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June 2016

This area is one of the main sleeping sickness foci, and river habitats like the one pictured are infested with tsetse-flies which transmit sleeping sickness to people. The blue and back material in the bottom right corner is called a 'tiny target' and is impregnated with insecticide; tsetse are attracted by its bright blue colour. Tiny targets were deployed to kill tsetse and protect local communities that access rivers during their day to day activities. Kovacic et al.

Image Credit: Vanja Kovacic

Editorial

Viewpoints

Digital Participatory Surveillance and the Zika Crisis: Opportunities and Caveats

Claudia Pagliari, Santosh Vijaykumar

Dengue Vaccine: Considerations before Rollout in Colombia

Christian Julian Villabona-Arenas, Raquel Elvira Ocazionez Jimenez, Cinthy Lorena Jimenez Silva

Trypanosoma cruzi: Time for International Recognition as a Foodborne Parasite

Lucy J. Robertson, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Oscar Noya González, Paul R. Torgerson

Policy Platform

First International Workshop on Zika Virus Held by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation FIOCRUZ in Northeast Brazil March 2016 – A Meeting Report

Rafael F. O. Franca, Maria Helena L. Neves, Constancia F. Junqueira Ayres, Osvaldo P. Melo-Neto, Sinval P. Brandão Filho

Reviews

The Surgical Treatment of Mycetoma

Suleiman Hussein Suleiman, EL Sammani Wadaella, Ahmed Hassan Fahal

Scabies: Advances in Noninvasive Diagnosis

Giuseppe Micali, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, Olivier Chosidow, Robert A. Schwartz

Research Articles

Performance Testing of PCR Assay in Blood Samples for the Diagnosis of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS Patients from the French Departments of America and Genetic Diversity of Toxoplasma gondii: A Prospective and Multicentric Study

Daniel Ajzenberg, Isabelle Lamaury, Magalie Demar, Cyrille Vautrin, André Cabié, Stéphane Simon, Muriel Nicolas, Nicole Desbois-Nogard, Rachida Boukhari, Homayoun Riahi, Marie-Laure Dardé, Patrice Massip, Michel Dupon, Pierre-Marie Preux, Anaïs Labrunie, Marie-Paule Boncoeur

Optimization of a Membrane Feeding Assay for Plasmodium vivax Infection in Anopheles albimanus

Andrés F. Vallejo, Kelly Rubiano, Andres Amado, Amy R. Krystosik, Sócrates Herrera, Myriam Arévalo-Herrera

Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of the Exotoxin Mycolactone, the Main Virulence Factor Produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans

Jean-Pierre Dangy, Nicole Scherr, Philipp Gersbach, Melanie N. Hug, Raphael Bieri, Claudio Bomio, Jun Li, Sylwia Huber, Karl-Heinz Altmann, Gerd Pluschke

Accuracy of Mobile Phone and Handheld Light Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Protozoa Infections in Côte d’Ivoire

Jean T. Coulibaly, Mamadou Ouattara, Michael V. D’Ambrosio, Daniel A. Fletcher, Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Jason R. Andrews, Isaac I. Bogoch

The Schistosomiasis Clinical Trials Landscape: A Systematic Review of Antischistosomal Treatment Efficacy Studies and a Case for Sharing Individual Participant-Level Data (IPD)

Amélie M. Julé, Michel Vaillant, Trudie A. Lang, Philippe J. Guérin, Piero L. Olliaro

Evolution of the Transmission-Blocking Vaccine Candidates Pvs28 and Pvs25 in Plasmodium vivax: Geographic Differentiation and Evidence of Positive Selection

Ricardo A. Chaurio, M. Andreína Pacheco, Omar E. Cornejo, Ester Durrego, Craig E. Stanley Jr., Andreína I. Castillo, Sócrates Herrera, Ananias A. Escalante

The Prevalence of Scabies and Impetigo in the Solomon Islands: A Population-Based Survey

Daniel S. Mason, Michael Marks, Oliver Sokana, Anthony W. Solomon, David C. Mabey, Lucia Romani, John Kaldor, Andrew C. Steer, Daniel Engelman

HMGB1 Is a Potential Biomarker for Severe Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

Katarina Resman Rus, Luka Fajs, Miša Korva, Tatjana Avšič-Županc

Clonorchis sinensis Co-infection Could Affect the Disease State and Treatment Response of HBV Patients

Wenfang Li, Huimin Dong, Yan Huang, Tingjin Chen, Xiangzhan Kong, Hengchang Sun, Xinbing Yu, Jin Xu

The Nature of Exposure Drives Transmission of Nipah Viruses from Malaysia and Bangladesh in Ferrets

Bronwyn A. Clayton, Deborah Middleton, Rachel Arkinstall, Leah Frazer, Lin-Fa Wang, Glenn A. Marsh

A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey Conducted Three Years after Halting Ivermectin Mass Treatment for Onchocerciasis in Guatemala

Frank O. Richards Jr., Robert E. Klein, Oscar de León, Renata Mendizábal-Cabrera, Alba Lucía Morales, Vitaliano Cama, Carol G. Crovella, Carlos E. Díaz Espinoza, Zoraida Morales, Mauricio Sauerbrey, Nidia Rizzo

Development and Application of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Approach for the Rapid Detection of Dirofilaria repens from Biological Samples

Donato Antonio Raele, Nicola Pugliese, Domenico Galante, Laura Maria Latorre, Maria Assunta Cafiero

Isolation of Infective Zika Virus from Urine and Saliva of Patients in Brazil

Myrna C. Bonaldo, Ieda P. Ribeiro, Noemia S. Lima, Alexandre A. C. dos Santos, Lidiane S. R. Menezes, Stephanie O. D. da Cruz, Iasmim S. de Mello, Nathália D. Furtado, Elaine E. de Moura, Luana Damasceno, Kely A. B. da Silva, Marcia G. de Castro, Alexandra L. Gerber, Luiz G. P. de Almeida, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos, Patrícia Brasil

An mRNA Vaccine Encoding Rabies Virus Glycoprotein Induces Protection against Lethal Infection in Mice and Correlates of Protection in Adult and Newborn Pigs

Margit Schnee, Annette B. Vogel, Daniel Voss, Benjamin Petsch, Patrick Baumhof, Thomas Kramps, Lothar Stitz

Evaluation of Six Commercially Available Rapid Immunochromatographic Tests for the Diagnosis of Rabies in Brain Material

Elisa Eggerbauer, Paola de Benedictis, Bernd Hoffmann, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Kore Schlottau, Ernest C. Ngoepe, Claude T. Sabeta, Conrad M. Freuling, Thomas Müller

A Diagnostic Scoring Model for Leptospirosis in Resource Limited Settings

Senaka Rajapakse, Praveen Weeratunga, Roshan Niloofa, Narmada Fernando, Nipun Lakshitha de Silva, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Sachith Maduranga, Nuwanthi Nandasiri, Sunil Premawansa, Lilani Karunanayake, H. Janaka de Silva, Shiroma Handunnetti

Spatial and Temporal Hot Spots of Aedes albopictus Abundance inside and outside a South European Metropolitan Area

Mattia Manica, Federico Filipponi, Antonello D’Alessandro, Alessia Screti, Markus Neteler, Roberto Rosà, Angelo Solimini, Alessandra della Torre, Beniamino Caputo

The Epidemiology of Rift Valley Fever in Mayotte: Insights and Perspectives from 11 Years of Data

Raphaëlle Métras, Lisa Cavalerie, Laure Dommergues, Philippe Mérot, W. John Edmunds, Matt J. Keeling, Catherine Cêtre-Sossah, Eric Cardinale

The Molecular and Spatial Epidemiology of Typhoid Fever in Rural Cambodia

Duy Pham Thanh, Corinne N. Thompson, Maia A Rabaa, Soeng Sona, Sun Sopheary, Varun Kumar, Catrin Moore, Nga Tran Vu Thieu, Lalith Wijedoru, Kathryn E. Holt, Vanessa Wong, Derek Pickard, Guy E. Thwaites, Nicholas Day, Gordon Dougan, Paul Turner, Christopher M. Parry, Stephen Baker

Reduced Leukocyte Infiltration in Absence of Eosinophils Correlates with Decreased Tissue Damage and Disease Susceptibility in ΔdblGATA Mice during Murine Neurocysticercosis

Pramod K. Mishra, Qun Li, Luis E. Munoz, Chris A. Mares, Elizabeth G. Morris, Judy M. Teale, Astrid E. Cardona

ZIKV – CDB: A Collaborative Database to Guide Research Linking SncRNAs and ZIKA Virus Disease Symptoms

Victor Satler Pylro, Francislon Silva Oliveira, Daniel Kumazawa Morais, Sara Cuadros-Orellana, Fabiano Sviatopolk-Mirsky Pais, Julliane Dutra Medeiros, Juliana Assis Geraldo, Jack Gilbert, Angela Cristina Volpini, Gabriel Rocha Fernandes

Improvement of POC-CCA Interpretation by Using Lyophilization of Urine from Patients with Schistosoma mansoni Low Worm Burden: Towards an Elimination of Doubts about the Concept of Trace

Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho, Liliane Maria Vidal Siqueira, Rafaella Fortini Queiroz Grenfell, Nathalie Bonatti Franco Almeida, Naftale Katz, Áureo Almeida, Nídia Francisca de Figueiredo Carneiro, Edward Oliveira

Clinical Survey of Dengue Virus Circulation in the Republic of Djibouti between 2011 and 2014 Identifies Serotype 3 Epidemic and Recommends Clinical Diagnosis Guidelines for Resource Limited Settings

Erwan Le Gonidec, Marianne Maquart, Sandrine Duron, Hélène Savini, Geraldine Cazajous, Pierre-Olivier Vidal, Marie-Caroline Chenilleau, Jean-Baptiste Roseau, Alain Benois, Céline Dehan, Jeffrey Kugelman, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Serge Védy

Seroprevalence of Anti-Chikungunya Virus Antibodies in Children and Adults in Managua, Nicaragua, After the First Chikungunya Epidemic, 2014-2015

Guillermina Kuan, Stephania Ramirez, Lionel Gresh, Sergio Ojeda, Marlon Melendez, Nery Sanchez, Damaris Collado, Nadezna Garcia, Juan Carlos Mercado, Aubree Gordon, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris

Genetic Diversity and Reassortment of Hantaan Virus Tripartite RNA Genomes in Nature, the Republic of Korea

Jeong-Ah Kim, Won-keun Kim, Jin Sun No, Seung-Ho Lee, Sook-Young Lee, Ji Hye Kim, Jeong Hoon Kho, Daesang Lee, Dong Hyun Song, Se Hun Gu, Seong Tae Jeong, Man-Seong Park, Heung-Chul Kim, Terry A. Klein, Jin-Won Song

Antibody Secreting Cell Responses following Vaccination with Bivalent Oral Cholera Vaccine among Haitian Adults

Wilfredo R. Matias, Brie Falkard, Richelle C. Charles, Leslie M. Mayo-Smith, Jessica E. Teng, Peng Xu, Pavol Kováč, Edward T. Ryan, Firdausi Qadri, Molly F. Franke, Louise C. Ivers, Jason B. Harris

Antifungal Activity of Amphotericin B Conjugated to Nanosized Magnetite in the Treatment of Paracoccidioidomycosis

Camila Arruda Saldanha, Mônica Pereira Garcia, Diego Cesar Iocca, Luciana Guilherme Rebelo, Ana Camila Oliveira Souza, Anamélia Lorenzetti Bocca, Maria de Fátima Menezes Almeida Santos, Paulo Cesar Morais, Ricardo Bentes Azevedo

Challenges in Real-Time Prediction of Infectious Disease: A Case Study of Dengue in Thailand

Nicholas G. Reich, Stephen A. Lauer, Krzysztof Sakrejda, Sopon Iamsirithaworn, Soawapak Hinjoy, Paphanij Suangtho, Suthanun Suthachana, Hannah E. Clapham, Henrik Salje, Derek A. T. Cummings, Justin Lessler

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