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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Tropical diseases"”.
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Mapping and modeling of neglected tropical diseases in Brazil and Bolivia
… important step in the control and prevention of diseases. This study used geographical information systems and remote sensing technologies within the MaxEnt ecological niche modeling program to create predictive risk maps for leprosy and Schistosomiasis in Brazil and Chagas disease in both Brazil …
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An AI-Based Machine Vision Model for the Diagnosis of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion of the world’s population[1], and yet, the area of rapid diagnostics is still in its infancy. Much work has been done on machine learning and integration of AI into the medical workflow with cancer and other diseases but the area of NTDs …
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A health information platform for Case Managed Neglected Tropical Diseases - A case study from Mozambique
Leprosy, as one of the neglected tropical diseases, is an ancient disease that requires a slow and patient approach for its diagnosis and treatment involving various actors along the way. This care system has traditionally been supported by a paper based health information system still in use today …
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Novel chemical entities against tropical diseases: Peptidomimetic lipopeptides as new anti-orthoflavivirals and 5,6,7,8-tetrahydroimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives as new antimalarials
Contains fulltext : 310090.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Defining the Aetiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of the Predominant Bacteria Associated with Bloodstream Infections at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
… (BSI) are among the most common critical diseases that require intensive care and continuous surveillance. According to many multinational antimicrobial resistance surveillance schemes, Asia represents a substantial reservoir of clinically relevant antimicrobial resistant genes. These …
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If you build it, they will run : the role of clinical trial infrastructure in neglected disease R&D
… and development (R&D) levels for neglected tropical diseases concentrated in those countries. Pre-existing clinical trial infrastructure in a location can affect the cost and time of clinical trials carried out there, thus influence returns on investments for diseases that are located in …
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Modular Synthesis and Hydroalkylation of Vicinally Functionalized Ketopiperazines: A solution to the Piperazine Problem
… (SAR) studies on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including leishmaniasis.
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Curcumin-related hybrid compounds as potential antimalarial agents : design, synthesis, mechanistic investigations, biological evaluation and pharmacokinetic studies
Malaria remains one of the most devastating tropical diseases, with staggering infection and mortality statistics. Over 200 million clinical cases of malaria (resulting in 1 - 3 million deaths) are reported annually. Africa bears the greatest burden of this disease. with the vast majority of …
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A Nonribosomal Peptide Pheromone Controls Male-Induced Female Sexual Development in Schistosoma mansoni
… one of most prevalent and serious neglected tropical diseases. Their immense egg output in the host is the main source of pathology, placing their reproductive biology of great importance for scientific researches. A bizarre, and physiologically meaningful phenomenon of their reproduction …
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Structural Characterization of the interaction between divalent cations and the novel Schistosoma mansoni Universal Stress Protein G4LZI3
… year. This coupled with other severe Neglected Tropical Diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and poverty, does not make the situation any better. Vaccines targeting this disease are still yet to be discovered and current treatment is becoming a problem as drug resistance has been reported. …
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Total Synthesis of the Actinoallolides and a Designed Photoaffinity Probe for Target Identification
… new and effective treatments for these neglected tropical diseases, and the high selectivity index of actinoallolide A makes it a promising drug candidate. Enabled by the highly stereocontrolled aldol reactions of three chiral ketone building blocks, an efficient fi rst total synthesis of the …
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Dengue and development: a critical political ecology
… dearth of research into the world's neglected tropical diseases (NTDs); in particular, gaps in our understanding of the biopolitical and socioecological contexts (sites of urban governance, sites of health policy development and implementation, and sites of academic research) in which policies …
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Freirean Codes: A Transformative Educational Tool for Community Empowerment and Arboviral Control in Kenya
… fever are two of the fastest spreading tropical diseases globally. There are 390 million dengue infections per year globally, and 65 million cases in Africa. In East Africa, Kenya and Tanzania have suffered outbreaks of these diseases. Dengue fever is transmitted by the bite of the …
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Evolution of vesicular transport in kinetoplastids: dynamics and novel gene products
… are etiological agents of several neglected tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and Leishmaniasis. Newly available sequences of many kinetoplastid genomes were used to reconstruct evolution of trafficking across this lineage, using three central paralogous …
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Severe Hand Foot and Mouth Disease in Vietnamese Children: Clinical Features and Management Strategies
… HFMD cases admitted to PICU at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD), Ho Chi Minh City, during the the 2011-2012 Vietnam outbreak. Fever, skin rash, and myoclonic jerks happened in the early stage while the more severe features, including hypertension, tachypnea, irregular breathing, pulmonary …
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Use of an 18s rRNA metagenomics approach as a method of detection of multiple infections in field blood samples collected on FTA cards from cattle
… health problems in humans and animals globally. Diseases in tropical and remote areas, sometimes known as neglected tropical diseases, pose some of the greater problems due to the difficulty in collecting and analysing samples. Collecting samples from remote and tropical areas is difficult, …
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for the diagnosis of human sleeping sickness: towards a point-of-care diagnostic test
… chronic sleeping sickness are fatal neglected tropical diseases caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense respectively (members of the sub-genus Trypanozoon). Accurate diagnostics are needed to guide treatment since the symptoms of disease are non-specific and …
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The role of BATF2 during of experimental murine Schistosomiasis
Schistosomiasis is one of the most debilitating tropical diseases with the potential to cause morbidity and mortality in infected populations unless well controlled. Current control measures are limited to treatment with praziquantel. A rather alarming situation given i) the inability of the drug …
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Immunochromatography assays to diagnose tropical viral pathogens using gold nanoparticles
… those devices to diagnose viral mosquito-borne tropical diseases that have caused major epidemics and hospitalization in the last years. By allowing mobile phone readability of the diagnosis results, we enable real-time epidemiologic data on the spread of the disease. lmmunochromatography assays …
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Characterising the bacterial microbiota of Phlebotomus and Glossina insects : vectors of parasitic diseases
… Trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis are neglected tropical diseases caused by kinetoplast parasites and transmitted between human hosts by biting flies. In this thesis the bacterial microbiota of tsetse flies and sand flies, the vectors of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis respectively, were …
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