Table 1 List of the infectious diseases of poverty, with information of ‘ancient’ diseases and emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases of poverty indicating the scoops considered within this journal

Viral infections

Rabies

*

*

Dengue

*(in some regions)

Bacterial infections

Tuberculosis

*

Buruli ulcer

*

Leprosy

*

Meningitis

*

Parasitic infections

.Vector-born diseases

Malaria

*

Chagas disease

*

*( in some regions)

Human African trypanosomiasis

*

Onchocerciasis

*

*( in some regions)

Lymphatic filariasis

*

Leishmaniasis

*

.Snail-born diseases

Schistosomiasis

*

*

Opisthorchiasis

*

*

Clonorchiasis

*

*

Paragonimiasis

*

*

Fascioliasis

*

*( in some regions)

Fasciolopsis

*

*

.Water-born diseases

Cryptosporidiosis

*

*

Giardiasis

*

*

Toxoplasmosis

*

*

.Soil-transmitted helminthiasis

Hookworm

*

Trichuriasis

*

Ascariasis

*

Enterobiasis

*

.Zoonotic diseases

Taeniasis/cysticercosis

*

Echinococcosis

*

Zoonotic schistosomiasis

*