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<\/a>A story by Phelippe Daou about the process of creating highways and the industrialization process in Amazonas. Photo: Fernando Folhadela. Revista Manchete Ed. 683 \u2013 22.05.1965. Biblioteca Nacional\/ Instituto Durango\u00a0 Duarte<\/p><\/div>\n
In\u00a0Health, science and development: the emergence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis as a medical and public health challenge in Amazonas state, Brazil<\/a>\u00a0(HCS-Manguinhos<\/em>, v. 27, n. 3, jul\/set 2020), Cl\u00e1udio de Oliveira Peixoto (Instituto Le\u00f4nidas e Maria Deane\/Fiocruz Manaus) analyzes – from an historical perspective – the emergence of the disease in the region since the 1970s.<\/p>\n Based on documental analysis of laws, scientific literature, research reports, epidemiological bulletins, and newspapers, it \u00a0shows that American cutaneous leishmaniasis emerged as a major health problem in Amazonas in close association with the political, economic, and socioenvironmental changes seen in the period.<\/p>\n Related articles:<\/p>\n Peixoto, Cl\u00e1udio de Oliveira.\u00a0Sa\u00fade, ci\u00eancia e desenvolvimento: a emerg\u00eancia da leishmaniose tegumentar americana como desafio m\u00e9dico-sanit\u00e1rio no Amazonas<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Set 2020, vol.27, no.3<\/p>\n The tropics, science, and leishmaniasis<\/a>\u00a0The article investigates the process of circulation of knowledge which occurred during the first decades of the twentieth century between South American researchers and Europeans.<\/p>\n Leishmaniases from a historical and global perspective<\/a>\u00a0Brazil is the country in the Americas with the most cases of this disease in its three forms: cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral.<\/p>\n