摘要
GENERALThe Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (APJTM) is an open access,peer reviewed and monthly publication and aims to provide an academic platform for clinical investigators,physician scientists,and allied health scientists in tropical medicine,especially those from the Asia-Pacific region,to communicate their latest research findings in tropical medicine in order to meet the growing challenges of understanding,preventing and controlling dramatic emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases in tropical regions of the world,especially of the Asia-Pacific region.