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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(6):599-601; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep063
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Tropical rheumatology—a global issue

Ade Adebajo1,2, Paul McGill3 and Mohammed Tikly4,5

1Academic Rheumatology Group, Barnsley Hospital, Barnsley, 2Academic Rheumatology Group, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, 3Department of Orthopaedics, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK, 4Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and 5University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Correspondence to: Ade Adebajo, Academic Rheumatology Group, University of Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK. E-mail: a.o.adebajo@sheffield.ac.uk

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Rheumatic diseases, as they pertain to the tropics, are much neglected in both the developing and developed world alike. We believe that there is a need for these conditions to be recognized and addressed by all involved in healthcare in the developing world. With increasing travel and migration, we also believe that it is essential for rheumatologists in the West to be aware of these conditions and to avoid misdiagnosis and mismanagement of patients from the tropics who have rheumatological problems.

Nowadays, in the developed nations of the world, the main thrust of rheumatology research and increasingly daily practice is directed towards the control and management of inflammatory arthritis using the tools of modern molecular biology. This stands in stark contrast with what is available to the very large populations in the tropical regions of Africa, South America and Asia, who have little or no access to the particular skills . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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