[10 de Fevereiro 2012]
Globalização e urbanização de endemias representam grandes desafios para os países desenvolvidos e subdesenvolvidos. Migração em massa dentro e entre os países (como a migração dentro da Europa Oriental, com a abertura das fronteiras), permitiu a coexistência de doenças infecciosas e não infecciosas em centros urbanos e periurbanos, contribuindo para o aumento das taxas de morbidade e mortalidade destas.
A migração das áreas rurais para as grandes cidades, no contexto das disparidades sócio-econômicas, da precária infra-estrutura sanitária básica e baixo acesso à medicina preventiva, envolve grupos vulneráveis de migrantes e traz um novo potencial para a transmissão dessas doenças.
Em paralelo com sua transmissão, a reativação dessas doenças em tratamento imunossupressor (transplantes e doenças auto-imunes e câncer) representa um novo desafio nos centros urbanos. A chegada de turistas internacionais aumentou em todo o mundo e a exposição dos viajantes com e sem co-morbidades para doenças endêmicas deve ser considerada.
Leia, abaixo, o que esta edição especial do Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene espera dos artigos submetidos (em inglês):
We are interested in articles that explore infectious diseases and/or their interaction with chronic diseases in the context of globalization and urbanization and their consequences for the health care of immunocompetent and immunosupressed patients.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Globalization and urbanization of endemic diseases:
a) Migration within and between the countries; tourism and adoption;
b) Co-morbidities: infectious (acute and chronic) and non infectious chronic diseases (malnutrition, hypo-vitaminoses, arterial hypertension, diabetes etc).
c) Access to health care and preventive medicine
2. Old endemic/neglected diseases: new agents, new forms of transmission, new diagnosis methods, therapy and prophylaxis.
3. Endemic/neglected diseases and co-morbidities (as follows):
a) AIDS;
b) Cancer;
c) Onco- hematologic diseases;
d) Solid organ transplant and in Hematopoietic cell transplant;
e) Others (autoimmune disease, under immunobiological drugs or in
immunosuppressed patients not included before).
4. Guidelines for the traveler under immunosupression to tropical areas
5. Prophylaxis of endogenous infection in immunosupressed patients
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located here. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System according to the following:
| Manuscript Due |
June 1, 2012
|
First Round of Reviews
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August 24, 2012 |
Publication Date
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October 19, 2012 |
Lead Guest Editor:
Maria Aparecida Shikanai Yasuda, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Disease,
Faculdade de Medicina USP, São Paulo, Brazil; masyasuda@yahoo.com.br
Guest Editors:
Camille Kotton, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA; ckotton@partners.org
Pedro Albajar Viñas, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Diseases
Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Innovative & Intensified Disease Management
World Health Organization, Switzerland; albajarvinasp@who.int