Risk factors for hospitalization of patients with chikungunya virus infection at sentinel hospitals in Puerto Rico.

abstract：:Coral snakes of the genus Micrurus have a high diversity and wide distribution in the Americas. Despite envenomings by these animals being uncommon, accidents are often severe and may result in death. Producing an antivenom to treat these envenomings has been challenging since coral snakes are difficult to catch, prod...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Castillo-Beltrán MC,Hurtado-Gómez JP,Corredor-Espinel V,Ruiz-Gómez FJ

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease and its distribution, in space and time, can be influenced by environmental factors such as rivers, elevation, slope, land surface temperature, land use/cover and rainfall. The aim of this study is to identify the areas with suitable conditions for schistosomiasis transmission on...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ajakaye OG,Adedeji OI,Ajayi PO

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emerging information technologies present new opportunities to reduce the burden of malaria, dengue and other infectious diseases. For example, use of a data management system software package can help disease control programs to better manage and analyze their data, and thus enhances their ability to carry ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Eisen L,Coleman M,Lozano-Fuentes S,McEachen N,Orlans M,Coleman M

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue appears to be endemic in Africa with a number of reported outbreaks. In February 2013, several individuals with dengue-like illnesses and negative malaria blood smears were identified in Mombasa, Kenya. Dengue was laboratory confirmed and an investigation was conducted to estimate the magnitude of local transmi...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ellis EM,Neatherlin JC,Delorey M,Ochieng M,Mohamed AH,Mogeni DO,Hunsperger E,Patta S,Gikunju S,Waiboic L,Fields B,Ofula V,Konongoi SL,Torres-Velasquez B,Marano N,Sang R,Margolis HS,Montgomery JM,Tomashek KM

更新日期：2015-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We identified the species of Leishmania isolated from traveling and migrant patients attended in a reference center from 2000 to 2015, we performed the georeferencing of these species in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) state and we had knowledge about the human flows between the likely location of infection (LLI) and pl...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Miranda LFC,Pacheco RDS,Pimentel MIF,Salgueiro MM,da Silva AF,de Mello CX,Barros JHDS,Valete-Rosalino CM,Madeira MF,Xavier SCDC,Schubach AO

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections constitute major public health problems in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we examined the functional significance of such polyparasite infections in anemia and undernutrition in Rwandan individuals. METHODS:Three poly...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Mupfasoni D,Karibushi B,Koukounari A,Ruberanziza E,Kaberuka T,Kramer MH,Mukabayire O,Kabera M,Nizeyimana V,Deville MA,Ruxin J,Webster JP,Fenwick A

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In South Asia, hundreds of millions of people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura). However, high-resolution risk profiles and the estimated number of people infected have yet to be determined. In turn, such information will assist control pro...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Lai YS,Biedermann P,Shrestha A,Chammartin F,À Porta N,Montresor A,Mistry NF,Utzinger J,Vounatsou P

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The physiopathology of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), a severe form of Dengue Fever, is poorly understood. We are unable to identify patients likely to progress to DHF for closer monitoring and early intervention during epidemics, so most cases are sent home. This study explored whether patients with select...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Figueiredo MA,Rodrigues LC,Barreto ML,Lima JW,Costa MC,Morato V,Blanton R,Vasconcelos PF,Nunes MR,Teixeira MG

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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:The role of the immune response in influencing leptospirosis clinical outcomes is not yet well understood. We hypothesized that acute-phase serum cytokine responses may play a role in disease progression, risk for death, and severe pulmonary hemorrhage syndrome (SPHS). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:We perf...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Reis EA,Hagan JE,Ribeiro GS,Teixeira-Carvalho A,Martins-Filho OA,Montgomery RR,Shaw AC,Ko AI,Reis MG

更新日期：2013-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), the causative agent for the fatal life-threatening infectious disease, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), was first identified in the central and eastern regions of China. Although the viral RNA was detected in free-living and parasi...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Jiao Y,Qi X,Liu D,Zeng X,Han Y,Guo X,Shi Z,Wang H,Zhou M

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Qinghai-Tibet plateau is a natural plague focus and is the largest such focus in China. In this area, while Marmota himalayana is the primary host, a total of 18 human plague outbreaks associated with Tibetan sheep (78 cases with 47 deaths) have been reported on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau since 1956. All of the ind...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Dai R,Wei B,Xiong H,Yang X,Peng Y,He J,Jin J,Wang Y,Zha X,Zhang Z,Liang Y,Zhang Q,Xu J,Wang Z,Li W

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmania development in the sand fly gut leads to highly infective forms called metacyclic promastigotes. This process can be routinely mimicked in culture. Gene expression-profiling studies by transcriptome analysis have been performed with the aim of studying promastigote forms in the sand fly gut, as we...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Alcolea PJ,Alonso A,Molina R,Jiménez M,Myler PJ,Larraga V

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei are unicellular parasites endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa that cause fatal disease in humans and animals. Infection with these parasites is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly vector, and parasites living extracellularly in the blood of infected animals evade the host immune system through antigenic ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Walsh ME,Naudzius EM,Diaz SJ,Wismar TW,Martchenko Shilman M,Schulz D

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Plasmodium spp. and helminths are co-endemic in many parts of the tropics; hence, co-infection is a common phenomenon. Interactions between Plasmodium and helminth infections may alter the host's immune response and susceptibility and thus impact on morbidity. There is little information on the direction a...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Hürlimann E,Houngbedji CA,Yapi RB,N'Dri PB,Silué KD,Ouattara M,Utzinger J,N'Goran EK,Raso G

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Global distribution patterns of Cladophialophora carrionii, agent of human chromoblastomycosis in arid climates of Africa, Asia, Australia, Central-and South-America, were compared with similar data of the vicarious Fonsecaea spp., agents of the disease in tropical rain forests. Population diversities among 73 C. carr...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Deng S,Tsui CK,Gerrits van den Ende AH,Yang L,Najafzadeh MJ,Badali H,Li R,Hagen F,Meis JF,Sun J,Dolatabadi S,Papierok B,Pan W,de Hoog GS,Liao W

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A family of hydrophilic acylated surface (HASP) proteins, containing extensive and variant amino acid repeats, is expressed at the plasma membrane in infective extracellular (metacyclic) and intracellular (amastigote) stages of Old World Leishmania species. While HASPs are antigenic in the host and can induc...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Depledge DP,MacLean LM,Hodgkinson MR,Smith BA,Jackson AP,Ma S,Uliana SR,Smith DF

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Americas, leishmaniasis is endemic in 18 countries, and from 2001 through 2015, 17 countries reported 843,931 cases of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, and 12 countries reported 52,176 cases of visceral leishmaniasis. A Regional Information System (SisLeish) was created in order to provide k...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Maia-Elkhoury ANS,O B Valadas SY,Puppim-Buzanovsky L,Rocha F,Sanchez-Vazquez MJ

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sensitivity and specificity of two in-house MAC-ELISA assays were tested and compared with the performance of commercially-available CTK lateral flow rapid test and EUROIMMUN IFA assays for the detection of anti-Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) IgM. Each MAC-ELISA assay used a whole virus-based antigen derived ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Yap G,Pok KY,Lai YL,Hapuarachchi HC,Chow A,Leo YS,Tan LK,Ng LC

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Hookworm infection is among the major causes of anaemia in poor communities, but its importance in causing maternal anaemia is poorly understood, and this has hampered effective lobbying for the inclusion of anthelmintic treatment in maternal health packages. We sought to review existing evide...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Brooker S,Hotez PJ,Bundy DA

更新日期：2008-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne rickettsioses are world-spreading infectious zoonoses. Ticks serve as reservoirs and vectors for Rickettsia and play a key role in transmission of rickettsioses. Most of the Chinese rickettsiosis patients are reported from Northeastern China but the distribution of tick and tick-borne Rickettsia species in ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Shao JW,Zhang XL,Li WJ,Huang HL,Yan J

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis is based on a weak strength of evidence from very few clinical trials and some case series reports. Current treatment guidelines recommend pentamidine isethionate or meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime) as the first-line choices. Both are...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Francesconi VA,Francesconi F,Ramasawmy R,Romero GAS,Alecrim MDGC

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Singapore experiences endemic dengue, with 2013 being the largest outbreak year known to date, culminating in 22,170 cases. Given the limited resources available, and that vector control is the key approach for prevention in Singapore, it is important that public health professionals know where resources sho...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Ong J,Liu X,Rajarethinam J,Kok SY,Liang S,Tang CS,Cook AR,Ng LC,Yap G

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2007, a novel bunyavirus was found in Henan Province, China and named fever, thrombocytopenia and leukocytopenia syndrome virus (FTLSV); since then, FTLSV has been found in ticks and animals in many Chinese provinces. Human-to-human transmission has been documented, indicating that FTLSV should be conside...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Huang X,Liu L,Du Y,Wu W,Wang H,Su J,Tang X,Liu Q,Yang Y,Jiang Y,Chen W,Xu B

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is an efficient vector of arboviruses and a convenient model system for laboratory research. Extensive linkage mapping of morphological and molecular markers localized a number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) related to the mosquito's ability to transmit various pa...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Timoshevskiy VA,Severson DW,Debruyn BS,Black WC,Sharakhov IV,Sharakhova MV

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Yaws is endemic in Ghana. The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new global eradication campaign based on total community mass treatment with azithromycin. Achieving high coverage of mass treatment will be fundamental to the success of this new strategy; coverage is dependent, in part, on appro...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Marks M,Kwakye-Maclean C,Doherty R,Adwere P,Aziz Abdulai A,Duah F,Ohene SA,Mitja O,Oguti B,Solomon AW,Mabey DCW,Adu-Sarkodie Y,Asiedu K,Ackumey MM

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue fever is a major public health concern in many parts of the tropics and subtropics. The first dengue vaccine has already been licensed in six countries. Given the growing interests in the effective use of the vaccine, it is critical to understand the economic burden of dengue fever to guide decision-m...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Lee JS,Mogasale V,Lim JK,Carabali M,Lee KS,Sirivichayakul C,Dang DA,Palencia-Florez DC,Nguyen THA,Riewpaiboon A,Chanthavanich P,Villar L,Maskery BA,Farlow A

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A budget proposal to stop the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding in surveillance and research for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and West Nile virus has the potential to leave the country ill-prepared to handle new emerging diseases and manage existing ones. In order to demonstrate t...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Vazquez-Prokopec GM,Chaves LF,Ritchie SA,Davis J,Kitron U

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：AUTHOR SUMMARY:Designing and implementing effective programs for infectious disease control requires complex decision-making, informed by an understanding of the diseases, the types of disease interventions and control measures available, and the disease-relevant characteristics of the local community. Though disease m...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Standley CJ,Graeden E,Kerr J,Sorrell EM,Katz R

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00