The iron distribution and magnetic properties of schistosome eggshells: implications for improved diagnostics.

abstract：:Melioidosis is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacillus, primarily found in soils in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. A recent case of melioidosis in non-endemic Arizona was determined to be the result of locally acquired infection, as the patient had no travel history to endemic regions and...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Engelthaler DM,Bowers J,Schupp JA,Pearson T,Ginther J,Hornstra HM,Dale J,Stewart T,Sunenshine R,Waddell V,Levy C,Gillece J,Price LB,Contente T,Beckstrom-Sternberg SM,Blaney DD,Wagner DM,Mayo M,Currie BJ,Keim P,Tua

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic infections are a major source of human suffering, mortality, and economic loss, but drug development for these diseases has been stymied by the significant expense involved in bringing a drug though clinical trials and to market. Identification of single compounds active against multiple parasitic pathogens ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ehrenkaufer G,Li P,Stebbins EE,Kangussu-Marcolino MM,Debnath A,White CV,Moser MS,DeRisi J,Gisselberg J,Yeh E,Wang SC,Company AH,Monti L,Caffrey CR,Huston CD,Wang B,Singh U

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) comprises closely related species responsible for human and animal tuberculosis (TB). Efficient species determination is useful for epidemiological purposes, especially for the elucidation of the zoonotic contribution. In Algeria, data on MTBC genotypes are largely unknown. In...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Damene H,Tahir D,Diels M,Berber A,Sahraoui N,Rigouts L

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trachoma is a major cause of blindness in Southern Sudan. Its distribution has only been partially established and many communities in need of intervention have therefore not been identified or targeted. The present study aimed to develop a tool to improve targeting of survey and control activities. METHODS...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Clements AC,Kur LW,Gatpan G,Ngondi JM,Emerson PM,Lado M,Sabasio A,Kolaczinski JH

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania cause a large spectrum of clinical manifestations known as Leishmaniases. These diseases are increasingly important public health problems in many countries both within and outside endemic regions. Thus, an accurate differential diagnosis is extremely relevant for ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Zampieri RA,Laranjeira-Silva MF,Muxel SM,Stocco de Lima AC,Shaw JJ,Floeter-Winter LM

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A high proportion of grade 2 disability (visible deformity) is indicative of delay in detection of leprosy and leprosy is one of the major causes of preventable disability. We conducted this study to determine the risk factors associated with disability (G2D and G1D) among adult new leprosy cases and to me...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Srinivas G,Muthuvel T,Lal V,Vaikundanathan K,Schwienhorst-Stich EM,Kasang C

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population suppression through mass-release of Aedes aegypti males carrying dominant-lethal transgenes has been demonstrated in the field. Where population dynamics show negative density-dependence, suppression can be enhanced if lethality occurs after the density-dependent (i.e. larval) stage. Existing mole...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Haghighat-Khah RE,Harvey-Samuel T,Basu S,StJohn O,Scaife S,Verkuijl S,Lovett E,Alphey L

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During Dec-2013, a chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak was first detected in the French-West Indies. Subsequently, the virus dispersed to other Caribbean islands, continental America and many islands in the Pacific Ocean. Previous estimates of the attack rate were based on declaration of clinically suspected ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Gallian P,Leparc-Goffart I,Richard P,Maire F,Flusin O,Djoudi R,Chiaroni J,Charrel R,Tiberghien P,de Lamballerie X

更新日期：2017-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa several international mobile laboratories were deployed to the mainly affected countries Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to provide ebolavirus diagnostic capacity. Additionally, imported cases and small outbreaks in other countries required global preparedness for Ebola...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ellerbrok H,Jacobsen S,Patel P,Rieger T,Eickmann M,Becker S,Günther S,Naidoo D,Schrick L,Keeren K,Targosz A,Teichmann A,Formenty P,Niedrig M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2005, there were outbreaks of febrile polyarthritis due to Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in the Comoros Islands. CHIKV then spread to other islands in the Indian Ocean: La Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles and Madagascar. These outbreaks revealed the lack of surveillance and preparedness of Madagascar and other ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Andriamandimby SF,Heraud JM,Randrianasolo L,Rafisandratantsoa JT,Andriamamonjy S,Richard V

更新日期：2013-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tunisia, cases of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania major are increasing and spreading from the south-west to new areas in the center. To improve the current knowledge on L. major evolution and population dynamics, we performed multi-locus microsatellite typing of human isolates from Tunisian go...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Harrabi M,Bettaieb J,Ghawar W,Toumi A,Zaâtour A,Yazidi R,Chaâbane S,Chalghaf B,Hide M,Bañuls AL,Ben Salah A

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opisthorchis felineus, O. viverrini, and Clonorchis sinensis (family Opisthorchiidae) are parasitic flatworms that pose a serious threat to humans in some countries and cause opisthorchiasis/clonorchiasis. Chronic disease may lead to a risk of carcinogenesis in the biliary ducts. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ovchinnikov VY,Afonnikov DA,Vasiliev GV,Kashina EV,Sripa B,Mordvinov VA,Katokhin AV

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contacts of leprosy patients are at increased risk of developing leprosy and need to be targeted for early diagnosis. Seropositivity to the phenolic glycolipid I (PGL-I) antigen of Mycobacterium leprae has been used to identify contacts who have an increased risk of developing leprosy. In the present study, ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Düppre NC,Camacho LA,Sales AM,Illarramendi X,Nery JA,Sampaio EP,Sarno EN,Bührer-Sékula S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with filarial parasites is associated with T cell hyporesponsiveness, which is thought to be partly mediated by their ability to induce regulatory T cells (Tregs) during human infections. This study investigates the functional capacity of Tregs from different groups of filarial patients to suppress filaria-s...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Wammes LJ,Hamid F,Wiria AE,Wibowo H,Sartono E,Maizels RM,Smits HH,Supali T,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria and schistosomiasis are major parasitic diseases causing morbidity and mortality in the tropics. Epidemiological surveys have revealed coinfection rates of up to 30% among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. To investigate the impact of coinfection of these two parasites on disease epidemiology and pathology, we c...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Moriyasu T,Nakamura R,Deloer S,Senba M,Kubo M,Inoue M,Culleton R,Hamano S

更新日期：2018-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved understanding of the differential diagnosis of endemic treponematoses is needed to inform clinical practice and to ensure the best outcome for a new global initiative for the eradication of yaws, bejel, and pinta. Traditionally, the human treponematoses have been differentiated based upon their clinical manif...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Mitjà O,Šmajs D,Bassat Q

更新日期：2013-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although infection with Trypanosoma cruzi is thought to be lifelong, less than half of those infected develop cardiomyopathy, suggesting greater parasite control or even clearance. Antibody levels appear to correlate with T. cruzi (antigen) load. We test the association between a downwards antibody trajector...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Buss LF,Campos de Oliveira-da Silva L,Moreira CHV,Manuli ER,Sales FC,Morales I,Di Germanio C,de Almeida-Neto C,Bakkour S,Constable P,Pinto-Filho MM,Ribeiro AL,Busch M,Sabino EC

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In French Guiana, from 1984 to 2011, 14 animal rabies cases and 1 human rabies case (2008) were diagnosed. In January 2011, vampire-bat attacks occurred in 2 isolated villages. In mid-January, a medical team from the Cayenne Centre for Anti-Rabies Treatment visited the sites to manage individuals potentially exposed t...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Berger F,Desplanches N,Baillargeaux S,Joubert M,Miller M,Ribadeau-Dumas F,Spiegel A,Bourhy H

更新日期：2013-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are health risks associated with wastewater and fecal sludge management and use, but little is known about the magnitude, particularly in rapidly growing urban settings of low- and middle-income countries. We assessed the point-prevalence and risk factors of intestinal parasite infections in people wit...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Fuhrimann S,Winkler MS,Kabatereine NB,Tukahebwa EM,Halage AA,Rutebemberwa E,Medlicott K,Schindler C,Utzinger J,Cissé G

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with Chagas disease have migrated to cities, where obesity, hypertension and other cardiac risk factors are common. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:The study included adult patients evaluated by the cardiology service in a public hospital in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Data included risk factors for T. cru...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Hidron AI,Gilman RH,Justiniano J,Blackstock AJ,Lafuente C,Selum W,Calderon M,Verastegui M,Ferrufino L,Valencia E,Tornheim JA,O'Neal S,Comer R,Galdos-Cardenas G,Bern C,Chagas Disease Working Group in Peru and Bolivia.

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper presents the development of an agent-based model (ABM) to incorporate climatic drivers which affect tsetse fly (G. m. morsitans) population dynamics, and ultimately disease transmission. The model was used to gain a greater understanding of how tsetse populations fluctuate seasonally, and investig...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Alderton S,Macleod ET,Anderson NE,Palmer G,Machila N,Simuunza M,Welburn SC,Atkinson PM

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica infection may have various clinical manifestations. Nine out of ten E. histolytica infections remain asymptomatic, while the remainder become invasive and cause disease. The most common form of invasive infection is amebic diarrhea and colitis, whereas the most common extra-intestinal disease is ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ali IK,Solaymani-Mohammadi S,Akhter J,Roy S,Gorrini C,Calderaro A,Parker SK,Haque R,Petri WA Jr,Clark CG

更新日期：2008-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, consumes glucose and amino acids depending on the environmental availability of each nutrient during its complex life cycle. For example, amino acids are the major energy and carbon sources in the intracellular stages of the T. cruzi parasite, but their consu...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Crispim M,Damasceno FS,Hernández A,Barisón MJ,Pretto Sauter I,Souza Pavani R,Santos Moura A,Pral EMF,Cortez M,Elias MC,Silber AM

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to rapidly inform polices in the international response to the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), we summarize in this review current evidence on epidemiological and clinical features of the infection, transmission routes, problems of nucleic-acid testing, the epidemiological trend in Chin...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Liang H,Zheng L,Xia H,Tang J

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationships between heterogeneities in host infection and infectiousness (transmission to arthropod vectors) can provide important insights for disease management. Here, we quantify heterogeneities in Leishmania infantum parasite numbers in reservoir and non-reservoir host populations, and relate this ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Courtenay O,Carson C,Calvo-Bado L,Garcez LM,Quinnell RJ

更新日期：2014-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL) is an emerging disease in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Its geographical expansion and the increase in the number of human cases has been linked to dispersion of Lutzomyia longipalpis into urban areas. To produce more accurate risk maps we investigated the geographic d...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Casanova C,Colla-Jacques FE,Hamilton JG,Brazil RP,Shaw JJ

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported the medicinal chemistry re-optimization of a series of compounds derived from the human tyrosine kinase inhibitor, lapatinib, for activity against Plasmodium falciparum. From this same library of compounds, we now report potent compounds against Trypanosoma brucei brucei (which causes human Africa...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ferrins L,Sharma A,Thomas SM,Mehta N,Erath J,Tanghe S,Leed SE,Rodriguez A,Mensa-Wilmot K,Sciotti RJ,Gillingwater K,Pollastri MP

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of several medically relevant arboviruses including dengue virus (DENV) types 1-4. Ae. aegypti transmits DENV by inoculating virus-infected saliva into host skin during probing and feeding. Ae. aegypti saliva contains over one hundred unique proteins and these proteins have diverse ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Conway MJ,Londono-Renteria B,Troupin A,Watson AM,Klimstra WB,Fikrig E,Colpitts TM

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and is transmitted through triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). In the last year, many studies of triatomine gut microbiota have outlined its potential role in modulating vector competence. However, little is known about the microbiota present in the...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Lima MS,Laport MS,Lorosa ES,Jurberg J,Dos Santos KRN,da Silva Neto MAC,Rachid CTCDC,Atella GC

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis was launched in 2000, with mass drug administration (MDA) as the core strategy of the programme. After completing 13 years of operations through 2012 and with MDA in place in 55 of 73 endemic countries, the impact of the MDA programme on microfilaraemia, h...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ramaiah KD,Ottesen EA

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00