Ten failings in global neglected tropical diseases control

Peter J. Hotez

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005896

Sustaining visceral leishmaniasis elimination in Bangladesh – Could a policy brief help?

Alyssa Fitzpatrick, Noor Saad M. S. Al-Kobaisi, Jessica Beitman Maya, Yu Ren Chung, Satyender Duhan, Erdene Elbegdorj, Sushant Jain, Edward Kuhn, Alexandra Nastase, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Piero Olliaro

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 12, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006081

Case report: A rare case of urinary myiasis induced by the fourth instar larvae of Telmatoscopus albipunctatus

Beibei Zhang, Lifu Wang, Jiahua Liu, Lian Xu, Langui Song, Xiaoying Wu, Xi Sun, Zhongdao Wu

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006016

Emergence of melioidosis in the Indian Ocean region: Two new cases and a literature review

Nicolas Allou, Olivier Martinet, Jérôme Allyn, Bruno Bouchet, Marie-Christine Jaffar-Bandjee, Thomas Galas, Nicolas Traversier, Olivier Belmonte

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 14, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006018

Drug resistance and treatment failure in leishmaniasis: A 21st century challenge

Alicia Ponte-Sucre, Francisco Gamarro, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Michael P. Barrett, Rogelio López-Vélez, Raquel García-Hernández, Andrew W. Pountain, Roy Mwenechanya, Barbara Papadopoulou

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 14, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006052

A temporal comparison of sex-aggregation pheromone gland content and dynamics of release in three members of the Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) species complex

Mikel A. González, Krishna K. Bandi, Melissa J. Bell, Reginaldo P. Brazil, Erin Dilger, Angel Guerrero, Orin Courtenay, James G. C. Hamilton

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 1, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006071

Review of the factors influencing the motivation of community drug distributors towards the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

Alison Krentel, Margaret Gyapong, Shruti Mallya, Nana Yaa Boadu, Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mariana Stephens, Deborah A. McFarland

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 6, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006065

Symptoms associated with adverse dengue fever prognoses at the time of reporting in the 2015 dengue outbreak in Taiwan

Chun-Yin Yeh, Po-Lin Chen, Kun-Ta Chuang, Yu-Chen Shu, Yu-Wen Chien, Guey Chuen Perng, Wen-Chien Ko, Nai-Ying Ko

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 6, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006091

Body size and hosts of Triatoma infestans populations affect the size of bloodmeal contents and female fecundity in rural northwestern Argentina

Ricardo E. Gürtler, María del Pilar Fernández, María Carla Cecere, Joel E. Cohen

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 6, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006097

The physicochemical fingerprint of Necator americanus

Veeren M. Chauhan, David J. Scurr, Thomas Christie, Gary Telford, Jonathan W. Aylott, David I. Pritchard

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005971

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Presentation of life-threatening invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella disease in Malawian children: A prospective observational study

Calman A. MacLennan, Chisomo L. Msefula, Esther N. Gondwe, James J. Gilchrist, Paul Pensulo, Wilson L. Mandala, Grace Mwimaniwa, Meraby Banda, Julia Kenny, Lorna K. Wilson, Amos Phiri, Jenny M. MacLennan, Elizabeth M. Molyneux, Malcolm E. Molyneux, Stephen M. Graham

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006027

A thermostable messenger RNA based vaccine against rabies

Lothar Stitz, Annette Vogel, Margit Schnee, Daniel Voss, Susanne Rauch, Thorsten Mutzke, Thomas Ketterer, Thomas Kramps, Benjamin Petsch

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006108

Tracking the career development of scientists in low- and middle-income countries trained through TDR’s research capacity strengthening programmes: Learning from monitoring and impact evaluation

Béatrice Halpaap, Mahnaz Vahedi, Edith Certain, Tini Alvarado, Caroline Saint Martin, Corinne Merle, Michael Mihut, Pascal Launois

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006112

Assessing the benefits of five years of different approaches to treatment of urogenital schistosomiasis: A SCORE project in Northern Mozambique

Anna E. Phillips, Pedro H. Gazzinelli-Guimaraes, Herminio O. Aurelio, Josefo Ferro, Rassul Nala, Michelle Clements, Charles H. King, Alan Fenwick, Fiona M. Fleming, Neerav Dhanani

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 8, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006061

Interpreting ambiguous ‘trace’ results in Schistosoma mansoni CCA Tests: Estimating sensitivity and specificity of ambiguous results with no gold standard

Michelle N. Clements, Christl A. Donnelly, Alan Fenwick, Narcis B. Kabatereine, Sarah C. L. Knowles, Aboulaye Meité, Eliézer K. N'Goran, Yolisa Nalule, Sarah Nogaro, Anna E. Phillips, Edridah Muheki Tukahebwa, Fiona M. Fleming

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 8, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006102

Low cost, low tech SNP genotyping tools for resource-limited areas: Plague in Madagascar as a model

Cedar L. Mitchell, Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana, Rebecca E. Colman, Joseph Busch, Heidie Hornstra-O’Neill, Paul S. Keim, David M. Wagner, Minoarisoa Rajerison, Dawn N. Birdsell

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 11, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006077

Longitudinal assessment of anti-PGL-I serology in contacts of leprosy patients in Bangladesh

Renate A. Richardus, Konrad van der Zwet, Anouk van Hooij, Louis Wilson, Linda Oskam, Roel Faber, Susan J. F. van den Eeden, David Pahan, Khorshed Alam, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Annemieke Geluk

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 11, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006083

Characterization of the Giardia intestinalis secretome during interaction with human intestinal epithelial cells: The impact on host cells

Showgy Y. Ma’ayeh, Jingyi Liu, Dimitra Peirasmaki, Katarina Hörnaeus, Sara Bergström Lind, Manfred Grabherr, Jonas Bergquist, Staffan G. Svärd

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 11, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006120

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Trachomatous scarring among children in a formerly hyper-endemic district of Tanzania

Jacob T. Cox, Harran Mkocha, Beatriz Munoz, Sheila K. West

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 12, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006085

Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Ghana: Providing evidence through a pre-validation survey

Oscar Debrah, Ernest O. Mensah, Laura Senyonjo, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Tei E. Hervie, David Agyemang, Didier Bakajika, Benjamin Marfo, Felix Ahorsu, Seth Wanye, Robin Bailey, Joseph B. Koroma, Agatha Aboe, Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 12, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006099

RNA interference in Fasciola gigantica: Establishing and optimization of experimental RNAi in the newly excysted juveniles of the fluke

Arun Anandanarayanan, Opinder Krishen Raina, Hniang Lalrinkima, Ajayta Rialch, Muthu Sankar, Anju Varghese

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 12, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006109

Virulence, pathology, and pathogenesis of Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV) in BALB/c mice: Development of an animal infection model for PRV

Kazutaka Egawa, Masayuki Shimojima, Satoshi Taniguchi, Noriyo Nagata, Hideki Tani, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Takeshi Kurosu, Shumpei Watanabe, Shuetsu Fukushi, Masayuki Saijo

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 14, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006076

Polypyridylruthenium(II) complexes exert anti-schistosome activity and inhibit parasite acetylcholinesterases

Madhu K. Sundaraneedi, Bemnet A. Tedla, Ramon M. Eichenberger, Luke Becker, Darren Pickering, Michael J. Smout, Siji Rajan, Phurpa Wangchuk, F. Richard Keene, Alex Loukas, J. Grant Collins, Mark S. Pearson

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 14, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006134

Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmission in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil

Amanda N. B. Fontes, Luana N. G. C. Lima, Rosa M. S. Mota, Rosa L. F. Almeida, Maria A. Pontes, Heitor de S. Gonçalves, Cristiane C. Frota, Varalakshmi D. Vissa, Patrick J. Brennan, Ricardo J. P. S. Guimaraes, Carl Kendall, Ligia R. F. S. Kerr, Philip N. Suffys

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 15, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006117

Analysis of the efficacy of Taiwanese freeze-dried neurotoxic antivenom against Naja kaouthia, Naja siamensis and Ophiophagus hannah through proteomics and animal model approaches

Chien-Chun Liu, Chen-Hsien You, Po-Jung Wang, Jau-Song Yu, Guo-Jen Huang, Chien-Hsin Liu, Wen-Chin Hsieh, Chih-Chuan Lin

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 15, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006138

Increased activated memory B-cells in the peripheral blood of patients with erythema nodosum leprosum reactions

Edessa Negera, Stephen L. Walker, Yonas Bekele, Hazel M. Dockrell, Diana N. Lockwood

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 18, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006121

Host immunity, nutrition and coinfection alter longitudinal infection patterns of schistosomes in a free ranging African buffalo population

Brianna R. Beechler, Anna E. Jolles, Sarah A. Budischak, Paul L. A. M. Corstjens, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Mireya Smith, Robert S. Spaan, Govert J. van Dam, Michelle L. Steinauer

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 18, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006122

Human Neutrophil Peptide 1 as immunotherapeutic agent against Leishmania infected BALB/c mice

Zahra Abdossamadi, Negar Seyed, Farnaz Zahedifard, Tahereh Taheri, Yasaman Taslimi, Hossein Montakhab-Yeganeh, Alireza Badirzadeh, Mohammad Vasei, Safoora Gharibzadeh, Sima Rafati

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 18, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006123

New insights into Trypanosoma cruzi evolution, genotyping and molecular diagnostics from satellite DNA sequence analysis

Juan C. Ramírez, Carolina Torres, María de los A. Curto, Alejandro G. Schijman

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 18, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006139

Social-ecological factors and preventive actions decrease the risk of dengue infection at the household-level: Results from a prospective dengue surveillance study in Machala, Ecuador

Aileen Kenneson, Efraín Beltrán-Ayala, Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova, Mark E. Polhemus, Sadie J. Ryan, Timothy P. Endy, Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 18, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006150

Cost-effectiveness analysis of diarrhoea management approaches in Nigeria: A decision analytical model

Charles E. Okafor, Obinna I. Ekwunife

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 19, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006124

Long-lived CD8+ T cell responses following Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus infection

Dominique Goedhals, Janusz T. Paweska, Felicity J. Burt

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 19, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006149

Individual co-variation between viral RNA load and gene expression reveals novel host factors during early dengue virus infection of the Aedes aegypti midgut

Vincent Raquin, Sarah Hélène Merkling, Valérie Gausson, Isabelle Moltini-Conclois, Lionel Frangeul, Hugo Varet, Marie-Agnès Dillies, Maria-Carla Saleh, Louis Lambrechts

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 19, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006152

Assessment of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for filariae detection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Djamel Tahir, Lionel Almeras, Marie Varloud, Didier Raoult, Bernard Davoust, Philippe Parola

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006093

SYN023, a novel humanized monoclonal antibody cocktail, for post-exposure prophylaxis of rabies

Tzu-Yuan Chao, Shiqi Ren, Enyun Shen, Susan Moore, Shou-feng Zhang, Li Chen, Charles E. Rupprecht, Eric Tsao

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006133

The detection of cryptic Plasmodium infection among villagers in Attapeu province, Lao PDR

Moritoshi Iwagami, Sengdeuane Keomalaphet, Phonepadith Khattignavong, Pheovaly Soundala, Lavy Lorphachan, Emilie Matsumoto-Takahashi, Michel Strobel, Daniel Reinharz, Manisack Phommasansack, Bouasy Hongvanthong, Paul T. Brey, Shigeyuki Kano

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006148

Ontogeny of the B- and T-cell response in a primary Zika virus infection of a dengue-naïve individual during the 2016 outbreak in Miami, FL

Michael J. Ricciardi, Diogo M. Magnani, Alba Grifoni, Young-Chan Kwon, Martin J. Gutman, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Karthik Gangavarapu, Mark Sharkey, Cassia G. T. Silveira, Varian K. Bailey, Núria Pedreño-Lopez, Lucas Gonzalez-Nieto, Helen S. Maxwell, Aline Domingues, Mauricio A. Martins, John Pham, Daniela Weiskopf, John Altman, Esper G. Kallas, Kristian G. Andersen, Mario Stevenson, Paola Lichtenberger, Hyeryun Choe, Stephen S. Whitehead, Alessandro Sette, David I. Watkins

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006000

Development and evaluation of an anti-rabies virus phosphoprotein-specific monoclonal antibody for detection of rabies neutralizing antibodies using RFFIT

Jihye Um, Byung Chul Chun, Yeong Seon Lee, Kyu Jam Hwang, Dong-Kun Yang, Jun-Sun Park, Su Yeon Kim

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006084

Quantifying the burden of vampire bat rabies in Peruvian livestock

Julio A. Benavides, Elizabeth Rojas Paniagua, Katie Hampson, William Valderrama, Daniel G. Streicker

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006105

Elucidating the impact of low doses of nano-formulated benznidazole in acute experimental Chagas disease

Marcela S. Rial, María L. Scalise, Eva C. Arrúa, Mónica I. Esteva, Claudio J. Salomon, Laura E. Fichera

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Mutational analysis of Rift Valley fever phlebovirus nucleocapsid protein indicates novel conserved, functional amino acids

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Isolation and sequencing of Dashli virus, a novel Sicilian-like virus in sandflies from Iran; genetic and phylogenetic evidence for the creation of one novel species within the Phlebovirus genus in the Phenuiviridae family

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Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) scheme for Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue: Application to yaws in Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

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Competitiveness and survival of two strains of Glossina palpalis gambiensis in an urban area of Senegal

Mireille Djimangali Bassène, Momar Talla Seck, Soumaïla Pagabeleguem, Assane Gueye Fall, Baba Sall, Marc J. B. Vreysen, Geoffrey Gimonneau, Jérémy Bouyer

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Correction: CD8⁺ T cells provide immune protection against murine disseminated endotheliotropic Orientia tsutsugamushi infection

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