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August 2018

C. sinensis adults were incubated with anti-Cs1 monoclonal antibody. A strong positive reaction was observed in the cells in a granulate, gland-like structure surrounding the acetabulum of C. sinensis adult worms, and a moderately positive reaction was seen in the outer tegument of the acetabulum. Cheng, Xu, et al. (2018)

Image Credit: Xue-Nian Xu, Na Cheng and Yan Zhou

Viewpoints

Precision mapping: An innovative tool and way forward to shrink the map, better target interventions, and accelerate toward the elimination of schistosomiasis

Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, J. Russell Stothard, David Rollinson, Jutta Reinhard-Rupp

The snail Biomphalaria glabrata as a model to interrogate the molecular basis of complex human diseases

Joanna M. Bridger, Paul J. Brindley, Matty Knight

Hajj, Umrah, and the neglected tropical diseases

Mashal M. Almutairi, Waleed Saleh Alsalem, Mazen Hassanain, Peter J. Hotez

Update on drug development targeting parasite cysteine proteases

James H. McKerrow

Policy Platform

Toward the 2020 goal of soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and elimination

Sören L. Becker, Harvy Joy Liwanag, Jedidiah S. Snyder, Oladele Akogun, Vicente Belizario. Jr, Matthew C. Freeman, Theresa W. Gyorkos, Rubina Imtiaz, Jennifer Keiser, Alejandro Krolewiecki, Bruno Levecke, Charles Mwandawiro, Rachel L. Pullan, David G. Addiss, Jürg Utzinger

From Innovation to Application

Rapid, inexpensive, fingerstick, whole-blood, sensitive, specific, point-of-care test for anti-Toxoplasma antibodies

Joseph Lykins, Xuan Li, Pauline Levigne, Ying Zhou, Kamal El Bissati, Fatima Clouser, Martine Wallon, Florence Morel, Karen Leahy, Bouchra El Mansouri, Maryam Siddiqui, Nicole Leong, Morgan Michalowski, Erin Irwin, Perpetua Goodall, Mahmoud Ismail, Monica Christmas, El Bachir Adlaoui, Mohamed Rhajaoui, Amina Barkat, Hua Cong, Ian J. Begeman, Bo Shiun Lai, Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Jose G. Montoya, Yvonne Maldonado, Raymund Ramirez, Cindy Press, Francois Peyron, Rima McLeod

Symposium

Potential novel tick-borne Colpodella species parasite infection in patient with neurological symptoms

Jia-Fu Jiang, Rui-Ruo Jiang, Qiao-Cheng Chang, Yuan-Chun Zheng, Bao-Gui Jiang, Yi Sun, Na Jia, Ran Wei, Hong-Bo Liu, Qiu-Bo Huo, Hong Wang, Michael E. von Fricken, Wu-Chun Cao

Reviews

Cysteine proteases as digestive enzymes in parasitic helminths

Conor R. Caffrey, Louise Goupil, Karina M. Rebello, John P. Dalton, David Smith

Cysteine proteases during larval migration and development of helminths in their final host

Alexandra Grote, Conor R. Caffrey, Karina M. Rebello, David Smith, John P. Dalton, Sara Lustigman

Cysteine proteases in protozoan parasites

Jair L. Siqueira-Neto, Anjan Debnath, Laura-Isobel McCall, Jean A. Bernatchez, Momar Ndao, Sharon L. Reed, Philip J. Rosenthal

Research Articles

MyD88 activation in cardiomyocytes contributes to the heart immune response to acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection with no effect on local parasite control

Danni Yohani Santana, Rafael Moysés Salgado, Marina Fevereiro, Rogério Silva do Nascimento, Raissa Fonseca, Niels Olsen Saraiva Câmara, Sabrina Epiphanio, Cláudio Romero Farias Marinho, Maria Luiza Barreto-Chaves, Maria Regina D’ Império-Lima, José M. Álvarez

The importance of dog population contact network structures in rabies transmission

Mirjam Laager, Céline Mbilo, Enos Abdelaziz Madaye, Abakar Naminou, Monique Léchenne, Aurélie Tschopp, Service Kemdongarti Naïssengar, Timo Smieszek, Jakob Zinsstag, Nakul Chitnis

The impact of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic on agricultural production and livelihoods in Liberia

Tsegaye T. Gatiso, Isabel Ordaz-Németh, Trokon Grimes, Menladi Lormie, Clement Tweh, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Jessica Junker

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Cs1, a Clonorchis sinensis-derived serodiagnostic antigen containing tandem repeats and a signal peptide

Na Cheng, Xue-Nian Xu, Yan Zhou, Yu-Ting Dong, Yi-Fang Bao, Bin Xu, Wei Hu, Zheng Feng

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A systematic review of hepatitis B virus (HBV) drug and vaccine escape mutations in Africa: A call for urgent action

Jolynne Mokaya, Anna L. McNaughton, Martin J. Hadley, Apostolos Beloukas, Anna-Maria Geretti, Dominique Goedhals, Philippa C. Matthews

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Sunamita de Carvalho Lima, Lucas de Carvalho Porta, Álvaro da Costa Lima, Joana D’Arc Campeiro, Ywlliane Meurer, Nathália Bernardes Teixeira, Thiago Duarte, Eduardo Brandt Oliveira, Gisele Picolo, Rosely Oliveira Godinho, Regina Helena Silva, Mirian Akemi Furuie Hayashi

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