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Validation of the rapid assessment procedure for loiasis (RAPLOA) in the democratic republic of CongoS [PDF]

, 2012
Background: A simple method called RAPLOA, to rapidly assess what proportion of people in a community are infected with L. loa and hence which communities are at high risk of severe adverse reactions following ivermectin treatment, was developed in ...
Tepage, Floribert, Akotshi, Dowo O., Mutro, Maurice N., Ukety, Tony O., Wanji, Samuel, Remme, Jan H., Diggle, Peter J.   +6 more
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Bringing together emerging and endemic zoonoses surveillance: shared challenges and a common solution [PDF]

, 2012
Early detection of disease outbreaks in human and animal populations is crucial to the effective surveillance of emerging infectious diseases. However, there are marked geographical disparities in capacity for early detection of outbreaks, which limit ...
Knobel, Darryn, Halliday, Jo E.B., Lembo, Tiziana, Halliday, Jo, Handel, Ian Graham, Bronsvoort, Barend M. deC., Bronsvoort, Barend M Dec, Halliday, Joanna, Auty, Harriet, Bronsvoort, Mark, Hampson, Katie, Handel, Ian, Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare, Cleaveland, Sarah, Daborn, Chris, Knobel, Darryn Leslie, Mtema, Zacharia   +16 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Endemic cattle diseases : comparative epidemiology and governance [PDF]

, 2011
Cattle are infected by a community of endemic pathogens with different epidemiological properties which invoke different managerial and governmental responses. We present characteristics of pathogens that influence their ability to persist in the UK, and
McEldowney, John F., Matt Keeling, Carslake, David, Jonathan Cave, Graham F. Medley, Green, Laura E.; id_orcid, Keeling, Matt, Greaves, Justin, Medley, Graham F., David Carslake, Keeling, Matthew James, Laura E. Green, Cave, Jonathan, Weldegebriel, Habtu, Medley, Graham, Justin Greaves, McEldowney, John, Weldegebriel, Habtu Tadesse, Grant, Wyn, Green, Laura E., Habtu Weldegebriel, Cave, Jonathan A. K., John McEldowney, Wyn Grant   +23 more
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High Diversity and Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Wildlife Hosts, Domestic Animals, and Ticks in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (BBSL), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is commonly found in wild and domestic mammals and ticks worldwide. In China, human cases of Borrelia burgdorferi infections have been identified across a wide geographic range ...
Zhihai He, Zhihai He, Baogui Jiang, Lin Huang, Lin Huang, Zongti Shao, Yun Zhang, Yuqiong Li, Ennian Pu, Xingde Duan, Hang Jiang, Jian Wang, Mingguo Yao, Fan Wang, Shuangshuang Bie, Michael E. von Fricken, Yi Sun, Yi Dong, Jiafu Jiang, Chunhong Du   +19 more
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Conflict of interest:use of pyrethroids and amidines against tsetse and ticks in zoonotic sleeping sickness endemic areas of Uganda [PDF]

, 2013
Caused by trypanosomes and transmitted by tsetse flies, Human African Trypanosomiasis and bovine trypanosomiasis remain endemic across much of rural Uganda where the major reservoir of acute human infection is cattle.
Welburn Susan C., Katie Hampson, Waiswa, Charles, Sambo, Maganga, Bardosh, Kevin, Welburn, Susan C, Susan C Welburn, Maganga Sambo, Sikana Lwitiko, Hampson, Katie, Bardosh Kevin, Hampson Katie, Kevin Bardosh, Lwitiko Sikana, Sikana, Lwitiko, Welburn, Susan C., Sambo Maganga, Bardosh, Kevin Louis   +17 more
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Role of ecological approaches to eliminating schistosomiasis in Eryuan County evaluated by system modelling

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018
Background Schistosomiasis was severely prevalent in Yunnan Province, and it is difficult to achieve its elimination by convention approaches due to complexity of the nature.
Yi Dong, Chun-Hong Du, Yun Zhang, Li-Fang Wang, Jing Song, Ming-Shou Wu, Wen-Can Yang, Shan Lv, Xiao-Nong Zhou   +8 more
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Efficacy of imidacloprid/flumethrin collar in preventing canine leishmaniosis in Brazil

, 2022
The Leishmania infantum (synonym, Leishmania chagasi) causes life-threatening infection, namely canine leishmaniosis (CanL), which is a chronic zoonosis prevalent in various countries and spread by the bite of the infected Lutzomyia female sandfly in ...
Santos-Doni, Thais Rabelo, Calemes, Eliana Bravo [UNESP], Nagata, Walter Bertequini [UNESP], Alves, Graziella Borges [UNESP], Santos, Gisele Moraes dos [UNESP], Ferrari, Elis Domingos [UNESP], Rozza, Daniela Bernadete [UNESP], de Oliveira, Talita Carolina Bragança [UNESP], da Silva, Debóra Regina Romualdo [UNESP], Bresciani, Katia Denise Saraiva [UNESP], Rodas, Lilian Colebrusco, Nakamura, Alex Akira [UNESP], Requena, Keuryn Alessandra Mira Luz [UNESP]   +12 more
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Treatment-Based Strategy for the Management of Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Patients in the Sudan

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2013
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermatosis that affects more than 50% of successfully treated visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients in Sudan.
A. M. Musa, E. A. G. Khalil, B. M. Younis, M. E. E. Elfaki, M. Y. Elamin, A. O. A. Adam, H. A. A. Mohamed, M. M. M. Dafalla, A. A. Abuzaid, A. M. El-Hassan   +9 more
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Challenges imposed by minor reference alleles on the identification and reporting of clinical variants from exome data

BMC Genomics, 2018
Background The conventional variant calling of pathogenic alleles in exome and genome sequencing requires the presence of the non-pathogenic alleles as genome references.
Mahmoud Koko, Mohammed O. E. Abdallah, Mutaz Amin, Muntaser Ibrahim   +3 more
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