The first suspected case in the Philippines was investigated on January 22, 2020, and 633 suspected cases were reported as of March 1. We describe the clinical and epidemiological aspects of the first two confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, both admitted to the national infectious disease referral hospital in Manila.
Award winning research
Tropical Medicine and Health is delighted to announce its award for the Best Paper published in 2020 to:
Hiroka Aonuma, Itoe Iizuka-Shiota, Tokio Hoshina, Shigeru Tajima, Fumihiro Kato, Seiji Hori, Masayuki Saijo & Hirotaka Kanuka
For an outstanding contribution in the field of Tropical Medicine and Health entitled:
Detection and discrimination of multiple strains of Zika virus by reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification
Published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2020 48:87
Call for Papers: Clinical Questions in Tropical Medicine and Health
Tackling on febrile and non-febrile patients crossing the country border, is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge for physicians working in both high and low-middle income countries. Sharing clinical experiences, knowledge and skills is always interesting and helpful to clinicians working in a different setting.
In this special issue of Tropical Medicine and Health, we aim to call for a case report of infectious and non-infectious tropical diseases, first describing a short or long case presentation and second raising clinical questions, followed by discussion and take home message, in principle within 1200 words.
Collection of COVID-19 related papers
COVID-19 is an infectious disease which causes an outbreak of respiratory illness and has been affecting millions all over the world. Here is a collection of COVID-19 related articles that has been published in Tropical Medicine and Health
Featured Article: First COVID-19 infections in the Philippines: a case report
Featured Article: Is Sub-Saharan Africa prepared for COVID-19?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is the latest virus to cause global health panic. The biggest challenge is whether Sub-Saharan Africa is ready for this pandemic.
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Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
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Ethnobotanical plants used in the management of symptoms of tuberculosis in rural Uganda
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Clinical manifestations, complications, and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 in Sudan: a multicenter observational study
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Malaria and curable sexually transmitted and reproductive tract coinfection among pregnant women in rural Burkina Faso
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A step by step guide for conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis with simulation data
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The use of antibiotics in COVID-19 management: a rapid review of national treatment guidelines in 10 African countries
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Coronavirus disease-2019: is fever an adequate screening for the returning travelers?
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First COVID-19 infections in the Philippines: a case report
The Correction to this article has been published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2020 48:30
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Implementation of disaster risk reduction and management policies in a school setting in Lao PDR: a case study
About the Society
The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine (JSTM) was founded in 1959 with the objective of contributing and improving global health and medical treatments worldwide. JSTM believes that tropical medicine is not defined merely by weather or climate, but is an interdisciplinary field which helps to eliminate the gaps in health, society and economy among countries and regions. JSTM is dedicated to promoting academic studies and development in the field of tropical medicine by disseminating relevant research at annual meetings and in Tropical Medicine and Health, JSTM's official journal.
Aims and scope
Tropical Medicine and Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research and reviews on all aspects of tropical medicine and global health. The journal welcomes clinical, epidemiological, laboratory and policy research.
Featured collection: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis for tropical medicine and health
Tropical health encompasses a diverse group of issues related to infectious diseases (viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal infections), non-communicable diseases and malnutrition with its consequences.
This collection will cover the topics of new approaches as well as the challenges and perspectives for systematic reviews and meta-analysis in tropical medicine and health.
Featured collection: Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in the Pacific - A PacELF success
PacELF, the Pacific Programme for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis, was designed as a regional programme driven by the 22 island countries and territories in the Pacific for the sole purpose of eliminating lymphatic filariasis (LF).
This collection provides an overview and bibliography of LF in the Pacific, and reports on the progress towards elimination in selected countries. We hope that these success stories will be an inspiration to the other regions of the world that are also engaged in this effort.
Featured Collection: Geoinformation and Spatial Analytics in Tropical Medicine
We are pleased to announce that Tropical Medicine and Health is now accepting submissions for a new article collection on Geoinformation and Spatial Analytics in Tropical Medicine.
Guest edited by Professor Ashraf Dewan (Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia ) and Dr. Abu Yousuf Md. Abdullah (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), this series specifically aims at highlighting the roles of geospatial techniques in identifying environmental precursors of diseases, thereby advancing tropical medicine research.
Archival content
The electronic archive of articles published between 1973 and 2015 can be found at the JSTM website.
APC Discount for JSTM society members
Members of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine (JSTM) are entitled to receive discount on the article-processing-charge (APC) in publication of their papers in Tropical Medicine and Health.
The discount must be requested during the article submission process, by entering a code that can be obtained from the JSTM office.
Editor-in-Chief
Masahiro Hashizume is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan. After his clinical training in paediatrics in Tokyo, he received his academic degrees from the University of Tokyo (MS, 1999) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc 2003, PhD 2007). He was the founding chair of the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University in 2012, and moved to the University of Tokyo as a head of the Department of Global Health Policy. Dr. Hashizume’s research has centered on epidemiological studies to estimate the impact of climatic change and climate variability on the incidence of infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases in Asia, Africa and the global scale. In 2014, he became a board member of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Tropical Medicine and Health.
Editorial Advisor
Peter Piot MD PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an Associate Director of the Global Programme on AIDS at WHO. Under his leadership UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS, also spearheading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organizations.
Official journal of JSTM
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0.699 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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