Global Health and Tropical Medicine
In this lecture, a brief description of the experience and results of Hospital Central do Lubango after the adoption of the flowchart used in the Emergency Department to diagnose and treat, in a timely manner, the organic dysfunctions of patients with severe malaria.
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Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre, Brazil (MINA-Brazil) is a longitudinal, prospective population-based birth cohort, set-up to understand the effects of early environmental exposures and maternal lifestyle choices on growth and development of the Amazonian children.
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Lyme borreliosis (LB) is an emerging zoonotic disease with a high prevalence on several continents, namely in Europe where Portugal is no exception, due to the increasing number of registered cases. The etiologic agents are bacteria (spirochetes) of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex (s.l.), transmitted by biting ticks (vectors), mainly of the genus Ixodes.
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Evaluation of schistosomiasis control programs, a snail-borne disease caused by Schistosoma spp, requires accurate diagnostic techniques to assess the infection status when low prevalence is achieved in endemic areas under mass drug administration (MDA).
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PCR based methods for detection of pathogens require thermocyclers and either subsequent electrophoresis or expensive equipment for real-time detection of amplification products.
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