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Prof. Dr. John Frean
Prof. Dr. John Frean
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Editor-in-Chief
Pathologist, Parasitology Reference Lab, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2192, South Africa
Interests: parasitic and zoonotic infections; travel and tropical medicine
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Prof. Dr. Peter A. Leggat
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Leggat
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Deputy Editor-in-Chief
1. Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
2. School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Interests: neglected tropical diseases; lymphatic filariasis; dengue; malaria; occupational health; travel medicine; emerging public health threats
* passed away
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Prof. Dr. Vyacheslav Yurchenko
Prof. Dr. Vyacheslav Yurchenko
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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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Prof. Dr. Anthony D. Harries
Prof. Dr. Anthony D. Harries
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Advisory Board Member
1. International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2 Rue Jean Lantier, 75001 Paris, France
2. Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Interests: tuberculosis; HIV/AIDS; tropical medicine; operational research
Dr. Charles E. Rupprecht
Dr. Charles E. Rupprecht
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Advisory Board Member
College of Forestry, Wildlife & Environment, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Interests: lyssaviruses; zoonoses; One Health; epidemiology; conservation biology
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Dr. Jeffrey J. Adamovicz
Dr. Jeffrey J. Adamovicz
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Editorial Board Member
Director, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, 209D Connaway Hall, Columbia, MO 65211-5130, USA
Interests: vaccines; zoonotic diseases; biocontainment; vaccinology; facultative intracellular bacteria; animal models
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Prof. Dr. Ayola Akim Adegnika
Prof. Dr. Ayola Akim Adegnika
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Editorial Board Member
1. Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné BP242, Gabon
Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
2. German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Interests: epidemiology and immunology of infectious diseases (malaria, helminths and tuberculosis); clinical trials of anti-infectious agents and vaccines
Prof. Dr. Tania C. Araujo-Jorge
Prof. Dr. Tania C. Araujo-Jorge
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Editorial Board Member
Laboratory of Innovations in Therapies, Education and Bioproducts, Oswaldo Cruz Institute (LITEB-IOC/Fiocruz), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interests: chagas disease; neglected tropical diseases; translational medicine; health education; applied pharmacology
Dr. Bruno Arcà
Dr. Bruno Arcà
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases—Division of Parasitology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: vector molecular biology; saliva of blood feeding insects; mosquitoes; transcriptomics; malaria; non-coding RNAs; gene expression
Prof. Dr. Omar Bagasra
Prof. Dr. Omar Bagasra
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Editorial Board Member
South Carolina Centre for Biotechnology, Department of Biology, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC 29115, USA
Interests: HIV-1; Zika virus; miRNAs; loss of smell in COVID-19; alcohol and Alzheimer's disease
Dr. Alyssa Barry
Dr. Alyssa Barry
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Editorial Board Member
1. School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia2. Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Interests: malaria; infectious disease; genomics; epidemiology
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bartoloni
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bartoloni
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Editorial 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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Prof. Dr. Zeno Bisoffi
Prof. Dr. Zeno Bisoffi
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Editorial Board Member
1. Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases and Microbiology (DITM), IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy2. Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Interests: strongyloidiasis; clinical research on malaria and other tropical and parasitic diseases; surveillance of imported tropical and infectious diseases; assessment of diagnostic tools in tropical medicine and parasitology; clinical epidemiology and clinical decision-making applied to tropical medicine
Prof. Dr. Stuart Blacksell
Prof. Dr. Stuart Blacksell
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Editorial Board Member
1. Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2. Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok, Thailand
Interests: scrub typhus; rickettsia; zoonoses; diagnostics; biosafety
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Prof. Dr. Moses John Bockarie
Prof. Dr. Moses John Bockarie
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Editorial Board Member
School of Community Health Sciences, Njala University, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Interests: neglected tropical diseases; filariasis; onchocerciasis; malaria vector control; capacity strengthening; public health
Prof. Dr. Paul J. Brindley
Prof. Dr. Paul J. Brindley
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Editorial Board Member
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
Prof. Dr. Christine Budke
Prof. Dr. Christine Budke
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: neglected tropical diseases; zoonoses; parasitic diseases; echinococcosis; cysticercosis; epidemiology; disease burden; One Health
Prof. Dr. Christian Burri
Prof. Dr. Christian Burri
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Editorial Board Member
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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Dr. Guido Calleri
Dr. Guido Calleri
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Editorial Board Member
Travel Medicine Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Torino, Italy
Interests: parasitology; malaria; clinical tropical medicine; vector borne diseases; travel medicine
Prof. Dr. Jorge Cano
Prof. Dr. Jorge Cano
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Editorial Board Member
Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo
Interests: spatial epidemiology; geostatistics; geographic information system (GIS); remote sensing; neglected tropical diseases; vector-borne diseases
Prof. Dr. Hélène Carabin
Prof. Dr. Hélène Carabin
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Editorial Board Member
Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and One Health; Department of pathology and microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine & Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, École de Santé Publique de l'Université de Montréal, 3200 rue Sicotte, Local 2202-35, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 2M2, Canada
Interests: infectious disease epidemiology; zoonoses; neglected tropical diseases; global health; Bayesian statistics; cysticercosis; One Health
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Prof. Dr. Rudi Cassini
Prof. Dr. Rudi Cassini
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Interests: veterinary parasitology; tick-borne diseases; leishmaniasis; cystic echinococcosis; one-health
Prof. Dr. Francesco Castelli
Prof. Dr. Francesco Castelli
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Editorial Board Member
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
Dr. Concetta Castilletti
Dr. Concetta Castilletti
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases and Microbiology (DITM), IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy
Interests: emerging re-emerging viral infections; design and validation of innovative diagnostic tools in emerging viral diseases; viral pathogenesis; imported infectious diseases surveillance, epidemiology of viral tropical diseases
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Dr. Adriano Casulli
Dr. Adriano Casulli
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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
Prof. Dr. Phaik Yeong Cheah
Prof. Dr. Phaik Yeong Cheah
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Editorial Board Member
1. Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
2. Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Interests: bioethics; community engagement; public engagement; antimicrobial resistance; AMR
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Prof. Dr. Junhu Chen
Prof. Dr. Junhu Chen
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1. National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research), Shanghai, China
2. School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Interests: vector-borne parasitic diseases (malaria, schistosomiasis); infection and immunity; population genetics; diagnosis and vaccine discovery
Prof. Dr. Bruno Chomel
Prof. Dr. Bruno Chomel
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
Interests: zoonoses; emerging zoonoses; veterinary public health; epidemiology