One World Health: Neglected Tropical Diseases in a Flat World
Globalization has emerged as an important force in revealing the devastating health and economic impact of disease on human populations worldwide.
Globalization has emerged as an important force in revealing the devastating health and economic impact of disease on human populations worldwide.
The authors review how these modeling approaches have been used to visualize and analyze mosquito vector and epidemiologic data for dengue, and they discuss the potential for these approaches to be included as routine activities in operational vector and dengue control programs.
Nigel Beebe and colleagues say that drought-proofing Australia's urban regions by installing large domestic water tanks may enable Aedes aegypti to regain its foothold across the country and expand its range of possible infections.
Researchers find that, a decade after the conclusion of a donor-funded schistosomiasis control program in Mali, prevalence of the disease had regressed to pre-intervention levels, and clusters of infections occurred generally in the original areas.
Minoarisoa Rajerison and colleagues develop and evaluate two tests, to detect specific plague antibodies, that can be used as alternative methods for plague diagnosis and surveillance.
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