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Barriers and facilitators to programmatic mass drug administration in persistent schistosomiasis hotspot communities: An ethnographic study along Lake Albert, midwestern Uganda
BACKGROUND: The WHO Neglected Tropical Disease Roadmap for 2021-2030 includes the goal of eliminating schistosomiasis as a public health problem …
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A High Resolution Melting Analysis (HRM) PCR assay for the detection and identification of Old World Leishmania species
BACKGROUND: Cutaneous Leishmaniases (CL), highly endemic in Africa and Mediterranean region, are caused by different Leishmania parasite species. Accurate species …
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Challenges and motivating factors for integrating geostatistical models in targeted schistosomiasis control: A qualitative case study in Northwestern Tanzania
INTRODUCTION: To address problems of over- and under-treatment with preventive chemotherapy resulting in ongoing transmission of schistosomiasis, the World Health …
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Factors associated with Onchocerca volvulus transmission after 20 years of community treatment with ivermectin in savanah and forest areas in Central African Republic: A Cross Sectional Study
The Central African Republic has endemic onchocerciasis in 20 health districts in savannah and forest areas. The country organised a …
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African schistosomes in small mammal communities: Perspectives from a spatio-temporal survey in the vicinity of Lake Guiers, Senegal
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of public health significance. In view of its elimination as a public health problem …
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Morbidity associated with schistosomiasis in adult population of Chókwè district, Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of schistosomiasis, although there is little data on the …
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Sero-prevalence of human brucellosis and associated factors among febrile patients attending Moyale Primary Hospital, Southern Ethiopia, 2023: Evidences from pastoralist community
BACKGROUND: Brucellosis is a neglected zoonotic disease often contracted through contact with animals and consumption of unpasteurized dairy products. Despite …
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Electroencephalography in emerging viral infections: Lessons learned from implementing an EEG unit in a Lassa fever isolation ward in Nigeria
Electroencephalography (EEG) has been used for almost a century in well-equipped medical centers to facilitate the diagnosis of epilepsy and …
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High prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in slaughtered pigs in Rwanda: An abattoir survey
Porcine cysticercosis (PC) is an important public health problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, but limited information is available on the …
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An integrated active case detection and management of skin NTDs in yaws endemic health districts in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
BACKGROUND: Integrated approaches to mapping skin Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) may be cost-effective way to guide decisions on resource mobilization. …
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A preliminary indication that HLA-A*03:01 may be associated with visceral leishmaniasis development in people living with HIV in Ethiopia
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection is a major challenge for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) control, particularly in Ethiopia where the incidence …
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Persistent transmission of soil-transmitted helminths despite 16 years of uninterrupted Mebendazole- and ivermectin-based preventive chemotherapy in the Lomie Health District (East Region, Cameroon): The emergency of complementary control strategies
BACKGROUND: The control of the Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STH) infections primarily relies on the school-based Preventive Chemotherapy (PCT) with mebendazole. Given …
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Improving health behaviours and attitudes around podoconiosis in Northern Western Ethiopia: Implementation and intervention effectiveness
BACKGROUND: Assessing how interventions are implemented is essential to understanding why interventions may or may not achieve their intended outcomes. …
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Communities’ knowledge, perceptions and preventive practices on soil-transmitted helminthes in Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia: Formative mixed study
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminthes (STH) infections are one of the most common neglected tropical diseases. It has become one of a …
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Development of new real-time PCR assays for detection and species differentiation of Plasmodium ovale
BACKGROUND: The parasite species Plasmodium ovalecurtisi (P. ovalecurtisi) and Plasmodium ovalewallikeri (P. ovalewallikeri), formerly known as Plasmodium ovale, are endemic …
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Prevalence of onchocerciasis and epilepsy in a Tanzanian region after a prolonged community-directed treatment with ivermectin
INTRODUCTION: Epidemiological evidence suggests that Onchocerca volvulus is associated with epilepsy, although the exact pathophysiological mechanism is unknown. Mahenge is …
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Antibodies against medically relevant arthropod-borne viruses in the ubiquitous African rodent Mastomys natalensis
Over the past decades, the number of arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) outbreaks has increased worldwide. Knowledge regarding the sylvatic cycle (i.e., …
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Breaking the silence of female genital schistosomiasis in Ghana’s health system: A case of health workers within the FAST project
BACKGROUND: Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) remains a critical and yet neglected topics in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), significantly affecting the …
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Exposure patterns and the risk factors of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus amongst humans, livestock and selected wild animals at the human/livestock/wildlife interface in Isiolo County, upper eastern Kenya
Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne zoonotic disease caused by CCHF virus (CCHFV). The disease has a complex …
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Comparative analysis of the microbiota of sand fly vectors of Leishmania major and L. tropica in a mixed focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in southeast Tunisia; ecotype shapes the bacterial community structure
Phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of the protozoan parasite Leishmania spp. Although the intestinal microbiota is involved in a wide …