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Abstract A86: Specialty comparison of disparities-related research over forty years
Conclusion: Our study demonstrates that these 6 medical specialties are making great strides in the struggle to address and understand the unique disease processes and socioeconomic problems endemic to underserved populations. However, the distribution of research dedicated to this population is not equally distributed among medical specialties despite some advances. Greater attention and future research dedicated to this end should be made available-particularly to scientists and researchers in fields where such investigations are insufficient. Future studies should examine the root causes for the differences in the amoun...
Source: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention - September 30, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ahmed, A., Deville, C. Tags: Healthcare Systems: Poster Presentations - Proffered Abstracts Source Type: research
Interventions to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene for preventing soil-transmitted helminth infection
CONCLUSIONS: Whilst the available evidence suggests that the WASH interventions under study may slightly protect against STH infection, WASH also serves as a broad preventive measure for many other diseases that have a faecal oral transmission route of transmission. As many of the studies were done in addition to MDA/deworming (i.e. MDA was ongoing in both the intervention and control arm), our data support WHO recommendations for implementation of improvements to basic sanitation and adequate access to safe water alongside MDA. The biological plausibility for improved access to WASH to interrupt transmission of STHs is cl...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - June 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joshua V Garn Jennifer L Wilkers Ashley A Meehan Lisa M Pfadenhauer Jacob Burns Rubina Imtiaz Matthew C Freeman Source Type: research
Mosquito aquatic habitat modification and manipulation interventions to control malaria
CONCLUSIONS: Habitat modification and manipulation interventions for preventing malaria has some indication of benefit in both epidemiological and entomological outcomes. While the data are quite mixed and further studies could help improve the knowledge base, these varied approaches may be useful in some circumstances.PMID:36367444 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD008923.pub3
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - November 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Elisa Martello Gowsika Yogeswaran Richard Reithinger Jo Leonardi-Bee Source Type: research
Analysis of google trends and search results for ophthalmic symptoms of monkeypox
ConclusionSearch interest in monkeypox ophthalmic symptoms corresponds with geographic and temporal trends, i.e., timing and location of the first reported non-endemic cases and WHO announcement. Although ophthalmic symptoms are not as widely searched currently, inclusion in public health messaging is key for diagnosis, appropriate management, and reduction of further transmission.
Source: International Ophthalmology - April 18, 2023 Category: Opthalmology Source Type: research
Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information
by Emily L. Aiken, Sarah F. McGough, Maimuna S. Majumder, Gal Wachtel, Andre T. Nguyen, Cecile Viboud, Mauricio Santillana
Understanding the behavior of emerging disease outbreaks in, or ahead of, real-time could help healthcare officials better design interventions to mitigate impacts on affected populations. Most healthcare-based disease surveillance systems, however, have significant inherent reporting delays due t o data collection, aggregation, and distribution processes. Recent work has shown that machine learning methods leveraging a combination of traditionally collected epidemiological information and novel Inter...
Source: PLoS Computational Biology - August 16, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: Emily L. Aiken Source Type: research
Parasitological and molecular search for leishmania natural infection in phlebotomine sand flies in peri-urban sites of an argentinean area endemic for tegumentary leishmaniasis
Acta Trop. 2021 Jul 21:106064. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLeishmaniases are neglected tropical diseases caused by Leishmania spp. parasites transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. In Argentina, the most endemic area of American Tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) has been Orán department, Province of Salta, where Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis prevails and Nyssomyia neivai is considered as its vector, although there is no accurate and sufficient information in this regard. The aim of this work was to search for natural infection by Leishmania spp. in sand flies from pe...
Source: Acta Tropica - July 24, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Mar ía Cristina Almazán Griselda Noem í Copa Jos é Fernando Gil In és López Quiroga Melisa Evangelina D íaz Fernández Alejandro Uncos Carlos Lorenzo Hoyos Julio Rub én Nasser Paola Andrea Barroso Jorge Diego Marco Source Type: research
Parasitological and molecular search for leishmania natural infection in phlebotomine sand flies in peri-urban sites of an argentinean area endemic for tegumentary leishmaniasis
Acta Trop. 2021 Jul 21:106064. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLeishmaniases are neglected tropical diseases caused by Leishmania spp. parasites transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. In Argentina, the most endemic area of American Tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) has been Orán department, Province of Salta, where Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis prevails and Nyssomyia neivai is considered as its vector, although there is no accurate and sufficient information in this regard. The aim of this work was to search for natural infection by Leishmania spp. in sand flies from pe...
Source: Acta Tropica - July 24, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Mar ía Cristina Almazán Griselda Noem í Copa Jos é Fernando Gil In és López Quiroga Melisa Evangelina D íaz Fernández Alejandro Uncos Carlos Lorenzo Hoyos Julio Rub én Nasser Paola Andrea Barroso Jorge Diego Marco Source Type: research
“Chagas Express XXI”: A new ArtScience social technology for health and science education—A case study in Brazilian endemic areas of Chagas disease with an active search of chronic cases
ConclusionsCE21 is a social technology potentially useful for health and science education and active search of asymptomatic CD chronic cases. Moreover, this technology may be adapted to understand and to cooperate in other potentially epidemic situations, especially NTDs related.
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - July 21, 2021 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Tania C. Araujo-Jorge Source Type: research
Studies on Activities and Chemical Characterization of Medicinal Plants in Search for New Antimalarials: A Ten Year Review on Ethnopharmacology
Malaria is an endemic disease that affected 229 million people and caused 409 thousand deaths, in 2019. Disease control is based on early diagnosis and specific treatment with antimalarial drugs since no effective vaccines are commercially available to prevent the disease. Drug chemotherapy has a strong historical link to the use of traditional plant infusions and other natural products in various cultures. The research based on such knowledge has yielded two drugs in medicine: the alkaloid quinine from Cinchona species, native in the Amazon highland rain forest in South America, and artemisinin from Artemisia annua, a spe...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - September 22, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
In Search of Congenital Chagas Disease in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
Abstract
Chagas disease remains a major impediment to sustainable socioeconomic development in Latin America. Transplacental transmission explains the persistence of transmission in urban areas, in non-endemic regions, and in areas with an established interrupted vectorial transmission. One of every five cases of congenital Chagas disease in the world occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. The massive migration of impoverished populations from neighboring Venezuela has worsened the situation creating a humanitarian crisis in Northeastern Colombia, including the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The prevalence of Chagas inf...
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - June 30, 2019 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Parra-Henao G, Oliveros H, Hotez PJ, Motoa G, Franco-Paredes C, Henao-Martínez AF Tags: Am J Trop Med Hyg Source Type: research
Anthropophilic phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia species and search for the natural Leishmania infections in an area endemic for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ecuador.
Abstract
By employing protected human bait landing and modified Shannon light trap, a total of 1,924 phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia spp. were captured in an area from which L. (V.) guyanensis was reported as the causative parasite of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). The sand flies captured alive were dissected and identified at species level, based mainly on their spermathecae. At the same time, the sand flies dissected were searched for the Leishmania parasites by microscopic-test, and later on by PCR-test. No positive sand flies were detected by both tests, while considerable numbers of anthropophilic sand fly spe...
Source: Acta Tropica - November 28, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hashiguchi Y, Gomez EA, Velez LN, Villegas NV, Kubo M, Mimori T, Hashiguchi K, Kato H Tags: Acta Trop Source Type: research
Plague vaccines: new developments in an ongoing search
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2021 Jun 18. doi: 10.1007/s00253-021-11389-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAs the reality of pandemic threats challenges humanity, exemplified during the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 infections, the development of vaccines targeting these etiological agents of disease has become increasingly critical. Of paramount concern are novel and reemerging pathogens that could trigger such events, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis is responsible for more human deaths than any other known pathogen and exists globally in endemic regions of the world, including the four corners region and North...
Source: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology - June 18, 2021 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jason A Rosenzweig Emily K Hendrix Ashok K Chopra Source Type: research
