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  1. Diagnostics are essential for identifying and controlling diseases. However, limited access to diagnostics hinders public health efforts in many settings. Social innovation may provide a framework for expandin...

    Authors: Megan L. Srinivas, Eileen J. Yang, Priyanka Shrestha, Dan Wu, Rosanna W. Peeling and Joseph D. Tucker

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:20

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  2. Internal migration places individuals at high risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB). However, there is a scarcity of national-level spatial analyses regarding the association between TB and internal migration ...

    Authors: Wei-Bin Liao, Ke Ju, Ya-Min Gao and Jay Pan

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:5

    Content type: Research Article

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  3. Mycobacterium leprae and Toxoplasma gondii infections are both neglected tropical diseases highly prevalent in Brazil. Infection with certain parasite species can significantly alter susceptibility to other impor...

    Authors: Luciana Regina Pereira Oliveira, Lívia Mattos Martins, Rebeka da Conceição Souza, Yuri Scheidegger de Castro, Letícia Silva Nascimento, Juliana Azevedo da Silva, Edilbert Pellegrini Nahn Junior, Wilmar Dias da Silva and Alba Lucínia Peixoto-Rangel

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:19

    Content type: Research Article

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  4. Plasmodium falciparum malaria is endemic in the southern sahelian zone of Mauritania where intense internal and trans-border human and livestock movement occurs. The risk of importation and spread of drug-resista...

    Authors: Sileye Mamadou Diallo, Hervé Bogreau, Nasserdine Papa Mze, Mohamed Salem Ould Ahmedou Salem, Mohamed Lemine Ould Khairy, Philippe Parola, Leonardo Basco and Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:21

    Content type: Research Article

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  5. The National Plan for Malaria Elimination (NPME) in Myanmar (2016–2030) aims to eliminate indigenous Plasmodium falciparum malaria in six states/regions of low endemicity by 2020 and countrywide by 2030. To achie...

    Authors: Poe Poe Aung, Zaw Win Thein, Zar Ni Min Hein, Kyaw Thet Aung, Nwe Oo Mon, Nay Yi Yi Linn, Aung Thi, Khin Thet Wai and Thae Maung Maung

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:18

    Content type: Research Article

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  6. Malaria surveillance system strengthening is essential in the progress towards malaria elimination. In Nigeria, more attention is being given to this recently as the country is striving towards achieving elimi...

    Authors: Tyakaray Ibrahim Visa, Olufemi Ajumobi, Eniola Bamgboye, IkeOluwapo Ajayi and Patrick Nguku

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:15

    Content type: Research Article

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  7. Loiasis is an uncommon and poorly understood parasitic disease outside endemic areas of Africa. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical and biological patterns and treatment of imported loiasis by s...

    Authors: Sabino Puente, German Ramírez-Olivencia, Mar Lago, Mercedes Subirats, Francisco Bru, Eugenio Pérez-Blazquez, Marta Arsuaga, Concepción Ladron de Guevara, Fernando de la Calle-Prieto, Belén Vicente, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Moncef Belhassen-Garcia and Antonio Muro

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:16

    Content type: Short Report

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  8. Despite the availability of free tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment, TB care still generates substantial costs that push people into poverty. We investigated out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for TB care and...

    Authors: Yan Liu, Cai-Hong Xu, Xiao-Mo Wang, Zhen-Yu Wang, Yan-Hong Wang, Hui Zhang and Li Wang

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:14

    Content type: Research Article

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  9. China is facing challenges of the shifting presentation of tuberculosis (TB) from younger to elderly due to an ageing population, longer life expectancy and reactivation disease. However, the burden of elderly...

    Authors: Jun Cheng, Yan-Ni Sun, Can-You Zhang, Yan-Ling Yu, Li-Hong Tang, Hong Peng, Ying Peng, Yu-Xia Yao, Shuang-Yi Hou, Jian-Wei Li, Jin-Ming Zhao, Lan Xia, Lin Xu, Yin-Yin Xia, Fei Zhao, Li-Xia Wang…

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:13

    Content type: Research Article

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  11. Yaws is a chronic, highly contagious skin and bone infection affecting children living in impoverished, remote communities and caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue. The Philippines was thought to be f...

    Authors: Belen Lardizabal Dofitas, Sherjan P. Kalim, Camille B. Toledo and Jan Hendrik Richardus

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:1

    Content type: Case Report

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  13. Irrigated agriculture is key to increase agricultural productivity and ensure food security in Africa. However, unintended negative public health impacts (e.g. malaria) of such environmental modification have ...

    Authors: Dawit Hawaria, Assalif Demissew, Solomon Kibret, Ming-Chieh Lee, Delenasaw Yewhalaw and Guiyun Yan

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:9

    Content type: Research Article

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  14. Crowdsourcing is used increasingly in health and medical research. Crowdsourcing is the process of aggregating crowd wisdom to solve a problem. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize quantitativ...

    Authors: Cheng Wang, Larry Han, Gabriella Stein, Suzanne Day, Cedric Bien-Gund, Allison Mathews, Jason J. Ong, Pei-Zhen Zhao, Shu-Fang Wei, Jennifer Walker, Roger Chou, Amy Lee, Angela Chen, Barry Bayus and Joseph D. Tucker

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:8

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  15. In the original publication of this article [1] we noticed the Fig. 4 was incorrect. The correct Fig. 4 is as below.

    Authors: Jin-Ou Chen, Yu-Bing Qiu, Zulma Vanessa Rueda, Jing-Long Hou, Kun-Yun Lu, Liu-Ping Chen, Wei-Wei Su, Li Huang, Fei Zhao, Tao Li and Lin Xu

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:7

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:92

  16. Human brucellosis is a neglected public health issue in China and reports of HIV-infected individuals complicated with brucellosis are rare. This report describes the case of an HIV-infected patient complicate...

    Authors: Shuai-Bing Dong, Li-Ping Wang, Chao-Xue Wu, Fan Li, Yong Yue, Dong-Ri Piao, Hong-Yan Zhao and Hai Jiang

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:6

    Content type: Case Report

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  17. There is increasing evidence that the substantial global burden of disease for tuberculosis unfolds in concert with dimensions of common mental disorders. Person-centred care holds much promise to ameliorate t...

    Authors: André Janse Van Rensburg, Audry Dube, Robyn Curran, Fentie Ambaw, Jamie Murdoch, Max Bachmann, Inge Petersen and Lara Fairall

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:4

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  18. Social Innovation in health initiatives have the potential to address unmet community health needs. For sustainable change to occur, we need to understand how and why a given intervention is effective. Bringin...

    Authors: Emma L. M. Rhule and Pascale A. Allotey

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:3

    Content type: Opinion

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  20. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) can effectively manage malaria cases and reduce excess costs brought by misdiagnosis. However, few studies have evaluated the economic value of this technology. The purpose of this...

    Authors: Xiao-Xiao Ling, Jia-Jie Jin, Guo-Ding Zhu, Wei-Ming Wang, Yuan-Yuan Cao, Meng-Meng Yang, Hua-Yun Zhou, Jun Cao and Jia-Yan Huang

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:104

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  21. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than one billion people living in vulnerable conditions. In spite of initiatives recently contributing to fill NTDs gaps on national and local prevalence and dist...

    Authors: Berta Grau-Pujol, Marilia Massangaie, Jorge Cano, Carmen Maroto, Alcino Ndeve, Francisco Saute and Jose Muñoz

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:103

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  22. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a leading cause of childhood viral encephalitis both at global level and in China. Vaccination is recommended as a key strategy to control JE. In China most JE cases have been rep...

    Authors: Xiao-Ting Hu, Qiong-Fen Li, Chao Ma, Zhi-Xian Zhao, Li-Fang He, Ting-Ting Tang, Wen Yu and Philip Owiti

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:102

    Content type: Research Article

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  23. Effective communication of research findings on vector-borne diseases in Africa is challenging for a number of reasons. Following the experiences of a number of researchers over the life of a project, this art...

    Authors: Thomas Scalway, Mariam Otmani del Barrio and Bernadette Ramirez

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:101

    Content type: Commentary

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  24. The Sahel region of Chad Republic is a prime candidate for malaria pre-elimination. To facilitate pre-elimination efforts in this region, two populations of Anopheles coluzzii from Central Chad Republic were char...

    Authors: Sulaiman S. Ibrahim, Amen N. Fadel, Magellan Tchouakui, Ebai Terence, Murielle J. Wondji, Micareme Tchoupo, Clement Kérah-Hinzoumbé, Samuel Wanji and Charles S. Wondji

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:100

    Content type: Research Article

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  25. The World Health Organization (WHO) End TB Strategy has established a milestone to reduce the number of tuberculosis (TB)- affected households facing catastrophic costs to zero by 2020. The role of active case...

    Authors: Suman Chandra Gurung, Kritika Dixit, Bhola Rai, Maxine Caws, Puskar Raj Paudel, Raghu Dhital, Shraddha Acharya, Gangaram Budhathoki, Deepak Malla, Jens W. Levy, Job van Rest, Knut Lönnroth, Kerri Viney, Andrew Ramsay, Tom Wingfield, Buddha Basnyat…

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:99

    Content type: Research Article

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  26. Aedes albopictus is a highly invasive mosquito species and a major vector of numerous viral pathogens. Many recent dengue fever outbreaks in China have been caused solely by the vector. Mapping of the potential d...

    Authors: Xueli Zheng, Daibin Zhong, Yulan He and Guofa Zhou

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:98

    Content type: Research Article

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  27. Low-fee female sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of acquiring and spreading human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in China. There is an urgent need to develop comprehensive ...

    Authors: Wei Dong, Chu Zhou, Ke-Ming Rou, Zun-You Wu, Jun Chen, Sarah Robbins Scott, Man-Hong Jia, Yue-Jiao Zhou and Xi Chen

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:97

    Content type: Research Article

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  28. Transgender women have multiple disparities globally, including social rejection and stigma, HIV infection and untreated mental health problems. However, few data on transgender women are available in China. T...

    Authors: Zi-Han Yan, Jessica Lin, Wen-Jing Xiao, Keh-Ming Lin, Willi McFarland, Hong-Jing Yan and Erin Wilson

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:94

    Content type: Short Report

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  29. There is significant need for accurate diagnostic tools for Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis infections in resource limited countries where diarrhoeal disease caused by these parasites is often prevale...

    Authors: Joseph Bitilinyu-Bangoh, Wieger Voskuijl, Johnstone Thitiri, Sandra Menting, Nienke Verhaar, Laura Mwalekwa, Daisy B. de Jong, Merlin van Loenen, Petra F. Mens, James A. Berkley, Robert H. J. Bandsma and Henk D. F. H. Schallig

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:96

    Content type: Research Article

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  30. Anaemia and malaria are common and life-threatening diseases among preschool-aged children in many tropical and subtropical areas, and Malawi is no exception. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine the assoc...

    Authors: Peter Austin Morton Ntenda, Sosten Chilumpha, Edward Tisungane Mwenyenkulu, Jane Flora Kazambwe and Walaa El-Meidany

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:95

    Content type: Research Article

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  31. Determination of infection rates of snail populations is one of the basic tools for epidemiological studies of snail borne diseases. In this study, we opted to determine the trematode infection of freshwater s...

    Authors: Seid Tiku Mereta, Jemal Bedewi, Delenasaw Yewhalaw, Belayhun Mandefro, Yihun Abdie, Dechassa Tegegne, Wondwosen Birke, Worku Legesse Mulat and Helmut Kloos

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:93

    Content type: Research Article

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  32. The barriers to access diagnosis and receive treatment, in addition to insufficient case identification and reporting, lead to tuberculosis (TB) spreads in communities, especially among hard-to-reach populatio...

    Authors: Jin-Ou Chen, Yu-Bing Qiu, Zulma Vanessa Rueda, Jing-Long Hou, Kun-Yun Lu, Liu-Ping Chen, Wei-Wei Su, Li Huang, Fei Zhao, Tao Li and Lin Xu

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:92

    Content type: Research Article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:7

  33. Species of the Anopheles hyrcanus group are widely distributed in Palearctic and Oriental regions and some of them are important malaria vectors. The cryptic species of An. hyrcanus group was almost impossible to...

    Authors: Hui-Min Zhu, Shu-Han Luo, Man Gao, Feng Tao, Jing-Peng Gao, Han-Ming Chen, Xiang-Yu Li, Heng Peng and Ya-Jun Ma

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:91

    Content type: Short Report

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  34. Tuberculosis and parasitosis are the widely distributed diseases in Ethiopia with the leading cause of mortality and morbidity, respectively. There has been no information on the status of co-infections of tub...

    Authors: Fikru Gashaw, Samuel Bekele, Yalemtsehay Mekonnen, Girmay Medhin, Gobena Ameni and Berhanu Erko

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:88

    Content type: Research Article

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  35. Globally, by the end of 2018, 37.9 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Sub-Saharan Africa carries the highest burden with an estimated 71% of the global total. In Ethiopia, an e...

    Authors: Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Aster Ferede, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Fasil Wagnew, Daniel Bekele Ketema and Animut Alebel

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:90

    Content type: Short Report

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  36. Blastocystis is a widespread zoonotic protozoan of mammalian species, especially in HIV/AIDS individuals. The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence and risk factors related with Blastocystis infection a...

    Authors: Shun-Xian Zhang, Fen-Yan Kang, Jia-Xu Chen, Li-Guang Tian and Lan-Lan Geng

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:89

    Content type: Short Report

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  37. The rapid and unplanned urbanization of African cities is considered to increase the risk of urban malaria transmission. The present study objective was to assess factors influencing the spatio-temporal distri...

    Authors: Landre Djamouko-Djonkam, Souleman Mounchili-Ndam, Nelly Kala-Chouakeu, Stella Mariette Nana-Ndjangwo, Edmond Kopya, Nadége Sonhafouo-Chiana, Abdou Talipouo, Carmene Sandra Ngadjeu, Patricia Doumbe-Belisse, Roland Bamou, Jean Claude Toto, Timoléon Tchuinkam, Charles Sinclair Wondji and Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:84

    Content type: Research Article

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  38. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis are parasitic infections prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries, such as the Philippines. The prevalence of these infections remain high in cer...

    Authors: Pauline Joy Lorenzo, Duane Raphael Manzanilla, Dazzle Kane Cortel and Ekaterina Tangog

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:87

    Content type: Research Article

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  39. The China-Gates TB project Phase II implemented case-based payment reform in three Chinese counties in 2014, designed specifically for patients diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB). This study aimed to examine the...

    Authors: Xuan-Xuan Wang, Jia-Ying Chen, Hui Jiang, An-Na Zhu, Qian Long and John S. Ji

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:79

    Content type: Research Article

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  40. To achieve the elimination of onchocerciasis transmission in all African countries will entail enormous challenges, as has been highlighted by the active discussion around onchocerciasis intervention strategie...

    Authors: Robert Colebunders, Wilma A. Stolk, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Charles D. Mackenzie and Adrian Hopkins

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:83

    Content type: Opinion

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  41. Hepatitis A (HepA) vaccination and economic transitions can change the epidemiology of HepA. China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita was known to be inversely associated with the incidence of HepA, but...

    Authors: Xiao-Jin Sun, Guo-Min Zhang, Rong-Jun Zhou, Hui Zheng, Ning Miao, Zun-Dong Yin and Fu-Zhen Wang

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:80

    Content type: Research Article

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  42. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, considerable progress has been made in the control and elimination of the country’s initial set of 11 neglected tropical diseases. Indeed, eliminat...

    Authors: Men-Bao Qian, Jin Chen, Robert Bergquist, Zhong-Jie Li, Shi-Zhu Li, Ning Xiao, Jürg Utzinger and Xiao-Nong Zhou

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:86

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  43. Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China 70 years ago, both extreme poverty and parasitic infections and other neglected tropical diseases were highly prevalent. Owing to social development, parti...

    Authors: Peter J. Hotez

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:85

    Content type: Editorial

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  44. The goal of soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) control programmes is to eliminate STH-associated morbidity in the target population by reducing the prevalence of moderate- and heavy-intensity infections and ...

    Authors: Denise Mupfasoni, Mathieu Bangert, Alexei Mikhailov, Chiara Marocco and Antonio Montresor

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:82

    Content type: Research Article

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  45. Despite great medical advances and scientific progress over the past century, one billion people globally still lack access to basic health care services. In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Deve...

    Authors: Beatrice Halpaap, Rosanna W. Peeling and François Bonnici

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:81

    Content type: Commentary

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  46. This commentary highlights the value of community-engaged social innovations to advance health care delivery in low- and middle-income countries and to accelerate universal health coverage. It emphasizes the i...

    Authors: John C. Reeder, Marie-Paule Kieny, Rosanna Peeling and François Bonnici

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:74

    Content type: Editorial

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  47. Dengue is a global disease, transmitted by the Aedes vectors. In 2018, there were 80 615 dengue cases with 147 deaths in Malaysia. Currently, the nationwide surveillance programs are dependent on Aedes larval sur...

    Authors: Jonathan Wee Kent Liew, Sivaneswari Selvarajoo, Wing Tan, Rafdzah Ahmad Zaki and Indra Vythilingam

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:71

    Content type: Study Protocol

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  48. Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) is the current mainstay to control tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. Context-specific adaptations of DOTS have impending implications in the fight against TB. In Eth...

    Authors: Faisal Nooh, Lisa Crump, Abdiwahab Hashi, Rea Tschopp, Esther Schelling, Klaus Reither, Jan Hattendorf, Seid M. Ali, Brigit Obrist, Jürg Utzinger and Jakob Zinsstag

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:73

    Content type: Scoping Review

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  49. In 2009 Ghana began to design a trachoma pre-validation surveillance plan, based on then-current WHO recommendations. The plan aimed to identify active trachoma resurgence and identify and manage trichiasis ca...

    Authors: Laura Senyonjo, Agatha Aboe, Robin Bailey, David Agyemang, Benjamin Marfo, Seth Wanye, Elena Schmidt, James Addy and Karl Blanchet

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:78

    Content type: Research Article

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  50. There is accumulating evidence supporting the use of ivermectin as a malaria control tool. Recent findings from the repeat ivermectin mass drug administrations for control of malaria trial demonstrated a reduc...

    Authors: Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Marina Kugler, An Hotterbeekx, Adam Hendy, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden and Robert Colebunders

    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2019 8:77

    Content type: Commentary

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