Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon [PDF]
, 2014 Many developing regions around the world rely on community-based healthcare strategies and practices to deal with prevention and control of often neglected diseases, by educating the local population and healthcare professionals, on the mechanisms by ...
Cesario, Manuel +4 more
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Emerging visceral leishmaniasis patients in mid Southern Himalayan region: A public health concern
Journal of Vector Borne DiseasesBackground & objectives: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL, or Kala-azar) is a potentially lethal vector-borne disease caused by intracellular protozoa of the genus Leishmania, serves as the primary reservoir; traditionally endemic to Bihar, Jharkhand, West ...
Shivnarayan Sahu +3 more
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Cocirculation of 2 Genotypes of Toscana Virus, Southeastern France
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 Toscana virus (TOSV), an arthropodborne phlebovirus transmitted by sandflies, can cause febrile illness and meningitis. The vector of TOSV in France was unknown. We detected TOSV RNA in 2 (female Phlebotomus perniciosus) of 61 pools of sandflies captured
Remi N. Charrel +8 more
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Laboratory and semi-field evaluation of long-lasting insecticidal nets against leishmaniasis vector, Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) duboscqi in Kenya [PDF]
, 2010 Background & objectives: Phlebotomine sandflies are vectors of leishmaniases and other diseases.Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) as possible tools for control have not been widely testedagainst them. The objective of this study was to determine the
Sichangi Kasili, Helen Kutima, Charles Mwandawiro, Philip M. Ngumbi , Christopher O. Anjili
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Global distribution maps of the leishmaniases [PDF]
, 2014 The leishmaniases are vector-borne diseases that have a broad global distribution throughout much of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Despite representing a significant public health burden, our understanding of the global distribution of the ...
Alvar +83 more
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Mapping the distribution of sandflies and sandfly-associated pathogens in China
PLOS Neglected Tropical DiseasesBackground Understanding and mapping the distribution of sandflies and sandfly-associated pathogens (SAPs) is crucial for guiding the surveillance and control effort. However, their distribution and the related risk burden in China remain poorly understood.
Xue-Geng Hong +12 more
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Chandipura virus in India: A comprehensive epidemiological review
Journal of Vector Borne DiseasesThe Chandipura virus (CHPV) is an emerging arbovirus in India, transmitted primarily by sandflies and associated with outbreaks of acute encephalitis in children.
Neeraj Pawar, Aswani Kumar Seth
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Leishmania promastigotes evade interleukin 12 (IL-12) induction by macrophages and stimulate a broad range of cytokines from CD4+ T cells during initiation of infection. [PDF]
, 1994 Leishmania major are intramacrophage parasites whose eradication requires the induction of T helper 1 (Th1) effector cells capable of activating macrophages to a microbicidal state.
Locksley, RM +4 more
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Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 650-651, April 2026.
Jessie T. Lu +2 more
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Data for Elimination of visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent: a comparison of predictions from three transmission models: Warwick model description and parameter uncertainty analysis [PDF]
, 2017 We present three transmission models of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent (ISC) with structural differences regarding the disease stage that provides the main contribution to transmission, including models with a prominent role of ...
Chapman, Lloyd A. C. +3 more
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