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The presence of knockdown resistance mutations reduces male mating competitiveness in the major arbovirus vector, Aedes aegypti

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 5, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009121

Could a rabies incursion spread in the northern Australian dingo population? Development of a spatial stochastic simulation model

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 12, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009124

Comparative virulence of three different strains of Burkholderia pseudomallei in an aerosol non-human primate model

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 11, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009125

Effect of immunosuppressants on the parasite load developed in, and immune response to, visceral leishmaniasis: A comparative study in a mouse model

Lorena Bernardo, Jose Carlos Solana, Alba Romero-Kauss, Carmen Sánchez, Eugenia Carrillo, Javier Moreno

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 1, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009126

Impact of seven years of mass drug administration and recrudescence of Schistosoma haematobium infections after one year of treatment gap in Zanzibar: Repeated cross-sectional studies

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 12, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009127

Effects of steroid therapy in patients with severe fever with Thrombocytopenia syndrome: A multicenter clinical cohort study

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 19, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009128

Costs and outcomes of active and passive case detection for visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar) to inform elimination strategies in Bihar, India

Natalie J. Dial, Graham F. Medley, Simon L. Croft, Tanmay Mahapatra, Khushbu Priyamvada, Bikas Sinha, Lucy Palmer, Fern Terris-Prestholt

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 3, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009129

The impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on health and wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A case study of Kenya

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 11, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009131

Nucleotide sugar biosynthesis occurs in the glycosomes of procyclic and bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei

Maria Lucia Sampaio Guther, Alan R. Prescott, Sabine Kuettel, Michele Tinti, Michael A. J. Ferguson

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 16, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009132

Comparison of clinical characteristics of Zika and dengue symptomatic infections and other acute illnesses of unidentified origin in Mexico

Pablo F. Belaunzarán-Zamudio, Allyson Mateja, Paola del Carmen Guerra-de-Blas, Héctor A. Rincón-León, Karla Navarro-Fuentes, Emilia Ruiz-Hernández, Sandra Caballero-Sosa, Francisco Camas-Durán, Zoila Priego-Smith, José G Nájera-Cancino, Alexander López-Roblero, Karina del Carmen Trujillo-Murillo, John H. Powers, Sally Hunsberger, Sophia Siddiqui, John H. Beigel, Raydel Valdés-Salgado, Guillermo Ruiz-Palacios, the Mexican Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network (LaRed)

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 16, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009133

The cell surface protein MUL_3720 confers binding of the skin pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans to sulfated glycans and keratin

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Immune response dynamics and Lutzomyia longipalpis exposure characterize a biosignature of visceral leishmaniasis susceptibility in a canine cohort

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Malaria and helminth co-infections in children living in endemic countries: A systematic review with meta-analysis

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The influence of roads on the fine-scale population genetic structure of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus)

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Defining the need for public health control of scabies in Solomon Islands

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The intersection of land use and human behavior as risk factors for zoonotic pathogen exposure in Laikipia County, Kenya

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Identification of drug resistance mutations among Mycobacterium bovis lineages in the Americas

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Molecular diagnosis of scabies using a novel probe-based polymerase chain reaction assay targeting high-copy number repetitive sequences in the Sarcoptes scabiei genome

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Biogeographical venom variation in the Indian spectacled cobra (Naja naja) underscores the pressing need for pan-India efficacious snakebite therapy

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 4, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009151

Establishing and evaluation of a polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Echinococcus multilocularis in human tissue

Johannes Grimm, Julian Krickl, Annika Beck, Juliane Nell, Monika Bergmann, Dennis Tappe, Beate Grüner, Thomas FE Barth, Klaus Brehm

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 25, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009155

A prospective study to evaluate the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosis of human leptospirosis: Result from THAI-LEPTO AKI study

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Delayed diagnosis of spinal cord schistosomiasis in a non-endemic country: A tertiary referral centre experience

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Developmental outcomes in children exposed to Zika virus in utero from a Brazilian urban slum cohort study

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Accelerating elimination of sleeping sickness from the Guinean littoral through enhanced screening in the post-Ebola context: A retrospective analysis

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Examining the Ugandan health system’s readiness to deliver rheumatic heart disease-related services

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Heterogeneity in response to serological exposure markers of recent Plasmodium vivax infections in contrasting epidemiological contexts

Jason Rosado, Michael T. White, Rhea J. Longley, Marcus Lacerda, Wuelton Monteiro, Jessica Brewster, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Mitchel Guzman-Guzman, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Joseph M. Vinetz, Dionicia Gamboa, Ivo Mueller

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Indigenous knowledge of Rift Valley Fever among Somali nomadic pastoralists and its implications on public health delivery approaches in Ijara sub-County, North Eastern Kenya

Geoffrey Otieno Muga, Washington Onyango-Ouma, Rosemary Sang, Hippolyte Affognon

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published February 22, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009166

A family-based intervention for prevention and self-management of disabilities due to leprosy, podoconiosis and lymphatic filariasis in Ethiopia: A proof of concept study

Anna T. van‘t Noordende, Moges Wubie Aycheh, Tesfaye Tadesse, Tanny Hagens, Eva Haverkort, Alice P. Schippers

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Human infection with Seoul orthohantavirus in Korea, 2019

Changmin Kang, Jin Il Kim, Jungmin Lee, Seongman Bae, Min Jae Kim, Ki-Joon Song, Jin-Won Song, Sung-Han Kim, Man-Seong Park

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NLRP6-associated host microbiota composition impacts in the intestinal barrier to systemic dissemination of Brucella abortus

Marcella Rungue, Victor Melo, David Martins, Priscila C. Campos, Gabriela Leles, Izabela Galvão, Viviani Mendes, Mariana Aganetti, Ágatha Pedersen, Natan R. G. Assis, Raiany Santos, Geovanni D. Cassali, Ana Lúcia B. Godard, Flaviano S. Martins, Sergio C. Oliveira, Angélica T. Vieira

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Host interactions of Aedes albopictus, an invasive vector of arboviruses, in Virginia, USA

Eliza A. H. Little, Olivia T. Harriott, Karen I. Akaratovic, Jay P. Kiser, Charles F. Abadam, John J. Shepard, Goudarz Molaei

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Fully automated point-of-care differential diagnosis of acute febrile illness

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Infertility and fecundity loss of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti hatched from quiescent eggs is expected to alter invasion dynamics

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Analysis of D-A locus of tRNA-linked short tandem repeats reveals transmission of Entamoeba histolytica and E. dispar among students in the Thai-Myanmar border region of northwest Thailand

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