Editorial Board for section 'Neglected and Emerging Tropical Diseases'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Section Editor-in-Chief
Laboratory of Trypanosomatid Biology Life Science Research Center, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Interests: parasitology; trypanosomatid biology; evolution; viruses
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Section Board Member
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
Interests: infectious diseases; neglected tropical diseases; antibiotic resistance; tropical medicine

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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine and of the Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Interests: neglected tropical diseases (NTDs); schistosomiasis; food borne trematodiasis; functional genomics; genome editing; helminth infection associated cancers

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Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Kreuzstrasse, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland
Interests: sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis); drug and vaccine development against neglected tropical diseases; clinical trials in low resource settings; implementation research; public health
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Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia and Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital, UNESCO Chair "Training and Empowering Human Resources for Health Development in Resource-Limited Countries", Brescia, Italy
Interests: tropical medicine; migration medicine; imported and travel-related diseases; HIV infection; viral hepatitis; training health personnel in resource-limited areas

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1. WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy
2. European Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: alveolar and cystic echinococcosis; medical and veterinary foodborne parasitology; clinical and molecular epidemiology; public health; anthelmintic drugs

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Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: leishmaniasis; neglected tropical diseases; malaria; clinical pharmacology; drug development

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Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, P.O. Box 102 Khartoum, Sudan
Interests: mycetoma
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Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Interests: parasitic flatworms; tapeworms; diphyllobothriosis; sparganosis

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Department of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Interests: malaria; vaccines; immunology; genomics; helminthes and co-infection; malaria transmission; malaria drugs and diagnostics
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State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Interests: Trypanosoma; Toxoplasma; diagnosis; prevalence; evolution

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1. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
3. Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
Interests: clinical tropical medicine; clinical parasitology; neglected tropical diseases; emerging infectious diseases; travel medicine

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Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, Australia
Interests: epidemiology; eye diseases; neglected tropical diseases – especially trachoma, health systems

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1. Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2V 5A2, Canada
2. Department of Parasitology, School of Microbiology and Institute of Microbiology Research, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Interests: neglected tropical diseases; epidemiology; drug resistance and diagnostics with special focus on soil-transmitted helminths (STH); Taenia solium; Pediculus humanus; Toxocara canis; intestinal protozoa and malaria
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