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The lack of safe water and sanitation contributes to the rampancy of diarrhea in many developing countries.
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:137
Published on: 19 September 2017
Research Article
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 ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:140
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:138
Published on: 14 September 2017
Opinion
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:144
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:120
Published on: 5 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:131
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:126
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research Article
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 ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:105
Published on: 4 September 2017
Letter to the Editor
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 ...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:119
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:125
Published on: 1 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:115
Published on: 1 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:123
Published on: 1 September 2017
Research Article
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...
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:121
Published on: 1 September 2017
Short report
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
Please see Additional file 1 for translations of the abstract into the five official working languages of the United Nations.
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
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
