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Clinical Questions in Tropical Medicine and Health

Edited by:
Koya Ariyoshi, M.D., DTM&H, MSc Clinical Tropical Medicine, PhD, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan
Chris Smith, PhD, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Japan
Robin Bailey, MA, BM, MRCP, DTM&H, PhD, FRCP, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Chris Parry, DTM&H, PhD, Liverpool School of Topical Medicine, United Kingdom

clinicalTackling the management of febrile and non-febrile patients who cross country borders, 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 different settings.

In this special issue of Tropical Medicine and Health, we call for case reports of infectious and non-infectious tropical diseases in returning travelers and people living in the disease endemic area. We ask that you first describe a short or long case presentation, secondly raise clinical questions, and then summarise the report with a discussion and take home message. We ask that your whole report is within 1200 words. This special issue welcomes case reports of common and less common infectious and non-infectious tropical diseases. We ask that convey information that helps lead to the diagnosis, including relevant pictures, and with clinical pearls that will help tropical medicine physicians in their daily practice. We also accept manuscript that are secondary publication of a case reports, already published in a local language.

  1. Congenital musculoskeletal and limb (CML) anomalies are uncommon, multifactorial conditions whose global incidence trends remain underexplored. This study delineates the epidemiology and temporal evolution of ...

    Authors: Yu Luo, Rubin Zheng, Jiaxi Chen, Miao Deng, Ziyang Zhang, Zhouke Tan and Zhixun Bai
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2025 53:68
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  2. Myanmar is one of the countries in Southeast Asia where serious dengue outbreaks occur and Yangon is among the regions with the highest number of cases in the country. Many infections including dengue are comm...

    Authors: Htin Lin, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Yin Mon Wint Zin, Khin Theingi Myint, Win Kay Khine, Khine Mya Nwe, Aye Aye Thant, Thin Thin Shwe, Win Mar, Khin Sandar Aye, Khaing Moe Aung, Yuki Takamatsu, Wah Wah Aung, Yi Yi Kyaw, Takeshi Urano, Kouichi Morita…
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2025 53:13
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  3. Globally, chronic viral hepatitis is the cause of mortality alongside human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and tuberculosis. Published reports on the seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C...

    Authors: Desie Kasew, Mitikie Wondmagegn and Biruk Bayleyegn
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:97
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  4. Neisseria meningitidis causes severe life-threatening meningococcal disease with a case fatality rate of 10–15% even with proper treatment. In Ethiopia, particularly in our study area, inadequate information is f...

    Authors: Samuel Assefa, Alemseged Abdissa, Yared Alemu, Lencho Girma and Degemu Sahlu
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:67
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  5. A previously healthy Japanese man in his fifties was admitted to our hospital because of a recurrent fever after returning from Kenya and Madagascar. He was ambulant with a body temperature of 36.6 °C. His phy...

    Authors: Takashi Sugimoto, Kensuke Takahashi, Kosuke Matsui, Masahito Asada, Osamu Kaneko and Koya Ariyoshi
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2020 48:52
    Content type: Case Report Published on: