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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009904

Lateral flow devices for samples collected by straw sampling method for postmortem canine rabies diagnosis

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 9, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009891

Terrestrial venomous animals, the envenomings they cause, and treatment perspectives in the Middle East and North Africa

Timothy P. Jenkins, Shirin Ahmadi, Matyas A. Bittenbinder, Trenton K. Stewart, Dilber E. Akgun, Melissa Hale, Nafiseh N. Nasrabadi, Darian S. Wolff, Freek J. Vonk, Jeroen Kool, Andreas H. Laustsen

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 2, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009880

Experimental human hookworm infection: a narrative historical review

Paul R. Chapman, Paul Giacomin, Alex Loukas, James S. McCarthy

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 9, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009908

Roadblocks in Chagas disease care in endemic and nonendemic countries: Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States. The NET-Heart project

Andrés F. Miranda-Arboleda, Ezequiel José Zaidel, Rachel Marcus, María Jesús Pinazo, Luis Eduardo Echeverría, Clara Saldarriaga, Álvaro Sosa Liprandi, Adrián Baranchuk, on behalf of the Neglected Tropical Diseases and other Infectious Diseases affecting the Heart (NET-Heart) project

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 30, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009954

Biogeography and genetic diversity of clinical isolates of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Sri Lanka

Himali S. Jayasinghearachchi, Enoka M. Corea, Kumari I. Jayaratne, Regina A. Fonseka, Thilini A. Muthugama, Jayanthi Masakorala, Ravija YC. Ramasinghe, Aruna D. De Silva

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 1, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009917

What is the impact of acquired immunity on the transmission of schistosomiasis and the efficacy of current and planned mass drug administration programmes?

Klodeta Kura, Robert J. Hardwick, James E. Truscott, Roy M. Anderson

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 1, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009946

Evidence of Chikungunya virus seroprevalence in Myanmar among dengue-suspected patients and healthy volunteers in 2013, 2015, and 2018

Elizabeth Ajema Chebichi Luvai, Aung Kyaw Kyaw, Nundu Sabiti Sabin, Fuxun Yu, Saw Wut Hmone, Kyaw Zin Thant, Shingo Inoue, Kouichi Morita, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 1, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009961

Immune responses in multiple hosts to Nucleocapsid Protein (NP) of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV)

Elif Karaaslan, Nesibe Selma Çetin, Merve Kalkan-Yazıcı, Sevde Hasanoğlu, Faruk Karakeçili, Aykut Özdarendeli, Ahmet Kalkan, Ali Osman Kılıç, Mehmet Ziya Doymaz

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 1, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009973

Current characteristics of animal rabies cases in Thailand and relevant risk factors identified by a spatial modeling approach

Weerapong Thanapongtharm, Sarin Suwanpakdee, Arun Chumkaeo, Marius Gilbert, Anuwat Wiratsudakul

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 1, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009980

Morbidity associated with Schistosoma mansoni infection in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Maurice M. Nigo, Peter Odermatt, David Wully Nigo, Georgette B. Salieb-Beugelaar, Manuel Battegay, Patrick R. Hunziker

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 2, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009375

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The feasibility of field collected pig oronasal secretions as specimens for the virologic surveillance of Japanese encephalitis virus

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Culex quinquefasciatus larvae development arrested when fed on Neochloris aquatica

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 6, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009820

Assessment of community support for Wolbachia-mediated population suppression as a control method for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a community cohort in Puerto Rico

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Sero-prevalence of anti-Leptospira antibodies and associated risk factors in rural Rwanda: A cross-sectional study

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009708

A ten-year review of neonatal tetanus cases managed at a tertiary health facility in a resource poor setting: The trend, management challenges and outcome

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 7, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010010

Very high prevalence of infection with the human T cell leukaemia virus type 1c in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: Results of a large cross-sectional community survey

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A MEKK1 – JNK mitogen activated kinase (MAPK) cascade module is active in Echinococcus multilocularis stem cells

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Deep resequencing identifies candidate functional genes in leprosy GWAS loci

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The impact of climate suitability, urbanisation, and connectivity on the expansion of dengue in 21st century Brazil

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 9, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009773

Factors associated with the unwillingness of Jordanians, Palestinians and Syrians to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Sima Zein, Sarah B. Abdallah, Ahmed Al-Smadi, Omar Gammoh, Wajdy J. Al-Awaida, Hanan J. Al-Zein

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 9, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009957

Diagnosis of Taenia solium infections based on “mail order” RNA-sequencing of single tapeworm egg isolates from stool samples

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Canine leishmaniosis in Tunisia: Growing prevalence, larger zones of infection

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Clinical epidemiological characteristics of mycetoma in Eastern Sennar locality, Sennar State, Sudan

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First evaluation of antibody responses to Culex quinquefasciatus salivary antigens as a serological biomarker of human exposure to Culex bites: A pilot study in Côte d’Ivoire

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the potential non-human animal reservoirs and arthropod vectors of the Mayaro virus

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An age-stratified serosurvey against purified Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi antigens in the Lao People´s Democratic Republic

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Leprosy and cutaneous leishmaniasis affecting the same individuals: A retrospective cohort analysis in a hyperendemic area in Brazil

Amanda Gabriela de Carvalho, Anuj Tiwari, João Gabriel Guimarães Luz, Daan Nieboer, Peter Steinmann, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Eliane Ignotti

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Noma (cancrum oris): A scoping literature review of a neglected disease (1843 to 2021)

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Laboratory diagnostic, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics of human leptospirosis in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 2003–2020

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Molecular surveillance of resistance to pyrethroids insecticides in Colombian Aedes aegypti populations

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Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as potential vectors for Leishmania martiniquensis and Trypanosoma sp. in northern Thailand

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A simple assay to quantify mycobacterial lipid antigen-specific T cell receptors in human tissues and blood

Angela X. Zhou, Thomas J. Scriba, Cheryl L. Day, Deanna A. Hagge, Chetan Seshadri

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Decreased glutamate transport in acivicin resistant Leishmania tarentolae

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Transient Ascaris suum larval migration induces intractable chronic pulmonary disease and anemia in mice

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Novel protein candidates for serodiagnosis of African animal trypanosomosis: Evaluation of the diagnostic potential of lysophospholipase and glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma brucei

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Insights from a comprehensive study of Trypanosoma cruzi: A new mitochondrial clade restricted to North and Central America and genetic structure of TcI in the region

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Species identification and phylogenetic analysis of Leishmania isolated from patients, vectors and hares in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, The People’s Republic of China

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Molecular phylogeny of heritable symbionts and microbiota diversity analysis in phlebotominae sand flies and Culex nigripalpus from Colombia

Rafael J. Vivero-Gomez, Víctor A. Castañeda-Monsalve, María Claudia Atencia, Richard Hoyos-Lopez, Gregory D. Hurst, Gloria Cadavid-Restrepo, Claudia Ximena Moreno-Herrera

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009942

The epidemiological characteristics of dengue in high-risk areas of China, 2013–2016

Shaowei Sang, Qiyong Liu, Xiaofang Guo, De Wu, Changwen Ke, Jing Liu-Helmersson, Jinyong Jiang, Yuwei Weng, Yiguan Wang

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009970

Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis before and after preventive chemotherapy initiation in the Philippines: A systematic review and meta-analysis

John Paul Caesar Robles delos Trinos, Luh Putu Lila Wulandari, Naomi Clarke, Vicente Belizario Jr., John Kaldor, Susana Vaz Nery

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010026

The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): A case study of bubonic plague

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 20, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010064

Examination of the interior of sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) abdomen reveals novel cuticular structures involved in pheromone release: Discovering the manifold

Gabriel B. Tonelli, José D. Andrade-Filho, Aldenise M. Campos, Carina Margonari, Amanda R. Amaral, Petr Volf, Elisabeth J. Shaw, James G. C. Hamilton

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009733

Development of a sensitive competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serodiagnosis of Burkholderia mallei, a Tier 1 select agent

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010007

TIPS and splenorenal shunt for complications of portal hypertension in chronic hepatosplenic schistosomiasis–A case series and review of the literature

Tamara Nordmann, Stefan Schlabe, Torsten Feldt, Federico Gobbi, Andreas Krieg, Johannes G. Bode, Andre Fuchs, Christian Kraef, Michael Praktiknjo, Jonel Trebicka, Michael Ramharter, Marylyn M. Addo, Christian Strassburg, Ansgar W. Lohse, Tom Luedde, Stefan Schmiedel, Hans Martin Orth

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 21, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010065

Soil-transmitted helminth infections and nutritional indices among Filipino schoolchildren

Mary Lorraine S. Mationg, Gail M. Williams, Veronica L. Tallo, Remigio M. Olveda, Eindra Aung, Portia Alday, Mark Donald Reñosa, Chona Mae Daga, Jhoys Landicho, Maria Paz Demonteverde, Eunice Diane Santos, Thea Andrea Bravo, Franziska Angly Bieri, Yuesheng Li, Archie C. A. Clements, Peter Steinmann, Kate Halton, Donald E. Stewart, Donald P. McManus, Darren J. Gray

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 22, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010008

Free-ranging pigs identified as a multi-reservoir of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense in the Vavoua area, a historical sleeping sickness focus of Côte d’Ivoire

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 22, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010036

Treponema pallidum genome sequencing from six continents reveals variability in vaccine candidate genes and dominance of Nichols clade strains in Madagascar

Nicole A. P. Lieberman, Michelle J. Lin, Hong Xie, Lasata Shrestha, Tien Nguyen, Meei-Li Huang, Austin M. Haynes, Emily Romeis, Qian-Qiu Wang, Rui-Li Zhang, Cai-Xia Kou, Giulia Ciccarese, Ivano Dal Conte, Marco Cusini, Francesco Drago, Shu-ichi Nakayama, Kenichi Lee, Makoto Ohnishi, Kelika A. Konda, Silver K. Vargas, Maria Eguiluz, Carlos F. Caceres, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Oriol Mitjà, Anne Rompalo, Fiona Mulcahy, Edward W. Hook 3rd, Sheila A. Lukehart, Amanda M. Casto, Pavitra Roychoudhury, Frank DiMaio, Lorenzo Giacani, Alexander L. Greninger

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 22, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010063

Morphological and genomic characterisation of the Schistosoma hybrid infecting humans in Europe reveals admixture between Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis

Julien Kincaid-Smith, Alan Tracey, Ronaldo de Carvalho Augusto, Ingo Bulla, Nancy Holroyd, Anne Rognon, Olivier Rey, Cristian Chaparro, Ana Oleaga, Santiago Mas-Coma, Jean-François Allienne, Christoph Grunau, Matthew Berriman, Jérôme Boissier, Eve Toulza

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 23, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010062

Prevalence and spatial distribution characteristics of human echinococcosis in China

Li-Ying Wang, Min Qin, Ze-Hang Liu, Wei-Ping Wu, Ning Xiao, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Sylvie Manguin, Laurent Gavotte, Roger Frutos

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 28, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009996

Molecular and epidemiological characterization of recurrent Mycobacterium ulcerans infections in Benin

Ronald Gnimavo, Alban Besnard, Horace Degnonvi, Juliana Pipoli Da Fonseca, Marie Kempf, Christian Roch Johnson, Alexandra Boccarossa, Yao Télesphore Brou, Laurent Marsollier, Estelle Marion

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published December 28, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010053

Genetic diversity of Leptospira isolates in Lao PDR and genome analysis of an outbreak strain

Linda Grillová, Matthew T. Robinson, Anisone Chanthongthip, Antony T. Vincent, Cecilia Nieves, Jan Oppelt, Jean-François Mariet, Céline Lorioux, Manivanh Vongsouvath, Mayfong Mayxay, Ooyanong Phonemeexay, Sayaphet Rattanavong, Koukeo Phommasone, Anousone Douangnouvong, David Šmajs, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Paul N. Newton, Mathieu Picardeau

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