Environmental methods for dengue vector control - A systematic review and meta-analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The simian parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is a common cause of human malaria in Malaysian Borneo and threatens the prospect of malaria elimination. However, little is known about the emergence of P. knowlesi, particularly in Sabah. We reviewed Sabah Department of Health records to investigate the trend of each...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： William T,Rahman HA,Jelip J,Ibrahim MY,Menon J,Grigg MJ,Yeo TW,Anstey NM,Barber BE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main objective of the study was to determine the degree of sensitization to Anisakis spp. antigens in healthy coastal population of Dalmatia given the high thermally unprocessed fish intake rate present in this area, suggested as a significant risk factor for anisakiasis. We performed a monocenter, cross...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Mladineo I,Poljak V,Martínez-Sernández V,Ubeira FM

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) cause acute and persistent diarrhoea worldwide, but little is known about their epidemiology in Mexico. We determined the prevalence of bacterial enteropathogens in 831 children with acute diarrhoea over a four-year period in Yucatan, Mexico. Six DEC supplementary virulence genes (...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Patzi-Vargas S,Zaidi MB,Perez-Martinez I,León-Cen M,Michel-Ayala A,Chaussabel D,Estrada-Garcia T

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmaniasis is a serious multifactorial parasitic disease with limited treatment options. Current chemotherapy is mainly consisted of drugs with serious drawbacks such as toxicity, variable efficacy and resistance. Alternative bioactive phytocompounds may provide a promising source for discovering new anti...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Karampetsou K,Koutsoni OS,Gogou G,Angelis A,Skaltsounis LA,Dotsika E

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is distributed worldwide, extending from China to the Middle East and from Mediterranean countries to the sub-Saharan Africa and South America. According to WHO, one million people around the world are suffering from CE with an estimated burden of 183,573 DALYs. The annual monetary burden of...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Borhani M,Fathi S,Lahmar S,Ahmed H,Abdulhameed MF,Fasihi Harandi M

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic mycoses are systemic fungal infections. Histoplasmosis is endemic in all temperate areas of the world; coccidioidomycosis and paracoccidioidomycosis are only present in the American continent. These pathogens are not present in Spain, but in the last years there has been an increase of reported cases due to mi...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Molina-Morant D,Sánchez-Montalvá A,Salvador F,Sao-Avilés A,Molina I

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 300,000 persons in the United States (US) are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan that causes Chagas disease, but less than 1% are estimated to have received antiparasitic treatment. Benznidazole was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of T. cruzi infection in 2...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Yoshioka K,Manne-Goehler J,Maguire JH,Reich MR

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:/ BACKGROUND:Dengue is the most important arthropod borne viral disease worldwide in terms of morbidity and mortality and is caused by any of the four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV-1 to 4). Brazil is responsible for approximately 80% of dengue cases in the Americas, and since the introduction of dengue in...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Lima Mda R,Nogueira RM,Schatzmayr HG,de Filippis AM,Limonta D,dos Santos FB

更新日期：2011-05-03 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：BACKGROUND:Mosquito salivary proteins (MSPs) modulate the host immune response, leading to enhancement of arboviral infections. Identification of proteins in saliva responsible for immunomodulation and counteracting their effects on host immune response is a potential strategy to protect against arboviral disease. We s...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Reagan KL,Machain-Williams C,Wang T,Blair CD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmania species are parasitic protozoa that have a tightly controlled cell cycle, regulated by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). Cdc2-related kinase 3 (CRK3), an essential CDK in Leishmania and functional orthologue of human CDK1, can form an active protein kinase complex with Leishmania cyclins CYCA and C...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Walker RG,Thomson G,Malone K,Nowicki MW,Brown E,Blake DG,Turner NJ,Walkinshaw MD,Grant KM,Mottram JC

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since cholera appeared in Africa during the 1970s, cases have been reported on the continent every year. In Sub-Saharan Africa, cholera outbreaks primarily cluster at certain hotspots including the African Great Lakes Region and West Africa. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:In this study, we applied MLVA (Mul...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Moore S,Miwanda B,Sadji AY,Thefenne H,Jeddi F,Rebaudet S,de Boeck H,Bidjada B,Depina JJ,Bompangue D,Abedi AA,Koivogui L,Keita S,Garnotel E,Plisnier PD,Ruimy R,Thomson N,Muyembe JJ,Piarroux R

更新日期：2015-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) is a major global health concern that often causes bloodstream infections in areas of the world affected by malnutrition and comorbidities such as HIV and malaria. Developing a strategy to control the emergence and spread of highly invasive and antimicrobial resistant NTS isolates requir...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Kubicek-Sutherland JZ,Xie G,Shakya M,Dighe PK,Jacobs LL,Daligault H,Davenport K,Stromberg LR,Stromberg ZR,Cheng Q,Kempaiah P,Ong'echa JM,Otieno V,Raballah E,Anyona S,Ouma C,Chain PSG,Perkins DJ,Mukundan H,McMahon BH

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noma is a gangrenous disease that leads to severe disfigurement of the face with high morbidity and mortality, but its etiology remains unknown. Young children in developing countries are almost exclusively affected. The purpose of the study was to record and compare bacterial diversity in oral samples from ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Bolivar I,Whiteson K,Stadelmann B,Baratti-Mayer D,Gizard Y,Mombelli A,Pittet D,Schrenzel J,Geneva Study Group on Noma (GESNOMA).

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) that recently caused outbreaks in the Americas. Over the past 60 years, this virus has been observed circulating among African, Asian, and Pacific Island populations, but little attention has been paid by the scientific community until the discovery that large-...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Epelboin Y,Talaga S,Epelboin L,Dusfour I

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human African trypanosomiasis is a severely neglected vector-borne disease that is always fatal if untreated. In Tanzania it is highly focalised and of major socio-economic and public health importance in affected communities. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to estimate the public health burden of rhodesiense H...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Matemba LE,Fèvre EM,Kibona SN,Picozzi K,Cleaveland S,Shaw AP,Welburn SC

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) borreliosis is caused by Borrelia recurrentis, and it is a deadly although treatable disease that is endemic in the Horn of Africa but has epidemic potential. Research on LBRF has been severely hampered because successful infection with B. recurrentis has been achieved only in primat...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Larsson C,Lundqvist J,van Rooijen N,Bergström S

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The new world arenavirus Junín virus (JUNV) is the causative agent of Argentine hemorrhagic fever, a lethal human infectious disease. Adult laboratory mice are generally resistant to peripheral infection by JUNV. The mechanism underlying the mouse resistance to JUNV infection is largely unknown. We have reported that ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Huang C,Walker AG,Grant AM,Kolokoltsova OA,Yun NE,Seregin AV,Paessler S

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loiasis is a filarial infection endemic in the rainforest zone of west and central Africa particularly in Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Repeated treatments with ivermectin have been delivered using the annual community directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) appr...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Wanji S,Chounna Ndongmo WP,Fombad FF,Kengne-Ouafo JA,Njouendou AJ,Longang Tchounkeu YF,Koudou B,Bockarie M,Fobi G,Roungou JB,Enyong PA

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and helminth infections elicit antagonistic immune effector functions and are co-endemic in several regions of the world. We therefore hypothesized that helminth infection may influence Mtb-specific T-cell immune responses. We evaluated the cytokine profile of Mtb-specific T cells in 7...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Amelio P,Portevin D,Reither K,Mhimbira F,Mpina M,Tumbo A,Nickel B,Marti H,Knopp S,Ding S,Penn-Nicholson A,Darboe F,Ohmiti K,Scriba TJ,Pantaleo G,Daubenberger C,Perreau M

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Brazilian Amazon, clinical and epidemiological frameworks of Chagas disease are very dissimilar in relation to the endemic classical areas of transmission, possibly due to genetic and biological characteristics of the circulating Trypanosoma cruzi stocks. Twenty six T. cruzi stocks from Western Amazon...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Monteiro WM,Margioto Teston AP,Gruendling AP,dos Reis D,Gomes ML,de Araújo SM,Bahia MT,Magalhães LK,de Oliveira Guerra JA,Silveira H,Toledo MJ,Vale Barbosa Md

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loiasis, a filarial infection caused by Loa loa usually thought to cause relatively minor morbidity, can cause serious and often fatal reactions in patients carrying very high levels of circulating Loa loa microfilariae (mf) following administration of microfilaricidal drugs. An experimental model of this co...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Wanji S,Eyong EE,Tendongfor N,Ngwa C,Esuka E,Kengne-Ouafo A,Datchoua-Poutcheu F,Enyong P,Hopkins A,Mackenzie CD

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Third-stage larvae (L3) of the canine hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, undergo arrested development preceding transmission to a host. Many of the mRNAs up-regulated at this stage are likely to encode proteins that facilitate the transition from a free-living to a parasitic larva. The initial phase of mammalian...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Datu BJ,Gasser RB,Nagaraj SH,Ong EK,O'Donoghue P,McInnes R,Ranganathan S,Loukas A

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression and variation of pathology during infections can be due to components from both host or pathogen, and/or the interaction between them. The influence of host genetic variation on disease pathology during infections with trypanosomes has been well studied in recent years, but the role of parasite genetic...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Morrison LJ,Tait A,McLellan S,Sweeney L,Turner CM,MacLeod A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolaviruses pose a substantial threat to wildlife populations and to public health in Africa. Evolutionary analyses of virus genome sequences can contribute significantly to elucidate the origin of new outbreaks, which can help guide surveillance efforts. The reconstructed between-outbreak evolutionary history of Zai...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Vrancken B,Wawina-Bokalanga T,Vanmechelen B,Martí-Carreras J,Carroll MW,Nsio J,Kapetshi J,Makiala-Mandanda S,Muyembe-Tamfum JJ,Baele G,Vermeire K,Vergote V,Ahuka-Mundeke S,Maes P

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, early initiation of antiretroviral therapy for HIV led to a reduction in the estimated mortality from cryptococcal meningitis (CCM) from 624,700 in 2009 to 181,100 in 2014. However, CCM remains one of the leading causes of mortality among HIV infected patients especially in sub-Saharan Africa where 75% of th...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Kitonsa J,Nsubuga R,Mayanja Y,Kiwanuka J,Nikweri Y,Onyango M,Anywaine Z,Ggayi AB,Kibengo FM,Kaleebu P,Day J

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005006.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Tadesse G

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis is hypoendemic in Mediterranean countries, where it is caused by the flagellate protozoan Leishmania infantum. VL cases in this area account for 5%-6% of the global burden. Cases of Leishmania/HIV coinfection have been reported in the Mediterranean region, mainly in France, Italy, Portugal, and ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Monge-Maillo B,Norman FF,Cruz I,Alvar J,López-Vélez R

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We conducted a systematic literature review with indirect comparison of studies evaluating therapeutic efficacy and toxicity associated to visceral leishmaniasis (VL) therapy among HIV infected individuals. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS:The outcomes of interest were clinical and parasitological cure, mortality, ...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： Cota GF,de Sousa MR,Fereguetti TO,Rabello A

更新日期：2013-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a persistent infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that still affects over 200,000 new patients annually. The host genetic background is an important risk factor for leprosy susceptibility and the PARK2 gene is a replicated leprosy susceptibility candidate gene. The protein product of PARK2, Par...

journal_title：PLoS neglected tropical diseases

authors： de Léséleuc L,Orlova M,Cobat A,Girard M,Huong NT,Ba NN,Thuc NV,Truman R,Spencer JS,Adams L,Thai VH,Alcais A,Schurr E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00