Tag: neglected tropical diseases

A new synthesis in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases shows how molecular advances in chromoblastomycosis have failed to improve diagnosis and ...

A five-year retrospective case series at Guyana's principal diagnostic sites links interior travel and field-based occupations such as mining and ...

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases has retracted a 2025 study on country-level indices in predictive models of helminth infections in Southeast ...

Virtual screening of a Central African natural-product library has identified homoisoflavanone and related compounds as stable computational inhibitors of the ...

A cross-sectional study in Gabon found that people with circulating Loa loa microfilariae showed significantly reduced interferon-gamma T cell responses ...

A cross-sectional study of 1,311 people in Minas Gerais, Brazil, reveals a heavy overlapping burden of leprosy exposure and parasitic ...

New laboratory evidence shows the single-dose oral drug acoziborole is as potent against the rarer rhodesiense form of sleeping sickness ...

Researchers engineered 1,440 derivatives of an anti-Cryptosporidium compound and identified two potent lactate dehydrogenase inhibitors that clear the parasite in ...

An evaluation of a One Health-coordinated mass dog rabies vaccination campaign in Techiman, Ghana, found an estimated 70 percent coverage ...

A co-designed women-centered farming boot tested in rural Rwanda encouraged consistent footwear use, eased podoconiosis symptoms, and fostered empowerment among ...

A new study in Cameroon's Nkam-Wouri River Basin finds that 41.9 percent of adults in rural rainforest communities carry helminth ...

A pilot study in Brazil found that the Enhanced Liver Fibrosis blood test rises in step with the severity of ...

A nine-week study in a Congolese village co-endemic for two schistosome species found that mixed infections significantly reduced praziquantel cure ...

A new mechanistic risk index projects that climate change will reduce fascioliasis risk across most of Africa while increasing it ...

A mixed-methods study in southern Chad finds that while nearly all residents know about urinary schistosomiasis, only about 3 percent ...

Orally administered nano-formulated rutin significantly reduced hemorrhage, inflammation, and blood-clotting disturbances in mice envenomed by Bothrops jararaca, even without antivenom.

A three-month pilot in Ghana shows that community health officers can detect over a thousand suspected neglected tropical disease cases ...

A Bayesian evaluation of three onchocerciasis rapid diagnostic tests across Mozambique, Ghana, and Benin found the novel GADx assay achieved ...

A Ghanaian randomized trial found that a four-week high-dose rifampicin and clarithromycin regimen was well tolerated for Buruli ulcer but ...

A 25-year analysis of 801 leprosy cases at Tanzania's Nazareti Leprosy Center reveals rising notifications, growing multibacillary disease, and increasing ...