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April 2017

Children from poverty-ravaged homes engaging in unwholesome water contact through fishing, bathing and fetching water for domestic use at Ayingada rural slum in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State, Nigeria. It is obvious this is a potential breeding ground for suitable snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes which excrete astronomically large number of infective larval form called cercaria. The location is known for a poor network of Mass Drug Administration with Praziquantel. In some of the areas covered, the drugs were rejected due to spurious sentiments. Atalabi et al.

Image Credit: Umar Lawal

Editorials

The first “London Declaration”: The Commonwealth and its neglected tropical diseases

Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania, Aparna Barua, Jeffrey Stanaway

The PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases decade

Peter Hotez, Donald A. P. Bundy

Viewpoints

The yin and yang of leishmaniasis control

Shaden Kamhawi

Mycetoma: A global medical and socio-economic dilemma

Ahmed H. Fahal

Building on the success of soil-transmitted helminth control - The future of deworming

Peter Mark Jourdan, Antonio Montresor, Judd L. Walson

Guinea worm eradication: Progress and challenges— should we beware of the dog?

David Molyneux, Dieudonné P. Sankara

Neglected tropical diseases: A DFID perspective

Charlotte Watts

Taenia solium cysticercosis and taeniosis: Achievements from the past 10 years and the way forward

Hélène Carabin, Andrea S. Winkler, Pierre Dorny

Cystic and alveolar echinococcosis: Successes and continuing challenges

Christine M. Budke, Adriano Casulli, Peter Kern, Dominique A. Vuitton

Parasite genomics—Time to think bigger

Carlos Talavera-López, Björn Andersson

How to determine if a model is right for neglected tropical disease decision making

Bruce Y. Lee, Sarah M. Bartsch

Human African trypanosomiasis control: Achievements and challenges

Serap Aksoy, Phillipe Buscher, Mike Lehane, Philippe Solano, Jan Van Den Abbeele

Ten years of Chagas disease research: Looking back to achievements, looking ahead to challenges

Eric Dumonteil, Claudia Herrera

A decade of arboviral activity—Lessons learned from the trenches

Ann M. Powers, Stephen H. Waterman

Progress and projections in the program to eliminate trachoma

Paul M. Emerson, Pamela J. Hooper, Virginia Sarah

Symposiums

Partnering to promote research where it matters

Michael Eisenstein

Painless swelling of the forefoot and recurrent subcutaneous abscesses of the lower leg—Two distinct presentations illustrating the spectrum of eumycetoma in a nonendemic country

Adrian Schibli, Daniel Goldenberger, Andreas Krieg, Anna Hirschmann, Elisabeth Bruder, Michael Osthoff

Plasmodium vivax gametocytes in the bone marrow of an acute malaria patient and changes in the erythroid miRNA profile

Barbara Baro, Katrien Deroost, Tainá Raiol, Marcelo Brito, Anne C. G. Almeida, Armando de Menezes-Neto, Erick F. G. Figueiredo, Aline Alencar, Rodrigo Leitão, Fernando Val, Wuelton Monteiro, Anna Oliveira, Maria del Pilar Armengol, Carmen Fernández-Becerra, Marcus V. Lacerda, Hernando A. del Portillo

Reviews

The role of 'omics' in the quest to eliminate human filariasis

Sara Lustigman, Alexandra Grote, Elodie Ghedin

Glycosome biogenesis in trypanosomes and the de novo dilemma

Sarah Bauer, Meredith T. Morris

Viral hemorrhagic fevers in the Tihamah region of the western Arabian Peninsula

Fathiah Zakham, Mohammed Al-habal, Rola Taher, Altaf Alaoui, Mohammed El Mzibri

Research Articles

Structural diversity of Burkholderia pseudomallei lipopolysaccharides affects innate immune signaling

Michael H. Norris, Herbert P. Schweizer, Apichai Tuanyok

Risk factors and outcome of Shigella encephalopathy in Bangladeshi children

Farzana Afroze, Tahmeed Ahmed, Monira Sarmin, Abu SMSB Shahid, K. M. Shahunja, Lubaba Shahrin, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

Genetic diversity and population structure of the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (Diptera: Glossinidae) in Northern Uganda: Implications for vector control

Robert Opiro, Norah P. Saarman, Richard Echodu, Elizabeth A. Opiyo, Kirstin Dion, Alexis Halyard, Augustine W. Dunn, Serap Aksoy, Adalgisa Caccone

Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models

Erin A. Mordecai, Jeremy M. Cohen, Michelle V. Evans, Prithvi Gudapati, Leah R. Johnson, Catherine A. Lippi, Kerri Miazgowicz, Courtney C. Murdock, Jason R. Rohr, Sadie J. Ryan, Van Savage, Marta S. Shocket, Anna Stewart Ibarra, Matthew B. Thomas, Daniel P. Weikel

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