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Evaluation of Auramine O staining and conventional PCR for leprosy diagnosis: A comparative cross-sectional study from Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of leprosy mainly relies on clinical examination due to the inconsistent sensitivity and poor reproducibility of the current …
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Improving systematic rabies surveillance in Cameroon: A pilot initiative and results for 2014-2016
Canine rabies is endemic in Cameroon, but human rabies exposures and cases are likely underreported because of inadequate surveillance. In …
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Comparison of individual and pooled diagnostic examination strategies during the national mapping of soil-transmitted helminths and Schistosoma mansoni in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Laboratory-based studies have highlighted that pooling stool and urine samples can reduce costs and diagnostic burden without a negative …
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Bolstering human rabies surveillance in Africa is crucial to eliminating canine-mediated rabies
Canine rabies has been controlled or eliminated in most developed countries through mass dog vaccination programs. However, the transmission of …
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Contact tracing performance during the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, 2014-2015
BACKGROUND: During the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in Liberia, contact tracing was implemented to rapidly detect new cases and …
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Distribution and breeding sites of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in 32 urban/peri-urban districts of Mozambique: implication for assessing the risk of arbovirus outbreaks
BACKGROUND: Aedes-borne arboviruses have emerged as an important public health problem worldwide and, in Mozambique, the number of cases and …
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Improving clinical and epidemiological predictors of Buruli ulcer
BACKGROUND: Buruli ulcer (BU) is a chronic necrotizing infectious skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. The treatment with BU-specific antibiotics …
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Pre-post effects of a tetanus care protocol implementation in a sub-Saharan African intensive care unit
BACKGROUND: Tetanus is a vaccine-preventable, neglected disease that is life threatening if acquired and occurs most frequently in regions where …
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Description of the first sleeping sickness case diagnosed in Burkina Faso since two decades
Burkina Faso belongs to a group of countries in which human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, is …
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Risk factors for diagnosed noma in northwest Nigeria: A case-control study, 2017
BACKGROUND: Noma (cancrum oris), a neglected tropical disease, rapidly disintegrates the hard and soft tissue of the face and leads …
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Simulation of population dynamics of Bulinus globosus: Effects of environmental temperature on production of Schistosoma haematobium cercariae
BACKGROUND: Temperature is an important factor that influences the biology and ecology of intermediate host (IH) snails and the schistosome …
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Rapid, inexpensive, fingerstick, whole-blood, sensitive, specific, point-of-care test for anti-Toxoplasma antibodies
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The importance of dog population contact network structures in rabies transmission
Canine rabies transmission was interrupted in N'Djaména, Chad, following two mass vaccination campaigns. However, after nine months cases resurged with …
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Schistosoma haematobium effects on Plasmodium falciparum infection modified by soil-transmitted helminths in school-age children living in rural areas of Gabon
BACKGROUND: Malaria burden remains high in the sub-Saharan region where helminths are prevalent and where children are often infected with …
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Precision mapping: An innovative tool and way forward to shrink the map, better target interventions, and accelerate toward the elimination of schistosomiasis
Limitations and uncertainties of the current mapping design for schistosomiasisIn the current World Health Organization-recommended (WHO) mapping design, in each …
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Impact of community-based integrated mass drug administration on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth prevalence in Togo
BACKGROUND: Togo has conducted annual, integrated, community-based mass drug administration (MDA) for soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis since 2010. Treatment …
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High mortality due to snakebites in French Guiana: Time has come to re-evaluate medical management protocols
On January 15, 2017, a 39-year-old man died from uncontrollable hemorrhagic shock after being bitten by an unidentified venomous snake, …
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Determinants for not utilizing trachomatous trichiasis surgery among trachomatous trichiasis patients in Mehalsayint District, North-East Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Globally, trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness. In Ethiopia, the overall Trachomatous Trichiasis (TT) surgical coverage is …
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Impact of schistosome infection on long-term HIV/AIDS outcomes
BACKGROUND: Africa bears the burden of approximately 70% of global HIV infections and 90% of global schistosome infections. We sought …
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Epitope-mapping of the glycoprotein from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus using a microarray approach
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) causes severe acute human disease with lethal outcome.The knowledge about the immune response for this …