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Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : first WHO report on neglected tropical diseases
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The global burden of disease study 2010: interpretation and implications for the neglected tropical diseases.
Peter J. Hotez,Miriam Alvarado,María-Gloria Basáñez,Ian Bolliger,Rupert R A Bourne,Michel Boussinesq,Simon Brooker,Ami Shah Brown,Geoffrey Buckle,Christine M. Budke,Hélène Carabin,Luc E. Coffeng,Eric M. Fèvre,Thomas Fürst,Yara A. Halasa,Rashmi Jasrasaria,Nicole E. Johns,Jennifer Keiser,Charles H. King,Rafael Lozano,Michele E. Murdoch,Simon J. O’Hanlon,Sébastien D. S. Pion,Rachel L. Pullan,Kapa D. Ramaiah,Thomas Roberts,Donald S. Shepard,Jennifer L. Smith,Wilma A. Stolk,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Jürg Utzinger,Mengru Wang,Christopher J L Murray,Mohsen Naghavi +33 more
TL;DR: The publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 and the accompanying collection of Lancet articles in December 2012 provided the most comprehensive attempt to quantify the burden of almost 300 diseases, injuries, and risk factors, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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Global Distribution of Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis.
Peter Deplazes,Laura Rinaldi,C. A. Alvarez Rojas,Paul R. Torgerson,Majid Fasihi Harandi,Thomas Romig,Daniela Antolová,Janna M. Schurer,S Lahmar,Giuseppe Cringoli,Japhet Magambo,R.C.A. Thompson,Emily J. Jenkins +12 more
TL;DR: This chapter presents the global distribution of Echinococcus species and human AE and CE in maps and summarizes the global data on host assemblages, transmission, prevalence in animal definitive hosts, incidence in people and molecular epidemiology.
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Time to set the agenda for schistosomiasis elimination.
David Rollinson,Stefanie Knopp,Stefanie Knopp,Sarah Levitz,J. Russell Stothard,Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté,Amadou Garba,Amadou Garba,Khalfan A. Mohammed,Nadine Schur,Nadine Schur,Bobbie Person,Daniel G. Colley,Jürg Utzinger,Jürg Utzinger +14 more
TL;DR: An agenda for the elimination of schistosomiasis would aim to identify the gaps in knowledge, and define the tools, strategies and guidelines that will help national control programmes move towards elimination, including an internationally accepted mechanism that allows verification/confirmation of elimination.
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The global burden of urinary bladder cancer: an update
TL;DR: An overview of the current incidence, mortality, prevalence, survival, risk factors and costs of bladder cancer worldwide is provided.
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Epidemiology of human African trypanosomiasis
TL;DR: Sustainable elimination of the gambiense HAT, defined as the interruption of the transmission of the disease, was considered as a feasible target for 2030, since rhodesiense H AT is a zoonosis, where the animal reservoir plays a key role, and the interruptionOf the disease’s transmission is not deemed feasible.
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