| | Editorial Waging Peace through Neglected Tropical Disease Control: A US Foreign Policy for the Bottom Billion Peter J. Hotez and Tommy G. Thompson PMCID: PMC2625433 Viewpoints Does Deworming Improve Growth and School Performance in Children? David Taylor-Robinson, Ashley Jones, and Paul Garner PMCID: PMC2627941 Evidence-Based Policy on Deworming Dirk Engels and Lorenzo Savioli PMCID: PMC2625435 Deworming and Development: Asking the Right Questions, Asking the Questions Right Donald A. P. Bundy, Michael Kremer, Hoyt Bleakley, Matthew C. H. Jukes, and Edward Miguel PMCID: PMC2627944 Research Articles Mefloquine—An Aminoalcohol with Promising Antischistosomal Properties in Mice Jennifer Keiser, Jacques Chollet, Shu-Hua Xiao, Jin-Yan Mei, Pei-Ying Jiao, Jürg Utzinger, and Marcel Tanner PMCID: PMC2600813 The Effect of Insecticide Synergists on the Response of Scabies Mites to Pyrethroid Acaricides Cielo Pasay, Larry Arlian, Marjorie Morgan, Robin Gunning, Louise Rossiter, Deborah Holt, Shelley Walton, Simone Beckham, and James McCarthy PMCID: PMC2603020 Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination Programme in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal: Reshaping the Case Finding/Case Management Strategy Dinesh Mondal, Shri Prakash Singh, Narendra Kumar, Anand Joshi, Shyam Sundar, Pradeep Das, Hirve Siddhivinayak, Axel Kroeger, and Marleen Boelaert PMCID: PMC2607537 Discovery of a Non-Peptidic Inhibitor of West Nile Virus NS3 Protease by High-Throughput Docking Dariusz Ekonomiuk, Xun-Cheng Su, Kiyoshi Ozawa, Christophe Bodenreider, Siew Pheng Lim, Zheng Yin, Thomas H. Keller, David Beer, Viral Patel, Gottfried Otting, Amedeo Caflisch, and Danzhi Huang PMCID: PMC2613028 Taste, A New Incentive to Switch to (R)-Praziquantel in Schistosomiasis Treatment Thorsten Meyer, Harald Sekljic, Stefan Fuchs, Heiko Bothe, Dieter Schollmeyer, and Christian Miculka PMCID: PMC2614124 Diagnostic Accuracy of NS1 ELISA and Lateral Flow Rapid Tests for Dengue Sensitivity, Specificity and Relationship to Viraemia and Antibody Responses Vu Ty Hang, Nguyen Minh Nguyet, Dinh The Trung, Vianney Tricou, Sutee Yoksan, Nguyen Minh Dung, Tran Van Ngoc, Tran Tinh Hien, Jeremy Farrar, Bridget Wills, and Cameron P. Simmons PMCID: PMC2614471 Prevalence Distribution and Risk Factors for Schistosoma hematobium Infection among School Children in Blantyre, Malawi Atupele P. Kapito-Tembo, Victor Mwapasa, Steven R. Meshnick, Young Samanyika, Dan Banda, Cameron Bowie, and Sarah Radke PMCID: PMC2614474 Cost-Effectiveness of Chagas Disease Vector Control Strategies in Northwestern Argentina Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, Cynthia Spillmann, Mario Zaidenberg, Uriel Kitron, and Ricardo E. Gürtler PMCID: PMC2613538 Landscape Changes Influence the Occurrence of the Melioidosis Bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei in Soil in Northern Australia Mirjam Kaestli, Mark Mayo, Glenda Harrington, Linda Ward, Felicity Watt, Jason V. Hill, Allen C. Cheng, and Bart J. Currie PMCID: PMC2617783 Molecular and Behavioral Differentiation among Brazilian Populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) Alejandra S. Araki, Felipe M. Vigoder, Luiz G. S. R. Bauzer, Gabriel E. M. Ferreira, Nataly A. Souza, Izeneide B. Araújo, James G. C. Hamilton, Reginaldo P. Brazil, and Alexandre A. Peixoto PMCID: PMC2628317 Field Validity and Feasibility of Four Techniques for the Detection of Trichuris in Simians: A Model for Monitoring Drug Efficacy in Public Health? Bruno Levecke, Nathalie De Wilde, Els Vandenhoute, and Jozef Vercruysse PMCID: PMC2621347 A New PCR-Based Approach Indicates the Range of Clonorchis sinensis Now Extends to Central Thailand Rebecca J. Traub, Julie Macaranas, Mathirut Mungthin, Saovanee Leelayoova, Thomas Cribb, K. Darwin Murrell, and R. C. Andrew Thompson PMCID: PMC2614470 The Importance of pH in Regulating the Function of the Fasciola hepatica Cathepsin L1 Cysteine Protease Jonathan Lowther, Mark W. Robinson, Sheila M. Donnelly, Weibo Xu, Colin M. Stack, Jacqueline M. Matthews, and John P. Dalton PMCID: PMC2621350 Geohelminth Infections among Pregnant Women in Rural Western Kenya; a Cross-Sectional Study Anna M. van Eijk, Kim A. Lindblade, Frank Odhiambo, Elizabeth Peterson, Daniel H. Rosen, Diana Karanja, John G. Ayisi, Ya Ping Shi, Kubaje Adazu, and Laurence Slutsker PMCID: PMC2627942 Taenia solium Cysticercosis Hotspots Surrounding Tapeworm Carriers: Clustering on Human Seroprevalence but Not on Seizures Andres G. Lescano, Hector H. Garcia, Robert H. Gilman, Cesar M. Gavidia, Victor C. W. Tsang, Silvia Rodriguez, Lawrence H. Moulton, Manuel V. Villaran, Silvia M. Montano, Armando E. Gonzalez, and and the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru PMCID: PMC2625436 Correction Correction: Leishmanicidal Metabolites from Cochliobolus sp., an Endophytic Fungus Isolated from Piptadenia adiantoides (Fabaceae) Fernanda Fraga Campos, Luiz Henrique Rosa, Betania Barros Cota, Rachel Basques Caligiorne, Ana Lúcia Teles Rabello, Tânia Maria Almeida Alves, Carlos Augusto Rosa, and Carlos Leomar Zani PMCID: PMC2645791 Corrects: Fernanda Fraga Campos, et al. Leishmanicidal Metabolites from Cochliobolus sp., an Endophytic Fungus Isolated from Piptadenia adiantoides (Fabaceae). PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 December; 2(12): e348. |
