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05/28/2025

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Breaking the cycle of parasitic diseases with edutainment: The intersection of entertainment and education

Parasitic diseases represent a substantial public health challenge worldwide. Traditional educational strategies have often fallen short in driving sustained behavioral shifts that are nonetheless essential for reducing the burden of these diseases. Edutainment, a blend of education and entertainment, is the synthesis of pedagogical content with recreational frameworks...

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Breaking the cycle of parasitic diseases with edutainment: The intersection of entertainment and education

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A model predicting the 6-year all cause mortality of patients with advanced schistosomiasis after discharge: Derived from a large population-based cohort study

Advanced schistosomiasis imposed a heavy economic burden on society and had a high rate of mortality and disability. However, methods for assessing its long-term prognosis were currently insufficient, and there was a lack of predictive tools to aid clinical decision-making and personalized follow-up plans for patients... 

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A model predicting the 6-year all cause mortality of patients with advanced schistosomiasis after discharge: Derived from a large population-based cohort study

05/22/2025

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Things you wanted to know about fungal extracellular vesicles (but were afraid to ask)

Fungal diseases claim more than 2 million lives annually, yet this enormous impact on public health has not been historically accompanied by innovative solutions to combat lethal mycoses. Invasive fungal infections primarily affect individuals facing socioeconomic restrictions, placing most of these conditions on the list of neglected diseases. Neglected diseases persist due to multiple failures in science, the market, and public health...

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Things you wanted to know about fungal extracellular vesicles (but were afraid to ask)

04/30/2025

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Vector competence for Oropouche virus: A systematic review of pre-2024 experiments

The 2023–24 epidemic of Oropouche fever in the Americas and the associated ongoing outbreak in Cuba suggests a potential state shift in the epidemiology of the disease, raising questions about which vectors are driving transmission. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of vector competence experiments with Oropouche virus (OROV...

Vector competence for Oropouche virus: A systematic review of pre-2024 experiments

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