Real World Experience of Chronic Hepatitis C Retreatment with Genotype Specific Regimens in Nonresponders to Previous Interferon-Free Therapy by Dorota Zarębska-Michaluk, Iwona Buczyńska, Krzysztof Simon, Magdalena Tudrujek-Zdunek, Ewa Janczewska, Dorota Dybowska, Marek Sitko, Beata Dobracka, Jerzy Jaroszewicz, Paweł Pabjan, Jakub Klapaczyński, Łukasz Laurans, Włodzimierz Mazur, Łukasz Socha, Olga Tronina, Miłosz Parczewski, Robert Flisiak

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Developments in Diagnosis and Antileishmanial Drugs by Prachi Bhargava, Rajni Singh

“…Leishmaniasis ranks the third in disease burden in disability-adjusted life years caused by neglected tropical diseases and is the second cause of parasite-related deaths after malaria; but for a variety of reasons, it is not receiving the attention that would be justified seeing its importance. …”
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Prevalence of Lymphatic Filariasis based on Morbidity and Healthcare-seeking Practices of Patients in a Gram Panchayat of Paschim Burdwan District, West Bengal by Indranil Saha, Russoti Das, Ajay K. Mandal, Pinki Darlami, Subhajit Datta, Gautam Ghose, Sanjit Dey

“…Lymphatic filariasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases still present in many areas. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted during 2019–2020 in the Gourbazar gram panchayat area of Paschim Burdwan District, West Bengal, to find out the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis based on morbidity and its distribution in terms of selected sociodemographic variables and to assess the healthcare-seeking practices of the affected people. …”
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Cutaneous Disease as Sole Clinical Manifestation of Protothecosis in a Boxer Dog by Emmanouil I. Papadogiannakis, Emmanouil N. Velonakis, Gregory K. Spanakos, Alexander F. Koutinas

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Plants Used in Antivenom Therapy in Rural Kenya: Ethnobotany and Future Perspectives by Timothy Omara

“…Snake envenomation is one of the neglected tropical diseases which has left an intolerable death toll and severe socioeconomic losses in Kenya. …”
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Investigation of Viral, Bacterial and Parasitic Zoonotic Diseases in Rodents in Turkey by Mehmet Ozkan Timurkan, Esin Guven, Seyda Cengiz, Hakan Aydın, Ridvan Kirman, Hamza Avcioglu

“…ABSTRACT Background Rodents are reservoir hosts for zoonotic pathogens that cause tropical diseases, many of which have been overlooked. …”
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Virological Mechanisms in the Coinfection between HIV and HCV by Maria Carla Liberto, Emilia Zicca, Grazia Pavia, Angela Quirino, Nadia Marascio, Carlo Torti, Alfredo Focà

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Detection of OqxAB Efflux Pumps, a Multidrug-Resistant Agent in Bacterial Infection in Patients Referring to Teaching Hospitals in Ahvaz, Southwest of Iran by Mojtaba Moosavian, Mahtab Khoshkholgh Sima, Nazanin Ahmad Khosravi, Effat Abbasi Montazeri

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Applying ‘timeliness’ to the screening and prevention of TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients by A. D. Harries, D. Nair, P. Thekkur, R. Ananthakrishnan, R. Thiagesan, J. M. Chakaya, I. Mbithi, B. Jamil, R. Fatima, M. Khogali, R. Zachariah, S. Dar Berger, S. Satyanarayana, A. M. V. Kumar, A. F. Bochner, A. McClelland

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Metagenomic next-generation sequencing assists in the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in non-endemic areas of China by Rui Zhao, Guilun He, Lin Xiang, Melinda Ji, Rongheng He, Xudong Wei

“…With 12 million cases globally, leishmaniasis is one of the most serious neglected tropical diseases worldwide. Direct identification of infected tissues is currently the primary method of diagnosis; however, the low sensitivity and inconvenience of microscopic examination in detecting amastigotes, parasitic manifestations of Leishmania, leads to the possibility of misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, and underdiagnosis.MethodsWith the development of metagenomic nextgeneration sequencing (mNGS) technology for pathogen identification, it is possible to detect specific nucleic acid sequences characteristic of Leishmania parasites, which opens new avenues for the more accurate diagnosis of leishmaniasis. …”
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Is There a Real Relationship between the Presence of Helicobacter pylori in Dental Plaque and Gastric Infection? A Genotyping and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Study on... by Mojtaba Moosavian, Elyas Kushki, Tahereh Navidifar, Eskandar Hajiani, Mahdi Mandegari

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TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’ by A.D. Harries, D. Nair, P. Thekkur, R. Ananthakrishnan, R. Thiagesan, J.M. Chakaya, I. Mbithi, B. Jamil, R. Fatima, M. Khogali, R. Zachariah, S.D. Berger, S. Satyanarayana, A.M.V. Kumar, A.F. Bochner, A. McClelland

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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Women Who Have Aborted in Comparison with the Women with Normal Delivery in Ahvaz, Southwest of Iran by J. Saki, N. Mohammadpour, F. Moramezi, S. Khademvatan

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4-Aminoquinoline as a privileged scaffold for the design of leishmanicidal agents: structure–property relationships and key biological targets by Angel H. Romero, Francisco Delgado

“…Leishmaniasis is one of the most important neglected tropical diseases, with more than two million new cases annually. …”
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Current status of African swine fever by Mary Louise Penrith

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Social innovations to increase health coverage: evidence from a crowdsourcing contest in Ghana by Joseph D Tucker, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke, Phyllis Awor, Emmanuel Asampong, Kwabena Opoku-Mensah, Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong

“…Informed by a WHO-Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases framework, we organised a six-stage crowdsourcing challenge.Results In all, 13 innovations were received in the contest, while 2 innovations were rejected after initial screening. …”
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Prevalence, Intensity, and Associated Factors of Schistosoma mansoni among School Children in Northwest Ethiopia by Ayalew Jejaw Zeleke, Ayenew Addisu, Yalewayker Tegegne

“…Schistosomiasis is one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases in Ethiopia, and its burden may show variations from time to time across different regions. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Randomized Double-Blinded Clinical Trial by Ghasem Bordbar, Mohammad Bagher Miri, Mahmoud Omidi, Saeed Shoja, Malihe Akhavan

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Efficiency of Automated Viral RNA Purification for Pediatric Studies of Dengue and Zika in Hyperendemic Areas by Sandra L. Delgado, Piedad M. Perilla, Doris M. Salgado, María Clemencia Rojas, Carlos F. Narváez

“…The local application of this technology in the study of tropical diseases, such as dengue and zika, is beginning to be tested. …”
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Towards global elimination of lymphatic filariasis: a systematic review of the application of spatial epidemiological methods to enhance surveillance and support elimination progra... by Angela Cadavid Restrepo, Colleen L Lau, Beatris Mario Martin, Helen J Mayfield

“…Background In recent decades, spatial epidemiology has increasingly been used to study neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Spatial methods are particularly relevant when transmission is strongly driven by sociodemographic and environmental factors, resulting in heterogeneous disease distribution. …”
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