A new patient registry for Chagas disease

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Building country capacity to sustain NTD programs and progress: A call to action

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Leprosy treatment: Can we replace opinions with research?

David M. Scollard

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 8, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008636

Coronaviruses in Brazilian bats: A matter of concern?

Samuel Cibulski, Francisco Esmaile Sales de Lima, Paulo Michel Roehe

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 26, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008820

info Hansen: A new online resource for Hansen’s disease

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Chagas disease diagnosis and cure assessment: Getting formally hierarchical about a naturally hierarchical problem

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SARS-CoV-2 in the Amazon region: A harbinger of doom for Amerindians

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 29, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686

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Animal models of congenital zika syndrome provide mechanistic insight into viral pathogenesis during pregnancy

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The phosphoinositide regulatory network in Trypanosoma brucei: Implications for cell-wide regulation in eukaryotes

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Investigating a strategy for quantifying schistosome infection levels in preschool-aged children using prevalence data from school-aged children

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High-quality nuclear genome for Sarcoptes scabiei—A critical resource for a neglected parasite

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Transmission of Bartonella henselae within Rhipicephalus sanguineus: Data on the Potential Vector Role of the Tick

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Spatial epidemiology of yellow fever: Identification of determinants of the 2016-2018 epidemics and at-risk areas in Brazil

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Complex relationships between Aedes vectors, socio-economics and dengue transmission—Lessons learned from a case-control study in northeastern Thailand

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Identifying the outbreak signal of COVID-19 before the response of the traditional disease monitoring system

Yaoyao Dai, Jianming Wang

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Vitamin A supplementation boosts control of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella infection in malnourished mice

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The recently introduced Aedes albopictus in Tunisia has the potential to transmit chikungunya, dengue and Zika viruses

Chloé Bohers, Laurence Mousson, Yoann Madec, Marie Vazeille, Adel Rhim, Youmna M’ghirbi, Ali Bouattour, Anna-Bella Failloux

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 2, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008475

Mycolactone induces cell death by SETD1B-dependent degradation of glutathione

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Postnatal symptomatic Zika virus infections in children and adolescents: A systematic review

Anna Ramond, Ludmila Lobkowicz, Nuria Sanchez Clemente, Aisling Vaughan, Marília Dalva Turchi, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Elizabeth B. Brickley

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Population diversity and virulence characteristics of Cryptococcus neoformans/C. gattii species complexes isolated during the pre-HIV-pandemic era

Sujiraphong Pharkjaksu, Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, John E. Bennett, Popchai Ngamskulrungroj

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Neighbor danger: Yellow fever virus epizootics in urban and urban-rural transition areas of Minas Gerais state, during 2017-2018 yellow fever outbreaks in Brazil

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Proteomic analysis of plasma exosomes from Cystic Echinococcosis patients provides in vivo support for distinct immune response profiles in active vs inactive infection and suggests potential biomarkers

Federica Fratini, F. Tamarozzi, G. Macchia, L. Bertuccini, M. Mariconti, C. Birago, A. Iriarte, E. Brunetti, CM. Cretu, O. Akhan, M. Siles-Lucas, A. Díaz, Adriano Casulli

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Pre and postnatal exposure to Chikungunya virus does not affect child neurodevelopmental outcomes at two years of age

Randall Waechter, Erinique Ingraham, Roberta Evans, Nikita Cudjoe, Amy Krystosik, Rashida Isaac, Ashlee Watts, Trevor Noël, Barbara Landon, Michelle Fernandes, Veronica Mapp-Alexander, Priyanka Suresh, George Mitchell, Calum Macpherson, Patrick Gérardin, A. Desiree LaBeaud

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Characterization of flavivirus infection in salivary gland cultures from male Ixodes scapularis ticks

Benjamin L. Kendall, Jeffrey M. Grabowski, Rebecca Rosenke, Mikayla Pulliam, Daniel R. Long, Dana P. Scott, Danielle K. Offerdahl, Marshall E. Bloom

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Incidence and progression of trachomatous scarring in a cohort of children in a formerly hyper-endemic district of Tanzania

Michael Saheb Kashaf, Beatriz E. Muñoz, Harran Mkocha, Meraf A. Wolle, Fahd Naufal, Sheila K. West

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Enzyme immunoassays for detection and quantification of venoms of Sri Lankan snakes: Application in the clinical setting

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Non-typhoidal Salmonella infections among children in a tertiary hospital in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, 2012–2019

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A community-based validation of the International Alliance for the Control of Scabies Consensus Criteria by expert and non-expert examiners in Liberia

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Trypanosomatid selenophosphate synthetase structure, function and interaction with selenocysteine lyase

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Genome-scale metabolic models highlight stage-specific differences in essential metabolic pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi

Isabel S. Shiratsubaki, Xin Fang, Rodolpho O. O. Souza, Bernhard O. Palsson, Ariel M. Silber, Jair L. Siqueira-Neto

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The environmental drivers of bacterial meningitis epidemics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa

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Comparison and clinical validation of qPCR assays targeting Leishmania 18S rDNA and HSP70 genes in patients with American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis

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Structural features and development of an assay platform of the parasite target deoxyhypusine synthase of Brugia malayi and Leishmania major

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Differential pathogenesis of Usutu virus isolates in mice

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Hana Krismawati, Astrid Irwanto, Arry Pongtiku, Ishak Darryl Irwan, Yustinus Maladan, Yuli Arisanti Sitanggang, Tri Wahyuni, Ratna Tanjung, Yonghu Sun, Hong Liu, Furen Zhang, Antonius Oktavian, Jianjun Liu

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 16, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008746

Clinical course and potential predictive factors for pneumonia of adult patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A retrospective observational analysis of 193 confirmed cases in Thailand

Wannarat A. Pongpirul, Surasak Wiboonchutikul, Lantharita Charoenpong, Nayot Panitantum, Apichart Vachiraphan, Sumonmal Uttayamakul, Krit Pongpirul, Weerawat Manosuthi, Wisit Prasithsirikul

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 16, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008806

Health state utility values in people living with HTLV-1 and in patients with HAM/TSP: The impact of a neglected disease on the quality of life

Carolina Rosadas, Tatiane Assone, Marina Yamashita, Adine Adonis, Marzia Puccioni-Sohler, Marisa Santos, Arthur Paiva, Jorge Casseb, Augusto C. P. Oliveira, Graham P. Taylor

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 16, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008761

Impact of tiny targets on Glossina fuscipes quanzensis, the primary vector of human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Inaki Tirados, Andrew Hope, Richard Selby, Fabrice Mpembele, Erick Mwamba Miaka, Marleen Boelaert, Mike J. Lehane, Steve J. Torr, Michelle C. Stanton

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 16, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008270

Evaluation of a facility-based inspection tool to assess lymphedema management services in Vietnam

Do Trung Dung, Vu Thi Lam Binh, Caitlin M. Worrell, Molly Brady, Victoria Walsh, Aya Yajima, Zeina Sifri, LeAnne M. Fox

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008773

Temporal trends of cutaneo-mucous histoplasmosis in persons living with HIV in French Guiana: Early diagnosis defuses South American strain dermotropism

Sophie Morote, Mathieu Nacher, Romain Blaizot, Balthazar Ntab, Denis Blanchet, Kinan Drak Alsibai, Magalie Demar, Félix Djossou, Pierre Couppié, Antoine Adenis

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008663

Nuclear and kinetoplast DNA analyses reveal genetically complex Leishmania strains with hybrid and mito-nuclear discordance in Peru

Ahmed Tabbabi, Abraham G. Cáceres, T. Pershing Bustamante Chauca, Chisato Seki, Yanisa Choochartpong, Daiki Mizushima, Daisuke S. Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi, Hirotomo Kato

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008797

Quorum sensing N-Acyl homoserine lactones are a new class of anti-schistosomal

Helen Whiteland, Alessandra Crusco, Lisa W. Bloemberg, Jamie Tibble-Howlings, Josephine Forde-Thomas, Avril Coghlan, Patrick J. Murphy, Karl F. Hoffmann

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008630

The function of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors PPAR-γ and PPAR-δ in Mycobacterium leprae-induced foam cell formation in host macrophages

Yuqian Luo, Kazunari Tanigawa, Akira Kawashima, Yuko Ishido, Norihisa Ishii, Koichi Suzuki

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008850

Orthohantaviruses infections in humans and rodents in Baoji, China

Hui Tian, Wei-Fang Tie, Hongbing Li, Xiaoqian Hu, Guang-Cheng Xie, Luan-Ying Du, Wen-Ping Guo

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008778

Effects of ‘The Vicious Worm’ educational software on Taenia solium knowledge among key pork supply chain workers in Zambia

Victor Vaernewyck, Kabemba Evans Mwape, Chishimba Mubanga, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Sarah Gabriël, Chiara Trevisan

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008790

The pattern of anthrax at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Zimbabwe

Norman L. Mukarati, Gift Matope, Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky, Daud N. Ndhlovu, Alexandre Caron, Davies M. Pfukenyi

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008800

Anthelminthic treatment receipt and its predictors in Lake Victoria fishing communities, Uganda: Intervention coverage results from the LaVIISWA cluster randomised trial

Hellen Akurut, Richard E. Sanya, Lawrence Lubyayi, Margaret Nampijja, Moses Kizza, James Kaweesa, Robert Kizindo, Moses Sewankambo, Denis Nsubuga, Edridah Tukahebwa, Narcis B. Kabatereine, Alison M. Elliott, Emily L. Webb, for the LaVIISWA trial team

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 19, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008718

An updated antennal lobe atlas for the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

Shruti Shankar, Conor J. McMeniman

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 20, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008729

Synthetic sex-aggregation pheromone of Lutzomyia longipalpis, the South American sand fly vector of Leishmania infantum, attracts males and females over long-distance

Mikel A. González, Melissa Bell, Cristian F. Souza, Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Reginaldo P. Brazil, Orin Courtenay, James G. C. Hamilton

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 20, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008798

Outdoor Residual Insecticide Spraying (ODRS), a New Approach for the Control of the Exophilic Vectors of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis: Phlebotomus orientalis in East Africa

Dia-Eldin A. Elnaiem, Osman Dakein, Ahmed Mohammed-Ali Alawad, Bashir Alsharif, Altayeb Khogali, Tayseer Jibreel, Omran F. Osman, Hassan Has’san, Atia Mohamed Atia, Mousab Elhag, Margriet Den Boer, Koert Ritmeijer, Caryn Bern, Jorge Alvar, Noteila Khalid, Orin Courtenay

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 20, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008774

Homologous and heterologous re-challenge with Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A in a randomised controlled human infection model

Malick M. Gibani, Celina Jin, Sonu Shrestha, Maria Moore, Lily Norman, Merryn Voysey, Elizabeth Jones, Luke Blackwell, Helena Thomaides-Brears, Jennifer Hill, Christoph J. Blohmke, Hazel C. Dobinson, Philip Baker, Claire Jones, Danielle Campbell, Yama F. Mujadidi, Emma Plested, Lorena Preciado-Llanes, Giorgio Napolitani, Alison Simmons, Melita A. Gordon, Brian Angus, Thomas C. Darton, Vincenzo Cerundulo, Andrew J. Pollard

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 20, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008783

What are the implications of Zika Virus for infant feeding? A synthesis of qualitative evidence concerning Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) and comparable conditions

Christopher Carroll, Andrew Booth, Fiona Campbell, Clare Relton

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 21, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008731

Quantifying and mapping the burden of human and animal rabies in Iraq

Mashair Z. Ismail, Najlaa K. AL- Hamdi, Ali N. AL- Amery, Denise A. Marston, Lorraine McElhinney, Emma Taylor, Victor del Rio Vilas, Thani M. Dadan, Anthony R. Fooks, Daniel L. Horton

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 22, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008622

Inducible nitric oxide synthase blockade with aminoguanidine, protects mice infected with Nocardia brasiliensis from actinomycetoma development

Mario C. Salinas-Carmona, Ossian Longoria-Lozano, Humberto R. Garza-Esquivel, Juan López-Ulloa, Jorge Reyes-Carrillo, Anna Velia Vázquez-Marmolejo

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 22, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008775

How to choose the best control strategy? Mathematical models as a tool for pre-intervention evaluation on a macroparasitic disease

Elisa Fesce, Claudia Romeo, Eleonora Chinchio, Nicola Ferrari

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 22, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008789

Development of a bio-inkjet printed LAMP test kit for detecting human African trypanosomiasis

Kyoko Hayashida, Peter Nambala, Nick Van Reet, Philippe Büscher, Naoko Kawai, Mable Mwale Mutengo, Janelisa Musaya, Boniface Namangala, Chihiro Sugimoto, Junya Yamagishi

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 22, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008753

Prostaglandins regulate humoral immune responses in Aedes aegypti

Ana Beatriz Ferreira Barletta, Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva, Octavio A. C. Talyuli, Tatiana Luna-Gomes, Shuzhen Sim, Yesseinia Angleró-Rodríguez, George Dimopoulos, Christianne Bandeira-Melo, Marcos H. Ferreira Sorgine

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008706

Body location of “New World” cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions and its impact on the quality of life of patients in Suriname

Ricardo V. P. F. Hu, Sahienshadebie Ramdas, Pythia Nieuwkerk, Ria Reis, Rudy F. M. Lai A Fat, Henry J. C. de Vries, Henk D. F. H. Schallig

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008759

Elimination of STH morbidity in Zimbabwe: Results of 6 years of deworming intervention for school-age children

Nicholas Midzi, Antonio Montresor, Masceline J. Mutsaka-Makuvaza, Claudio Fronterre, Portia Manangazira, Isaac Phiri, Olatunji Johnson, Gibson Mhlanga, Peter J. Diggle

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008739

Molecular xenomonitoring of diurnally subperiodic Wuchereria bancrofti infection in Aedes (Downsiomyia) niveus (Ludlow, 1903) after nine rounds of Mass Drug Administration in Nancowry Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Addepalli Premkumar, Ananganallur Nagarajan Shriram, Kaliannagounder Krishnamoorthy, Swaminathan Subramanian, Venkatesan Vasuki, Paluru Vijayachari, Purushothaman Jambulingam

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008763

Meta-analysis of predictive symptoms for Ebola virus disease

Vageesh Jain, Andre Charlett, Colin S. Brown

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008799

Development of a multiplex microsphere immunoassay for the detection of antibodies against highly pathogenic viruses in human and animal serum samples

Rebecca Surtees, Daniel Stern, Katharina Ahrens, Nicole Kromarek, Angelika Lander, Petra Kreher, Sabrina Weiss, Roger Hewson, Emma K. Punch, John N. Barr, Peter T. Witkowski, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Andrea Marzi, Brigitte G. Dorner, Andreas Kurth

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008699

The economic impact and cost-effectiveness of combined vector-control and dengue vaccination strategies in Thailand: results from a dynamic transmission model

Gerhart Knerer, Christine S. M. Currie, Sally C. Brailsford

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 23, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008805

Utility of entomological indices for predicting transmission of dengue virus: secondary analysis of data from the Camino Verde trial in Mexico and Nicaragua

Arcadio Morales-Pérez, Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera, Carlos Hernández-Alvarez, Víctor Manuel Alvarado-Castro, Jorge Arosteguí, José Legorreta-Soberanis, Miguel Flores-Moreno, Liliana Morales-Nava, Eva Harris, Robert J. Ledogar, Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 26, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008768

Schistosoma japonicum cathepsin B2 (SjCB2) facilitates parasite invasion through the skin

Bingkuan Zhu, Fang Luo, Yi Shen, Wenbin Yang, Chengsong Sun, Jipeng Wang, Jian Li, Xiaojin Mo, Bin Xu, Xumin Zhang, Yongdong Li, Wei Hu

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 26, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008810

Spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of co-circulating dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses in Fortaleza, Brazil: 2011–2017

Lilit Kazazian, Antonio S. Lima Neto, Geziel S. Sousa, Osmar José do Nascimento, Marcia C. Castro

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 26, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008760

Sugar feeding patterns of New York Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are affected by saturation deficit, flowers, and host seeking

Kara Fikrig, Sonile Peck, Peter Deckerman, Sharon Dang, Kimberly St Fleur, Henry Goldsmith, Sophia Qu, Hannah Rosenthal, Laura C. Harrington

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 26, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008244

Declining antibody levels to Trypanosoma cruzi correlate with polymerase chain reaction positivity and electrocardiographic changes in a retrospective cohort of untreated Brazilian blood donors

Lewis F. Buss, Léa Campos de Oliveira- da Silva, Carlos H. V. Moreira, Erika R. Manuli, Flavia C. Sales, Ingra Morales, Clara Di Germanio, Cesar de Almeida-Neto, Sonia Bakkour, Paul Constable, Marcelo M. Pinto-Filho, Antonio L. Ribeiro, Michael Busch, Ester C. Sabino

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 27, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008787

Proteomic fingerprinting of Neotropical hard tick species (Acari: Ixodidae) using a self-curated mass spectra reference library

Rolando A. Gittens, Alejandro Almanza, Kelly L. Bennett, Luis C. Mejía, Javier E. Sanchez-Galan, Fernando Merchan, Jonathan Kern, Matthew J. Miller, Helen J. Esser, Robert Hwang, May Dong, Luis F. De León, Eric Álvarez, Jose R. Loaiza

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 27, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008849

Community-based survey on helminth infections in Kwilu province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and implications for local control strategies

Raquel Inocencio da Luz, Sylvie Linsuke, Clémentine Roucher, Alain Mpanya, Jane Nyandele, Nono Mubwa Mungwele, Bienvenue Nsiembele Mboma, Katja Polman, Epco Hasker, Marleen Boelaert

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 28, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008745

Population genomics reveals the expansion of highly inbred Plasmodium vivax lineages in the main malaria hotspot of Brazil

Thaís Crippa de Oliveira, Rodrigo M. Corder, Angela Early, Priscila T. Rodrigues, Simone Ladeia-Andrade, João Marcelo P. Alves, Daniel E. Neafsey, Marcelo U. Ferreira

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 28, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008808

Emerging orthobunyaviruses associated with CNS disease

Arthur Wouter Dante Edridge, Lia van der Hoek

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 28, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008856

Impact of sars-cov-2 interventions on dengue transmission

Jue Tao Lim, Borame Sue Lee Dickens, Lawrence Zheng Xiong Chew, Esther Li Wen Choo, Joel Ruihan Koo, Joel Aik, Lee Ching Ng, Alex R. Cook

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 29, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008719

A novel synthetic DNA vaccine elicits protective immune responses against Powassan virus

Hyeree Choi, Sagar B. Kudchodkar, Michelle Ho, Emma L. Reuschel, Erin Reynolds, Ziyang Xu, Devivasha Bordoloi, Kenneth E. Ugen, Pablo Tebas, Joseph Kim, Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Saravanan Thangamani, David B. Weiner, Kar Muthumani

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 29, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008788

“We have already heard that the treatment doesn't do anything, so why should we take it?”: A mixed method perspective on Chagas disease knowledge, attitudes, prevention, and treatment behaviour in the Bolivian Chaco

Sandra Parisi, Miriam Navarro, Jeremy Douglas Du Plessis, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Boris Apodaca Michel, Minerva Lucuy Espinoza, Carolina Terán, Nino Antonio Calizaya Tapia, Katharina Oltmanns, Abundio Baptista Mora, Claudia Saveedra Irala, Angel Alberto Rivera Rojas, Gonzalo Rubilar, Thomas Zoller, Michael Pritsch

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 29, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008752

Capture-based enrichment of Theileria parva DNA enables full genome assembly of first buffalo-derived strain and reveals exceptional intra-specific genetic diversity

Nicholas C. Palmateer, Kyle Tretina, Joshua Orvis, Olukemi O. Ifeonu, Jonathan Crabtree, Elliott Drabék, Roger Pelle, Elias Awino, Hanzel T. Gotia, James B. Munro, Luke Tallon, W. Ivan Morrison, Claudia A. Daubenberger, Vish Nene, Donald P. Knowles, Richard P. Bishop, Joana C. Silva

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 29, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008781

Correlation between thrombocytopenia and host response in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Xiao-Kun Li, Ke Dai, Zhen-Dong Yang, Chun Yuan, Ning Cui, Shao-Fei Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Hu, Zhi-Bo Wang, Dong Miao, Pan-He Zhang, Hao Li, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Yan-Qin Huang, Wei-Wei Chen, Jiu-Song Zhang, Qing-Bin Lu, Wei Liu

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 29, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008801

Patients with skin smear positive leprosy in Bangladesh are the main risk factor for leprosy development: 21-year follow-up in the household contact study (COCOA)

Emily E. V. Quilter, C. Ruth Butlin, Surendra Singh, Khorshed Alam, Diana N. J. Lockwood

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 30, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008687

Core components, concepts and strategies for parasitic and vector-borne disease elimination with a focus on schistosomiasis: A landscape analysis

Nora Monnier, Tanja Barth-Jaeggi, Stefanie Knopp, Peter Steinmann

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: published October 30, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008837