Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases (JVATiTD) is a non-commercial academic open access publication dedicated to research on all aspects of toxinology, venomous animals and tropical diseases. Its interdisciplinary content includes original scientific articles covering research on toxins derived from animals, plants and microorganisms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
systematics and morphology of venomous animals;
physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and immunology of toxins;
epidemiology, clinical aspects and treatment of envenoming by different animals, plants and microorganisms;
development and evaluation of antivenoms and toxin-derivative products;
epidemiology, clinical aspects and treatment of tropical diseases (caused by virus, bacteria, algae, fungi and parasites) including the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) defined by the World Health Organization.

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Editor-in-Chief
Benedito Barraviera, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Associate Editors
Jean-Philippe Chippaux, L’Institut de recherche pour le développement, France
Lucilene Delazari dos Santos, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Maria Elena de Lima, Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Rui Seabra Ferreira Junior, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Junior Editor
Claudia Vilalva Cassaro, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Advisory Editors
Abdulrazaq G Habib, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Adolfo Borges, Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela
Adriana P Pardini Vicentini, Adolfo Lutz Institute, Brazil
Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Anna Nekaris, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Carlos Alvarez, University of Havana, Cuba, Cuba
Daniel Carvalho Pimenta, Butantan Institute, Brazil
Eliane Candiani Arantes, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Fatima Laraba-Djebari, Univ. Sciences and Tech. Houari Boumediene, Algeria
Heloisa Sobreiro Selistre-de-Araujo, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Jan Tytgat, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lourival Domingos Possani, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Luis Alberto Ponce-Soto, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Luis Fernando García Hernández, Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay
Marcia Regina Brochetto-Braga, São Paulo State University, Brazil
Maria Stankiewicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Milena de Paiva-Cavalcanti, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Nicolas Vidal, National Museum of Natural History, France
Sakda Daduang, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Silvana Marcussi, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil
Suely Vilela Sampaio, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Wilson Lourenço, National Museum of Natural History, France
Yonghua Ji, Shanghai University, China