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A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented exampl...
Background Despite broad consensus on the importance of community and stakeholder engagement (CSE) for guiding the development, regulation, field testing, and deployment of... -
Wolbachia enhances West Nile virus (WNV) infection in the mosquito Culex tars...
Novel strategies are required to control mosquitoes and the pathogens they transmit. One attractive approach involves maternally inherited endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria.... -
Research Capacity Strengthening in Low and Middle Income Countries – An Evalu...
Between August 2012 and April 2013 the Career Development Fellowship programme of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (World Health... -
Feasibility of utilizing the SD BIOLINE Onchocerciasis IgG4 rapid test in onc...
As effective onchocerciasis control efforts in Africa transition to elimination efforts, different diagnostic tools are required to support country programs. Senegal, with its... -
Current Pipelines for Neglected Diseases
This paper scrutinises pipelines for Neglected Diseases (NDs), through freely accessible and at-least-weekly updated trials databases. It updates to 2012 data provided by recent... -
Comparison of multi-parallel qPCR and double-slide Kato-Katz for detection of...
There is growing interest in local elimination of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection in endemic settings. In such settings, highly sensitive diagnostics are needed to... -
Spatio-temporal distribution of dengue and lymphatic filariasis vectors along...
Background Rapidly increasing temperatures in the mountain region of Nepal and recent reports of dengue fever and lymphatic filariasis cases from mountainous areas of central... -
Interpreting ambiguous ‘trace’ results in Schistosoma mansoni CCA Tests: Esti...
Background The development of new diagnostics is an important tool in the fight against disease. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) is used to estimate the sensitivity and specificity... -
Calculating the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection through poo...
Prevalence is a common epidemiological measure for assessing soil-transmitted helminth burden and forms the basis for much public-health decision-making. Standard diagnostic... -
The catalytic role of a research university and international partnerships in...
Objective In Peru, the past three decades have witnessed impressive growth in biomedical research catalyzed from a single research university and its investigators who secured... -
The global seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in women who h...
Background Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is an intracellular pathogen that can lead to abortion in pregnant women infected with this parasite. Therefore, the present study aimed... -
Eliminating rabies in Tanzania? Local understandings and responses to mass do...
Background With increased global attention to neglected diseases, there has been a resurgence of interest in eliminating rabies from developing countries through mass dog... -
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Background While some evidence supports the beneficial effects of integrating neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs to optimize coverage and reduce costs, there is minimal...
