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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Volume 4, Issue 1

March 2019 - 54 articles

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Articles (54)

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,108 Views
11 Pages

Tropical diseases, including malaria and a group of infections termed neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), pose enormous threats to human health and wellbeing globally. In concert with efforts to broaden access to current treatments, it is also critic...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,376 Views
12 Pages

Strategies that take on a One Health approach to addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) focused on reducing human use of antimicrobials, but policy-makers now have to grapple with a different set of political, economic, and highly sensitive trade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,116 Views
9 Pages

Evaluation of a Virus Neutralisation Test for Detection of Rift Valley Fever Antibodies in Suid Sera

  • Baratang A. Lubisi,
  • Phumudzo N. Ndouvhada,
  • Donald Neiffer,
  • Mary-Louise Penrith,
  • Donald-Ray Sibanda and
  • Armanda D.S. Bastos

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral disease of ruminants mainly, and man, characterized by abortions and neonatal deaths in animals and flu-like to more severe symptoms that can result in death in humans. The disease is endemic in Africa,...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,630 Views
2 Pages

The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,188 Views
13 Pages

Replacement of the Essen intramuscular (EIM) by the updated Thai Red Cross intradermal (UTRCID) regimen for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), in high-throughput hospitals of India, has been advocated since 2006 thanks to its cost-effectiveness....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,142 Views
13 Pages

Assessing the Presence of Wuchereria bancrofti Infections in Vectors Using Xenomonitoring in Lymphatic Filariasis Endemic Districts in Ghana

  • Sellase Pi-Bansa,
  • Joseph H. N. Osei,
  • Worlasi D. Kartey-Attipoe,
  • Elizabeth Elhassan,
  • David Agyemang,
  • Sampson Otoo,
  • Samuel K. Dadzie,
  • Maxwell A. Appawu,
  • Michael D. Wilson and
  • Benjamin G. Koudou
  • + 3 authors

Mass drug administration (MDA) is the current mainstay to interrupt the transmission of lymphatic filariasis. To monitor whether MDA is effective and transmission of lymphatic filariasis indeed has been interrupted, rigorous surveillance is required....

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
23,533 Views
12 Pages

Scabies has always represented a diagnostic challenge for dermatologists, especially in subclinical cases or in atypical ones due to the coexistence of other diseases. Fortunately, dermatoscopy has enabled easier and faster in situ diagnosis. The aim...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,503 Views
15 Pages

How Can Operational Research Help to Eliminate Tuberculosis in the Asia Pacific Region?

  • Anthony D. Harries,
  • Ajay M. V. Kumar,
  • Srinath Satyanarayana,
  • Pruthu Thekkur,
  • Yan Lin,
  • Riitta A. Dlodlo and
  • Rony Zachariah

Broad multi-sectoral action is required to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030 and this includes National TB Programmes (NTPs) fully delivering on quality-assured diagnostic, treatment and preventive services. Large implementation gaps current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,943 Views
9 Pages

Insights into Australian Bat Lyssavirus in Insectivorous Bats of Western Australia

  • Diana Prada,
  • Victoria Boyd,
  • Michelle Baker,
  • Bethany Jackson and
  • Mark O’Dea

Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) is a known causative agent of neurological disease in bats, humans and horses. It has been isolated from four species of pteropid bats and a single microbat species (Saccolaimus flaviventris). To date, ABLV surveillan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,347 Views
13 Pages

As the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis declines, it becomes crucial to adequately eliminate residual areas of endemicity and implement surveillance. To this end, serological assays have been developed, including the Bm14 Filariasis CELISA which re...

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