[HTML][HTML] Rickettsial infections: A blind spot in our view of neglected tropical diseases

J Salje, T Weitzel, PN Newton… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Rickettsial diseases are a group of vector-borne bacterial infections that cause acute febrile
illness with potentially severe or fatal complications. These vector-borne diseases are …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the epidemiological relationship between ticks and rickettsial infection in Africa

TGE Onyiche, MB Labruna, TB Saito - Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tick-borne rickettsioses are emerging and re-emerging diseases of public health concern
caused by over 31 species of Rickettsia. Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods with …

[HTML][HTML] Perceptions and priorities for the development of multiplex rapid diagnostic tests for acute non-malarial fever in rural South and Southeast Asia: An …

R Chew, S Lohavittayavikant, M Mayer… - PLoS Neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Fever is a common presenting symptom in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs). It was previously assumed that malaria was the cause in such patients, but its …

The time is ripe to harmonize global acute febrile illness etiologic investigations

J Moreira, BL Fernando-Carballo, C Escadafal… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Acute febrile illness (AFI) is common for people seeking care globally and represents a
spectrum of infectious and non-infectious etiologies with significant geographical variations …

Science and surveillance in the visceral leishmaniasis elimination programme in India.

NJ Dial - 2022 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
Early case detection is a pillar of India's strategy to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as a
public health problem by 2030. To identify and treat the several thousand VL cases …

Scrub typhus in northern Thailand

T Wangrangsimakul - 2021 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Scrub typhus, a neglected infectious disease caused by obligate intracellular bacteria
Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a major cause of acute non-malarial fever in the tropics …