Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

2016-03-18 17:47:32



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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