Table of Contents | April 2009

One World Health: Neglected Tropical Diseases in a Flat World

Peter J. Hotez

Conducting Research in Disease Outbreaks

Ruth Macklin, Ethan Cowan

Introduction of Dengue Virus 4 (DENV-4) Genotype I into Brazil from Asia?

Fernando Lucas de Melo, Camila Malta Romano, Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto

Use of Mapping and Spatial and Space-Time Modeling Approaches in Operational Control of Aedes aegypti and Dengue

Lars Eisen, Saul Lozano-Fuentes

Development and Evaluation of Two Simple, Rapid Immunochromatographic Tests for the Detection of Yersinia pestis Antibodies in Humans and Reservoirs

Minoarisoa Rajerison, Sylvie Dartevelle, Lalao A. Ralafiarisoa, Idir Bitam, Dinh Thi Ngoc Tuyet, Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana, Faridabano Nato, Lila Rahalison

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Dengue Virus Serotype 2 from a Sylvatic Lineage Isolated from a Patient with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Jane Cardosa, Mong How Ooi, Phaik Hooi Tio, David Perera, Edward C. Holmes, Khatijar Bibi, Zahara Abdul Manap

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Echinococcus granulosus Infection and Options for Control of Cystic Echinococcosis in Tibetan Communities of Western Sichuan Province, China

Yu Rong Yang, Donald P. McManus, Yan Huang, David D. Heath

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Effects of a Five-Year Citywide Intervention Program To Control Aedes aegypti and Prevent Dengue Outbreaks in Northern Argentina

Ricardo E. Gürtler, Fernando M. Garelli, Héctor D. Coto

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Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India

Bontha V. Babu, Suchismita Mishra, Abhaya N. Nayak

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A Kernel for Open Source Drug Discovery in Tropical Diseases

Leticia Ortí, Rodrigo J. Carbajo, Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, Stephen M. Maurer, Arti K. Rai, Ginger Taylor, Matthew H. Todd, Antonio Pineda-Lucena, Andrej Sali, Marc A. Marti-Renom

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Accurate Real-Time PCR Strategy for Monitoring Bloodstream Parasitic Loads in Chagas Disease Patients

Tomas Duffy, Margarita Bisio, Jaime Altcheh, Juan Miguel Burgos, Mirta Diez, Mariano Jorge Levin, Roberto Rene Favaloro, Hector Freilij, Alejandro Gabriel Schijman

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Filarial Lymphedema Is Characterized by Antigen-Specific Th1 and Th17 Proinflammatory Responses and a Lack of Regulatory T Cells

Subash Babu, Sajid Q. Bhat, N. Pavan Kumar, Angelo B. Lipira, Sanath Kumar, C. Karthik, V. Kumaraswami, Thomas B. Nutman

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Diagnosing Schistosomiasis by Detection of Cell-Free Parasite DNA in Human Plasma

Dominic Wichmann, Marcus Panning, Thomas Quack, Stefanie Kramme, Gerd-Dieter Burchard, Christoph Grevelding, Christian Drosten

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Gene Flow, Subspecies Composition, and Dengue Virus-2 Susceptibility among Aedes aegypti Collections in Senegal

Massamba Sylla, Christopher Bosio, Ludmel Urdaneta-Marquez, Mady Ndiaye, William C. Black IV

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Proteomic Comparison of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar and the Role of E. histolytica Alcohol Dehydrogenase 3 in Virulence

Paul H. Davis, Minghe Chen, Xiaochun Zhang, C. Graham Clark, R. Reid Townsend, Samuel L. Stanley Jr.

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Optimization of Control Strategies for Non-Domiciliated Triatoma dimidiata, Chagas Disease Vector in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Corentin Barbu, Eric Dumonteil, Sébastien Gourbière

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Phenotypic and Functional Characterization of Human Memory T Cell Responses to Burkholderia pseudomallei

Patcharaporn Tippayawat, Wipawee Saenwongsa, Jirawan Mahawantung, Duangchan Suwannasaen, Ploenchan Chetchotisakd, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Sharon J. Peacock, Philip L. Felgner, Helen S. Atkins, Richard W. Titball, Gregory J. Bancroft, Ganjana Lertmemongkolchai

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Inter-Cellular Variation in DNA Content of Entamoeba histolytica Originates from Temporal and Spatial Uncoupling of Cytokinesis from the Nuclear Cycle

Chandrama Mukherjee, Shubhra Majumder, Anuradha Lohia

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Brugia malayi Excreted/Secreted Proteins at the Host/Parasite Interface: Stage- and Gender-Specific Proteomic Profiling

Sasisekhar Bennuru, Roshanak Semnani, Zhaojing Meng, Jose M. C. Ribeiro, Timothy D. Veenstra, Thomas B. Nutman

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