Showing papers in "Acta Tropica in 2010"

TL;DR: Advances in classification and treatment of echinococcosis prompted experts from different continents to review the current literature, discuss recent achievements and provide a consensus on diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

TL;DR: Governments should implement policies to prevent donations of blood and organs from T. cruzi infected donors and an infrastructure that assures detection and treatment of acute and chronic cases as well as congenital infection should be developed.

TL;DR: Congenital, transfusion- and/or transplant-associated transmission has been documented in the United States, Spain, Canada and Switzerland; most instances likely go unnoticed.

TL;DR: Interest is emerging in new studies for the re-evaluation and recalibration of the health burden of helminthic parasite infection, which should highlight the strong potential of integrated parasite control in efforts for poverty reduction.

TL;DR: A critical review of the development of specific chemotherapeutic approaches for the management of American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is presented, and the most promising approaches are ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitors such as posaconazole and ravuconazole.

TL;DR: There is great regional variation in the morbidity caused by Chagas disease: severe cardiac or digestive forms may occur in 10-50%, and indeterminate forms in the remaining, asymptomatic cases.

TL;DR: Intensive vector control, surveillance and community education should be considered in deprived urban areas where a high proportion of children are infected by an early age and investigation of dengue transmission in small areas is important to formulate control strategies.

TL;DR: The results show the dynamics of microbial colonization and their distribution in midgut during blood digestion and the genus Serratia was dominant in all isolation assays representing 54.5% of the total of microorganisms.

TL;DR: The establishment of an A. aegypti colony resistant to temephos is extremely valuable for a deeper understanding of resistance mechanisms and thus for further improvements in control strategies against this vector.

TL;DR: The findings of infection, mean abundance and fertility rates of CE in slaughtered animals, prompt plans for further epidemiological studies and control programmes.

TL;DR: Positive results for peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), a virus belonging to the Morbillivirus, Genus, member of the family Paramyxoviridae is given for this new devastating disease of camels.

TL;DR: If A. fulica may act as intermediate host of A. cantonensis at the peridomiciliary areas of a patient's house from state of Pernambuco (PE), who was diagnosed with eosinophilic meningitis and a history of ingesting raw molluscs is assessed.

TL;DR: The analysis of M. migonei, collected by CDC light trap, by multiplex PCR assay coupled to non-isotopic hybridization showed that 2 females out of 50 were infected by L. infantum suggesting that M. migraineonei may be the vector of L. infants in areas of visceral leishmaniasis where Lutzomyia longipalpis, the usual vector, is absent.

TL;DR: An entomological survey performed over the period 2006-2008 in Central Spain where canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is endemic found that the vectors are moving towards higher altitudes perhaps because of global change, which could have an impact on CanL and its geographical distribution.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a thorough investigation that leads to a disease control strategy is required to reduce the economic and public health consequences of hydatidosis.

TL;DR: It was found that the ability for water to pool and persist, water quality, elevation, deforestation, and agriculture have all been associated with malaria and may be modifying risk.

TL;DR: A substantive proportion of children below the age of 5 years had egg-patent schistosomiasis, inclusive of co-infection with S. haematobium and S. mansoni, according to a cross-sectional epidemiological survey in two villages in Niger.

TL;DR: It is suggested that ivermectin MDA in Africa may be used to decrease malaria transmission if MDAs were administered more frequently, which would broaden the current scope of polyparasitism control already afforded by MDAs, and which is needed in many African villages simultaneously burdened by many parasitic diseases.

TL;DR: Significant gaps remain in the understanding of the epidemiology of human cyclosporiasis that highlight the need for continued research in several aspects of C. cayetanensis.

TL;DR: It is proposed that there was an enzootic cycle of VL with accidental human transmission due to L. migonei and suggested that there be a surveillance of human isolated cases of V lishmaniasis within the L. Migonei dispersion area.

TL;DR: Human cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in pastoral areas was highly co-endemic, in comparison to much lower prevalences in semi-pastoral or farming regions.

TL;DR: To be successful, the program should transfer major intervention components from the external donor-directed initiative to the community-directed approach, and scaling up of community involvement from simple participation to social participation is necessary from malaria control to malaria elimination.

TL;DR: The roots of this unusual pedigree of Trypanosoma cruzi are addressed and the usefulness of various taxonomic markers in relation to the manifestation of clinical disease and the geographic distribution of the parasite is addressed.

TL;DR: All 6 flavonoids showed antifilarial activity in vitro, which can be classed, in a decreasing order: naringenin>flavone=hesperetin>rutin>naringin>chrysin, which may provide a lead for design and development of new antIFilarial agent(s).

TL;DR: From the results, C. aromatica could be considered as one of the powerful candidate to bring about useful botanicals so as to prevent the resurgence of mosquito vectors.

TL;DR: This review highlights the recent successes in synthesizing quality malaria proteins using the wheat germ cell-free protein synthesis system and urges malaria researchers to urgently enrich this pipeline, as much as possible, with potential vaccine candidates.

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TL;DR: Findings suggest that constituents of ginger might be used as larvicidal agents against A. cantonensis because they showed effects against DPPH and peroxyl radical under larv suicidal effect.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that sand flies easily adapt to the urban environments and that the may represent a public health concern for L. infantum and other pathogen transmission also in similar urban environment of southern Europe.

TL;DR: FLAIR and T2 sequences were more sensitive in revealing abnormalities in viral encephalitis and the mean ADC value in JE patients was lower than HSE patients, and the MRI abnormalities were more common in FLAIR sequence.