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  1. Methodological applications of the high sensitivity genus-specific Schistosoma CAA strip test, allowing detection of single worm active infections (ultimate sensitivity), are discussed for efficient utilization i...

    Authors: Paul L. A. M. Corstjens, Pytsje T. Hoekstra, Claudia J. de Dood and Govert J. van Dam
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:155
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  2. Zooprophylaxis is the use of wild or domestic animals, which are not the reservoir host of a given disease, to divert the blood-seeking malaria vectors from human hosts. In this paper, we systematically review...

    Authors: Abebe Asale, Luc Duchateau, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Gerdien Huisman and Delenasaw Yewhalaw
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:160
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  3. There is accumulating evidence for an increased susceptibility to infection in patients with arthritis. We sought to understand the epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in arthritis patients in eastern Chi...

    Authors: Ai-Ling Tian, Yuan-Lin Gu, Na Zhou, Wei Cong, Guang-Xing Li, Hany M. Elsheikha and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:153
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  4. Intestinal schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma mansoni is a wide spread disease in most parts of Ethiopian highlands. Snail control is one major strategy in schistosomiasis control. The use of molluscicidal pla...

    Authors: Belayhun Mandefro, Seid Tiku Mereta, Yinebeb Tariku and Argaw Ambelu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:133
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  5. In Brazil, people still fall ill and die from tuberculosis (TB), and this can be explained by the significant impasse in the equity of distribution of therapeutic resources to the population as a whole. The ai...

    Authors: Mellina YAMAMURA, Marcelino SANTOS NETO, Francisco CHIARAVALLOTI NETO, Luiz Henrique ARROYO, Antônio Carlos Vieira RAMOS, Ana Angélica Rêgo de QUEIROZ, Aylana de Souza BELCHIOR, Danielle Talita dos SANTOS, Juliane de Almeida CRISPIM, Ione Carvalho PINTO, Severina Alice da Costa UCHÔA, Regina Célia FIORATI and Ricardo Alexandre ARCÊNCIO
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:134
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  6. Before 2014 (the year of closure of the two largest needle exchange programs in Hungary, which halved the number of available syringes in the country despite increased injecting risk practices) no HIV was repo...

    Authors: András Ortutay, V. Anna Gyarmathy, Zsuzsa Marjanek, Károly Nagy, József Rácz and István Barcs
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:145
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  7. In the three decades since the first reported case of Ebola virus, most known index cases have been consistently traced to the hunting of “bush meat”, and women have consistently recorded relatively high fatal...

    Authors: Miriam N. Nkangu, Oluwasayo A. Olatunde and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:135
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  8. Acute human African trypanosomiasis (rHAT) caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense is associated with high mortality and is fatal if left untreated. Only a few studies have examined the psychological, social and...

    Authors: Allan Mayaba Mwiinde, Martin Simuunza, Boniface Namangala, Chitalu Miriam Chama-Chiliba, Noreen Machila, Neil Anderson, Alexandra Shaw and Susan C. Welburn
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:150
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  9. On 12 October 2015, a cholera outbreak involving 65 cases and two deaths was reported in a fishing village in Hoima District, Western Uganda. Despite initial response by the local health department, the outbre...

    Authors: David W. Oguttu, A. Okullo, G. Bwire, P. Nsubuga and A.R. Ario
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:146
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  10. Trachoma is a disease of the eye, caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis, which can lead to blindness if left untreated. Ethiopia is one of the most trachoma-affected countries in the world. The objective o...

    Authors: Beselam Tadesse, Alemayehu Worku, Abera Kumie and Solomon Abebe Yimer
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:143
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  11. Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections often affect the poorest and most deprived communities. In order to generate reliable data for planning a school based deworming program, we conducted a survey among ...

    Authors: Sandipan Ganguly, Sharad Barkataki, Sumallya Karmakar, Prerna Sanga, K. Boopathi, K. Kanagasabai, P. Kamaraj, Punam Chowdhury, Rituparna Sarkar, Dibyendu Raj, Leo James, Shanta Dutta, Rakesh Sehgal, Priya Jha and Manoj Murhekar
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:139
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  12. Trachoma is an infectious eye disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, which is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. In areas where trachoma is endemic, active trachoma is common among preschool-a...

    Authors: Ayanaw Tsega Ferede, Abel Fekadu Dadi, Amare Tariku and Akilew Awoke Adane
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:128
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  14. Interventions are currently being used against ‘infectious diseases of poverty’, which remain highly debilitating and deadly in most endemic countries, especially malaria, schistosomiasis, echinococcosis and A...

    Authors: Kokouvi Kassegne, Ting Zhang, Shen-Bo Chen, Bin Xu, Zhi-Sheng Dang, Wang-Ping Deng, Eniola Michael Abe, Hai-Mo Shen, Wei Hu, Takele Geressu Guyo, Solomon Nwaka, Jun-Hu Chen and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:130
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  15. Remarkable progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases, but new challenges have emerged. Innovative diagnostics, better drugs and new insecticides are often identified as the priori...

    Authors: Giuseppina Ortu and Oliver Williams
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:147
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  16. Dengue was regarded as a mild epidemic in mainland China transmitted by Aedes albopictus. However, the 2014 record-breaking outbreak in Guangzhou could change the situation. In order to provide an early warning o...

    Authors: Lei Luo, Li-Yun Jiang, Xin-Cai Xiao, Biao Di, Qin-Long Jing, Sheng-Yong Wang, Jin-Ling Tang, Ming Wang, Xiao-Ping Tang and Zhi-Cong Yang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:148
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  17. The lack of safe water and sanitation contributes to the rampancy of diarrhea in many developing countries.

    Authors: Seungman Cha, JaeEun Lee, DongSik Seo, Byoung Mann Park, Paul Mansiangi, Kabore Bernard, Guy Jerome Nkay Mulakub-Yazho and Honore Minka Famasulu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:137
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  18. Echinococcosis is a serious, zoonotic, parasitic disease with worldwide distribution. According to a epidemiological survey in 2012 in China, there are 20,000 infected patients and more than 50 million people ...

    Authors: Bin Jiang, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Hao-Bing Zhang, Yi Tao, Le-Le Huo and Ni Liu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:140
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  19. Myanmar lies in the Greater Mekong sub-region of South-East Asia faced with the challenge of emerging resistance to artemisinin combination therapies (ACT). Migrant populations are more likely than others to s...

    Authors: Wint Phyo Than, Tin Oo, Khin Thet Wai, Aung Thi, Philip Owiti, Binay Kumar, Hemant Deepak Shewade and Rony Zachariah
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:138
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  20. The transmission of infectious diseases is a dynamic process determined by multiple factors originating from disease pathogens and/or parasites, vector species, and human populations. These factors interact wi...

    Authors: Shang Xia, Xiao-Nong Zhou and Jiming Liu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:144
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  21. Chagas disease is an important health problem in Latin America due to its incapacitating effects and associated mortality. Studies on seropositivity for Trypanosoma cruzi in Mexican dogs have demonstrated a direc...

    Authors: Minerva Arce-Fonseca, Silvia C. Carrillo-Sánchez, Ramón M. Molina-Barrios, Mariana Martínez-Cruz, Jesús R. Cedillo-Cobián, Yuly A. Henao-Díaz and Olivia Rodríguez-Morales
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:120
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  22. Prevalence of Opisthorchis viverrini, Schistosoma mekongi and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) remains high in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), despite control efforts including mass-drug administratio...

    Authors: Youthanavanh Vonghachack, Peter Odermatt, Keoka Taisayyavong, Souphanh Phounsavath, Kongsap Akkhavong and Somphou Sayasone
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:131
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  23. Changes of land cover modify the characteristics of habitat, host-vector interaction and consequently infection rates of disease causing agents. In this paper, we report variations in tsetse distribution patte...

    Authors: Anibariki Ngonyoka, Paul S. Gwakisa, Anna B. Estes, Linda P. Salekwa, Happiness J. Nnko, Peter J. Hudson and Isabella M. Cattadori
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:126
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  24. Over the past six decades, the Chinese government made parasitoses with a high disease burden, including soil-transmitted nematode infections, malaria, leishmaniasis, filariasis, and schistosomiasis, a public ...

    Authors: Lan-Gui Song, Xiao-Ying Zheng, Da-Tao Lin, Guang-Xi Wang and Zhong-Dao Wu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:119
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  25. Studies investigating the nutritional status of patients with leprosy and plantar ulcers are sparse. Therefore, the objective of this study was to describe the protein profile of leprosy patients with plantar ...

    Authors: Marineia Porto de Oliveira, Jorge Rodrigues de Sousa, Rafael Silva de Araujo, Tinara Leila de Sousa Aarão and Juarez Antonio Simões Quaresma
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:105
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  26. The People’s Republic of China (P.R. China) is the presumptive home range of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a major aetiological agent of human eosinophilic meningitis. We present a study of the ge...

    Authors: Shan Lv, Yi Zhang, Peter Steinmann, Jürg Utzinger and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:125
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  27. As part of the WHO End TB strategy, national tuberculosis (TB) programs increasingly aim to engage all private and public TB care providers. Engagement of communities, civil society organizations and public an...

    Authors: Thin Thin Nwe, Saw Saw, Le Le Win, Myo Myo Mon, Johan van Griensven, Shuisen Zhou, Palanivel Chinnakali, Safieh Shah, Saw Thein and Si Thu Aung
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:123
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  28. Quick diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and extra-pulmonary TB are urgently needed in clinical diagnosis. Our research aims to investigate the usefulness of the interferon-γ release assay...

    Authors: Lei Ji, Yong-Liang Lou, Zhong-Xiu Wu, Jin-Qin Jiang, Xing-Li Fan, Li-Fang Wang, Xiao-Xiang Liu, Peng Du, Jie Yan and Ai-Hua Sun
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:121
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  29. Early detection and treatment of neuropathy in leprosy is important to prevent disabilities. A recent study showed that the Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS) and Warm Detection Thresholds (WDT) tests can detect l...

    Authors: Inge Wagenaar, Erik Post, Wim Brandsma, Dan Ziegler, Moshiur Rahman, Khorshed Alam and Jan Hendrik Richardus
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:115
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  30. 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....

    Authors: Qin Liu, Yun-Hai Guo, Yi Zhang, Zheng-Bin Zhou, Liang-Liang Zhang, Dan Zhu and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:129
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  31. 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...

    Authors: Youthanavanh Vonghachack, Somphou Sayasone, Virak Khieu, Robert Bergquist, Govert J. van Dam, Pytsje T. Hoekstra, Paul L. A. M. Corstjens, Beatrice Nickel, Hanspeter Marti, Jürg Utzinger, Sinuon Muth and Peter Odermatt
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:127
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  32. 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,...

    Authors: Hai-Wen Du, Yong Wang, Da-Fang Zhuang and Xiao-San Jiang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:124
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  33. 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...

    Authors: Jutta Reinhard-Rupp and Katharina Klohe
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:122
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  34. Please see Additional file 1 for translations of the abstract into the five official working languages of the United Nations.

    Authors: Benigno A. M. Rocha, Adriana O. Guilarde, Angela F. L. T. Argolo, Marianna Peres Tassara, Lucimeire A. da Silveira, Isabela C. Junqueira, Marília D. Turchi, Valéria C. R. Féres and Celina M. T. Martelli
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:116
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  35. 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...

    Authors: Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti, Longdoh Anna Njunda, Beltine Tsamul, Shey Dickson Nsagha, Nguedia Jules-Clement Assob, Kukwah Anthony Tufon, Dilonga Henry Meriki and Enow George Orock
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:103
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  37. 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...

    Authors: Sokhna Thiam, Aminata N. Diène, Samuel Fuhrimann, Mirko S. Winkler, Ibrahima Sy, Jacques A. Ndione, Christian Schindler, Penelope Vounatsou, Jürg Utzinger, Ousmane Faye and Guéladio Cissé
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:109
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  38. 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...

    Authors: Benyun Shi, Jinxin Zheng, Hongjun Qiu, Guo-Jing Yang, Shang Xia and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:108
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  40. 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...

    Authors: Humphrey D. Mazigo, Susan F. Rumisha, Mercy G. Chiduo, Veneranda M. Bwana and Leonard E. G. Mboera
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:101
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  41. 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...

    Authors: Astrid M. Knoblauch, Mark J. Divall, Milka Owuor, Kennedy Nduna, Harrison Ng’uni, Gertrude Musunka, Anna Pascall, Jürg Utzinger and Mirko S. Winkler
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:114
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  42. 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...

    Authors: Edgar Mugema Mulogo, Christopher Nahabwe, Fred Bagenda and Vincent Batwala
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:104
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  43. 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...

    Authors: Ye Ge, Qiu-Cheng Yao, Xian-Fu Wang, Zhi-Qiang Fan, Guo-Hua Deng, Hong-Liang Chai, Hua-Lan Chen and Yu-Ping Hua
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:98
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  44. 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...

    Authors: Haroon Ahmed, Shahzad Ali, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Abid Ali Khan, Hamid Raza, Zaheer Hussain Shah and Sami Simsek
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:90
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  45. 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...

    Authors: Xian-Long Ren, Zun-You Wu, Guo-Dong Mi, Jennifer M. McGoogan, Ke-Ming Rou, Yan Zhao and Nanci Zhang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:112
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  46. 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...

    Authors: Qing Yu, Ning Xiao, Shi-jie Yang and Shuai Han
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:117
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  47. 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...

    Authors: Hu Suk Lee, T. T. Ha Hoang, Phuc Pham-Duc, Mihye Lee, Delia Grace, Dac Cam Phung, Vu Minh Thuc and Hung Nguyen-Viet
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:113
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Authors: Jun-Ling Sun, Sheng Zhou, Qi-Bin Geng, Qian Zhang, Zi-Ke Zhang, Can-Jun Zheng, Wen-Biao Hu, Archie C.A. Clements, Sheng-Jie Lai and Zhong-Jie Li
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:111
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:65

  49. 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...

    Authors: Poppy H.L. Lamberton, Christina L. Faust and Joanne P. Webster
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:110
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  50. 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...

    Authors: Leah Mathias, Vito Baraka, Anitha Philbert, Ester Innocent, Filbert Francis, Gamba Nkwengulila and Eliningaya J. Kweka
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:102
    Content type: Research Article Published on:
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