March 3, 2016
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03/02/2016
Review
This paper reviews the status of the Zika virus outbreak, including medical countermeasure options, with a focus on how the epidemiology, insect vectors, neuropathology, virology and immunology inform options and strategies available for medical countermeasure development and deployment.
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Current Issue February 2016
03/02/2016
Review
Despite recent gains in the understanding of the nature and prevalence of NTDs, the NTDs continue to rank among the world’s greatest global health problems. Here the authors summarize some of the key challenges in translational science to develop and introduce these new technologies in order to ensure success in global NTD elimination efforts.
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03/03/2016
Review
The aim of this study is to describe the major evolutionary historical events among Leishmania, sandflies, and the associated animal reservoirs in detail, in accordance with the geographical evolution of the Earth, which has not been previously discussed on a large scale.
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03/03/2016
Research Article
This study suggests that although susceptible to infection, Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus were unexpectedly low competent vectors for ZIKV. This may suggest that other factors such as the large naïve population for ZIKV and the high densities of human-biting mosquitoes contribute to the rapid spread of ZIKV.
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03/03/2016
Research Article
The authors here assessed the point-prevalence and risk factors of intestinal parasite infections in different population groups exposed to wastewater and fecal sludge in Kampala, Uganda.
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02/29/2016
Research Article
This article aims to show that there is a clear need for specific educational initiatives involving the local population and the public health entities, with the primary aim of contributing to the prevention of rabies.
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03/03/2016
Research Article
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02/29/2016
Research Article
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02/26/2016
Research Article
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03/03/2016
Research Article
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Experimental Treatment with Favipiravir for Ebola Virus Disease (the JIKI Trial): A Historically Controlled, Single-Arm Proof-of-Concept Trial in Guinea
Quantitative Proteomics Uncovers Novel Factors Involved in Developmental Differentiation of Trypanosoma brucei
Non-monotonic Response to Monotonic Stimulus: Regulation of Glyoxylate Shunt Gene-Expression Dynamics in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Strategies to Prevent Cholera Introduction during International Personnel Deployments: A Computational Modeling Analysis Based on the 2010 Haiti Outbreak
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