PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Volume 11, issue 12, 2017

Ten failings in global neglected tropical diseases control pp. 1-4

Peter J Hotez

Cost-effectiveness analysis of diarrhoea management approaches in Nigeria: A decision analytical model pp. 1-14

Charles E Okafor and Obinna I Ekwunife

Review of the factors influencing the motivation of community drug distributors towards the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) pp. 1-23

Alison Krentel, Margaret Gyapong, Shruti Mallya, Nana Yaa Boadu, Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mariana Stephens and Deborah A McFarland

The physicochemical fingerprint of Necator americanus pp. 1-19

Veeren M Chauhan, David J Scurr, Thomas Christie, Gary Telford, Jonathan W Aylott and David I Pritchard

Tracking the career development of scientists in low- and middle-income countries trained through TDR’s research capacity strengthening programmes: Learning from monitoring and impact evaluation pp. 1-15

Béatrice Halpaap, Mahnaz Vahedi, Edith Certain, Tini Alvarado, Caroline Saint Martin, Corinne Merle, Michael Mihut and Pascal Launois

Volume 11, issue 11, 2017

Turning poop into profit: Cost-effectiveness and soil transmitted helminth infection risk associated with human excreta reuse in Vietnam pp. 1-16

Ngan Tran-Thi, Rachel J Lowe, Janna M Schurer, Tu Vu- Van, Lauren E MacDonald and Phuc Pham-Duc

Poverty and health among CDC plantation labourers in Cameroon: Perceptions, challenges and coping strategies pp. 1-16

Valerie Makoge, Lenneke Vaandrager, Harro Maat and Maria Koelen

Evidence of increased exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in individuals with recent onset psychosis but not with established schizophrenia pp. 1-10

Robert Yolken, E Fuller Torrey and Faith Dickerson

US Gulf Coast states: The rise of neglected tropical diseases in "flyover nation" pp. 1-4

Peter J Hotez and Sheila Jackson Lee

Health seeking behavior following snakebites in Sri Lanka: Results of an island wide community based survey pp. 1-11

Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Nipul Kithsiri Gunawardena, Shaluka Francis Jayamanne, David Griffith Lalloo and Hithanadura Janaka de Silva

Programmatic factors associated with the limited impact of Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin to control Onchocerciasis in three drainage basins of South West Cameroon pp. 1-18

Christian Tetteh Duamor, Fabrice Roberto Datchoua-Poutcheu, Winston Patrick Chounna Ndongmo, Aldof Tah Yoah, Ernest Njukang, Emmanuel Kah, Mary Sheena Maingeh, Jonas Arnaud Kengne-Ouaffo, Dizzle Bita Tayong, Peter A Enyong and Samuel Wanji

Volume 11, issue 10, 2017

Developing a dengue forecast model using machine learning: A case study in China pp. 1-22

Pi Guo, Tao Liu, Qin Zhang, Li Wang, Jianpeng Xiao, Qingying Zhang, Ganfeng Luo, Zhihao Li, Jianfeng He, Yonghui Zhang and Wenjun Ma

A multi-country study of the economic burden of dengue fever: Vietnam, Thailand, and Colombia pp. 1-17

Jung-Seok Lee, Vittal Mogasale, Jacqueline K Lim, Mabel Carabali, Kang-Sung Lee, Chukiat Sirivichayakul, Duc Anh Dang, Diana Cristina Palencia-Florez, Thi Hien Anh Nguyen, Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Pornthep Chanthavanich, Luis Villar, Brian A Maskery and Andrew Farlow

Analysing published global Ebola Virus Disease research using social network analysis pp. 1-24

Christiane Hagel, Felix Weidemann, Stephan Gauch, Suzanne Edwards and Peter Tinnemann

The rationale and cost-effectiveness of a confirmatory mapping tool for lymphatic filariasis: Examples from Ethiopia and Tanzania pp. 1-14

Katherine M Gass, Heven Sime, Upendo J Mwingira, Andreas Nshala, Maria Chikawe, Sonia Pelletreau, Kira A Barbre, Michael S Deming and Maria P Rebollo

Cost-effectiveness of adding indoor residual spraying to case management in Afghan refugee settlements in Northwest Pakistan during a prolonged malaria epidemic pp. 1-18

Natasha Howard, Lorna Guinness, Mark Rowland, Naeem Durrani and Kristian S Hansen

The cost and cost-effectiveness of rapid testing strategies for yaws diagnosis and surveillance pp. 1-18

Christopher Fitzpatrick, Kingsley Asiedu, Anita Sands, Tita Gonzalez Pena, Michael Marks, Oriol Mitja, Filip Meheus and Patrick Van der Stuyft

Prevalence, intensity and risk factors of tungiasis in Kilifi County, Kenya: I. Results from a community-based study pp. 1-19

Susanne Wiese, Lynne Elson, Felix Reichert, Barbara Mambo and Hermann Feldmeier

The cost of mapping trachoma: Data from the Global Trachoma Mapping Project pp. 1-19

Guillaume Trotignon, Ellen Jones, Thomas Engels, Elena Schmidt, Deborah A McFarland, Colin K Macleod, Khaled Amer, Amadou A Bio, Ana Bakhtiari, Sarah Bovill, Amy H Doherty, Asad Aslam Khan, Mariamo Mbofana, Siobhain McCullagh, Tom Millar, Consity Mwale, Lisa A Rotondo, Angela Weaver, Rebecca Willis and Anthony W Solomon

The cost-effectiveness of an eradication programme in the end game: Evidence from guinea worm disease pp. 1-21

Christopher Fitzpatrick, Dieudonné P Sankara, Junerlyn Farah Agua, Lakshmi Jonnalagedda, Filippo Rumi, Adam Weiss, Matthew Braden, Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, Nicole Kruse, Kate Braband and Gautam Biswas

The socio-economic burden of human African trypanosomiasis and the coping strategies of households in the South Western Kenya foci pp. 1-21

Salome A Bukachi, Simiyu Wandibba and Isaac K Nyamongo

A clinical severity scoring system for visceral leishmaniasis in immunocompetent patients in South Sudan pp. 1-15

Suzette S Kämink, Simon M Collin, Tim Harrison, Francis Gatluak, Abdul Wasay Mullahzada and Koert Ritmeijer

Volume 11, issue 9, 2017

Household costs of hospitalized dengue illness in semi-rural Thailand pp. 1-13

Yesim Tozan, Pitcha Ratanawong, Maquines Odhiambo Sewe, Annelies Wilder-Smith and Pattamaporn Kittayapong

Global health policy and neglected tropical diseases: Then, now, and in the years to come pp. 1-5

Thomas Fürst, Paola Salari, Laura Monzón Llamas, Peter Steinmann, Christopher Fitzpatrick and Fabrizio Tediosi

Access to benznidazole for Chagas disease in the United States—Cautious optimism? pp. 1-5

Jonathan D Alpern, Rogelio Lopez-Velez and William M Stauffer

Advocacy for identifying certain animal diseases as “neglected” pp. 1-4

François Louis Roger, Philippe Solano, Jérémy Bouyer, Vincent Porphyre, David Berthier, Marisa Peyre and Pascal Bonnet

Systematic review of clinical trials assessing the therapeutic efficacy of visceral leishmaniasis treatments: A first step to assess the feasibility of establishing an individual patient data sharing platform pp. 1-16

Jacob T Bush, Monique Wasunna, Fabiana Alves, Jorge Alvar, Piero L Olliaro, Michael Otieno, Carol Hopkins Sibley, Nathalie Strub Wourgaft and Philippe J Guerin

Cost-effectiveness of a national enterovirus 71 vaccination program in China pp. 1-16

Wenjun Wang, Jianwen Song, Jingjing Wang, Yaping Li, Huiling Deng, Mei Li, Ning Gao, Song Zhai, Shuangsuo Dang, Xin Zhang and Xiaoli Jia

How much will it cost to eradicate lymphatic filariasis? An analysis of the financial and economic costs of intensified efforts against lymphatic filariasis pp. 1-20

Randee J Kastner, Elisa Sicuri, Christopher M Stone, Gabriel Matwale, Ambrose Onapa and Fabrizio Tediosi

Host outdoor exposure variability affects the transmission and spread of Zika virus: Insights for epidemic control pp. 1-15

Marco Ajelli, Imelda K Moise, Tricia Caroline S G Hutchings, Scott C Brown, Naresh Kumar, Neil F Johnson and John C Beier

The single cyclic nucleotide-specific phosphodiesterase of the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia represents a potential drug target pp. 1-23

Stefan Kunz, Vreni Balmer, Geert Jan Sterk, Michael P Pollastri, Rob Leurs, Norbert Müller, Andrew Hemphill and Cornelia Spycher

Volume 11, issue 8, 2017

"We are survivors and not a virus:" Content analysis of media reporting on Ebola survivors in Liberia pp. 1-19

Elisabeth Anne-Sophie Mayrhuber, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and Ruth Kutalek

Modeling zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence in central Tunisia from 2009-2015: Forecasting models using climate variables as predictors pp. 1-18

Khouloud Talmoudi, Hedia Bellali, Nissaf Ben-Alaya, Marc Saez, Dhafer Malouche and Mohamed Kouni Chahed

An economic evaluation of vector control in the age of a dengue vaccine pp. 1-27

Christopher Fitzpatrick, Alexander Haines, Mathieu Bangert, Andrew Farlow, Janet Hemingway and Raman Velayudhan

A dynamic model for estimating adult female mortality from ovarian dissection data for the tsetse fly Glossina pallidipes Austen sampled in Zimbabwe pp. 1-20

Sarah F Ackley and John W Hargrove

Volume 11, issue 7, 2017

The esperanza window trap reduces the human biting rate of Simulium ochraceum s.l. in formerly onchocerciasis endemic foci in Southern Mexico pp. 1-10

Mario A Rodríguez-Pérez, Javier A Garza-Hernández, Mario C Salinas-Carmona, Ildefonso Fernández-Salas, Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva, Olga Real-Najarro, Eddie W Cupp and Thomas R Unnasch

The tradition algorithm approach underestimates the prevalence of serodiagnosis of syphilis in HIV-infected individuals pp. 1-10

Bin Chen, Xiuming Peng, Tiansheng Xie, Changzhong Jin, Fumin Liu and Nanping Wu

The socio-economic burden of snakebite in Sri Lanka pp. 1-9

Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, A Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Shaluka F Jayamanne, Andrew Dawson, Geoff K Isbister, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva and David G Lalloo

Predicting spatial spread of rabies in skunk populations using surveillance data reported by the public pp. 1-22

Kim M Pepin, Amy J Davis, Daniel G Streicker, Justin W Fischer, Kurt C VerCauteren and Amy T Gilbert

The disease burden of human cystic echinococcosis based on HDRs from 2001 to 2014 in Italy pp. 1-18

Toni Piseddu, Diego Brundu, Giovanni Stegel, Federica Loi, Sandro Rolesu, Gabriella Masu, Salvatore Ledda and Giovanna Masala

Bayesian dynamic modeling of time series of dengue disease case counts pp. 1-19

Daniel Adyro Martínez-Bello, Antonio López-Quílez and Alexander Torres-Prieto

Temperature modulates dengue virus epidemic growth rates through its effects on reproduction numbers and generation intervals pp. 1-19

Amir S Siraj, Rachel J Oidtman, John H Huber, Moritz U G Kraemer, Oliver J Brady, Michael A Johansson and T Alex Perkins

Prevalence of Toxocara species infection in the U.S.: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2014 pp. 1-12

Aaron Farmer, Thomas Beltran and Young Sammy Choi

Potential risk factors associated with human alveolar echinococcosis: Systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Franz J Conraths, Carolina Probst, Alessia Possenti, Belgees Boufana, Rosella Saulle, Giuseppe La Torre, Luca Busani and Adriano Casulli

Dengue prediction by the web: Tweets are a useful tool for estimating and forecasting Dengue at country and city level pp. 1-20

Cecilia de Almeida Marques-Toledo, Carolin Marlen Degener, Livia Vinhal, Giovanini Coelho, Wagner Meira, Claudia Torres Codeço and Mauro Martins Teixeira

Volume 11, issue 6, 2017

A misdiagnosed infection mimicking “tree man disease” pp. 1-5

Jo Anne Lim, Zulrusydi Ismail, Che Noraini Ibrahim, Soon Eu Chong and Wan Noor Hasbee Wan Abdullah

Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming? pp. 1-3

Kevin Croke, Joan Hamory Hicks, Eric Hsu, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel

Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis: Demographic, clinicoradiological, and inflammatory features pp. 1-16

Mariana Marcin Sierra, Mariana Arroyo, May Cadena Torres, Nancy Ramírez Cruz, Fernando García Hernández, Diana Taboada, Ángeles Galicia Martínez, Tzipe Govezensky, Edda Sciutto, Andrea Toledo and Agnès Fleury

Cryptococcal meningitis: A neglected NTD? pp. 1-7

Síle F Molloy, Tom Chiller, Gregory S Greene, Jessica Burry, Nelesh P Govender, Cecilia Kanyama, Sayoki Mfinanga, Sokoine Lesikari, Yacouba N Mapoure, Charles Kouanfack, Victor Sini, Elvis Temfack, David R Boulware, Francoise Dromer, David W Denning, Jeremy Day, Neil R H Stone, Tihana Bicanic, Joseph N Jarvis, Olivier Lortholary, Thomas S Harrison, Shabbar Jaffar and Angela Loyse

Volume 11, issue 5, 2017

NTD policy priorities: Science, values, and agenda setting pp. 1-4

Ana S Iltis and Kirstin R W Matthews

Ileus in children presenting with diarrhea and severe acute malnutrition: A chart review pp. 1-11

Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Abu SMSB Shahid, K M Shahunja, Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Abu Syeed Golam Faruque, Lubaba Shahrin, Sumon Kumar Das, Dipesh Kumar Barua, Md Iqbal Hossain and Tahmeed Ahmed

Associations between selective attention and soil-transmitted helminth infections, socioeconomic status, and physical fitness in disadvantaged children in Port Elizabeth, South Africa: An observational study pp. 1-19

Stefanie Gall, Ivan Müller, Cheryl Walter, Harald Seelig, Liana Steenkamp, Uwe Pühse, Rosa du Randt, Danielle Smith, Larissa Adams, Siphesihle Nqweniso, Peiling Yap, Sebastian Ludyga, Peter Steinmann, Jürg Utzinger and Markus Gerber

Using G6PD tests to enable the safe treatment of Plasmodium vivax infections with primaquine on the Thailand-Myanmar border: A cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 1-19

Angela Devine, Minnie Parmiter, Cindy S Chu, Germana Bancone, François Nosten, Ric N Price, Yoel Lubell and Shunmay Yeung

Volume 11, issue 4, 2017

Cost-effectiveness of meglumine antimoniate versus miltefosine caregiver DOT for the treatment of pediatric cutaneous leishmaniasis pp. 1-16

Brandon A Berger, Alexandra Cossio, Nancy Gore Saravia, Maria del Mar Castro, Sergio Prada, Allison H Bartlett and Mai T Pho

Partnering to promote research where it matters pp. 1-7

Michael Eisenstein

How to determine if a model is right for neglected tropical disease decision making pp. 1-6

Bruce Y Lee and Sarah M Bartsch

The first “London Declaration”: The Commonwealth and its neglected tropical diseases pp. 1-4

Peter J Hotez, Ashish Damania, Aparna Barua and Jeffrey Stanaway

Mycetoma: A global medical and socio-economic dilemma pp. 1-5

Ahmed H Fahal

Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models pp. 1-18

Erin A Mordecai, Jeremy M Cohen, Michelle V Evans, Prithvi Gudapati, Leah R Johnson, Catherine A Lippi, Kerri Miazgowicz, Courtney C Murdock, Jason R Rohr, Sadie J Ryan, Savage Van, Marta S Shocket, Anna Stewart Ibarra, Matthew B Thomas and Daniel P Weikel

Seroprevalence of Q fever among human and animal in Iran; A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Ashraf Mohabbati Mobarez, Fahimeh Bagheri Amiri and Saber Esmaeili

The value of daily platelet counts for predicting dengue shock syndrome: Results from a prospective observational study of 2301 Vietnamese children with dengue pp. 1-20

Phung Khanh Lam, Tran Van Ngoc, Truong Thi Thu Thuy, Nguyen Thi Hong Van, Tran Thi Nhu Thuy, Dong Thi Hoai Tam, Nguyen Minh Dung, Nguyen Thi Hanh Tien, Nguyen Tan Thanh Kieu, Cameron Simmons, Bridget Wills and Marcel Wolbers

The potential economic burden of Zika in the continental United States pp. 1-20

Bruce Y Lee, Jorge A Alfaro-Murillo, Alyssa S Parpia, Lindsey Asti, Patrick T Wedlock, Peter J Hotez and Alison P Galvani

Volume 11, issue 3, 2017

Epidemiology of cholera outbreaks and socio-economic characteristics of the communities in the fishing villages of Uganda: 2011-2015 pp. 1-19

Godfrey Bwire, Aline Munier, Issaka Ouedraogo, Leonard Heyerdahl, Henry Komakech, Atek Kagirita, Richard Wood, Raymond Mhlanga, Berthe Njanpop-Lafourcade, Mugagga Malimbo, Issa Makumbi, Jennifer Wandawa, Bradford D Gessner, Christopher Garimoi Orach and Martin A Mengel

Developing photoreceptor-based models of visual attraction in riverine tsetse, for use in the engineering of more-attractive polyester fabrics for control devices pp. 1-23

Roger D Santer

Will a new 2017 global leadership commit to NTDs? pp. 1-3

Peter J Hotez and Serap Aksoy

Risk mapping of clonorchiasis in the People’s Republic of China: A systematic review and Bayesian geostatistical analysis pp. 1-16

Ying-Si Lai, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Zhi-Heng Pan, Jürg Utzinger and Penelope Vounatsou

Societal impact of dengue outbreaks: Stakeholder perceptions and related implications. A qualitative study in Brazil, 2015 pp. 1-16

Joël Ladner, Mariana Rodrigues, Ben Davis, Marie-Hélène Besson, Etienne Audureau and Joseph Saba

Systematic review and meta-analysis estimating association of cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis with epilepsy pp. 1-17

Gabrielle Debacq, Luz M Moyano, Héctor H Garcia, Farid Boumediene, Benoit Marin, Edgard B Ngoungou and Pierre-Marie Preux

Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Ghana: Impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators pp. 1-8

Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum, Dziedzom K de Souza, Benjamin Marfo, Samuel Odoom, Bright Alomatu, Odame Asiedu, Abednego Yeboah, Tei E Hervie, Ernest O Mensah, Paul Yikpotey, Joseph B Koroma, David Molyneux, Moses J Bockarie and John O Gyapong

Dengue Baidu Search Index data can improve the prediction of local dengue epidemic: A case study in Guangzhou, China pp. 1-13

Zhihao Li, Tao Liu, Guanghu Zhu, Hualiang Lin, Yonghui Zhang, Jianfeng He, Aiping Deng, Zhiqiang Peng, Jianpeng Xiao, Shannon Rutherford, Runsheng Xie, Weilin Zeng, Xing Li and Wenjun Ma

GOST: A generic ordinal sequential trial design for a treatment trial in an emerging pandemic pp. 1-13

John Whitehead and Peter Horby

Volume 11, issue 2, 2017

Costs of Transmission Assessment Surveys to Provide Evidence for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis pp. 1-11

Molly A Brady, Rachel Stelmach, Margaret Davide-Smith, Jim Johnson, Bolivar Pou, Joseph Koroma, Kingsley Frimpong and Angela Weaver

Modelling the risk of Taenia solium exposure from pork produced in western Kenya pp. 1-16

Lian F Thomas, William A de Glanville, Elizabeth A J Cook, Barend M De C Bronsvoort, Ian Handel, Claire N Wamae, Samuel Kariuki and Eric M Fèvre

Risk analysis and prediction of visceral leishmaniasis dispersion in São Paulo State, Brazil pp. 1-17

Anaiá da Paixão Sevá, Liang Mao, Fredy Galvis-Ovallos, Joanna Marie Tucker Lima and Denis Valle

Spatial clustering and local risk of leprosy in São Paulo, Brazil pp. 1-15

Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos, Mellina Yamamura, Luiz Henrique Arroyo, Marcela Paschoal Popolin, Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto, Pedro Fredemir Palha, Severina Alice da Costa Uchoa, Flávia Meneguetti Pieri, Ione Carvalho Pinto, Regina Célia Fiorati, Ana Angélica Rêgo de Queiroz, Aylana de Souza Belchior, Danielle Talita dos Santos, Maria Concebida da Cunha Garcia, Juliane de Almeida Crispim, Luana Seles Alves, Thaís Zamboni Berra and Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio

Decline in infection-related morbidities following drug-mediated reductions in the intensity of Schistosoma infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-23

Gisele Andrade, David J Bertsch, Andrea Gazzinelli and Charles H King

The burden of typhoid fever in low- and middle-income countries: A meta-regression approach pp. 1-21

Marina Antillón, Joshua L Warren, Forrest W Crawford, Daniel M Weinberger, Esra Kürüm, Gi Deok Pak, Florian Marks and Virginia E Pitzer

Volume 11, issue 1, 2017

Health-Seeking Behaviour towards Poverty-Related Disease (PRDs): A Qualitative Study of People Living in Camps and on Campuses in Cameroon pp. 1-18

Valerie Makoge, Harro Maat, Lenneke Vaandrager and Maria Koelen

Impact of CD4+ T Cell Responses on Clinical Outcome following Oral Administration of Wild-Type Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Humans pp. 1-18

Monica A McArthur, Wilbur H Chen, Laurence Magder, Myron M Levine and Marcelo B Sztein

The Socioeconomic Benefit to Individuals of Achieving the 2020 Targets for Five Preventive Chemotherapy Neglected Tropical Diseases pp. 1-27

William K Redekop, Edeltraud J Lenk, Marianne Luyendijk, Christopher Fitzpatrick, Louis Niessen, Wilma A Stolk, Fabrizio Tediosi, Adriana J Rijnsburger, Roel Bakker, Jan A C Hontelez, Jan H Richardus, Julie Jacobson, Sake J de Vlas and Johan L Severens

"I Cannot Be Worried": Living with Chagas Disease in Tropical Bolivia pp. 1-14

Colin J Forsyth