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1421por Boatin, Boakye A., Basáñez, María-Gloria, Prichard, Roger K., Awadzi, Kwablah, Barakat, Rashida M., García, Héctor H., Gazzinelli, Andrea, Grant, Warwick N., McCarthy, James S., N'Goran, Eliézer K., Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Sripa, Banchob, Yang, Guo-Jing, Lustigman, Sara“…This review presents the processes undertaken to identify and rank ten top research priorities; discusses the implications of realising these priorities in terms of their potential for improving global health and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); outlines salient research funding needs; and introduces the series of reviews that follow in this PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases collection, “A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans.”…”
Publicado 2012
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1422por Checchi, Francesco, Cox, Andrew P, Chappuis, François, Priotto, Gerardo, Chandramohan, Daniel, Haydon, Daniel T“…We discuss some limitations to our model that illustrate several difficulties of estimating the unseen burden of neglected tropical diseases.…”
Publicado 2012
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1423por Lee, Hyokyeong, Moody-Davis, Asher, Saha, Utsab, Suzuki, Brian M, Asarnow, Daniel, Chen, Steven, Arkin, Michelle, Caffrey, Conor R, Singh, Rahul“…BACKGROUND: Neglected tropical diseases, especially those caused by helminths, constitute some of the most common infections of the world's poorest people. …”
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1424“…BACKGROUND: Human African Trypanosomiasis is one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases that is targeted for elimination by the World Health Organization. …”
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1425por Noa Noatina, Blaise, Kagmeni, Giles, Mengouo, Marcellin Nimpa, Moungui, Henri Claude, Tarini, Ann, Zhang, Yaobi, Bella, Assumpta Lucienne Françoise“…To appreciate the burden of the disease and facilitate the national planning of trachoma control in the integrated control program for the neglected tropical diseases, an epidemiological mapping of trachoma was conducted in the Far North region in 2010–11. …”
Publicado 2013
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1426por Sady, Hany, Al-Mekhlafi, Hesham M., Mahdy, Mohammed A. K., Lim, Yvonne A. L., Mahmud, Rohela, Surin, Johari“…BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis, one of the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases, is a life-threatening public health problem in Yemen especially in rural communities. …”
Publicado 2013
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1427por Kovacic, Vanja, Tirados, Inaki, Esterhuizen, Johan, Mangwiro, Clement T. N., Torr, Stephen J., Lehane, Michael J., Smith, Helen“…BACKGROUND: There is renewed vigour in efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases including sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis or HAT), including attempts to develop more cost-effective methods of tsetse control. …”
Publicado 2013
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1428por de Macedo-Silva, Sara Teixeira, Urbina, Julio A., de Souza, Wanderley, Rodrigues, Juliany Cola Fernandes“…Leishmaniasis, caused by protozoan parasites of the Leishmania genus, is one of the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases. It is endemic in 98 countries, causing considerable morbidity and mortality. …”
Publicado 2013
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1429por Nissen, Sofie, Nguyen, Lan Anh Thi, Thamsborg, Stig Milan, Dalsgaard, Anders, Johansen, Maria Vang“…BACKGROUND: Fish-borne zoonotic trematodes (FZT) infections including liver- and minute intestinal flukes are common in Southeast Asia in both humans and domestic animals eating raw fish and since 2010, the liver flukes are recognised as neglected tropical diseases by WHO. Mass drug treatment with praziquantel is advised for humans, but no recommendations for control of the FZT in the reservoir hosts exist. …”
Publicado 2014
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1430“…Timeframes have been set by the World Health Organization, the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases and the World Bank to achieve these goals by 2020–2025. …”
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1431“…BACKGROUND: Years of advocacy for the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have focused the world's attention on these diseases of the poor, resulting most recently in the 2012 “London Declaration” and the recent World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.12 on NTDs in May 2013. …”
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1432por Bhattacharya, Sourav, Chakraborty, Mousumi, Mukhopadhyay, Piyasi, Kundu, P. P., Mishra, Roshnara“…BACKGROUND: Snake bite causes greater mortality than most of the other neglected tropical diseases. Snake antivenom, although effective in minimizing mortality in developed countries, is not equally so in developing countries due to its poor availability in remote snake infested areas as, and when, required. …”
Publicado 2014
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1433por Nsadha, Zachary, Thomas, Lian F, Fèvre, Eric M, Nasinyama, George, Ojok, Lonzy, Waiswa, Charles“…T. solium has been acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UK Department for International Development (DFID) as being a neglected zoonotic disease, and was recently included in the WHO roadmap for control of neglected tropical diseases. This neglect encompasses a lack of epidemiological data and a lack of validated, effective control strategies being adopted. …”
Publicado 2014
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1434por Mousley, Elizabeth, Deribe, Kebede, Tamiru, Abreham, Tomczyk, Sara, Hanlon, Charlotte, Davey, Gail“…BACKGROUND: The stigma, deformity and disability related to most neglected tropical diseases may lead to poor mental health. …”
Publicado 2015
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1435por Khan, Mohammad Behram, Sonaimuthu, Parthasarathy, Lau, Yee Ling, Al-Mekhlafi, Hesham M, Mahmud, Rohela, Kavana, Nicholas, Kassuku, Ayub, Kasanga, Christopher“…BACKGROUND: The neglected tropical diseases, echinococcosis, schistosomiasis and toxoplasmosis are all globally widespread zoonotic diseases with potentially harmful consequences. …”
Publicado 2014
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1436“…Clonorchiasis is included in control programs of neglected tropical diseases by World Health Organization (WHO) because it is one of the major health problems in most endemic areas. …”
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1437por Gaspe, M. Sol, Provecho, Yael M., Cardinal, M. Victoria, del Pilar Fernández, M., Gürtler, Ricardo E.“…BACKGROUND: The Gran Chaco ecoregion, a hotspot for Chagas and other neglected tropical diseases, is home to >20 indigenous peoples. …”
Publicado 2015
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1438por Tuhebwe, Doreen, Bagonza, James, Kiracho, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Yeka, Adoke, Elliott, Alison M., Nuwaha, Fred“…INTRODUCTION: Schistosomiasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases targeted for elimination in Uganda through the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programme. …”
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1439“…CONCLUSIONS: Our findings imply that the potential of remote sensing data for risk profiling of schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases has yet to be fully exploited.…”
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1440por Pigott, David M., Howes, Rosalind E., Wiebe, Antoinette, Battle, Katherine E., Golding, Nick, Gething, Peter W., Dowell, Scott F., Farag, Tamer H., Garcia, Andres J., Kimball, Ann M., Krause, L. Kendall, Smith, Craig H., Brooker, Simon J., Kyu, Hmwe H., Vos, Theo, Murray, Christopher J. L., Moyes, Catherine L., Hay, Simon I.“…Whilst malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were the highest priority due to their considerable burden, the high priority clusters were dominated by neglected tropical diseases and vector-borne parasites. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: A quantitative, easily-updated and flexible framework for prioritising diseases is presented here. …”
Publicado 2015
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