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Zika Virus: What Have We Learnt Since the Start of the Recent Epidemic?
The considerable number of viral infectious disease threats that have emerged since the beginning of the 21st century have shown the need to dispose global and coordinated responses to fight properly and efficiently against them. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (2003), avian influenza in humans (2005), A(H1N1) pandemic influenza (2009), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) (2012 onward) and Ebola virus disease (2014-2015) are some of the most important examples. The latest emerging and devastating threat was Zika virus, an arbovirus that provoked more than 500,000 suspicious cases in the Americas in 2016 and notable processes of social and medical alarms due to the evide...
Brazilian Sand Flies
This is the first English-language book dedicated to Brazilian sand flies and their medical importance. No other country has so many species of these haematophagous insects as Brazil and their diversity has reached an astonishing level. The book contains comprehensive chapters, written by Brazilian experts on their regional distribution, their ecology and their importance as vectors of pathogens and parasites. Methods for sampling, processing and preserving phlebotomines are reviewed as are perspectives on surveillance and leishmaniasis vector control. A novel classification is presented whose aim is to help investigators identify the species that they are working with more efficiently.
Uma história das leishmanioses no novo mundo
Do ponto de vista historiográfico e metodológico, a maior contribuição do livro é a capacidade dos autores de concatenar diferentes sujeitos e territórios na longa duração, estabelecendo fluxos geracionais, identificando influências intelectuais, mapeando genealogias e trajetórias, conectando diferentes tempos e espaços em torno de uma doença – a leishmaniose –, fazendo confluir múltiplos e independentes canais de energia criativa, digamos assim, para uma espécie de ponto de fuga. Ao mesmo tempo em que caracterizam uma comunidade epistêmica, tecem narrativas paralelas, tal como um argumento que se desenvolve em camadas. Por exemplo, esmiuçam as controvérsias científicas...
