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Home / Archives for Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical

Synopsys of the 3rd National Congress of Tropical Medicine and 1st Lusophone Congress of Vector-Borne Diseases

  • Autores: Campino L, Costa SS, Lobo ML, Pinto Junior VL, Salgueiro P, Tavanez JP
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://ihmtweb.ihmt.unl.pt/PublicacoesFB/Anais/Anais2015/index.html#47/z

Currently, Tropical Medicine emerged as both an important medical specialty and scientific discipline assuming a preponderant global dimension. Until a few years ago, several tropical pathologies, which were exclusively associated with tropical regions, have been gradually expanding to other geographic areas previously considered free of these infections. Vector-borne diseases are included among this group of […]
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The IHMT in historical perspective: institutional trajectories since 1950

  • Autores: Havik PJ
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://ihmtweb.ihmt.unl.pt/PublicacoesFB/Anais/Anais2015/index.html#85/z%20

The present article focuses on the institutional aspects of the recent history of the IHMT, from the mid twentieth century to the present. In order to do so, it analyses its internal organization, research, training and intervention, as well as national and international relations during the colonial and the post-colonial periods. By associating internal and […]
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First Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA in Serum of the Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) in Northern Portugal by Nested-PCR

  • Autores: Cabral JA, Carreira T, Coelho C, Faria AC, Nunes M, Paiva-Cardoso Md, Vale-Gonçalves HM, Veloso O, Vieira ML, Vieira-Pinto M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://ihmtweb.ihmt.unl.pt/PublicacoesFB/Anais/Anais2015/index.html#31/z

Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne zoonosis in the northern hemisphere. Several vertebrates are crucial in the epidemiological cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, but the role of wild boar as a reservoir is still unknown. Sera were collected from 90 wild boars shot in the Trás-os-Montes region, Northern Portugal (hunting season 2011/2012). In […]
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The contribution of Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the knowledge of infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

  • Autores: Abecasis A, Dias S, Marcelino J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://ihmtweb.ihmt.unl.pt/PublicacoesFB/Anais/Anais2014/index.html#37/z

Over the past 25 years, the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT) has contributed significantly to the knowledge of the pathogenesis of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The studies cover various aspects of infection such as the characterization of the evolutionary history and genetic diversity of HIV in Portugal, and in some […]
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More than a half century of malaria research at IHMT

  • Autores: Arez AP, Nogueira F, Silveira H
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://ihmtweb.ihmt.unl.pt/PublicacoesFB/Anais/Anais2014/files/assets/basic-html/page-7.html

Malaria is a parasitic infection transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. Five species of the genus Plasmodium cause disease in humans: P. vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale, P. knowlesi e P. falciparum being the last, the one that causes most mortality and morbidity. During 1950s and early 1960s, the global eradication of malaria was believed possible, but the successively implemented eradication­programmes failed and eradication was achieved […]
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