Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
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Editors-in-Chief
Jeffrey M. Bethony, Washington DC, USA
Santiago Mas-Coma, Valencia, Spain
Malcolm K. Jones, Queensland, Australia
Vanessa Steenkamp, Pretoria, South Africa
Nazni Bte Hj. Wasi Ahmad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
President Executive Editor-in-Chief
Shunhai Qu, Haikou, China
Deputy Editors-in-Chief
Jong-Yil Chai, Seoul, Korea
Pierre Roques, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Alcides Troncoso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Stephen Munga, Nairobi, Kenya
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Giuseppe La Torre, Rome, Italy
Odir Antônio Dellagostin, Pelotas, Brazil
Sung-Jong Hong, Seoul, Korea
Hassan Vatandoost, Teheran, Iran
Maria José Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal
Leonard E. G. Mboera, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Ivàn Darìo Vélez, Medellìn, Colombia
Editorial Directors
Viroj Wiwanitkit, Bangkok, Thailand
Saravanan Thangamani, Galveston, USA Laura Bongiovanni, Teramo, Italy
Statistic Editors
Khaled Khatab, Sheffi eld, UK
Sarath Chandra Janga, Urbana, USA
Executive Editors
Salah Akkal, Constantine, Algeria
Hervé Hoste, Toulouse, France
Thomas N. Jr. Tully, Louisiana, USA
Barbara R. Conway, Huddersfi eld, UK
Lynn Yan, Haikou, China
Autumn Pan, Haikou, China
Executive Members of Editorial Board
Vittorio Sambri, Bologna, Italy
Qiushui He, Turku, Finland
Bindu Sukumaran, Singapore, Singapore
Suhail Ahmad, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Indra Vythilingam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Wael Mohamed Abou EL-Makarem EL-Deeb, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia Ben Slama Karim, Tunisia, Tunis
Bing Huang, Shanghai, China
Xiao-Nong Zhou, Shanghai,China
Nahid Einollahi, Tehran, Iran
Munir Aktas, Elazig,Turkey
José Manuel Lorenzo Rodríguez, Galicia, Spain
Giovanni Benelli, Pisa, Italy
Jeong Hwan Shin, Busan,Korea
Luis Ignacio González Granado, Madrid, Spain
Abhishek Mathur, Tampa, USA
Ahmed Ismail, Doha, Qatar
Américo David Rodríguez Ramírez, Chiapas, Mexico
Xue-Jie Yu, Galveston, USA
Arun Kumar, Bhilai, India
Chia-Kwung Fan, Taipei
Cyrille Bisseye, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Dongmi Kwak, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Donovan Anthony McGrowder, Kingston, Jamaica
Farouk El Allaki, Quebec, Canada
Gabriel Trueba, Quito, Ecuador
Gordana J. Dragovic Lukic, Belgrade, Serbia
Hanspeter Marti, Basel, Switzerland
Herbert Auer, Vienna, Austria
Hetron Mweemba Munang’andu, Oslo, Norway
Irma Khachidze, Tbilisi, Georgia
Jean-François Faucher, Besançon cedex, France
José A. Oteo, Logroño, Spain
Juraj Majtán, Bratislava, Slovakia
Kalman Imre, Timisoara, Romania
Kingsley Badu, Accra, Ghana
Lala Ravaomanarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Liwang Cui, Pennsylvania, USA
Luís R. Silva, Porto, Portugal
M. Fawzi Mahomoodally, Reduit, Mauritius
Mamadou C. Baldé, Kindia, Guinée
Milkyas Endale, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Mochammad Hatta, Makassar, Indonesia
Moses Samje, Bambili, Cameroon
Muftah A. M. Shushni, Tripoli, Libya
Muhammad Akram, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan Musso Munyeme, Lusaka, Zambia
Nguyen Hoang Loc, Hue, Vietnam
Obembe Olawole, Ota, Nigeria
Pius Mpiana, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Polrat Wilairatana, Bangkok, Thailand
Pravin Malla Shrestha, Berkeley, USA
Rebuma Firdessa, Wuerzburg, Germany
Rinaldo Poncio Mendes, Botucatu, Brazil
Robin A. J. Nicholas, Surrey, UK
Samath D. Dharmaratne, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Song Gao, Texas, USA
Tarig Mohamed Saad Alnour, Khartoum North, Sudan
Tashi Tobgay, Thimphu, Bhutan
Thomas Dorlo, Uppsala, Sweden
Tohru Gonoi, Chiba, Japan
Vania Giacomet, Milano, Italy
Veasna Duong, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Weaam N. E. Ebrahim, Mansoura, Egypt
Xuanming Shi, Dallas, USA
Yong Song, Perth, Australia
Yu Pang, Beijing, China
Yuki Eshita, Oita, Japan
APJTB: Asian Pacifi c Journal of Tropical Biomedicine (ISSN: 2221-1691) is published 12 times per year. Months of publication are: January, February, March, April,May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December.
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine2016年7期