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  1. Following the decline of malaria transmission in many countries and regions, serological parameters have become particularly useful for estimating malaria transmission in low-intensity areas. This study evalua...

    Authors: Mei-Xue Yao, Xiao-Dong Sun, Yu-Hui Gao, Zhi-Bin Cheng, Wei-Wei Deng, Jia-Jia Zhang and Heng Wang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:98
  2. This study explored the factors associated with changes in HIV testing uptake among young women in Tanzania, based on an analysis of data from the 2003–2004 Tanzania HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey, and the 2007–200...

    Authors: Michael J. Mahande, Rune N. Phimemon and Habib O. Ramadhani
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:92
  3. Recently published large randomized controlled trials, START, TEMPRANO and HPTN 052 show the clinical benefit of early initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in HIV-infected persons and in reducing HIV t...

    Authors: Jean Joel R. Bigna, Claudia S. Plottel and Sinata Koulla-Shiro
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:85
  4. Dengue fever (DF) outbreaks present regionally specific epidemiological and clinical characteristics. In certain medium-sized cities (100 000–250 000 inhabitants) of São Paulo State, Brazil, and after reaching...

    Authors: Andréia Moreira dos Santos Carmo, Rodrigo Buzinaro Suzuki, Michele Marcondes Riquena, André Eterovic and Márcia Aparecida Sperança
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:84
  5. Recent upsurge of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) is a major concern in China. Paucity of national-level information regarding the burden and predictors of this progressive epidemic of...

    Authors: Jun-Jie Xu, Wei-Ming Tang, Hua-Chun Zou, Tanmay Mahapatra, Qing-Hai Hu, Geng-Feng Fu, Zhe Wang, Lin Lu, Ming-Hua Zhuang, Xi Chen, Ji-Hua Fu, Yan-Qiu Yu, Jin-Xin Lu, Yong-Jun Jiang, Wen-Qing Geng, Xiao-Xu Han…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:82
  6. Because infections with Schistosoma Haematobium usually peak in childhood, the majority of studies on schistosomiasis have focused on school-aged children. This study aimed to assess the epidemiological and clini...

    Authors: Adama Zida, Janika Briegel, Ibrahim Kabré, Marcel P. Sawadogo, Ibrahim Sangaré, Sanata Bamba, Abdourahamane Yacouba, Amado Ouédraogo, Dieudonné Yonli, François Drabo, Lady Kady Traoré, Ramata Ouédraogo-Traoré, Robert Tinga Guiguemdé and Jürgen Wacker
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:81
  7. In the Yunnan province of China, 18 counties in six prefectures border Myanmar. Due to its particular combination of geographic features, climate conditions, and cultural landscape, the area provides a suitabl...

    Authors: Jun Zhang, Jia-Qiang Dong, Jia-Ying Li, Yue Zhang, Yang-Hui Tian, Xiao-Ying Sun, Guang-Yun Zhang, Qing-Pu Li, Xiao-Yu Xu and Tao Cai
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:80
  8. H7N9 continues to cause human infections and remains a pandemic concern. Understanding the economic impacts of this novel disease is important for making decisions on health resource allocation, including infe...

    Authors: Xiang Huo, Li-Ling Chen, Lei Hong, Lun-Hui Xiang, Fen-Yang Tang, Shan-Hui Chen, Qiang Gao, Cong Chen, Qi-gang Dai, Chuan-Wu Sun, Ke Xu, Wen-Jun Dai, Xian Qi, Chang-Cheng Li, Hui-Yan Yu, Yin Zhou…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:79
  9. Rotavirus was the leading cause of childhood diarrhoea-related hospitalisations and death before the introduction of rotavirus vaccines.

    Authors: Victor S. Santos, Daniella P. Marques, Paulo R. S. Martins-Filho, Luis E. Cuevas and Ricardo Q. Gurgel
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:83
  10. Globally, dengue infections constitute a significant public health burden. In recent decades, Malaysia has become a dengue hyper-endemic country with the co-circulation of the four dengue virus serotypes. The ...

    Authors: Nowrozy Kamar Jahan, Mohtar Pungut Ahmad, Amreeta Dhanoa, Cheong Yuet Meng, Lau Wee Ming, Daniel D. Reidpath, Pascale Allotey, Anuar Zaini, Maude Elvira Phipps, Quek Kia Fatt, Aman Bin Rabu, Rowther Sirajudeen, Ahmad AbdulBasitz Ahmad Fatan, Faidzal Adlee Ghafar, Hamdan Bin Ahmad, Iekhsan Othman…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:76
  11. Implementing effective interventions remain a lot of difficulties along all border regions. The emergence of artemisinin resistance of Plasmodium falciparum strains in the Greater Mekong Subregion is a matter of ...

    Authors: Jian-Wei Xu, Yong Li, Heng-Lin Yang, Jun Zhang, Zai-Xing Zhang, Ya-Ming Yang, Hong-Ning Zhou, Joshua Havumaki, Hua-Xian Li, Hui Liu, Hua Zhou, Xin-Yu Xie, Jia-Xiang Dong, Yue Zhang, Xiao-Ying Sun, Bo Li…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:75
  12. Network analyses have been widely utilized to evaluate large datasets, but have not yet been used to explore factors associated with risk behaviours. In combination with traditional regression analysis, networ...

    Authors: Xin Chen, Lin Zhu, Yan-Heng Zhou, Feng-Liang Liu, Hong Li, Zhi-Hong Yao, Lin Duo, Wei Pang, Mei Ye and Yong-Tang Zheng
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:73
  13. The Ebola virus disease spread rapidly in West Africa in 2014, leading to the loss of thousands of lives. Community engagement was one of the key strategies to interrupt Ebola transmission, and practical commu...

    Authors: Zhong-Jie Li, Wen-Xiao Tu, Xiao-Chun Wang, Guo-Qing Shi, Zun-Dong Yin, Hai-Jun Su, Tao Shen, Da-Peng Zhang, Jian-Dong Li, Shan Lv, Chun-Li Cao, Rui-Qian Xie, Hong-Zhou Lu, Rong-Meng Jiang, Zheng Cao, Zhi-Jie An…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:74
  14. Malaria control and sustainable development are linked, but implementation of ‘multisectoral’ intervention is restricted by a limited understanding of the causal pathways between poverty and malaria. We invest...

    Authors: Lucy S. Tusting, John Rek, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Sarah G. Staedke, Moses R. Kamya, Jorge Cano, Christian Bottomley, Deborah Johnston, Grant Dorsey, Steve W. Lindsay and Jo Lines
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:78
  15. Pathogenic water dwelling protozoa such as Acanthamoeba spp., Hartmannella spp., Naegleria spp., Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp. are often responsible for devastating illnesses especially in children and im...

    Authors: Celsus Sente, Joseph Erume, Irene Naigaga, Julius Mulindwa, Sylvester Ochwo, Phillip Kimuda Magambo, Benigna Gabriela Namara, Charles Drago Kato, George Sebyatika, Kevin Muwonge and Michael Ocaido
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:68
  16. Human schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease of poverty caused by the cercariae of digenetic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. The disease is a major source of morbidity and mortality in 77 low- and mi...

    Authors: Tolulope Ebenezer Atalabi, Umar Lawal and Francis Omowonuola Akinluyi
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:69
  17. Significant progress has been made in the prevention, control, and elimination of human parasitic diseases in China in the past 60 years. However, parasitic diseases of poverty remain major causes of morbidity...

    Authors: Jin-Lei Wang, Ting-Ting Li, Si-Yang Huang, Wei Cong and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:67
  18. Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) among indigenous people have been widely documented in Malaysia, however, the prevalence of these infections remains high. In the past, most studies have focused on speci...

    Authors: Yuee Teng Chin, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, Chun Wie Chong, Cindy Shuan Ju Teh, Ivan Kok Seng Yap, Soo Ching Lee, Mian Zi Tee, Vinnie Wei Yin Siow and Kek Heng Chua
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:77
  19. Lymphatic filariasis (LF), also known as elephantiasis, is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) targeted for elimination through a Global Programme to Eliminate LF (GPELF). Between 2000 and 2014, the GPELF has d...

    Authors: Hugo C. Turner, Alison A. Bettis, Brian K. Chu, Deborah A. McFarland, Pamela J. Hooper, Eric A. Ottesen and Mark H. Bradley
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:54
  20. Clonorchiasis, caused by Clonorchis sinensis (C. sinensis), is an important food-borne parasitic disease and one of the most common zoonoses. Currently, it is estimated that more than 200 million people are at ri...

    Authors: Ze-Li Tang, Yan Huang and Xin-Bing Yu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:71
  21. Artemisinin-based combination therapies are recommended as first-line treatments for uncomplicated falciparum malaria, but there is little evaluation of their efficacy and effects on uncomplicated malaria-asso...

    Authors: Akintunde Sowunmi, Kazeem Akano, Adejumoke I. Ayede, Godwin Ntadom, Elsie O. Adewoye, Bayo Fatunmbi and Temitope Aderoyeje
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:70
  22. The Three Gorges Dam, located in the largest endemic area of schistosomiasis in China, is one of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects to date. Some large-scale hydro projects have resulted in schistosomi...

    Authors: Yi-Biao Zhou, Song Liang, Yue Chen and Qing-Wu Jiang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:63
  23. Human cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) are highly endemic in Tibetan communities of Sichuan Province. Previous research in the region indicated that domestic dog was the major source...

    Authors: Qian Wang, Wen-Jie Yu, Bo Zhong, Jing-Ye Shang, Liang Huang, Alexander Mastin, Renqingpengcuo, Yan Huang, Guang-Jia Zhang, Wei He, Patrick Giraudoux, Wei-Ping Wu and Philip S. Craig
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:60
  24. The Kato-Katz technique is recommended for the diagnosis of helminth infections in epidemiological surveys, drug efficacy studies and monitoring of control interventions. We assessed the comparability of the a...

    Authors: Andrea Leuenberger, Tatu Nassoro, Khadija Said, Lukas Fenner, George Sikalengo, Emilio Letang, Antonio Montresor, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Peter Steinmann, Hanspeter Marti, Jürg Utzinger and Stefanie Knopp
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:58
  25. The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) was created in 1995 to establish community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTi) in order to control onchocerciasis as a public health problem in 20 ...

    Authors: Afework H. Tekle, Honorath G. M. Zouré, Mounkaila Noma, Michel Boussinesq, Luc E. Coffeng, Wilma A. Stolk and Jan H. F. Remme
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:66
  26. The elimination of malaria requires high-quality surveillance data to enable rapid detection and response to individual cases. Evaluation of the performance of a national malaria surveillance system could iden...

    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 2016 5:65

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2017 6:111

  27. Acute diarrhea is a global health problem, resulting in high morbidity and mortality in children. It has been suggested that enteric pathogen co-infections play an important role in gastroenteritis, but most r...

    Authors: Shun-Xian Zhang, Yong-Ming Zhou, Wen Xu, Li-Guang Tian, Jia-Xu Chen, Shao-Hong Chen, Zhi-Sheng Dang, Wen-Peng Gu, Jian-Wen Yin, Emmanuel Serrano and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:64
  28. The outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa between 2014 and 2015 was the largest EDV epidemic since the identification of Ebola virus (EBOV) in 1976, and the countries most strongly affected were...

    Authors: Qin Wang, Wei-Min Zhou, Yong Zhang, Huan-Yu Wang, Hai-Jun Du, Kai Nie, Jing-Dong Song, Kang Xiao, Wen-Wen Lei, Jian-Qiang Guo, He-Jiang Wei, Kun Cai, Yan-Hai Wang, Jiang Wu, Gerard Kamara, Idrissa Kamara…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:62
  29. 2015 was the target year for malaria goals set by the World Health Assembly and other international institutions to reduce malaria incidence and mortality. A review of progress indicates that malaria programme...

    Authors: Richard E. Cibulskis, Pedro Alonso, John Aponte, Maru Aregawi, Amy Barrette, Laurent Bergeron, Cristin A. Fergus, Tessa Knox, Michael Lynch, Edith Patouillard, Silvia Schwarte, Saira Stewart and Ryan Williams
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:61
  30. Avian influenza viruses have caused human infection and posed the pandemic potential. Live poultry markets are considered as a source of human infection with avian influenza viruses. Avian influenza routine su...

    Authors: Ye Zhang, Shu-Mei Zou, Xiao-Dan Li, Li-Bo Dong, Hong Bo, Rong-Bao Gao, Da-Yan Wang and Yue-Long Shu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:59
  31. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for leprosy is administered as one single dose of rifampicin (SDR) to the contacts of newly diagnosed leprosy patients. SDR reduces the risk of developing leprosy among contacts...

    Authors: Liesbeth Mieras, Richard Anthony, Wim van Brakel, Martin W. Bratschi, Jacques van den Broek, Emmanuelle Cambau, Arielle Cavaliero, Christa Kasang, Geethal Perera, Lee Reichman, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Paul Saunderson, Peter Steinmann and Wing Wai Yew
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:46
  32. The recent outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone has been characterized by the World Health Organization as one of the most challenging EVD outbreaks to date. The first confirmed case in Si...

    Authors: Hai Jiang, Guo-Qing Shi, Wen-Xiao Tu, Can-Jun Zheng, Xue-Hui Lai, Xin-Xu Li, Qiang Wei, Mei Li, Li-Quan Deng, Xiang Huo, Ming-Quan Chen, Feng Xu, Long-Jie Ye, Xi-Chen Bai, Tong-Nian Chen, Shao-Hua Yin…
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:53
  33. In China, malaria has been posing a significant economic burden on households. To evaluate malaria economic burden in terms of both direct and indirect costs has its meaning in improving the effectiveness of m...

    Authors: Shang Xia, Jin-Xiang Ma, Duo-Quan Wang, Shi-Zhu Li, David Rollinson, Shui-Sen Zhou and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:50
  34. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge and depression is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease. Current evidence suggests that there is an association between depressive sympto...

    Authors: Jules Kehbila, Cyril Jabea Ekabe, Leopold Ndemnge Aminde, Jean Jacques N. Noubiap, Peter Nde Fon and Gottlieb Lobe Monekosso
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:51
  35. Human prion diseases are a group of transmissible, progressive, and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorders, which include Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, a...

    Authors: Cao Chen and Xiao-Ping Dong
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:47
  36. Tuberculosis (TB) is the notifiable infectious disease with the second highest incidence in the Qinghai province, a province with poor primary health care infrastructure. Understanding the spatial distribution...

    Authors: Hua-Xiang Rao, Xi Zhang, Lei Zhao, Juan Yu, Wen Ren, Xue-Lei Zhang, Yong-Cheng Ma, Yan Shi, Bin-Zhong Ma, Xiang Wang, Zhen Wei, Hua-Fang Wang and Li-Xia Qiu
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:45
  37. Previous studies of HIV-infected patients have shown significant associations between highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and increased blood pressure; however, the mechanisms involved are less clear....

    Authors: Chidozie U. Nduka, Olalekan A. Uthman, Peter K. Kimani, Abraham O. Malu and Saverio Stranges
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:55
  38. In 2014, almost half of the global tuberculosis deaths occurred in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Approximately 21.5 % of the 6 060 742 TB cases (new and relapse) reported to the WHO in 20...

    Authors: Joses Muthuri Kirigia and Rosenabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:43
  39. Dengue is still a substantial vector-borne viral disease threat and burden of public health importance worldwide. This situation is complicated by dengue virus unprecedented resurgence and persistence of varie...

    Authors: Ernest Tambo, Jun-Hu Chen, Xiao-Nong Zhou and Emad I. M. Khater
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:56
  40. Remarkable progress has been made towards the elimination of malaria in China since the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) was launched in 2010. The incidence of locally-acquired malaria cases has d...

    Authors: Tao Hu, Yao-Bao Liu, Shao-Sen Zhang, Zhi-Gui Xia, Shui-Sen Zhou, Jun Yan, Jun Cao and Zhan-Chun Feng
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:52
  41. The peer-reviewed journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty provides a new platform to engage with, and disseminate in an open-access format, science outside traditional disciplinary boundaries. The current piece re...

    Authors: Xia Zhou, Peiling Yap, Marcel Tanner, Robert Bergquist, Jürg Utzinger and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:49
  42. Large numbers of Latin American immigrants recently arrived in Western Europe. Curative and preventive programmes need to take account of their risk of suffering and transmitting imported chronic infections an...

    Authors: Yves Jackson, Lilian Santos, Isabelle Arm-Vernez, Anne Mauris, Hans Wolff, François Chappuis and Laurent Getaz
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:41
  43. Trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), is caused by Trichomonas vaginalis in both men and women. Screening of trichomoniasis is problematic in resource challenged settings as currently available, i...

    Authors: Subash Chandra Sonkar, Kirti Wasnik, Anita Kumar, Pratima Mittal and Daman Saluja
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:42
  44. Tuberculosis (TB) patients face numerous difficulties adhering to the long-term, rigorous TB treatment regimen. Findings on TB patients’ treatment adherence vary across existing literature and official reports...

    Authors: Xun Lei, Ke Huang, Qin Liu, Yong-Feng Jie and Sheng-Lan Tang
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2016 5:38