March 14, 2019
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02/27/2019
Editorial
PLOS and the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases team want to sincerely thank all of our Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, and Reviewers for the journal in 2018. Your contributions of time and expertise support your research community, advance scientific progress, and continue to make PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases a leader in its field. Read the Editorial here.
Current Issue February 2019
03/07/2019
Policy Platform
In this paper, Muhammad Farhan Majid, Su Jin Kang, and Peter J. Hotez critically evaluate the “worm wars” literature, highlighting gaps in the current discourse on deworming, which have been ignored by both economists and epidemiologists. Read the Policy Platform here.
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03/14/2019
Formal Comment
Direk Limmathurotsakul, Alfredo G. Torres, and colleagues address what they believe to be a failure of the peer-review process and the inadequate interpretation of recent advances in the melioidosis field in a recently published review on the topic in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. You can read their Formal Comment here.
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03/11/2019
Research Article
In this study, Mitali Chatterjee, Ritika Sengupta, and colleagues aim to delineate the differences in the demographics of Post Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis cases detected by active vs. passive surveillance over the last 15 years in West Bengal. Read the Author Summary.
Image credit: Sengupta R, Chowdhury SJ, Moulik S, Ghosh MK, Saha B, Das NK, et al. (2019)
03/08/2019
Research Article
Samuel Wanji, Peter U. Fischer, and colleagues provide a simple day blood-based algorithm for lymphatic filariasis mapping in loiasis areas and the results indicate that many districts that were formerly classified as endemic for lymphatic filariasis in Cameroon are non-endemic and do not require mass drug administration for its elimination. Read the Author Summary.
Image credit: Wanji S, Esum ME, Njouendou AJ, Mbeng AA, Chounna Ndongmo PW, Abong RA, et al. (2019)
03/14/2019
Research Article
In this study, Simone Haeberlein and colleagues assess the antischistosomal capacity of harmonine and observe remarkably pleiotropic effects of harmonine on physiological, cellular, and molecular processes in adult male and female Schistosoma mansoni. Read the Author Summary.
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03/11/2019
Research Article
By Francisco Javier Ruiz-Gómez and colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
Image credit: Castillo-Beltrán MC, Hurtado-Gómez JP, Corredor-Espinel V, Ruiz-Gómez FJ (2019)
03/14/2019
Research Article
By Sandra Palma, Nancy Chile, Manuela R. Verastegui, and colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
Image credit: Palma S, Chile N, Carmen-Orozco RP, Trompeter G, Fishbeck K, Cooper V, et al. (2019)
03/08/2019
Research Article
By Klaus Brehm and colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
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03/14/2019
Research Article
By Michal Shapira and colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
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By Andrew J. Basinski and colleagues
By Juan Mucci, Carlos A. Buscaglia, and colleagues
By Ruth Monyenye Nyangacha and colleagues
By Matt D. T. Hitchings and colleagues
By Fernando Salvador and colleagues
By Timothy G. Geary and colleagues
By Lieve Lammens and colleagues
By Marc P. Hübner and colleagues
By Joseph D. Turner and colleagues
By Judy Sakanari and colleagues
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