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- 1From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn China, rabies is a significant public health concern where dogs remain the main reservoir of disease transmission to humans; rabies-related mortality ranks second in the world. We compiled all published articles...
- 2From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Avian influenza (AI) is a global public health threat. Understanding the knowledge that butchers have about it and the precautionary practices they take against it is crucial for designing future...
- 3From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNotable among gaps in the achievement of the global health Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are shortcomings in addressing maternal health, an issue addressed in the fifth MDG. This shortfall is particularly acute in...
- 4From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis scoping review analyzes the research gaps of three diseases: schistosomiasis japonica, malaria and echinococcosis. Based on available data in the P.R. China, we highlight the gaps between control capacity and...
- 5From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground With more than two billion people infected worldwide, soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are the most widespread infections. To date, STH control efforts rely predominantly on recurrent mass drug...
- 6From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Infectious Diseases of Poverty journal, launched a year ago, is a platform to engage outside the traditional disciplinary boundaries, and disseminate high quality science towards the improvement of health. This...
- 7From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSurveillance and response represent the final crucial steps in achieving effective control and particularly elimination of communicable diseases as recognized in the area of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), applied...
- 8From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Many simple, affordable and effective disease control measures have had limited impact due to poor access especially by the poorer populations (urban and rural) and inadequate community participation. A...
- 9From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe epidemic of H7N9 bird flu in eastern China in early 2013 has caused much attention from researchers as well as public health workers. The issue on modeling the transmission risks is very interesting topic. In this...
- 10From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Over the past two decades, international health policies focusing on the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and those...
- 11From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Babesiosis is an emerging health risk in several parts of the world. However, little is known about the prevalence of Babesia in malaria-endemic countries. The area along the China-Myanmar border in Yunnan...
- 12From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pregnant women living in an area of stable malaria transmission such as Lagos, Nigeria, have been identified as being at an increased risk of the effects of malaria infection. In this area, most of the...
- 13From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground It is one of the most infamous quotes in the history of biomedicine: "It is time to close the book on infectious diseases, and declare the war against pestilence won." Long attributed to the United States...
- 14From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGlobally, cestode zoonoses cause serious public health problems, particularly in Asia. Among all neglected zoonotic diseases, cestode zoonoses account for over 75% of global disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost....
- 15From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Parasite infections often result in a switch of the human body's predominant immune reaction from T-helper 1 (Th1)-type to Th2-type. Hence, parasite infections are widely expected to accelerate the...
- 16From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWenwu Yin and co-workers conducted a systematic review on challenges and needs to eliminate rabies in China (Yin et al., 2013 in this journal). Their analysis shows that there is considerable overrepresentation of...
- 17From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In view of the rapid geographic spread and the increasing number of confirmed cases of novel influenza A(H7N9) virus infections in eastern China, we developed a diffusion model to spatiotemporally...
- 18From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Studies on costs incurred by patients for tuberculosis (TB) care are limited as these costs are reported as averages, and the economic impact of the costs is estimated based on average patient/household...
- 19From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease which is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. People with diabetes mellitus (DM) have a three times higher risk of developing...
- 20From: Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground As internet and social media use have skyrocketed, epidemiologists have begun to use online data such as Google query data and Twitter trends to track the activity levels of influenza and other infectious...