Tropical Disease
Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming
... Despite decades of concern over the impact of SBE in low-middle-income countries (LMICs), a lack of any clear mandate from member states has made it difficult for WHO to take substan- tial action [4, 6–9]. Indeed, it ...
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis a neglected tropical disease: community knowledge, attitude and practices in an endemic area, Northwest Ethiopia
... a tropical disease caused by a vector- borne protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania and transmitted by bites of infected female sandflies (Phlebo- tomus and ...
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Intrinsic activity of aqueous leaf extract of Cymbopogon citratus against plasmodium-mediated tropical disease
... Objective: To investigate the intrinsic activity (efficacy) of aqueous leaf extract of Cymbopogon (C.) citratus against ma- laria, a plasmodium-mediated tropical disease. Materials and Methods: Plasmodium ...
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Elimination of tropical disease through surveillance and response
... essential data aiming at the capture of foci/pockets of transmission or disease reintroduction. This approach is different from the classical monitoring and evaluation with its focus on collecting all possible ...
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Schistosomiasis in Sub-Sahara Africa: Causes, Consequences and Control Measures for a Leading Neglected Tropical Disease
... From many reports on schistosomiasis so far (Adeyeba and Ojeaga, 2002; Gberikon et al., 2015), some sociodemographic factors have been implicated. The frequency of infection among individuals of specific races is based ...
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Ghana: Accelerating Neglected Tropical Disease Control in a Setting of Economic Development
... Ghana’s guinea worm eradication program was launched in 1988 as a partnership with the Carter Center, UNICEF, and WHO [10]. Although almost 200,000 cases were initially reported a year after the launch, through ...
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Socio-ecological dynamics and challenges to the governance of Neglected Tropical Disease control
... external disease control programmes may be closely linked to local understandings of disease, relation- ships to health and government officials, and past experi- ences with development projects ...
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"Rapid impact” 10 years after: The first “decade” (2006–2016) of integrated neglected tropical disease control
... We must urgently and more effectively assess the true impact of integrated MDA and whether this approach was indeed the driver for the disease burden and prevalence reductions reported here. Implicating such ...
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Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical disease research combining Europe PMC and affiliation mapping web services
... or as a function of publication year. Temporal artefacts may be due to the availability of affiliations in PubMed, with indexing starting in 1987 and all authors’ affiliations being available only from 2014. Publications ...
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One-year prospective study of pediatric cutaneous leishmaniasis: a neglected tropical disease in sub Himalayan region, India
... caused by Leishmania tropica in urban areas (dry type) and Leishmania major (wet type) in rural areas. Disease is transmitted by the bite of infected sand fly. After dermal inoculation, the leishmania parasite is ...
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Innovation in neglected tropical disease drug discovery and development
... It is known that drug discovery and development (DDD) is very costly with inherent risk of failure. The drug innovation outcomes for a particular disease reflect the in- vestment in R&D. Funding limitation ...
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Invasive non-typhoidal salmonella disease: an emerging and neglected tropical disease in Africa
... salmonella disease, both human-host immun- ity and the sub stantial genetic diversity of the genus Salmonella must be ...systemic disease, have evolved a more restricted genomic repertoire, whereas ...
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Persistent establishment of a tropical disease in Europe: the preadaptation of schistosomes to overwinter
... How the parasite maintains itself at such latitudes and, in particular, how parasites cope with local winter con- ditions still remain enigmatic [12]. Two non-exclusive hypotheses might explain the overwintering ...
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The tropical data hub: a virtual research environment for tropical science knowledge and discovery
... TDH has a unique mix of knowledge discovery functionality in development. The knowledge system is being designed to improve communication with semantic technologies (e.g., linking different terminologies) to bridge ...
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Tropical Island Imaginary
... This paper opens with a historical survey of the imaginary representation of islands in Western literature and then proceeds to a selective account of the island imaginary in largely ‘middlebrow’ writings and photography ...
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Tropical coastal fish
... Stronger tropical storms will compound reef degradation caused by coral bleaching and ocean acidification and cause increased disturbances in other habitats beside coral ...
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Tropical coastal fish
... of tropical marine fishes are not exploited in Australia and for these species the most practical mitigation response (apart from reducing greenhouse gas emissions) is to maintain population resilience by reducing ...
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Thermoregulation in tropical lizards
... Sensitivity to thermal extremes in Australian Drosophila implies similar impacts of climate change on the distribution of widespread and tropical species... Impac[r] ...
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Air-Sea Interaction During Landfalling Tropical and Extra-Tropical Cyclones.
... An important task in simulating TCs is to aid in the prediction of these storms before, during and after landfall. Within the U.S., the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has done an excellent job of continually improving ...
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Article Attrition from Care and Clinical Outcomes in a Cohort of Sickle Cell Disease Patients in a Tribal Area of Western India
... or disease, family members of patients with sickle cell disease, and patients with anemia or symptoms of sickle cell disease were screened for sickle cell ...the disease, including pain ...
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