**Meet the editor**

Dr. Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales received his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, and his Master of Science (MSc) degree in Protozoology from the Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo, Venezuela. He received his Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima,

Peru, and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FRSTMH), London, UK, a fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (FFTM) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology (FACE), USA. He is also a candidate for Doctor in Parasitology (PhD) at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He is a Doctor of Sciences *honoris causa* (HonDSc), Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (UniFranz), Cochabamba, Bolivia. Prof. Rodriguez-Morales is the president of the Travel Medicine Committee, Pan American ID Association. He is the secretary of the Colombian ID Association, a senior researcher of the Colciencias (2015–2019), and a professor in the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia (H index = 26).

Contents

**Preface VII**

Coello

**Function 31**

**Section 2 Arboviral Diseases 49**

**Italian Experience 51**

**Challenges 81** Budi Haryanto

**Section 1 Neglected Tropical Diseases 1**

Prasetyadi Mawardi

Chapter 1 **Leprosy: The Ancient and Stubborn Disease 3**

Chapter 2 **Chagas Disease in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico 19**

Chapter 3 **Neglected Tropical Diseases with an Impact on Kidney**

Carlos F. Ortega-Jimenez, Eugenia Guzman-Marin, Eduardo Gutierrez-Blanco, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco and Matilde Jimenez-

Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior, Ana Amélia Reis Jereissati, Ane Karoline Medina Neri, Danielli Oliveira da Costa Lino, Juliana Gomes

Ramalho de Oliveira and Elizabeth De Francesco Daher

Chapter 4 **Mosquito-Borne Diseases and 'One Health': The Northwestern**

Mosca, Laura Chiavacci and Cristina Casalone

Chapter 5 **Indonesia Dengue Fever: Status, Vulnerability, and**

Maria Cristina Radaelli, Federica Verna, Alessandra Pautasso, Veronica Bellavia, Marco Ballardini, Walter Mignone, Loretta Masoero, Alessandro Dondo, Luca Picco, Roberto Moschi, Andrea
