**Meet the editor**

Medical Doctor (MD), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, 2003. Master of Sciences in Protozoology (MSc), Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo, Venezuela, scholar 2004-2005. Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (DTM&H), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United

States of America, 2009. Fellow of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (FRSTMH), London, United Kingdom, 1998. Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (FFTM) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2010. Candidate to Doctor in Parasitologgy (PhD), Universidad Central de Venezuela, scholar 2005-2008. Editor, Journal of Infection in Developing Countries (JIDC). Chair, Comission of Scientific Publications and Teaching of the Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI). Editorial Board, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases (TMAID). Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue "Migration and Chagas' Disease", Epidemiology Research International (ERI). Guest Editor, Special Issue "Immunology of Zoonotic Infections", Clinical and Developmental Immunology (CDI).

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Tropical Diseases Due to Bacteria and Viruses 1** 

Chapter 2 **Human Ehrlichioses and Rickettsioses in Cameroon 25**  Lucy Ndip, Roland Ndip, David Walker and Jere McBride

**Pathophysiological and Immunopathogenic 43** 

Diana M. Castañeda-Hernández and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

**the Capital City of the State of Amazonas, Brazil 81** 

**Severity During Periodic Epidemics in South East Asia 91** 

Chapter 7 **Genetic Diversity of Dengue Virus and Associated Clinical** 

Bordi Licia, Meschi Silvia, Selleri Marina, Lalle Eleonora,

Di Caro Antonino and Capobianchi Maria Rosaria

E. Khan, R. Hasan, J. Mehraj and S. Mahmood

Chapter 4 **Bartonella Infections in Rodents and Bats in Tropics 51** 

**Dengue Virus Circulating in Manaus,** 

Regina Maria Pinto de Figueiredo

Chapter 1 **Rickettsiosis as Threat for the Traveller 3**  Aránzazu Portillo and José A. Oteo

Chapter 3 **Leptospirosis: Epidemiologic Factors,** 

Ying Bai and Michael Kosoy

Chapter 5 **Social Networking in Tuberculosis: Experience in Colombia 67** 

Chapter 6 **Molecular Characterization of** 

Chapter 8 **Lassa Fever in the Tropics 109**  Ute Inegbenebor

Chapter 9 **The Re-Emergence of an Old Disease: Chikungunya Fever 117** 

Castilletti Concetta, Carletti Fabrizio,

Marcia Marinho
