Fabio Coracin
Nove de Julho University, Brazil
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Med Surg Pathol
According to World Health Organization (WHO), those neglected tropical diseases are a diverse group of communicable diseases that prevail in tropical and subtropical conditions in 149 countries, including Brazil, and affect more than one billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year. Populations living in poverty, without adequate sanitation and in close contact with infectious vectors and domestic animals and livestock are those worst affected. The effective control can be achieved when selected public health approaches are combined and delivered locally. Interventions are guided by the local epidemiology and the availability of appropriate measures to detect, prevent and control diseases and the implementation of appropriate measures with high coverage will contribute to achieving the targets on neglected tropical diseases, resulting in the elimination of many and the eradication of at least two by 2020.
There is certainly a strong component of underdevelopment in tropical diseases, a belated consequence from colonial times, but there is also a certain tropical fate, the consequence of heterogeneous geological and biological evolution. We propose to analyze this duality, but it must be stressed that every human ailment is tropical in principle, since the human species emerged from the tropics and brought along its diseases. The aim of this presentation will focus to describe the clinical, microscopic and therapeutic approach of the most neglected disease in Brazil from an important Center of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology in a endemic area of this disease. An important approach of this presentation will be the clinical features and correlation with surgical pathology and the follow-up the patients with morphological changes based on clinical cases in the discussion.
