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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach [PDF]
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide ...
Gollin, Douglas, Zimmermann, Christian
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Direction & Dilemma of Tropical Oral Health: a position paper [PDF]
, 2006 A number of tropical and communicable diseases are evident as oral manifestations. The tropical and communicable disease of oral health concern is an issue because, not only it is restricted to tropical countries, it is also affecting an underserved ...
Choudhury, C.R.
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An economic evaluation of expanding hookworm control strategies to target the whole community
Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background The WHO treatment guidelines for the soil-transmitted helminths (STH) focus on targeting children for the control of morbidity induced by heavy infections.
Hugo C. Turner +7 more
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Review of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB: global perspectives with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2010 Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and is responsible for 1.7 million deaths annually. Widespread global misuse of isoniazid and rifampicin over three decades has resulted in emergence of the ominous spread of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB ...
Abdool Karim +70 more
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2023 Chagas disease, which is caused by infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is a leading neglected tropical disease in the United States. An estimated 240 000 to 350 000 persons in the United States are infected, primarily immigrants from Mexico ...
Natasha S. Hochberg, Susan P. Montgomery
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WikiJournal of Medicine, 2019 Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by Lassa virus (Lassa mammarenavirus), a negative-sense single-stranded RNA virus of the Arenaviridae family. In most cases Lassa virus infection is asymptomatic (presenting no symptom). When symptomatic it
Abdulmutalab Musa
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Salmonella Typhi, Paratyphi A, Enteritidis and Typhimurium core proteomes reveal differentially expressed proteins linked to the cell surface and pathogenicity [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica contains more than 2,600 serovars of which four are of major medical relevance for humans. While the typhoidal serovars (Typhi and Paratyphi A) are human-restricted and cause enteric fever, non-typhoidal ...
Barbé, Barbara +7 more
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Recombinant snakebite antivenoms: A cost-competitive solution to a neglected tropical disease?
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Snakebite envenoming is a major public health burden in tropical parts of the developing world. In sub-Saharan Africa, neglect has led to a scarcity of antivenoms threatening the lives and limbs of snakebite victims.
A. H. Laustsen +3 more
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African trypanosomiasis in travelers returning to the United Kingdom. [PDF]
, 2002 Two returning safari tourists with African trypanosomiasis were admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, in a 3-day period, compared with six cases in the previous 14 years.
Agranoff, Dan +6 more
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International Health, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have emerged as a global pledge to ‘leave no one behind’. Under SDG 3, ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all’, target 3.3 extends the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) beyond HIV, TB and malaria to
C. Fitzpatrick, D. Engels
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