This analysis estimates that neglected tropical diseases afflict hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the United States, concentrated primarily in the Mississippi Delta (including post-Katrina Louisiana), Appalachia, the Mexican borderlands, and inner cities.
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The World Health Organization recently added dengue virus as the first arbovirus to its list of NTDs. A. Desiree LaBeaud believes there are other arboviruses that should also follow suit, because of their link to poverty in the developing world.
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Researchers identify a novel gene, Li1040, which may represent a Leishmania virulence gene that has the potential to regulate the pathology of infection in the mammalian host.
Researchers at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, investigate the efficacy of tamoxifen against L. amazonensis—one of the species that causes cutaneous leishmaniasis in South America—in experimentally infected mice.
The authors utilize a 10-year surveillance database from Dangtu County in the southeastern part of the People's Republic of China to model the spatial and temporal distribution of infections in relation to environmental features and socioeconomic factors.
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