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Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities
BACKGROUND: Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children in rural communities in tropical …
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Hookworm infection is associated with decreased CD4+ T cell counts in HIV-infected adult Ugandans
Most studies evaluating epidemiologic relationships between helminths and HIV have been conducted in the pre-ART era, and evidence of the …
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The effect of current Schistosoma mansoni infection on the immunogenicity of a candidate TB vaccine, MVA85A, in BCG-vaccinated adolescents: An open-label trial
INTRODUCTION: Helminth infection may affect vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy. Adolescents, a target population for tuberculosis booster vaccines, often have a …
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Improving drug delivery strategies for lymphatic filariasis elimination in urban areas in Ghana
The Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) advocates for the treatment of entire endemic communities, in order to achieve …
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Rapid deployment of a mobile biosafety level-3 laboratory in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic
BACKGROUND: Ebola virus emerged in West Africa in December 2013. The high population mobility and poor public health infrastructure in …
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Optimising cluster survey design for planning schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy
BACKGROUND: The cornerstone of current schistosomiasis control programmes is delivery of praziquantel to at-risk populations. Such preventive chemotherapy requires accurate …
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Haemophilus ducreyi DNA is detectable on the skin of asymptomatic children, flies and fomites in villages of Papua New Guinea
BACKGROUND: Haemophilus ducreyi and Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue are major causes of leg ulcers in children in Africa and the …
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Different features of Vδ2 T and NK cells in fatal and non-fatal human Ebola infections
BACKGROUND: Human Ebola infection is characterized by a paralysis of the immune system. A signature of αβ T cells in …
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Associations between selective attention and soil-transmitted helminth infections, socioeconomic status, and physical fitness in disadvantaged children in Port Elizabeth, South Africa: An observational study
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomically deprived children are at increased risk of ill-health associated with sedentary behavior, malnutrition, and helminth infection. The resulting …
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Awareness and attitudes towards anthrax and meat consumption practices among affected communities in Zambia: A mixed methods approach
BACKGROUND: In Zambia, human anthrax cases often occur following cases of animal anthrax. Human behaviour has been implicated in this …
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Monitoring the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis: Update to 2014
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has targeted the elimination of Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) 'as a public health problem' …
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Rapid mapping of urinary schistosomiasis: An appraisal of the diagnostic efficacy of some questionnaire-based indices among high school students in Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa, over 200 million individuals are estimated to be infected with urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis. In a …
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Viral hemorrhagic fevers in the Tihamah region of the western Arabian Peninsula
Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) refers to a group of diseases characterized by an acute febrile syndrome with hemorrhagic manifestations and …
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Genetic diversity and population structure of the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (Diptera: Glossinidae) in Northern Uganda: Implications for vector control
Uganda is the only country where the chronic and acute forms of human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness both …
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Defining the next generation of Plasmodium vivax diagnostic tests for control and elimination: Target product profiles
The global prevalence of malaria has decreased over the past fifteen years, but similar gains have not been realized against …
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Poor performance of the rapid test for human brucellosis in health facilities in Kenya
Human brucellosis is considered to be an important but typically under-diagnosed cause of febrile illness in many low and middle-income …
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Detecting and enumerating soil-transmitted helminth eggs in soil: New method development and results from field testing in Kenya and Bangladesh
Globally, about 1.5 billion people are infected with at least one species of soil-transmitted helminth (STH). Soil is a critical …
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A low technology emanator treated with the volatile pyrethroid transfluthrin confers long term protection against outdoor biting vectors of lymphatic filariasis, arboviruses and malaria
BACKGROUND: The vapor phase of the volatile pyrethroid transfluthrin incapacitates mosquitoes and prevents them from feeding. Although existing emanator products …
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Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models
Recent epidemics of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have heightened the need to understand the seasonal and geographic range of transmission …
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Evaluation of radiation sensitivity and mating performance of Glossina brevipalpis males
BACKGROUND: Area-wide integrated pest management strategies that include a sterile insect technique component have been successfully used to eradicate tsetse …