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  1. Despite its low cure rates and possible resistance, praziquantel (PZQ) is the only drug available for schistosomiasis treatment. Hence, monitoring its efficacy is crucial. This study assessed the efficacy of P...

    Authors: Muhubiri Kabuyaya, Moses John Chimbari, Tawanda Manyangadze and Samson Mukaratirwa
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:83
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  2. After alleged stop of transmission of schistosomiasis and further down the line in post elimination settings, sensitive tools are required to monitor infection status to prevent potential re-emergence. In Raha...

    Authors: Abdelaali Balahbib, Fatima Amarir, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, Claudia J. de Dood, Govert J. van Dam, Amina Hajli, Meryem Belhaddad, Bouchra El Mansouri, Abderrahim Sadak, Mohamed Rhajaoui and El Bachir Adlaoui
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:75
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  3. Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a parasitic infection of the human central nervous system, the most common form of which involves infection of the brain parenchyma with the larval form of the Taenia solium tapeworm. ...

    Authors: Lucy B. Gripper and Susan C. Welburn
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:31
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  4. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for an integrated response, the kind that has defined Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) efforts in the past decade.

    Authors: Mathieu Bangert, David H. Molyneux, Steve W. Lindsay, Christopher Fitzpatrick and Dirk Engels
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:73
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  5. Foodborne trematodiasis (FBT) is a significant global health problem, with the liver flukes Opisthorchis viverrini, O. felineus, and Clonorchis sinensis contributing to half of the global burden of FBT. North-eas...

    Authors: Parichat Saenna, Cameron Hurst, Pierre Echaubard, Bruce A. Wilcox and Banchob Sripa
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:66
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  6. The spleen plays a pivotal role in the rapid clearance of parasitized red blood cells in patients with falciparum malaria after artemisinin treatment. Prolonged parasite clearance can be found in patients who ...

    Authors: Hong-Wei Zhang, San-Jin Li, Tao Hu, Yong-Min Yu, Cheng-Yun Yang, Rui-Min Zhou, Ying Liu, Jing Tang, Jing-Jing Wang, Xiu-Yun Wang, Yong-Xiang Sun, Zhan-Chun Feng and Bian-Li Xu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:44
    Content type: Case Study Published on:

  7. Malaria is a major world health issue and its continued burden is due, in part, to difficulties in the diagnosis of the illness. The World Health Organization recommends confirmatory testing using microscopy-b...

    Authors: Sean M. Parsel, Steven A. Gustafson, Edward Friedlander, Alexander A. Shnyra, Aderosoye J. Adegbulu, Ying Liu, Nicole M. Parrish, Syed A. Jamal, Eve Lofthus, Leo Ayuk, Charles Awasom, Carolyn J. Henry and Carole P. McArthur
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:32
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  8. It is estimated that the standard, passive case finding (PCF) strategy for detecting cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Myanmar has not been successful: 26% of cases are missing. Therefore, alternative strategies, ...

    Authors: Htet Myet Win Maung, Saw Saw, Petros Isaakidis, Mohammed Khogali, Anthony Reid, Nguyen Binh Hoa, Ko Ko Zaw, Saw Thein and Si Thu Aung
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:51
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  9. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the primary causes of lymphoedema in sub-Saharan Africa, and has a significant impact on the quality of life (QoL) of those affected. In this paper we assess the relative im...

    Authors: Michelle C. Stanton, Masato Yamauchi, Square Z. Mkwanda, Paul Ndhlovu, Dorothy Emmie Matipula, Charles Mackenzie and Louise A. Kelly-Hope
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:28
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  10. The current approach of morbidity control of schistosomiasis, a helminth disease of poverty with considerable public health and socioeconomic impact, is based on preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel. Ther...

    Authors: Robert Bergquist, Jürg Utzinger and Jennifer Keiser
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:74
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  11. National tuberculosis (TB) programs increasingly engage with international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), especially to provide TB care in complex settings where community involvement might be require...

    Authors: Kyaw Thu Soe, Saw Saw, Johan van Griensven, Shuisen Zhou, Le Win, Palanivel Chinnakali, Safieh Shah, Myo Myo Mon and Si Thu Aung
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:69
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  12. According to the World Health Organization, China is one of 22 countries with serious tuberculosis (TB) infections and one of the 27 countries with serious multidrug-resistant TB strains. Despite the decline o...

    Authors: Wei He, Bu-Dong Chen, Yan Lv, Zhen Zhou, Jin-Ping Xu, Ping-Xin Lv, Xin-Hua Zhou, Feng-Gang Ning, Cheng-Hai Li, Dong-Po Wang and Jie Zheng
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:68
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  13. Tanzania is among the 30 countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burdens. Because TB has a long infectious period, early diagnosis is not only important for reducing transmission, but also for improving t...

    Authors: Khadija Said, Jerry Hella, Grace Mhalu, Mary Chiryankubi, Edward Masika, Thomas Maroa, Francis Mhimbira, Neema Kapalata and Lukas Fenner
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:64
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  14. International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have been implementing community-based tuberculosis (TB) care (CBTBC) in Myanmar since 2011. Although the National TB Programme (NTP) ultimately plans to ta...

    Authors: Wai Wai Han, Saw Saw, Petros Isaakidis, Mohammed Khogali, Anthony Reid, Nguyen Hoa, Ko Ko Zaw and Si Thu Aung
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:59
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  15. The number of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases in China ranks third in the world. A continuous increase in cases has recently been recorded in Zhaotong prefecture-level city, which is located in the northeas...

    Authors: Li Huang, Xin-Xu Li, Eniola Michael Abe, Lin Xu, Yao Ruan, Chun-Li Cao and Shi-Zhu Li
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:53
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  16. Schistosomiasis, one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases listed by the World Health Organization, presents a substantial public health and economic burden. Of the 261 million people requiring preventive chem...

    Authors: Lorenzo Savioli, Marco Albonico, Daniel G. Colley, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Alan Fenwick, Will Green, Narcis Kabatereine, Achille Kabore, Naftale Katz, Katharina Klohe, Philip T. LoVerde, David Rollinson, J. Russell Stothard, Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, Johannes Waltz and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:65
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  17. Schistosomiasis is a global snail-transmitted infectious disease of poverty. Transmission control had been achieved in China in 2015 after the control efforts for over 60 years. Currently, the remaining core r...

    Authors: Le-Ping Sun, Wei Wang, Yin-Ping Zuo, Zheng-Qiu Zhang, Qing-Biao Hong, Guo-Jing Yang, Hong-Ru Zhu, You-Sheng Liang and Hai-Tao Yang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:72
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  18. Mapping and diagnosis of infections by the three major schistosome species (Schistosoma haematobium, S. mansoni and S. japonicum) has been done with assays that are known to be specific but increasingly insensiti...

    Authors: Daniel G. Colley, Tamara S. Andros and Carl H. Campbell Jr.
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:63
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  19. Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) and Plasmodium falciparum infections remain public health problems in Cameroon. A cross-sectional study was carried out in the Mount Cameroon area to determine the prevalence and...

    Authors: Irene Ule Ngole Sumbele, Gladys Belanka Nkemnji and Helen Kuokuo Kimbi
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:67
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  20. Schistosomiasis japonica, caused by the human blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum, remains a major public health problem in China, although great success has been achieved. The control efforts during the past half-...

    Authors: Le-Ping Sun, Wei Wang, Qing-Biao Hong, Shi-Zhu Li, You-Sheng Liang, Hai-Tao Yang and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:55
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  21. Although great success has been achieved, schistosomiasis remains a major public health concern in China, and the remaining core endemic regions are concentrated along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangt...

    Authors: Le-Ping Sun, Wei Wang, Yin-Ping Zuo, Qing-Biao Hong, Guang-Lin Du, Yu-Cai Ma, Jian Wang, Guo-Jing Yang, Dao-Jian Zhu and You-Sheng Liang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:56
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  22. Dengue virus is the causative agent of dengue fever, a vector borne infection which causes self-limiting to life threatening disease in humans. A sero-epidemiological study was conducted to understand the curr...

    Authors: Muhammad Suleman, Hyeong-Woo Lee, Syed Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Nadia Nisar, Uzma Bashir Aamir, Salmaan Sharif, Shahzad Shaukat, Adnan Khurshid, Mehar Angez, Massab Umair, Ghulam Mujtaba and Rani Faryal
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:48
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  24. Community Engagement (CE) in health research ensures that research is consistent with the socio-cultural, political and economic contexts where the research is conducted. The greatest challenges for researcher...

    Authors: Rosemary Musesengwa, Moses J. Chimbari and Samson Mukaratirwa
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:22
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  25. One way that people get infected with intestinal parasites is through the consumption of contaminated vegetables and fruits. This study aimed at determining the prevalence and predictors of parasitic contamina...

    Authors: Fitsum Bekele, Tamirat Tefera, Gelila Biresaw and Tsegaye Yohannes
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:19
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  26. Urogenital schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection of public health importance that affects over 112 million people worldwide. The study aimed at assessing the urogenital schistosomiasis prevalence and risk f...

    Authors: Adeline P. Mewabo, Roger S. Moyou, Lysette E. Kouemeni, Jeanne Y. Ngogang, Lazare Kaptue and Ernest Tambo
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:40
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  27. Chagas disease is one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). International goals for its control involve elimination of vector-borne transmission. Central American countries face challenges in establishing...

    Authors: Kota Yoshioka, Doribel Tercero, Byron Pérez, Jiro Nakamura and Lenin Pérez
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:18
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  28. Dengue fever (DF) and malaria are the two major public health concerns in tropical countries such as Thailand. Early differentiation between dengue and malaria could help clinicians to identify patients who sh...

    Authors: Manas Kotepui, Bhukdee PhunPhuech, Nuoil Phiwklam and Kwuntida Uthaisar
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:27
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  29. Even though Rwanda lies within a region that has a high prevalence of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections, epidemiological information regarding these infections in the country remai...

    Authors: Nadine Rujeni, Domenica Morona, Eugene Ruberanziza and Humphrey D. Mazigo
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:8
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  30. Schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease caused by blood flukes (trematode worms) of the genus Schistosoma. Its transmission has been reported in 78 countries affecting at least 258 million people world-wid...

    Authors: Htin Zaw Soe, Cho Cho Oo, Tin Ohn Myat and Nay Soe Maung
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:3
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:118

  32. The crater lakes of Barombi Mbo and Barombi Kotto are well-known transmission foci of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis having had several important control initiatives previously. To collect ...

    Authors: Suzy J. Campbell, J. Russell Stothard, Faye O’Halloran, Deborah Sankey, Timothy Durant, Dieudonné Eloundou Ombede, Gwladys Djomkam Chuinteu, Bonnie L. Webster, Lucas Cunningham, E. James LaCourse and Louis-Albert Tchuem-Tchuenté
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:49
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  33. Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan has experienced a major surge in blood-borne infections, but data from adequately powered, up-to-date studies are lacking. We thus examined a) the seroprevalences of hepatitis B virus su...

    Authors: Bakyt B. Karabaev, Nurgul J. Beisheeva, Aiganysh B. Satybaldieva, Aikul D. Ismailova, Frank Pessler and Manas K. Akmatov
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:45
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  34. Urinary schistosomiasis has been a major public health problem in Zambia for many years. However, the disease profile may vary in different locale due to the changing ecosystem that contributes to the risk of ...

    Authors: Christopher Simoonga and Lawrence N. Kazembe
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:43
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  35. Schistosomiasis is a water borne parasitic disease of global importance and with ongoing control the disease endemic landscape is changing. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the landscape is becoming ever mo...

    Authors: Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, David Rollinson, J. Russell Stothard and David Molyneux
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:42
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  36. The clinical diagnosis of trichinellosis is difficult because its clinical manifestations are nonspecific. Detection of anti-Trichinella IgG by ELISA using T. spiralis muscle larval excretory-secretory (ES) antig...

    Authors: Zhong-Quan Wang, Ya-Li Shi, Rou-Dan Liu, Peng Jiang, Ya-Yi Guan, Ying-Dan Chen and Jing Cui
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:41
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  37. Food-borne diseases are attracting a lot of attention in Vietnam as a result of repeated episodes of adulterated and unsafe food. In this paper, we provide some perspectives on food safety in Vietnam from the ...

    Authors: Hung Nguyen-Viet, Tran Thi Tuyet-Hanh, Fred Unger, Sinh Dang-Xuan and Delia Grace
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:39
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  38. Recent studies have shown that early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation results in significant HIV transmission reduction. This is the rationale behind the “test and treat” policy of the World Health Orga...

    Authors: Jobert Richie N. Nansseu and Jean Joel R. Bigna
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:24
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  39. Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic coccidian parasite causing morbidity and mortality. In Yemen, T. gondii infection has been reported among pregnant women seeking healthcare in the main ...

    Authors: Mohammed A. K. Mahdy, Lina M. Q. Alareqi, Rashad Abdul-Ghani, Samira M. A. Al-Eryani, Abdullah A. Al-Mikhlafy, Abdulsalam M. Al-Mekhlafi, Fawzya Alkarshy and Rohela Mahmud
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:26
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  40. In the Guadeloupe and Saint Martin islands, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the only recognized vectors of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. For around 40 years, malathion was used as a mosquito adulticide and ...

    Authors: Daniella Goindin, Christelle Delannay, Andric Gelasse, Cédric Ramdini, Thierry Gaude, Frédéric Faucon, Jean-Philippe David, Joël Gustave, Anubis Vega-Rua and Florence Fouque
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:38
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  41. The data on hepatitis b virus (HBV) infection in immigrants population are scanty. The porpoise of this study was to define the demographic, virological, and clinical characteristics of subjects infected with ...

    Authors: Nicola Coppola, Loredana Alessio, Luciano Gualdieri, Mariantonietta Pisaturo, Caterina Sagnelli, Carmine Minichini, Giovanni Di Caprio, Mario Starace, Lorenzo Onorato, Giuseppe Signoriello, Margherita Macera, Italo Francesco Angelillo, Giuseppe Pasquale and Evangelista Sagnelli
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:33
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  42. School-based deworming is widely implemented in various countries to reduce the burden of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), however, the frequency of drug administration varies in different settings. In this ...

    Authors: Stella Kepha, Charles S. Mwandawiro, Roy M. Anderson, Rachel L. Pullan, Fred Nuwaha, Jorge Cano, Sammy M. Njenga, Maurice R. Odiere, Elizabeth Allen, Simon J. Brooker and Birgit Nikolay
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:30
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  43. Larval source management (LSM), which requires an understanding of the ecology and composition of the local mosquito fauna, is an important parameter in successful vector control programmes. The present study ...

    Authors: Mostafa M. Mahgoub, Eliningaya J. Kweka and Yousif E. Himeidan
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:23
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  44. Neglected Tropical Diseases are a set of communicable diseases that affect the population so low socioeconomic status, particularly 1.4 billion people who are living below the poverty level. This study has inv...

    Authors: Marcos Antônio Costa de Albuquerque, Danielle Menezes Dias, Lucas Teixeira Vieira, Carlos Anselmo Lima and Angela Maria da Silva
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:20
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  45. Artemisinin-based combination treatments (ACTs) are the first-line treatments of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in many endemic areas but there are few evaluation of their efficacy in anaemic malario...

    Authors: Akintunde Sowunmi, Kazeem Akano, Godwin Ntadom, Adejumoke I. Ayede, Folasade O. Ibironke, Temitope Aderoyeje, Elsie O. Adewoye, Bayo Fatunmbi, Stephen Oguche, Henrietta U. Okafor, Ismaila Watila, Martin Meremikwu, Philip Agomo, William Ogala, Chimere Agomo, Onikepe A. Folarin…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:36
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  46. The purpose of this study was to understand the strategies employed by families that adopt Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-orphaned children (Adoptive families) for coping with and mitigating the im...

    Authors: Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Silivano Edson Mwakinyali, Sukma Putra and Lillian Mwanri
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:21
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  48. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is considered to be of significant public health importance in many developing countries. In this review, we aim to summarise studies on HEV with the aim of providing a furthe...

    Authors: Richard Ofori-Asenso and Akosua Adom Agyeman
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:29
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:

  49. To successfully eliminate malaria, an integrated system that includes a number of approaches and interventions—aimed at overcoming the threat of antimalarial drug resistance—is required. Significant progress h...

    Authors: Rashad Abdul-Ghani, Mohammed A. K. Mahdy, John C. Beier and Leonardo K. Basco
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:12
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  50. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. According to official reports from 121 countries across five WHO regions, there were 213 899 newly diagnosed cases in 2014. Although leprosy...

    Authors: Adriana Barbosa de Lima Fonseca, Marise do Vale Simon, Rodrigo Anselmo Cazzaniga, Tatiana Rodrigues de Moura, Roque Pacheco de Almeida, Malcolm S. Duthie, Steven G. Reed and Amelia Ribeiro de Jesus
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:5
    Content type: Scoping Review Published on:
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