Effects of financial incentives for treatment supporters on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Swaziland: a pragmatic interventional study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) is a febrile illness characterized by hemorrhages, and is reported endemic in the Shimoga district in Karnataka state, India. It is caused by the KFD virus (KFDV) of the family Flaviviridae, and is transmitted to monkeys and humans by Haemaphysalis ticks. FINDINGS:We investigat...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Tandale BV,Balakrishnan A,Yadav PD,Marja N,Mourya DT

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 suitable environment for the spread of insect-borne diseases such as malaria. In five identified Myanmar Sp...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Zhang J,Dong JQ,Li JY,Zhang Y,Tian YH,Sun XY,Zhang GY,Li QP,Xu XY,Cai T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States has risen sharply since March 2020. A county health ranking and roadmaps program has been established to identify factors associated with disparity in mobility and mortality of COVID-19 in all counties in the United States. The risk fa...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Tian T,Zhang J,Hu L,Jiang Y,Duan C,Li Z,Wang X,Zhang H

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, several epidemiological studies performed in Onchocerca volvulus-endemic regions have suggested that onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE) may constitute an important but neglected public health problem in many countries where onchocerciasis is still endemic. MAIN TEXT:On October 12-14th 2017, ...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Colebunders R,Mandro M,Njamnshi AK,Boussinesq M,Hotterbeekx A,Kamgno J,O'Neill S,Hopkins A,Suykerbuyk P,Basáñez MG,Post RJ,Pedrique B,Preux PM,Stolk WA,Nutman TB,Idro R

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zika virus, an Aedes mosquito-borne flavivirus, is fast becoming a worldwide public health concern following its suspected association with over 4000 recent cases of microcephaly among newborn infants in Brazil. DISCUSSION:Prior to its emergence in Latin America in 2015-2016, Zika was known to exist at a re...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Gyawali N,Bradbury RS,Taylor-Robinson AW

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is an important zoonotic parasitic disease that causes serious harms to humans and animals. Surveillance and diagnosis play key roles in schistosomiasis control, however, current techniques for surveillance and diagnosis of the disease have limitations. As genome data for parasites are increasing, nove...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： He P,Song LG,Xie H,Liang JY,Yuan DY,Wu ZD,Lv ZY

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis is a major public health issue in China, while its temporal and spatial distribution have not been studied in depth. This study aims to better understand the epidemiology of brucellosis in the mainland of China, by investigating the human, temporal and spatial distribution and clustering characte...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Liang PF,Zhao Y,Zhao JH,Pan DF,Guo ZQ

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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-based techniques or rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for all cases of suspected malaria. In regions where...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Parsel SM,Gustafson SA,Friedlander E,Shnyra AA,Adegbulu AJ,Liu Y,Parrish NM,Jamal SA,Lofthus E,Ayuk L,Awasom C,Henry CJ,McArthur CP

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is one of the most infamous quotes in the history of biomedicine: "It is time to close the book on infectious diseases, and declare the war against pestilence won." Long attributed to the United States Surgeon General, Dr. William H. Stewart (1965-1969), the statement is frequently used as a foil by scien...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Spellberg B,Taylor-Blake B

更新日期：2013-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. FINDINGS:The Sierra Leone-China Friendship Biological Safety La...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Wang Q,Zhou WM,Zhang Y,Wang HY,Du HJ,Nie K,Song JD,Xiao K,Lei WW,Guo JQ,Wei HJ,Cai K,Wang YH,Wu J,Kamara G,Kamara I,Wei Q,Liang MF,Wu GZ,Dong XP

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Control of snail intermediate hosts has been proved to be a fast and efficient approach for interrupting the transmission of schistosomiasis. Some plant extracts have shown obvious molluscicidal activity, and a new compound Luo-Wei, also named tea-seed distilled saponin (TDS), was developed based on the sapo...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Jia TW,Wang W,Sun LP,Lv S,Yang K,Zhang NM,Huang XB,Liu JB,Liu HC,Liu RH,Gawish FA,Habib MR,El-Emam MA,King CH,Zhou XN

更新日期：2019-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) of China is an extensive pastoral and semi-pastoral area, and because of poverty and bad hygiene conditions, Brucella is highly prevalent in this region. In order to adequately prevent this disease in the QTP region it is important to determine the identity of Brucella species...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Ma JY,Wang H,Zhang XF,Xu LQ,Hu GY,Jiang H,Zhao F,Zhao HY,Piao DR,Qin YM,Cui BY,Lin GH

更新日期：2016-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Men who have sex with men (MSM) has become the group with the fastest growing HIV epidemic in China. Since many Chinese MSM are conducting HIV self-testing, we aimed to determine the rate of HIV care seeking after self-testing, examine characteristics of "seekers" compared to "non-seekers," and explore facto...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Ren XL,Wu ZY,Mi GD,McGoogan JM,Rou KM,Zhao Y,Zhang N

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to clean and safe drinking water that is free from pathogenic protozoan parasites, especially Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia that cause gastrointestinal illness in humans, is still an issue in Southeast Asia (SEA). This study is the first attempt to detect the aforementioned protozoan para...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Kumar T,Abd Majid MA,Onichandran S,Jaturas N,Andiappan H,Salibay CC,Tabo HA,Tabo N,Dungca JZ,Tangpong J,Phiriyasamith S,Yuttayong B,Polseela R,Do BN,Sawangjaroen N,Tan TC,Lim YA,Nissapatorn V

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Zambia's estimated incidence of all forms of human tuberculosis (TB) is 707/100,000. High prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) - infection with Mycobacterium bovis - in cattle and the Kafue lechwe antelopes (Kobus leche Kafuensis) has been reported in the Kafue basin. Consumption of unpasteurised milk and meat prod...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Malama S,Muma JB,Godfroid J

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Enabling innovation and access to health technologies remains a key strategy in combating infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, a gulf between paying markets and the endemicity of such diseases has contributed to the dearth of R&D in meeting these public health needs. While the phar...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： So AD,Ruiz-Esparza Q

更新日期：2012-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high epilepsy prevalence has been reported in several onchocerciasis-endemic villages along the Mbam and Sanaga river valleys in Cameroon, including Bilomo and Kelleng. We sought to determine the prevalence of epilepsy in these two villages following more than 13 years of community-directed treatment with ...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Siewe Fodjo JN,Tatah G,Tabah EN,Ngarka L,Nfor LN,Chokote SE,Mengnjo MK,Dema F,Sitouok AT,Nkoro G,Ntone FE,Bissek AZ,Chesnais CB,Boussinesq M,Colebunders R,Njamnshi AK

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission of infectious diseases is a dynamic process determined by multiple factors originating from disease pathogens and/or parasites, vector species, and human populations. These factors interact with each other and demonstrate the intrinsic mechanisms of the disease transmission temporally, spatially, and ...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Xia S,Zhou XN,Liu J

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of an ongoing program that aims to use early detection and timely treatment to improve the control of echinococcosis, especially in younger age groups, we undertook a series of active surveys among Qinghai-Tibetan children in the Qinghai Province of Northwestern China in 2011 and 2012. The significan...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Han XM,Cai QG,Wang W,Wang H,Zhang Q,Wang YS

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is one of the most widespread zoonoses in the world caused by several species of the genus Brucella. The disease, eradicated in many developed countries, is a re-emerging neglected zoonosis endemic in several zones especially in the Mediterranean region, impacting on human health and livestock production. ...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Ducrotoy MJ,Ammary K,Ait Lbacha H,Zouagui Z,Mick V,Prevost L,Bryssinckx W,Welburn SC,Benkirane A

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high prevalence of epilepsy has been observed in onchocerciasis endemic areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With this study we aimed to investigate whether Onchocerca volvulus infection is a risk factor for developing epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic regions in the DRC. METHODS:Between Octo...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Mandro M,Suykerbuyk P,Tepage F,Rossy D,Ngave F,Hasan MN,Hotterbeekx A,Mambandu G,Kashama JM,Laudisoit A,Colebunders R

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidermal parasitic skin diseases (EPSD) occur in most countries and cause a considerable health and economic burden, particularly in the tropics and subtropics. The aim of this study was to assess and analyse peer-reviewed literature on EPSD in humans. The results of this study serve as an indicator of the ...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Sweileh WM

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak (2013-2016), WHO developed a preparedness checklist for its member states. This checklist is currently being applied for the first time on a large and systematic scale to prepare for the cross border importation of the ongoing EVD outbreak in the D...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Olu OO,Lako R,Wamala JF,Ramadan PO,Ryan C,Udenweze I,Berta K,Guyo AG,Sokemawu A,Tukuru M,Gray HJ,Chimbaru A

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increased international efforts to control schistosomiasis using preventive chemotherapy, several challenges still exist in reaching the target populations. Until recently, preschool-aged children had been excluded from the recommended target population for mass drug administration, i.e. primary school childre...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Mduluza T,Mutapi F

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis infection still places a great burden on HIV-infected individuals in China and other developing countries. Knowledge of the survival of HIV-infected patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) would provide important insights for the clinical management of this population, which remains to be wel...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Ji YJ,Liang PP,Shen JY,Sun JJ,Yang JY,Chen J,Qi TK,Wang ZY,Song W,Tang Y,Liu L,Zhang RF,Shen YZ,Lu HZ

更新日期：2018-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Before 2014 (the year of closure of the two largest needle exchange programs in Hungary, which halved the number of available syringes in the country despite increased injecting risk practices) no HIV was reportedly acquired in Hungary among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) who were not also men who had sex w...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Ortutay A,Gyarmathy VA,Marjanek Z,Nagy K,Rácz J,Barcs I

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) has become an emerging infectious disease in China in the last decade. There has been evidence that meteorological factors can influence the HFMD incidence, and understanding the mechanisms can help prevent and control HFMD. METHODS:HFMD incidence data and meteorological...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Qi H,Chen Y,Xu D,Su H,Zhan L,Xu Z,Huang Y,He Q,Hu Y,Lynn H,Zhang Z

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfortunately, the original article [1] contained some errors. The table title of Tables 4, 5, 6, 7 were interchanged by mistake and displayed incorrectly in the article. The correct table titles of Tables 4, 5, 6, 7 can be found below. ...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： M'bondoukwé NP,Kendjo E,Mawili-Mboumba DP,Lengongo JVK,Mbouoronde CO,Nkoghe D,Touré F,Bouyou-Akotet MK

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to achieve the goal of malaria elimination, the Chinese government launched the National Malaria Elimination Programme in 2010. However, as a result of increasing cross-border population movements, the risk of imported malaria cases still exists at the border areas of China, resulting in a potential...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Shi B,Zheng J,Qiu H,Yang GJ,Xia S,Zhou XN

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent development of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) enables elimination programmes to decentralise serological screening services to frontline health facilities. However, patients must still undertake multiple onwards referral steps to either be confirmed or discou...

journal_title：Infectious diseases of poverty

authors： Lee SJ,Palmer JJ

更新日期：2018-08-18 00:00:00