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  1. Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) is a necrotic skin neglected tropical disease (NTD) that has both a mental and physical health impact on affected individuals. Although there is increasing evidence suggesting a stro...

    Authors: Yaw Ampem Amoako, Nancy Ackam, John-Paul Omuojine, Michael Ntiamoah Oppong, Abena Gyawu Owusu-Ansah, Harriet Boateng, Mohammed Kabiru Abass, George Amofa, Elizabeth Ofori, Portia Boakye Okyere, Michael Frimpong, Freddie Bailey, David Hurst Molyneux and Richard Odame Phillips
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:109
  2. There could be various stakeholders who influencing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) policy development and implementation, yet their attributes and roles remain unclear in practice. This study aimed ...

    Authors: Bin Chen, Hongdan Bao, Xinyi Chen, Kui Liu, Ying Peng, Wei Wang, Fei Wang, Jianmin Jiang and Biao Xu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:108
  3. Around the world, controlling the COVID-19 pandemic requires national coordination of multiple intervention strategies. As vaccinations are globally introduced into the repertoire of available interventions, i...

    Authors: Carlo Delfin S. Estadilla, Joshua Uyheng, Elvira P. de Lara-Tuprio, Timothy Robin Teng, Jay Michael R. Macalalag and Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:107
  4. Annually, 125.2 million pregnant women worldwide risk contracting malaria, including 30.3 million and 1.5 million in Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya respectively. At least three doses of sulphadoxine pyrimethamin...

    Authors: Joshua A. Mutanyi, Daniel O. Onguru, Sidney O. Ogolla and Lawrence B. Adipo
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:106
  5. The elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria requires 8-aminoquinolines, which are contraindicated in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency due to the risk of acute haemolytic anaemia. ...

    Authors: Oum Kelthoum Mamadou Djigo, Yacoub Ould Khalef, Mohamed Salem Ould Ahmedou Salem, Nicolas Gomez, Leonardo Basco, Sébastien Briolant and Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:105
  6. HIV/AIDS has transformed into a chronic controllable but not yet curable infectious disease as other chronic diseases to some extent. The additional of so called fourth 90% that included the improved health-re...

    Authors: Xiaowen Wang, Hongbing Luo, Enlong Yao, Renhai Tang, Wenbin Dong, Fuyong Liu, Jun Liang, Huilan Li, Minyang Xiao, Zuyang Zhang, Jin Niu, Lijun Song, Liru Fu, Xuehua Li, Shicong Qian, Qing Guo…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:104

    The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:114

  7. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death in the world. Since Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) as a core strategy for the global TB control are not applicable to all types of TB patients, and self-...

    Authors: Jin Li, Jie Pu, Jiaqing Liu, Qingya Wang, Rui Zhang, Ting Zhang, Jiani Zhou, Wei Xing, Shengxiang Liang, Daiyu Hu and Ying Li
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:103
  8. Measles outbreaks re-emerged in 2013–2014 in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, where measles immunisation coverage is high. The discrepancy between the vaccination coverage and outbreaks indicates tha...

    Authors: Xian-Yan Tang, Man Cheng, Alan Geater, Qiu-Yun Deng, Ge Zhong, Yue-Dong Lin, Ning Chen, Tao Lan, Long-Yan Jiang, Man-Tong Zhu and Qiao Li
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:102
  9. Eradication of infectious disease is the sanctified public health and sustainable development goal around the world.

    Authors: Heng-Lin Yang, Zulqarnain Baloch, Jian-Wei Xu, Xiao-Dong Sun, Zu-Rui Lin, Yao-Wu Zhou, Xiao-Tao Zhao, Quan Lv, Shi-Yuan Xu, Chun-Li Ding, Qi-Yan Chen, Peng Tian, Kai-Xia Dung, Xue-Shan Xia and Hong-Ning Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:101
  10. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an international public health threat, and people's participation in disease-related preventive behaviours is the key to controlling infectious diseases. Thi...

    Authors: Yisheng Ye, Ruijun Wu, Yao Ge, Tao Wang, Xin Yao, Yao Yang, Chengxu Long, Fangfei Chen, Shangfeng Tang and Rui Huang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:100
  11. The very high burden of rifampicin resistance tuberculosis (RR-TB) and the very low detection of RR-TB cases are a major challenge that China has been facing. This study analyzed the characteristics of RR-TB d...

    Authors: Wei Su, Yun-zhou Ruan, Tao Li, Xin Du, Jia-wen Jiang and Ren-zhong Li
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:99
  12. Little attention has been paid to the comparison of COVID-19 pandemic responses and related factors in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. We aimed at evaluating the association o...

    Authors: Jingmin Zhu, Wenxin Yan, Lin zhu and Jue Liu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:97
  13. The transmission dynamics and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is different across countries or regions. Differences in governments’ policy responses may explain some of these differenc...

    Authors: Yan Ma, Shiva Raj Mishra, Xi-Kun Han and Dong-Shan Zhu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:96
  14. Despite free diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis (TB), the costs during treatment impose a significant financial burden on patients and their households. The study sought to identify the determinants for ...

    Authors: Beatrice Kirubi, Jane Ong’ang’o, Peter Nguhiu, Knut Lönnroth, Aiban Rono and Kristi Sidney-Annerstedt
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:95
  15. Various modalities of vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), based on different platforms and immunization procedures, have been successively approved for marketing worldwide. A comprehensive re...

    Authors: Musha Chen, Yue Yuan, Yiguo Zhou, Zhaomin Deng, Jin Zhao, Fengling Feng, Huachun Zou and Caijun Sun
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:94
  16. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are common among individuals with human immune deficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide. In this study, we did a systematic review and meta-anal...

    Authors: Hasan Ahmadi Gharaei, Mohammad Fararouei, Ali Mirzazadeh, Golnaz Sharifnia, Marzieh Rohani-Rasaf, Dariush Bastam, Jamileh Rahimi, Mostafa kouhestani, Shahab Rezaian and Mostafa Dianatinasab
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:93
  17. China has successfully reduced tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate over the past three decades, however, challenges remain in improving the quality of TB diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we assess the effe...

    Authors: Zhi-Peng Li, Wen-Hui Mao, Fei Huang, Ni Wang, Li-Ping Ma, Li-Qun Zhang, Meng-Qiu Gao, Wei-Bing Wang, Qi Zhao and Sheng-Lan Tang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:92
  18. Hepatitis E, an acute zoonotic disease caused by the hepatitis E virus (HEV), has a relatively high burden in developing countries. The current research model on hepatitis E mainly uses experimental animal mod...

    Authors: Meng Yang, Xiao-Qing Cheng, Ze-Yu Zhao, Pei-Hua Li, Jia Rui, Sheng-Nan Lin, Jing-Wen Xu, Yuan-Zhao Zhu, Yao Wang, Xing-Chun Liu, Li Luo, Bin Deng, Chan Liu, Jie-Feng Huang, Tian-Long Yang, Zhuo-Yang Li…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:91
  19. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), an emerging tickborne infectious disease caused by a novel banyangvirus (SFTS virus, SFTSV), was endemic in several Asian countries with a high mortality up ...

    Authors: Shou-Ming Lv, Chun Yuan, Lan Zhang, Yu-Na Wang, Zi-Niu Dai, Tong Yang, Ke Dai, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Qing-Bin Lu, Zhen-Dong Yang, Ning Cui, Hao Li and Wei Liu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:90
  20. To monitor the prevalence of schistosomiasis in school-aged children (SAC), the National Bilharzia Control Program (PNLB) was set up by the Senegalese authorities; however, geographically isolated Bedik ethnic...

    Authors: Monique N’Diaye, Boubacar Fodé Keita, Fodé Danfakha, Fili Keita, Gérald Keita, Cheikh Sadibou Senghor, Bocar Diop, Lamine Diawara, François Bessin, Charlotte Vernet, Dominique Barbier, Patrick Dewavrin and Francis Klotz
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:89
  21. Schistosomiasis control is striving forward to transmission interruption and even elimination, evidence-lead control is of vital importance to eliminate the hidden dangers of schistosomiasis. This study attemp...

    Authors: Yan-Feng Gong, Ling-Qian Zhu, Yin-Long Li, Li-Juan Zhang, Jing-Bo Xue, Shang Xia, Shan Lv, Jing Xu and Shi-Zhu Li
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:88
  22. School-aged children (SAC) have a considerable burden of intestinal schistosomiasis in Madagascar yet its burden in pre-school aged children (PSAC) is currently overlooked. To assess the at-risk status of PSAC...

    Authors: Caitlin Sheehy, Heather Lawson, Emmanuel H. Andriamasy, Hannah J. Russell, Alice Reid, Gina U. Raderalazasoa, Graham Dodge, Robbie Kornitschky, James M. StJ. Penney, Tahiry N. Ranaivoson, Antsa Andrianiaina, Jenny S. Emmanoela, Amaya L. Bustinduy, J. Russell Stothard, Louis Andrianjaka and Stephen A. Spencer
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:87
  23. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a vector-borne disease classified by the World Health Organization as one of the most neglected tropical diseases. Brazil has the highest incidence of CL in America and is one o...

    Authors: Tatiana P. Portella and Roberto A. Kraenkel
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:86
  24. Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections have long been an important public health concern in the Philippines. In this review, we describe the current status of STH infections there and highlight the control...

    Authors: Mary Lorraine S. Mationg, Veronica L. Tallo, Gail M. Williams, Catherine A. Gordon, Archie C. A. Clements, Donald P. McManus and Darren J. Gray
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:85
  25. In Ethiopia, schistosomiasis is caused by Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium with the former being widespread and more than 4 million people are estimated to be infected by S. mansoni annually with 35 million...

    Authors: Keerati Ponpetch, Berhanu Erko, Teshome Bekana, Lindsay Richards and Song Liang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:83
  26. Echinococcosis is a global zoonotic parasitic disease caused by Echinococcus larvae. This disease is highly endemic in Sichuan Province, China. This study investigates the prevalence and spatial distribution char...

    Authors: Wei He, Li-Ying Wang, Wen-Jie Yu, Guang-Jia Zhang, Bo Zhong, Sha Liao, Qi Wang, Rui-Rui Li, Liu Yang, Ren-Xin Yao, Yang Liu, Zeli Danba, Sheng-Chao Qin, Shi-An Wang, Yan-Xia Wang, Yan Huang…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:82
  27. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Meng-Jie Geng, Li-Ping Wang, Xiang Ren, Jian-Xing Yu, Zhao-Rui Chang, Can-Jun Zheng, Zhi-Jie An, Yu Li, Xiao-Kun Yang, Hong-Ting Zhao, Zhong-Jie Li, Guang-Xue He and Zi-Jian Feng
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:81

    The original article was published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:48

  28. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) introduced the Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT IT) into China to build a special capacity and equip public health profess...

    Authors: Ning Feng, Jeffrey Karl Edwards, Philip Odhiambo Owiti, Guo-Min Zhang, Zulma Vanessa Rueda Vallejo, Katrina Hann, Shui-Sen Zhou, Myo Minn Oo, Elizabeth Marie Geoffroy, Chao Ma, Tao Li, Jun Feng, Yi Zhang and Xiao-Ping Dong
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:80
  29. Schistosomiasis japonica remains an important public health concern due to its potential to cause severe outcomes and long-term sequelae. An integrated control strategy implemented in the Peoples’ Republic of ...

    Authors: Ling-Ling Wu, He-Hua Hu, Xia Zhang, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Tie-Wu Jia, Can Wang, Zhong Hong and Jing Xu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:79
  30. PTB is an infectious disease, which not only seriously affects people’s health, but also causes a heavier disease economic burden on patients. At present, reform of the medical insurance payment can be an effe...

    Authors: Xing-Yu Hu and Guang-Ying Gao
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:78
  31. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests have become a primary and critical tool for malaria diagnosis in malaria-endemic countries where Plasmodium falciparum Histidine Rich Protein 2-based rapid diagnostic tests (PfHRP2-...

    Authors: Yannick Bazitama Munyeku, Alain Abera Musaka, Medard Ernest, Chris Smith, Paul Mankadi Mansiangi and Richard Culleton
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:77
  32. Implementation of control programmes for Strongyloides stercoralis infection is among the targets of the World Health Organization Roadmap to 2030. Aim of this work was to evaluate the possible impact in terms of...

    Authors: Dora Buonfrate, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Zeno Bisoffi, Antonio Montresor and Sara Boccalini
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:76
  33. Malaria remains a significant health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, with early diagnosis critical to reducing its morbidity and mortality. Despite the increasing Plasmodium spp. diagnostic capabilities, access ...

    Authors: Tobias O. Apinjoh, Veronica N. Ntasin, Phil Collins C. Tataw, Vincent N. Ntui, Dieudonne L. Njimoh, Fidelis Cho-Ngwa and Eric A. Achidi
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:75
  34. Oncomelania hupensis is only intermediate snail host of Schistosoma japonicum, and distribution of O. hupensis is an important indicator for the surveillance of schistosomiasis. This study explored the feasibilit...

    Authors: Jin-Xin Zheng, Shang Xia, Shan Lv, Yi Zhang, Robert Bergquist and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:74
  35. To secure the gains of lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination programs, attention is needed to the ‘residual microfilaremia phase’, in which high-risk populations may be crucial. The present study documents the...

    Authors: Anjali Modi, Keshav G. Vaishnav, Kailash Kothiya and Neal Alexander
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:73
  36. Given the context of rapid technological change and COIVD-19 pandemics, E-learning may provide a unique opportunity for addressing the challenges in traditional face-to-face continuing medical education (CME)....

    Authors: Zi-Yue Wang, Li-Jie Zhang, Yu-Hong Liu, Wei-Xi Jiang, Jing-Yun Jia, Sheng-Lan Tang and Xiao-Yun Liu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:72
  37. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has killed over 2.5 million people worldwide, but effective care and therapy have yet to be discovered. We conducted this analysis to better understand tocilizumab treatment...

    Authors: Qiu Wei, Hua Lin, Rong-Guo Wei, Nian Chen, Fan He, Dong-Hua Zou and Jin-Ru Wei
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:71
  38. In its new roadmap for neglected tropical diseases, the World Health Organization proposes three important strategic shifts: (i) Stronger accountability which shifting from process to impact indicators; (ii) I...

    Authors: Melissa Krizia Vieri, Makoy Yibi Logora, Kamran Rafiq and Robert Colebunders
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:70
  39. COVID-19 can lead to increased psychological symptoms such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety among patients with COVID-19. Based on the previous mindfulness-based interventions ...

    Authors: Ming-Yu Si, Wei-Jun Xiao, Chen Pan, Hao Wang, Yi-Man Huang, Jun Lian, Winnie W. S. Mak, Zhi-Wei Leng, Xiao-You Su, Qiu-Ping Tang, Yu Jiang, Lu-Zhao Feng, Wei-Zhong Yang and Chen Wang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:69
  40. The Republic of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa has a high HIV/AIDS disease burden and has experienced political instability in the recent past. Our study used qualitative methods to better understand key stakeho...

    Authors: Joshua Galjour, Philip J. Havik, Peter Aaby, Amabelia Rodrigues, Laura Hoemeke, Michael J. Deml, Jinkou Zhao and Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:68
  41. Despite progress towards End TB Strategy targets for reducing tuberculosis (TB) incidence and deaths by 2035, South Africa remains among the top ten high-burden tuberculosis countries globally. A large challen...

    Authors: Jamie Murdoch, Robyn Curran, André J. van Rensburg, Ajibola Awotiwon, Audry Dube, Max Bachmann, Inge Petersen and Lara Fairall
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:67
  42. The ongoing transmission of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the Middle East and its expansion to other regions are raising concerns of a potential pandemic. An in-depth analysis ...

    Authors: An-Ran Zhang, Wen-Qiang Shi, Kun Liu, Xin-Lou Li, Ming-Jin Liu, Wen-Hui Zhang, Guo-Ping Zhao, Jin-Jin Chen, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Dong Miao, Wei Ma, Wei Liu, Yang Yang and Li-Qun Fang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:66

    The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:115

  43. Strongyloidiasis is the most neglected of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The aim of this commentary is to describe the possible reasons why strongyloidiasis is so overlooked in Ethiopia, and shed ligh...

    Authors: Abebaw Tiruneh, Endalew Zemene and Zeleke Mekonnen
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:65
  44. The Upper West region of Ghana is mostly made up of rural communities and is highly endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF), with a significant burden of disability due to lymphedema and hydrocele. The aim of th...

    Authors: Solomon Abotiba Atinbire, Benjamin Marfo, Bright Alomatu, Collins Ahorlu, Paul Saunderson and Stefanie Weiland
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:64
  45. Tuberculosis (TB) prevention through the use of preventive treatment is a critical activity in the elimination of TB. In multiple settings, limited staffing has been identified as a barrier to managing prevent...

    Authors: Roberto Zegarra-Chapoñan, Lily Victoria Bonadonna, Courtney M. Yuen, Martha Brigida Martina-Chávez and Jhon Zeladita-Huaman
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:63
  46. A local coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case confirmed on June 11, 2020 triggered an outbreak in Beijing, China after 56 consecutive days without a newly confirmed case. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (N...

    Authors: Xiao-Li Wang, Xin Lin, Peng Yang, Zun-You Wu, Gang Li, Jennifer M. McGoogan, Zeng-Tao Jiao, Xin-Jun He, Si-Qi Li, Hong-Hao Shi, Jing-Yuan Wang, Sheng-Jie Lai, Chun Huang and Quan-Yi Wang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:62
  47. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), endemic in Guatemala, mostly affects poor people living in the northern region. A national control program that includes surveillance, diagnose, and treatment offered free of cost...

    Authors: Renata Mendizábal-Cabrera, Isabel Pérez, Víctor Becerril Montekio, Freddy Pérez, Erick Durán and Mei L. Trueba
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:61
  48. Recurrent infections of animal hosts with avian influenza viruses (AIVs) have posted a persistent threat. It is very important to understand the avian influenza virus distribution and characteristics in enviro...

    Authors: Hong Bo, Ye Zhang, Li-Bo Dong, Jie Dong, Xi-Yan Li, Xiang Zhao, Zi Li, Yue-Long Shu and Da-Yan Wang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2021 10:60