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Triatomines, also known as kissing bugs, which are found throughout the world and especially in Latin America, are well known natural vectors that transmit American trypanosomiasis, also called Chagas disease....
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:129
Published on: 15 August 2017
Research Article
Given the restricted distribution of Schistosoma mekongi in one province in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and two provinces in Cambodia, together with progress of the national control programmes aime...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:127
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research Article
The nest flea index of Meriones unguiculatus is a critical indicator for the prevention and control of plague, which can be used not only to detect the spatial and temporal distributions of Meriones unguiculatus,...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:124
Published on: 7 August 2017
Commentary
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by blood flukes. The disease is caused by an inflammatory reaction to parasite eggs retained in the liver, bladder and reproductive organs. According to 2017 World...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:122
Published on: 3 August 2017
Research Article
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:116
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research Article
In malaria endemic areas, infected blood donors serve as a source of infection to blood recipients, which may adversely affect their prognosis. This necessitates the proper screening of blood to be used for tr...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:103
Published on: 1 August 2017
Erratum
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:118
Published on: 13 July 2017
The original article was published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:3
Research Article
In order to achieve the goal of malaria elimination, the Chinese government launched the National Malaria Elimination Programme in 2010. However, as a result of increasing cross-border population movements, th...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:108
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research Article
Diarrhoeal diseases remain an important cause of mortality and morbidity among children, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In Senegal, diarrhoea is responsible for 15% of all deaths in children...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:109
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research Article
Malaria remains the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in Tanzania. However, its prevalence varies from area to area depending on various ecological, socio-economic and health system factors. This...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:101
Published on: 5 July 2017
Case Study
Rabies is a serious reemerging zoonosis in China. At present human rabies cases are primarily diagnosed based on clinical presentation.
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:107
Published on: 5 July 2017
Research Article
To avoid or mitigate potential project-related adverse health effects, the Trident copper project in Kalumbila, northwestern Zambia, commissioned a health impact assessment. HIV was identified a priority healt...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:114
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research Article
Treatment completion among tuberculosis patients remains low across various regions of Uganda, despite implementation of directly observed treatment short course. This study evaluated the determinants of treat...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:104
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research Article
As the natural hosts of avian influenza viruses (AIVs), aquatic and migratory birds provide a gene pool for genetic transfer among species and across species, forming transient “genome constellations.” This wo...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:98
Published on: 3 July 2017
Letter to the Editor
Echinococcosis has a worldwide geographical distribution with endemic foci on every inhabited continent. Due to the frequent outbreaks in different parts of Pakistan in the recent past, echinococcosis is being...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:90
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research Article
Men who have sex with men (MSM) has become the group with the fastest growing HIV epidemic in China. Since many Chinese MSM are conducting HIV self-testing, we aimed to determine the rate of HIV care seeking a...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:112
Published on: 28 June 2017
Short report
Canines, the definitive hosts for the parasites causing alveolar (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE), are the main source of this infections playing the key role in the transmission. The ten-year mortality rat...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:117
Published on: 27 June 2017
Research article
Bacillary dysentery (BD) is an acute bacterial infection of the intestine caused by Shigella spp., with clinical symptoms ranging from fever to bloody diarrhoea to abdominal cramps to tenesmus. In Vietnam, enteri...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:113
Published on: 27 June 2017
Erratum
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:111
Published on: 19 June 2017
The original article was published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:65
Research Article
Mass drug administration of praziquantel is the World Health Organization’s endorsed control strategy for schistosomiasis. A decade of annual treatments across sub-Saharan Africa has resulted in significant re...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:110
Published on: 16 June 2017
Research Article
Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) is the main vector of the dengue virus globally. Dengue vector control is mainly based on reducing the vector population through interventions, which...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:102
Published on: 9 June 2017
Research Article
The increasing trend of adult cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) in China, particularly in northern China, has become an important public health issue. We conducted an epidemiological investigation in the sou...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:100
Published on: 8 June 2017
Research article
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a heterogeneous group of mainly chronic, debilitating and often stigmatizing diseases that largely affects low-income and politically marginalized populations, causing a ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:106
Published on: 8 June 2017
Research Article
Acre has reported the highest incidence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in Brazil in recent years. The present study seeks to identify high and low risk agglomerations of ACL in space and space-time ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:99
Published on: 7 June 2017
Short report
Plasmodium vivax remains a potential cause of morbidity and mortality for people living in its endemic areas. Understanding the genetic diversity of P. vivax from different regions is ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:92
Published on: 5 June 2017
