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Stool biomarkers as measures of enteric pathogen infection in infants from Addis Ababa informal settlements
Frequent enteric infections in children may be an important cause of growth faltering; however, we do not fully understand the …
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever among livestock value chain actors in Kagadi district, Uganda
BACKGROUND: Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a zoonotic tick-borne disease with an increasing number of outbreaks among communities in …
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Identification of the area sampled by traps: A modelling study with tsetse
BACKGROUND: Sampling with traps provides the most common means of investigating the abundance, composition and condition of tsetse populations. It …
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Correction: Antischistosomal, antionchocercal and antitrypanosomal potentials of some Ghanaian traditional medicines and their constituents
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008919.].
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Malian children infected with Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium falciparum display very similar gene expression profiles
Plasmodium parasites caused 241 million cases of malaria and over 600,000 deaths in 2020. Both P. falciparum and P. ovale …
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Exploring potential risk pathways with high risk groups for urban Rift Valley fever virus introduction, transmission, and persistence in two urban centers of Kenya
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic arbovirus that has profound impact on domestic ruminants and can also be …
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Assessment of community perceptions and risk to common zoonotic diseases among communities living at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in Nakuru West, Kenya: A participatory epidemiology approach
BACKGROUND: Zoonoses account for most of the emerging and re-emerging infections in Kenya and in other low to medium-income countries …
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Rodent trapping studies as an overlooked information source for understanding endemic and novel zoonotic spillover
Rodents, a diverse, globally distributed and ecologically important order of mammals are nevertheless important reservoirs of known and novel zoonotic …
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Precision mapping of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among school age children at the coastal region, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Accurate mapping of schistosomiasis (SCH) and soil transmitted helminths (STH) is a prerequisite for effective implementation of the control …
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Occurrence and antimicrobial resistance pattern of E. coli O157:H7 isolated from foods of Bovine origin in Dessie and Kombolcha towns, Ethiopia
E. coli are frequently isolated food-borne pathogens from meat, milk, and their products. Moreover, there has been a significant rise …
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Why the mycetoma patients are still neglected
In 2012, pharmaceutical companies, donors, endemic countries, and nongovernment organisations met in London and signed the London Declaration on Neglected …
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Long-term validation of a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 from March 2020 to October 2021 in Central Africa, Gabon
BACKGROUND: Despite the development of several methods for diagnosing COVID-19, long-term validation of such methods remains limited. In the early …
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New perspectives for fascioliasis in Upper Egypt’s new endemic region: Sociodemographic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of Fasciola in humans, animals, and lymnaeid vectors
BACKGROUND: Fascioliasis is a significant vector-borne disease that has emerged in numerous tropical and subtropical countries causing severe health problems. …
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Evaluating the impact of alternative intervention strategies in accelerating onchocerciasis elimination in an area of persistent transmission in the West Region of Cameroon
BACKGROUND: Alternative strategies are recommended to accelerate onchocerciasis elimination in problematic areas including areas where annual ivermectin (IVM) distributions are …
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A systematic review and global analysis of the seasonal activity of Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) sergenti, the primary vectors of L. tropica
BACKGROUND: Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) sergenti is a widespread proven vector of Leishmania pathogens causing anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL), due to L. …
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A next generation targeted amplicon sequencing method to screen for insecticide resistance mutations in Aedes aegypti populations reveals a rdl mutation in mosquitoes from Cabo Verde
Aedes mosquito vectors transmit many viruses of global health concern, including dengue, chikungunya and Zika. These vector-borne viral diseases have …
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Limited efficacy of repeated praziquantel treatment in Schistosoma mansoni infections as revealed by highly accurate diagnostics, PCR and UCP-LF CAA (RePST trial)
BACKGROUND: Most studies assessing praziquantel (PZQ) efficacy have used relatively insensitive diagnostic methods, thereby overestimating cure rate (CR) and intensity …
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Eumycetoma with pulmonary dissemination an unusual complication: Case series and literature review
Case presentation Case No. 1The patient was a 30-year-old jobless female from Sennar State, Central Sudan.In 2005, she stumbled during …
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Integrated xenosurveillance of Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, Mansonella perstans and Plasmodium falciparum using mosquito carcasses and faeces: A pilot study in Cameroon
BACKGROUND: Community presence of loiasis must be determined before mass drug administration programmes for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis can be …
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Genomics and metagenomics of Madurella mycetomatis, a causative agent of black grain mycetoma in Sudan
Madurella mycetomatis is one of the main causative agents of mycetoma, a debilitating neglected tropical disease. Improved understanding of the …