ABSTRACT
Warnings against predatory journals get stronger. Designed to capture manuscripts with the promise of rapid publication, the main aim of these journals is to charge abusive publication fees. Sometimes boasting imaginary impact factors, they are not indexed and offer no guarantee of visibility, accessibility or durability of the published article. Above all, they have no concern for the rigor and scientific integrity of the work they publish.
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Fees and Charges , Predatory Behavior , AnimalsABSTRACT
The chronic Chagas disease, which is dumb in approximately 2/3 of the cases, is present from now on all the continents, with local prevalence which is a function of the age, the origin and the importance of the immigration from South and Central America. The European, North American, Japanese or Australian general practitioner can be thus confronted with this disease in a half-dozen of circumstances which we tried to define while calling back way the characteristic main things of the disease, the way it evolves, the laboratory tests which allow to detect it and the problems which puts its treatment.
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Chagas Disease/diagnosis , Chagas Disease/therapy , France , HumansABSTRACT
The difficulties encountered in the discovery of the exoerythrocytic stage of asexual cycle of human plasmodia are described. These illustrate how deference towards scientific orthodoxy and a degree of reluctance to question and to criticise can delay advances in knowledge.
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Malaria/parasitology , Plasmodium/classification , Plasmodium/physiology , Animals , Antimalarials/therapeutic use , Erythrocytes/parasitology , Humans , Recurrence , Reproduction/physiology , Species SpecificityABSTRACT
It approaches the Franco-Brazilian cooperation in the field of microbiology and tropical diseases that dates back to the onset of those disciplines.(AU)
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Yellow Fever/history , International Cooperation/history , Brazil , France , Public Health/history , Africa South of the SaharaABSTRACT
Uma equipe de pesquisa multidisciplinar lança-se no levantamento e avaliação da importância de todos os parâmetros envolvidos no processo da infecção da doença de chagas, a fim de definir se as características das áreas suscetíveis e compreender as condições nas quais o barbeiro deixa seu habitat natural selvagem para estabelecer-se nas casas e transmitir a doença ao homem.
