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Aliphatic Lactones of Natural Origin: Their Toxicological and Behavioral Effects as a Possible Control Strategy for Medical Importance Mosquitoes
Aliphatic Lactones of Natural Origin: Their Toxicological and Behavioral Effects as a Possible Control Strategy for Medical Importance Mosquitoes
Lactones are cyclic esters found in many of different fruits and in other natural products for human consumption. When lac...
Tuberculous Meningitis: an Update on the Pathogenesis and Neuroimmunology
Tuberculous Meningitis: an Update on the Pathogenesis and Neuroimmunology
Tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) carries the highest morbidity and mortality of any type of tuberculosis infection, yet the d...
Correction to: Implications of Climate Change and Anopheles stephensi Liston in Africa: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons from History
Correction to: Implications of Climate Change and Anopheles stephensi Liston in Africa: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons from History
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which...
Snakebites in the Americas: a Neglected Problem in Public Health
Snakebites in the Americas: a Neglected Problem in Public Health
We explored the current priority given to snakebites in 26 countries of the Americas. To describe the epidemiological char...
Trypanosoma cruzi Central Nervous System Infection—Pathogenesis, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Trypanosoma cruzi Central Nervous System Infection—Pathogenesis, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chagas disease (CD) is a neglected tropical disease from the American continent that commonly causes cardiovascular diseas...
Clinical, Epidemiological, and Laboratory Features of Mayaro Virus Infection: a Systematic Review
Clinical, Epidemiological, and Laboratory Features of Mayaro Virus Infection: a Systematic Review
Mayaro virus is an arbovirus that circulates in a wild cycle transmitted by Haemagogus janthinomys; however, case reports ...
Immunomodulation of Macrophages May Benefit Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Outcome
Immunomodulation of Macrophages May Benefit Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Outcome
This review emerges from the necessity to gather information of quality on the possibility to directly modulate macrophage...
A Fungus for Our Time: Candida auris Emerges into the Anthropocene
A Fungus for Our Time: Candida auris Emerges into the Anthropocene
Candida auris is a multi-drug-resistant pathogen with many phenotypic variations that contribute to its pathogenicity. Thi...
Neurologic Manifestations of Tick-Borne Diseases Transmitted by Deer Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in the USA
Neurologic Manifestations of Tick-Borne Diseases Transmitted by Deer Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in the USA
This article aims to review the relevant updates in pathogenesis, diagnostics, clinical manifestations, and treatments of ...
Zika Virus Outbreaks: a Narrative Review
Zika Virus Outbreaks: a Narrative Review
This review aims to comprehensively analyse recent Zika outbreaks and their implications on public health. It discusses th...
Brain Abscesses in the Tropics
Brain Abscesses in the Tropics
This review aims to elucidate the etiologies of brain abscesses in the tropics. Despite the similarities in causes of brai...
An Overview of Hookworm Virulence Mechanisms
An Overview of Hookworm Virulence Mechanisms
Hookworms are globally widespread soil-transmitted parasites responsible for millions of human infections that cause a sev...
CNS Infections in Patients Living with HIV/AIDS
CNS Infections in Patients Living with HIV/AIDS
The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of central nervous system (CNS) infections in patients living with HI...
Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)—Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)—Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic neglected tropical disea...
Effectiveness of Essential Oils and Their Components Against Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
Effectiveness of Essential Oils and Their Components Against Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by the protozoan parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi affecting 7–...
A Systematic Review of Disparities in Risk for Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States
A Systematic Review of Disparities in Risk for Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States
This review aims to identify and characterize which neglected infections of poverty (NIPs) represent a public health risk ...
Implications of Climate Change and Anopheles stephensi Liston in Africa: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons from History
Implications of Climate Change and Anopheles stephensi Liston in Africa: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons from History
The invasive Asian mosquito vector—Anopheles stephensi Liston, 1901—is poised to greatly complicate malaria er...
A Review on Sporotrichosis and the Emergence of Sporothrix brasiliensis as a Pathogen
A Review on Sporotrichosis and the Emergence of Sporothrix brasiliensis as a Pathogen
This review explores sporotrichosis development as a disease in both cats and humans as well as options for diagnosis and ...
Elimination Strategy for Malaria in El Salvador: a Retrospective Study
Elimination Strategy for Malaria in El Salvador: a Retrospective Study
El Salvador, a small country with limited resources, was declared by the World Health Organization to have eliminated mala...
Correction to: Human Q Fever on the Guiana Shield and Brazil: Recent Findings and Remaining Questions
Correction to: Human Q Fever on the Guiana Shield and Brazil: Recent Findings and Remaining Questions
Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French GuianaLoïc Epel...
Kissing Chagas Disease Goodbye: Gauging Awareness Levels in the Rio Grande Valley, TX
Kissing Chagas Disease Goodbye: Gauging Awareness Levels in the Rio Grande Valley, TX
The goal of this study is to examine and discuss the baseline results of a Chagas disease awareness survey administered to...
Seizures as Presenting Feature of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: a Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series
Seizures as Presenting Feature of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: a Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series
In this systematic review, we reviewed the seizure characteristics, particularly seizure semiology, in patients with SSPE....
Yellow Fever Reemergence Risk in the Guiana Shield: a Comprehensive Review of Cases Between 1990 and 2022
Yellow Fever Reemergence Risk in the Guiana Shield: a Comprehensive Review of Cases Between 1990 and 2022
The aim of this study was to compile all cases of yellow fever (YF) recorded in the Guiana Shield (GS), a region located o...
Coxiella burnetii Infection in Livestock, Pets, Wildlife, and Ticks in Latin America and the Caribbean: a Comprehensive Review of the Literature
Coxiella burnetii Infection in Livestock, Pets, Wildlife, and Ticks in Latin America and the Caribbean: a Comprehensive Review of the Literature
Q fever , a bacterial zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, is reported very heterogeneously in humans in Latin America. T...
Tuberculosis in the European Region
Tuberculosis in the European Region
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health concern worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic and migration flow due to socioec...
Schistosomiasis in Europe
Schistosomiasis in Europe
The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the burden of schistosomiasis in the European continent. It discus...
Intestinal and Extra-intestinal Complications of Typhoid Fever: an Update
Intestinal and Extra-intestinal Complications of Typhoid Fever: an Update
Typhoid fever is one of the commonest global health burdens and has various local and systemic complications. The clinical...
What Do We Know About the Invasive Mosquitoes Aedes atropalpus and Aedes triseriatus?
What Do We Know About the Invasive Mosquitoes Aedes atropalpus and Aedes triseriatus?
Mosquito-borne diseases are a serious concern in Europe since the proliferation of invasive mosquito species increases the...
Multisectoral Perspectives on Global Warming and Vector-borne Diseases: a Focus on Southern Europe
Multisectoral Perspectives on Global Warming and Vector-borne Diseases: a Focus on Southern Europe
The climate change (CC) or global warming (GW) modifies environment that favors vectors’ abundance, growth, and repr...
Rural Embodiment and Community Health: an Anthropological Case Study on Biocultural Determinants of Tropical Disease Infection and Immune System Development in the USA
Rural Embodiment and Community Health: an Anthropological Case Study on Biocultural Determinants of Tropical Disease Infection and Immune System Development in the USA
Biocultural methods are critically important for identifying environmental and socioeconomic factors linked with tropical ...
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