| | Editorial Tropical Diseases Research: Thirty Years and Counting Peter J. Hotez PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e329. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000329.PMCID: PMC2582687 Viewpoints Two Years after the Fourth External Review: TDR Moves Forward with a New Vision and Strategy Robert G. Ridley, Peter Ndumbe, and Rolf Korte PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e307. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000307.PMCID: PMC2583046 The Future of TDR: It Will Share the R&D Landscape with Other National and Multilateral Agencies Anthony Mbewu PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e309. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000309.PMCID: PMC2582329 The Future of TDR: The Need to Adapt to a Changing Global Health Environment Daniel J. Carucci and Michael Gottlieb PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e310. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000310.PMCID: PMC2582328 TDR Thirty Years On: Taking Stock and Envisioning the Future for the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases Abdallah S. Daar, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Mohamed S. Abdullah, Hu Ching-Li, Stephen L. Hoffman, and Martine Berger PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e314. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000314.PMCID: PMC2582684 Research Articles Enumeration of Mycobacterium leprae Using Real-Time PCR Richard W. Truman, P. Kyle Andrews, Naoko Y. Robbins, Linda B. Adams, James L. Krahenbuhl, and Thomas P. Gillis PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e328. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000328.PMCID: PMC2570796 Controlled Chaos of Polymorphic Mucins in a Metazoan Parasite (Schistosoma mansoni) Interacting with Its Invertebrate Host (Biomphalaria glabrata) Emmanuel Roger, Christoph Grunau, Raymond J. Pierce, Hirohisa Hirai, Benjamin Gourbal, Richard Galinier, Rémi Emans, Italo M. Cesari, Céline Cosseau, and Guillaume Mitta PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e330. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000330.PMCID: PMC2576457 Diagnosis of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in the Era of Preventive Chemotherapy: Effect of Multiple Stool Sampling and Use of Different Diagnostic Techniques Stefanie Knopp, Ali F. Mgeni, I. Simba Khamis, Peter Steinmann, J. Russell Stothard, David Rollinson, Hanspeter Marti, and Jürg Utzinger PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e331. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000331.PMCID: PMC2570799 Correlative and Dynamic Imaging of the Hatching Biology of Schistosoma japonicum from Eggs Prepared by High Pressure Freezing Malcolm K. Jones, Sze How Bong, Kathryn M. Green, Philadelphia Holmes, Mary Duke, Alex Loukas, and Donald P. McManus PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e334. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000334.PMCID: PMC2575399 The Costs of Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease in Colombia Marianela Castillo-Riquelme, Felipe Guhl, Brenda Turriago, Nestor Pinto, Fernando Rosas, Mónica Flórez Martínez, Julia Fox-Rushby, Clive Davies, and Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e336. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000336.PMCID: PMC2581604 Quantitative Detection of Schistosoma japonicum Cercariae in Water by Real-Time PCR Yuen Wai Hung and Justin Remais PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e337. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000337.PMCID: PMC2580822 Warmer Weather Linked to Tick Attack and Emergence of Severe Rickettsioses Philippe Parola, Cristina Socolovschi, Luc Jeanjean, Idir Bitam, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Albert Sotto, Pierre Labauge, and Didier Raoult PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e338. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000338.PMCID: PMC2581602 Rabies Exposures, Post-Exposure Prophylaxis and Deaths in a Region of Endemic Canine Rabies Katie Hampson, Andy Dobson, Magai Kaare, Jonathan Dushoff, Matthias Magoto, Emmanuel Sindoya, and Sarah Cleaveland PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e339. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000339.PMCID: PMC2582685 Population Genetics of Schistosoma japonicum within the Philippines Suggest High Levels of Transmission between Humans and Dogs James W. Rudge, Hélène Carabin, Ernesto Balolong, Jr, Veronica Tallo, Jaya Shrivastava, Da-Bing Lu, María-Gloria Basáñez, Remigio Olveda, Stephen T. McGarvey, and Joanne P. Webster PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): e340. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000340.PMCID: PMC2582952 Correction Correction: “It Is Me Who Endures but My Family That Suffers”: Social Isolation as a Consequence of the Household Cost Burden of Buruli Ulcer Free of Charge Hospital Treatment Koen Peeters Grietens, Alphonse Um Boock, Hans Peeters, Susanna Hausmann-Muela, Elizabeth Toomer, and Joan Muela Ribera PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 November; 2(11): 10.1371/annotation/5a338934-9fe1-43be-9b8d-cbf3901ecbf5. Published online 2008 November 26. doi: 10.1371/annotation/5a338934-9fe1-43be-9b8d-cbf3901ecbf5.PMCID: PMC2590762 Corrects: Koen Peeters Grietens, et al. “It Is Me Who Endures but My Family That Suffers”: Social Isolation as a Consequence of the Household Cost Burden of Buruli Ulcer Free of Charge Hospital Treatment. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 October; 2(10): e321. |