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Towards a broader definition of value: why we underestimate the benefits of progress on NTDs
Makiese is a farmer and grandmother from Kongo-central, Democratic Republic of Congo. Here she is seen taking treatment to prevent the NTD, river blindness. Credit: © Moses Sawasawa/Sightsavers Recent progress towards the control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) provides inspiring examples of what can be achieved in global health through collaboration, coordination…
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Evaluation of DjinniChip, a simple, fast, and low-cost diagnostic assay for the detection of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis
This blog post is part of a series publishing every Tuesday over the next weeks and featuring the new articles published in the LCNTDR Collection: Advances in scientific research for NTD control, led by the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research (LCNTDR). Stay tuned for the next blog posts on Twitter @bugbittentweets and @NTDResearch.…
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Designing school-based surveys to identify areas for treatment of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Figure 2. Distribution of school-based surveys included in the analysis. Image from Fornace et al 2020. This is the first in a series of blog posts publishing every Tuesday over the next weeks and featuring the new articles published in the LCNTDR Collection: Advances in scientific research for NTD control, led by the London Centre…
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The sex lives of schistosomes; complexed mixing of genomes
Diagrammatic of how schistosome mating experiments were conducted in the laboratory In 2009, the first molecular data were generated that proved past observations of the occurrence of hybridisation between human and cattle schistosomes, with large numbers of children being infected with these parasites. This raised concern due to the potential zoonotic schistosomiasis transmission risk in…