human Ehrlichioses and Rickettsioses in Cameroon 25
Lucy Ndip, Roland Ndip, David Walker and Jere McBride
Chapter 3 Leptospirosis: Epidemiologic Factors,
Pathophysiological and Immunopathogenic 43
Marcia Marinho
Chapter 4 Bartonella Infections in Rodents and Bats in Tropics 51
Ying Bai and Michael Kosoy
Chapter 5 Social Networking in Tuberculosis:
Experience in Colombia 67
Diana M. Castañeda-Hernández and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
Chapter 6 Molecular Characterization of
Dengue Virus Circulating in Manaus,
the Capital City of the State of Amazonas, Brazil 81
Regina Maria Pinto de Figueiredo
Chapter 7 Genetic Diversity of Dengue Virus and Associated Clinical
Severity During Periodic Epidemics in South East Asia 91
E. Khan, R. Hasan, J. Mehraj and S. Mahmood
Chapter 8 Lassa Fever in the Tropics 109
Ute Inegbenebor
Chapter 9 The Re-Emergence of an Old Disease:
Chikungunya Fever 117
Bordi Licia, Meschi Silvia, Selleri Marina, Lalle Eleonora,
Castilletti Concetta, Carletti Fabrizio,
Di Caro Antonino and Capobianchi Maria Rosaria
VI Contents
Part 2 Tropical Diseases Due to Protozoa and Helminths 137
Chapter 10 Malaria Chemoprophylaxis for the International Traveler,
Current Options and Future Possibilities 139
Ross Parker and Kevin Leary
Chapter 11 Effects of Irrigated Rice Fields and Seasonality on
Plasmodium Transmission in West Africa,
Particularly in Central Côte d’Ivoire 155
Benjamin G. Koudou, Marcel Tanner and Juerg Utzinger
Chapter 12 Toxoplasmosis: Advances and Vaccine Perspectives 169
Oscar Bruna-Romero, Dulcilene Mayrink de Oliveira and
Valter Ferreira de Andrade-Neto
Chapter 13 Screening of the Prevalence of Antibodies to the Tick
Hyalomma lusitanicum in a Province of Northern Spain 185
Consuelo Giménez Pardo and Lourdes Lledó García
Chapter 14 Amoebiasis in the Tropics:
Epidemiology and Pathogenesis 201
A. Samie, A. ElBakri and Ra’ed AbuOdeh
Chapter 15 Retrospective Analysis of Leishmaniasis in Central Tunisia:
An Update on Emerging Epidemiological Trends 227
Akila Fathallah Mili, Fatma Saghrouni, Zeineb BenSaid,
Yusr Saadi- BenAoun, Ikram Guizani and Moncef BenSaid
Chapter 16 Current Advances in Computational Strategies for
Drug Discovery in Leishmaniasis 253
Andrés F. Flórez, Stanley Watowich and Carlos Muskus
Chapter 17 Advances in Serological Diagnosis of
Chagas’ Disease by Using Recombinant Proteins 273
Iván S. Marcipar and Claudia M. Lagier
Chapter 18 Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis 299
Antoni Soriano Arandes and Frederic Gómez Bertomeu
Chapter 19 A Programme to Control Taeniosis-Cysticercolsis
(Taenia solium) in Mexico 323
Aline S. de Aluja, Julio Morales Soto and Edda Sciutto
Chapter 20 Antischistosomal Natural Compounds:
Present Challenges for New Drug Screens 333
Josué de Moraes
Chapter 21 Control of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted
Helminthiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Challenges and Prospects 359
Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté
Contents VII
Chapter 22 Hyperinfection Syndrome in Strongyloidiasis 377
Cristiane Tefé-Silva, Eleuza R. Machado,
Lúcia H. Faccioli and Simone G. Ramos
Chapter 23 Molecular Diagnosis and Monitoring of
Benzimidazole Susceptibility of Human Filariids 397
Adisak Bhumiratana, Apiradee Intarapuk, Danai Sangthong,
Surachart Koyadun, Prapassorn Pechgit and Jinrapa Pothikasikorn
Chapter 24 Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission and Control:
A Mathematical Modelling Approach 425
Asep K. Supriatna and N. Anggriani
Part 3 Other Tropical Infectious and
Non-Infectious Conditions 443
Chapter 25 Novel Molecular Diagnostic Platform for
Tropical Infectious Diseases 445
Yasuyoshi Mori, Norihiro Tomita,
Hidetoshi Kanda and Tsugunori Notomi
Chapter 26 Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Tropics 457
John C. Meade and Denise C. Cornelius
Chapter 27 Re-Emergence of Malaria and Dengue in Europe 483
Rubén Bueno Marí and Ricardo Jiménez Peydró
Chapter 28 Neonatal Thermoneutrality in a Tropical Climate 513
Hippolite O. Amadi
Chapter 29 Associations Between Nutritional Indicators Using
Geoadditive Latent Variable Models with
Application to Child Malnutrition in Nigeria 545
Khaled Khatab
Preface
Tropical medicine research holds a special place as an important activity that as a
consequence of multiple factors, such as globalization and migration has extended and
reaffirms its importance not only in tropical developing countries but also in non-
endemic areas in the developed world. The update on different aspects related to the
practice of tropical medicine and their multiple components needs to be frequently
visited. Three of the most important infectious terminal diseases in the world that
belong or significantly affect tropical areas are AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. These
pathologies, together with other important ones, represent relevant public health
problems, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Franco-Paredes et al. 2007a,
Franco-Paredes et al. 2007b, Rodríguez Morales AJ et al. 2006, Rodríguez Morales AJ et
al. 2008), secondarily affecting, due to travel, Europe, North America and other areas
of the world (Franco-Paredes et al. 2007c).
Diseases and conditions as object of the study of tropical medicine are diverse in organ
compromise as well as in etiology, including infectious and non-infectious agents.
With these concepts in mind, this book includes different topics of tropical medicine of
current international interest, trying to update the most significant research in many of
them as well as offer a multinational perspective on different relevant conditions. This
book has been organized in three major sections: I. Tropical Diseases due to Bacteria
and Viruses; II. Tropical Diseases due to Protozoa and Helminths; and III. Other
Tropical Infectious and Non-Infectious Conditions. Section I includes topics covering
bacterial diseases such as rickettsiosis, ehrlichiosis, leptospirosis, bartonellosis and
tuberculosis; as well on viral diseases such as dengue, Lassa fever and Chikungunya.
Section II includes topics covering protozoan diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis,
amebiasis, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease; as well on helminthic diseases such as
echinococcosis/hidatidosis, taeniosis/cysticercosis, schistosomiasis, filariasis,
strongyloidiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. Section III includes topics on
multiple-etiology conditions such as sexually transmitted diseases, new diagnostic
tools for tropical diseases and vector-borne diseases; also includes non-infectious
conditions particularly related to childhood health in the tropics.
This books does not intend to be an exhaustive compilation and this first edition has
included not just multiple different topics but also a wide geographical participation
from many countries where tropical medicine is of interest. Its online availability
allows it to reach a worldwide audience.
X Preface
I would like to give my thanks to InTech, and particularly to Mr. Vedran Greblo, for
the opportunity to edit this interesting and important book. I want to dedicate this
book to my family and particularly to my lovely wife, Diana, who actually represents
my engine for every activity I made in my professional career up until now, also to my
friends and my students around Latin America.
We hope our readers enjoy this publication as much as I did reading the chapters of
Current Topics in Tropical Medicine.
References
Franco-Paredes C, Jones D, Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Santos-Preciado JI. 2007a.
Commentary: improving the health of neglected populations in Latin
America. BMC Public Health 7:11.
Franco-Paredes C, Von A, Hidron A, Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Tellez I et al. 2007b.
Chagas disease: an impediment in achieving the Millennium Development
Goals in Latin America. BMC Int. Health Hum. Rights 7:7.
Franco-Paredes C, Dismukes R, Nicolls D, Workowski K, Rodriguez-Morales A,
Wilson M, Jones D, Manyang P, Kozarsky P. 2007c. Persistent and Untreated
Tropical Infectious Diseases among Sudanese Refugees in the U.S. Am J Trop
Med & Hyg 77: 633-635.
Rodríguez-Morales AJ, Barbella RA, Case C, Arria M, Ravelo M, Perez H, Urdaneta O,
Gervasio G, Rubio N, Maldonado A, Aguilera Y, Viloria A, Blanco JJ, Colina
M, Hernández E, Araujo E, Cabaniel G, Benitez J, Rifakis P. 2006. Intestinal
Parasitic Infections among Pregnant Women in Venezuela. Infect Dis Obstet
Gynecol 14:23125.
Rodríguez Morales AJ, Lorizio W, Vargas J, Fernández L, Durán B, Husband G,
Rondón A, Vargas K, Barbella RA, Dickson SM. 2008. Malaria, Tuberculosis,
VIH/SIDA e Influenza Aviar: ¿Asesinos de la Humanidad? Rev Soc Med Quir
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Prof. Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
MD, MSc, DTM&H, FRSTMH(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), PhD(c).
Editor, Current Topics in Tropical Medicine
Infection and Immunity Research Group, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira,
Colombia
Immunoparasitology Section, Tropical Medicine Institute,
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas,
Venezuela
Instituto José Witremundo Torrealba, Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo,
Venezuela
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