Ponpetch, Keerati Erko, Berhanu Bekana, Teshome Richards, Lindsay Liang, Song
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BackgroundIn Ethiopia, schistosomiasis is caused by Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium with the former being widespread and more than 4 million people are estimated to be infected by S. mansoni annually with 35 million at risk of infection. Although many school- and community-based epidemiological surveys were conducted over the past decades, t...
He, Wei Wang, Li-Ying Yu, Wen-Jie Zhang, Guang-Jia Zhong, Bo Liao, Sha Wang, Qi Li, Rui-Rui Yang, Liu Yao, Ren-Xin
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BackgroundEchinococcosis is a global zoonotic parasitic disease caused by Echinococcus larvae. This disease is highly endemic in Sichuan Province, China. This study investigates the prevalence and spatial distribution characteristics of human echinococcosis at the township level in Sichuan Province, geared towards providing a future reference for t...
Geng, Meng-Jie Wang, Li-Ping Ren, Xiang Yu, Jian-Xing Chang, Zhao-Rui Zheng, Can-Jun An, Zhi-Jie Li, Yu Yang, Xiao-Kun Zhao, Hong-Ting
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Feng, Ning Edwards, Jeffrey Karl Owiti, Philip Odhiambo Zhang, Guo-Min Rueda Vallejo, Zulma Vanessa Hann, Katrina Zhou, Shui-Sen Oo, Myo Minn Geoffroy, Elizabeth Marie Ma, Chao
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BackgroundChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) introduced the Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT IT) into China to build a special capacity and equip public health professionals with an effective tool to support developing countries in strengthening their operational research. The paper aims to invest...
Wu, Ling-Ling Hu, He-Hua Zhang, Xia Zhou, Xiao-Nong Jia, Tie-Wu Wang, Can Hong, Zhong Xu, Jing
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BackgroundSchistosomiasis japonica remains an important public health concern due to its potential to cause severe outcomes and long-term sequelae. An integrated control strategy implemented in the Peoples’ Republic of China has been shown to be effective to control or interrupt the transmission of schistosomiasis. The objective of this study is to...
Hu, Xing-Yu Gao, Guang-Ying
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BackgroundPTB is an infectious disease, which not only seriously affects people’s health, but also causes a heavier disease economic burden on patients. At present, reform of the medical insurance payment can be an effective method to control medical expenses. Therefore, our study is to explore the compensation mechanism for pulmonary tuberculosis ...
Buonfrate, Dora Zammarchi, Lorenzo Bisoffi, Zeno Montresor, Antonio Boccalini, Sara
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BackgroundImplementation of control programmes for Strongyloides stercoralis infection is among the targets of the World Health Organization Roadmap to 2030. Aim of this work was to evaluate the possible impact in terms of economic resources and health status of two different strategies of preventive chemotherapy (PC) compared to the current situat...
Munyeku, Yannick Bazitama Musaka, Alain Abera Ernest, Medard Smith, Chris Mansiangi, Paul Mankadi Culleton, Richard
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BackgroundMalaria rapid diagnostic tests have become a primary and critical tool for malaria diagnosis in malaria-endemic countries where Plasmodium falciparum Histidine Rich Protein 2-based rapid diagnostic tests (PfHRP2-based RDTs) are widely used. However, in the last decade, the accuracy of PfHRP2-based RDTs has been challenged by the emergence...
Apinjoh, Tobias O. Ntasin, Veronica N. Tataw, Phil Collins C. Ntui, Vincent N. Njimoh, Dieudonne L. Cho-Ngwa, Fidelis Achidi, Eric A.
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BackgroundMalaria remains a significant health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, with early diagnosis critical to reducing its morbidity and mortality. Despite the increasing Plasmodium spp. diagnostic capabilities, access to testing is limited in some cases by the almost absolute requirement for blood from potentially infected subjects as the only ...
Zheng, Jin-Xin Xia, Shang Lv, Shan Zhang, Yi Bergquist, Robert Zhou, Xiao-Nong
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BackgroundOncomelania hupensis is only intermediate snail host of Schistosoma japonicum, and distribution of O. hupensis is an important indicator for the surveillance of schistosomiasis. This study explored the feasibility of a random forest algorithm weighted by spatial distance for risk prediction of schistosomiasis distribution in the Yangtze R...
