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Published December 01, 2014 to December 19, 2014 PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Volume 8(12) December 2014 View Table of Contents on web site

Editorial Yemen: Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases against All Odds Elisa Baring, Peter J. Hotez Viewpoints Histoplasmosis or Tuberculosis in HIV-Infected Patients in the Amazon: What Should Be Treated First? Mathieu Nacher, Antoine Adenis, Emilie Sambourg, Florence Huber, Philippe Abboud, Loïc Epelboin, Emilie Mosnier, Vincent Vantilcke, Julie Dufour, Félix Djossou, Magalie Demar, Pierre Couppié Policy Platform Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: The Processes Underlying Programme Success Kazuyo Ichimori, Jonathan D. King, Dirk Engels, Aya Yajima, Alexei Mikhailov, Patrick Lammie, Eric A. Ottesen Symposium Human African Trypanosomiasis Presenting at Least 29 Years after Infection—What Can This Teach Us about the Pathogenesis and Control of This Neglected Tropical Disease? Darshan Sudarshi, Sarah Lawrence, William Owen Pickrell, Vinay Eligar, Richard Walters, Shumonta Quaderi, Alice Walker, Paul Capewell, Caroline Clucas, Angela Vincent, Francesco Checchi, Annette MacLeod, Michael Brown Review High Throughput Screening for Anti–Trypanosoma cruzi Drug Discovery Julio Alonso-Padilla, Ana Rodríguez Research Articles Sources of Blood Meals of Sylvatic Triatoma guasayana near Zurima, Bolivia, Assayed with qPCR and 12S Cloning David E. Lucero, Wilma Ribera, Juan Carlos Pizarro, Carlos Plaza, Levi W. Gordon, Reynaldo Peña, Leslie A. Morrissey, Donna M. Rizzo, Lori Stevens Immunizing Adult Female Mice with a TcpA-A2-CTB Chimera Provides a High Level of Protection for Their Pups in the Infant Mouse Model of Cholera Gregory A. Price, Randall K. Holmes Therapeutic Administration of Recombinant Paracoccin Confers Protection against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Infection: Involvement of TLRs Ana Claudia Paiva Alegre-Maller, Flávia Costa Mendonça, Thiago Aparecido da Silva, Aline Ferreira Oliveira, Mateus Silveira Freitas, Ebert Seixas Hanna, Igor C. Almeida, Nicholas J. Gay, Maria Cristina Roque-Barreira The Relationship between Water, Sanitation and Schistosomiasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Jack E. T. Grimes, David Croll, Wendy E. Harrison, Jürg Utzinger, Matthew C. Freeman, Michael R. Templeton Modeling the Interruption of the Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths by Repeated Mass Chemotherapy of School-Age Children James Truscott, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Roy Anderson Genome Update of the Dimorphic Human Pathogenic Fungi Causing Paracoccidioidomycosis José F. Muñoz, Juan E. Gallo, Elizabeth Misas, Margaret Priest, Alma Imamovic, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Oliver K. Clay, Juan G. McEwen, Christina A. Cuomo Profound Activity of the Anti-cancer Drug Bortezomib against Echinococcus multilocularis Metacestodes Identifies the Proteasome as a Novel Drug Target for Cestodes Britta Stadelmann, Denise Aeschbacher, Cristina Huber, Markus Spiliotis, Joachim Müller, Andrew Hemphill Comparative Effectiveness of Different Strategies of Oral Cholera Vaccination in Bangladesh: A Modeling Study Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Christopher Troeger, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini, Dennis L. Chao Noma Affected Children from Niger Have Distinct Oral Microbial Communities Based on High-Throughput Sequencing of 16S rRNA Gene Fragments Katrine L. Whiteson, Vladimir Lazarevic, Manuela Tangomo-Bento, Myriam Girard, Heather Maughan, Didier Pittet, Patrice Francois, Jacques Schrenzel, the GESNOMA. study group A Spatially Explicit Metapopulation Model and Cattle Trade Analysis Suggests Key Determinants for the Recurrent Circulation of Rift Valley Fever Virus in a Pilot Area of Madagascar Highlands Gaëlle Nicolas, Véronique Chevalier, Luciano Michaël Tantely, Didier Fontenille, Benoît Durand Live Imaging of Bioluminescent Leptospira interrogans in Mice Reveals Renal Colonization as a Stealth Escape from the Blood Defenses and Antibiotics Gwenn Ratet, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Martine Fanton d'Andon, Xavier Kammerscheit, Marie-Anne Nicola, Mathieu Picardeau, Ivo G. Boneca, Catherine Werts International Dispersal of Dengue through Air Travel: Importation Risk for Europe Jan C. Semenza, Bertrand Sudre, Jennifer Miniota, Massimiliano Rossi, Wei Hu, David Kossowsky, Jonathan E. Suk, Wim Van Bortel, Kamran Khan Influence of Household Rat Infestation on Leptospira Transmission in the Urban Slum Environment Federico Costa, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh, Norlan Santos, Renato Barbosa Reis, Andreia C. Santos, Deborah Bittencourt Mothe Fraga, Wildo N. Araujo, Carlos Santana, James E. Childs, Mitermayer G. Reis, Albert I. Ko Natural and Vaccine-Mediated Immunity to Salmonella Typhimurium is Impaired by the Helminth Nippostrongylus brasiliensis Saeeda Bobat, Matthew Darby, Dunja Mrdjen, Charlotte Cook, Erin Logan, Jennifer Auret, Elizabeth Jones, Corinna Schnoeller, Adriana Flores-Langarica, Ewan A. Ross, Alykhan Vira, Constantino López-Macías, Ian R. Henderson, James Alexander, Frank Brombacher, William G. Horsnell, Adam F. Cunningham First Isolation of Leishmania from Northern Thailand: Case Report, Identification as Leishmania martiniquensis and Phylogenetic Position within the Leishmania enriettii Complex Thatawan Pothirat, Adisak Tantiworawit, Romanee Chaiwarith, Narissara Jariyapan, Anchalee Wannasan, Padet Siriyasatien, Khuanchai Supparatpinyo, Michelle D. Bates, Godwin Kwakye-Nuako, Paul A. Bates Detection of IgM Antibrucella Antibody in the Absence of IgGs: A Challenge for the Clinical Interpretation of Brucella Serology Julián Solís García del Pozo, Santiago Lorente Ortuño, Elena Navarro, Javier Solera An Updated Insight into the Sialotranscriptome of Triatoma infestans: Developmental Stage and Geographic Variations Alexandra Schwarz, Nora Medrano-Mercado, Günter A. Schaub, Claudio J. Struchiner, M. Dolores Bargues, Michael Z. Levy, José M. C. Ribeiro A Novel Psittacine Adenovirus Identified During an Outbreak of Avian Chlamydiosis and Human Psittacosis: Zoonosis Associated with Virus-Bacterium Coinfection in Birds Kelvin K. W. To, Herman Tse, Wan-Mui Chan, Garnet K. Y. Choi, Anna J. X. Zhang, Siddharth Sridhar, Sally C. Y. Wong, Jasper F. W. Chan, Andy S. F. Chan, Patrick C. Y. Woo, Susanna K. P. Lau, Janice Y. C. Lo, Kwok-Hung Chan, Vincent C. C. Cheng, Kwok-Yung Yuen Health-Related Quality of Life among School Children with Parasitic Infections: Findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey in Côte d'Ivoire Eveline Hürlimann, Clarisse A. Houngbedji, Richard B. Yapi, Prisca B. Ndri, Kigbafori D. Silué, Gotianwa Soro, Ferdinand N. Kouamé, Thomas Fürst, Jürg Utzinger, Eliézer K. N'Goran, Giovanna Raso Rapid Identification of Black Grain Eumycetoma Causative Agents Using Rolling Circle Amplification Sarah A. Ahmed, Bert H. G. Gerrits van den Ende, Ahmed H. Fahal, Wendy W. J. van de Sande, G. S. de Hoog Multiple Immune Factors Are Involved in Controlling Acute and Chronic Chikungunya Virus Infection Yee Suan Poo, Penny A. Rudd, Joy Gardner, Jane A. C. Wilson, Thibaut Larcher, Marie-Anne Colle, Thuy T. Le, Helder I. Nakaya, David Warrilow, Richard Allcock, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Wayne A. Schroder, Alexander A. Khromykh, José A. Lopez, Andreas Suhrbier Leishmania donovani Infection Enhances Lateral Mobility of Macrophage Membrane Protein Which Is Reversed by Liposomal Cholesterol Moumita Ghosh, Koushik Roy, Dipanwita Das Mukherjee, Gopal Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, Syamal Roy HSP70 Domain II of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Modulates Immune Response and Protective Potential of F1 and LcrV Antigens of Yersinia pestis in a Mouse Model Lalit Batra, Shailendra K. Verma, Durgesh P. Nagar, Nandita Saxena, Prachi Pathak, Satish C. Pant, Urmil Tuteja Population Genetics of Two Key Mosquito Vectors of Rift Valley Fever Virus Reveals New Insights into the Changing Disease Outbreak Patterns in Kenya David P. Tchouassi, Armanda D. S. Bastos, Catherine L. Sole, Mawlouth Diallo, Joel Lutomiah, James Mutisya, Francis Mulwa, Christian Borgemeister, Rosemary Sang, Baldwyn Torto Quality of Medicines Commonly Used in the Treatment of Soil Transmitted Helminths and Giardia in Ethiopia: A Nationwide Survey Sultan Suleman, Gemechu Zeleke, Habtewold Deti, Zeleke Mekonnen, Luc Duchateau, Bruno Levecke, Jozef Vercruysse, Matthias D'Hondt, Evelien Wynendaele, Bart De Spiegeleer Glucose- but Not Rice-Based Oral Rehydration Therapy Enhances the Production of Virulence Determinants in the Human Pathogen Vibrio cholerae Juliane Kühn, Flavio Finger, Enrico Bertuzzo, Sandrine Borgeaud, Marino Gatto, Andrea Rinaldo, Melanie Blokesch Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) about Rabies Prevention and Control: A Community Survey in Tanzania Maganga Sambo, Tiziana Lembo, Sarah Cleaveland, Heather M. Ferguson, Lwitiko Sikana, Cleophas Simon, Honorati Urassa, Katie Hampson Multi-modal Analysis of Courtship Behaviour in the Old World Leishmaniasis Vector Phlebotomus argentipes Daniel P. Bray, Khatijah Yaman, Beryl A. Underhilll, Fraser Mitchell, Victoria Carter, James G. C. Hamilton A Colour Opponent Model That Explains Tsetse Fly Attraction to Visual Baits and Can Be Used to Investigate More Efficacious Bait Materials Roger D. Santer Distinct Leishmania Species Infecting Wild Caviomorph Rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from Brazil Renata Cássia-Pires, Mariana C. Boité, Paulo S. D'Andrea, Heitor M. Herrera, Elisa Cupolillo, Ana Maria Jansen, André Luiz R. Roque Bartonella henselae Endocarditis in Laos – ‘The Unsought Will Go Undetected’ Sayaphet Rattanavong, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Vang Chu, Khamthavy Frichitthavong, Pany Kesone, Mayfong Mayxay, Mariana Mirabel, Paul N. Newton DNA-Protein Immunization Using Leishmania Peroxidoxin-1 Induces a Strong CD4+ T Cell Response and Partially Protects Mice from Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Role of Fusion Murine Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor DNA Adjuvant Abebe Genetu Bayih, Nada S. Daifalla, Lashitew Gedamu Quantitative PCR in Epidemiology for Early Detection of Visceral Leishmaniasis Cases in India Medhavi Sudarshan, Toolika Singh, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Ankita Chourasia, Bhawana Singh, Mary E. Wilson, Jaya Chakravarty, Shyam Sundar Prognostic Factors and Scoring System for Death from Visceral Leishmaniasis: An Historical Cohort Study in Brazil Wendel Coura-Vital, Valdelaine Etelvina Miranda de Araújo, Ilka Afonso Reis, Frederico Figueiredo Amancio, Alexandre Barbosa Reis, Mariângela Carneiro A Sero-epidemiological Study of Arboviral Fevers in Djibouti, Horn of Africa Fred Andayi, Remi N. Charrel, Alexia Kieffer, Herve Richet, Boris Pastorino, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Ammar Abdo Ahmed, Fabrice Carrat, Antoine Flahault, Xavier de Lamballerie Profile of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in a Tropical Medicine Reference Center, Northern Italy Federico Gobbi, Andrea Angheben, Mariella Anselmi, Chiara Postiglione, Ernestina Repetto, Dora Buonfrate, Stefania Marocco, Stefano Tais, Andrea Chiampan, Paride Mainardi, Zeno Bisoffi P53 and Cancer-Associated Sialylated Glycans Are Surrogate Markers of Cancerization of the Bladder Associated withSchistosoma haematobium Infection Júlio Santos, Elisabete Fernandes, José Alexandre Ferreira, Luís Lima, Ana Tavares, Andreia Peixoto, Beatriz Parreira, José Manuel Correia da Costa, Paul J. Brindley, Carlos Lopes, Lúcio L. Santos Risk Factors Associated with Malnutrition in One-Year-Old Children Living in the Peruvian Amazon Serene A. Joseph, Martín Casapía, Brittany Blouin, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Elham Rahme, Theresa W. Gyorkos Transcriptome Profiles of the Protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus Reveal that Excretory-Secretory Products Are Essential to Metabolic Adaptation Wei Pan, Yujuan Shen, Xiuming Han, Ying Wang, Hua Liu, Yanyan Jiang, Yumei Zhang, Yanjuan Wang, Yuxin Xu, Jianping Cao The Effect of Virus-Blocking Wolbachia on Male Competitiveness of the Dengue Vector Mosquito, Aedes aegypti Michal Segoli, Ary A. Hoffmann, Jane Lloyd, Gavin J. Omodei, Scott A. Ritchie How Effective is Integrated Vector Management Against Malaria and Lymphatic Filariasis Where the Diseases Are Transmitted by the Same Vector? Christopher M. Stone, Steve W. Lindsay, Nakul Chitnis Using a Non-Image-Based Medium-Throughput Assay for Screening Compounds Targeting N-myristoylation in IntracellularLeishmania Amastigotes Daniel Paape, Andrew S. Bell, William P. Heal, Jennie A. Hutton, Robin J. Leatherbarrow, Edward W. Tate, Deborah F. Smith High Prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni in Six Health Areas of – Kasansa Health Zone, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Short Report Sylvie Linsuke, Sabin Nundu, Sylvain Mupoyi, Rodin Mukele, Faustin Mukunda, Madeleine Mbuyi Kabongo, Raquel Inocêncio da Luz, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden, Marc Van Sprundel, Marleen Boelaert, Katja Polman, Pascal Lutumba Detection of Venom after Antivenom Is Not Associated with Persistent Coagulopathy in a Prospective Cohort of Russell's Viper (Daboia russelii) Envenomings Kalana Maduwage, Margaret A. O'Leary, Fiona E. Scorgie, Seyed Shahmy, Fahim Mohamed, Chandana Abeysinghe, Harindra Karunathilake, Lisa F. Lincz, Christeine A. Gnanathasan, Geoffrey K. Isbister Field Evaluation of Picaridin Repellents Reveals Differences in Repellent Sensitivity between Southeast Asian Vectors of Malaria and Arboviruses Karel Van Roey, Mao Sokny, Leen Denis, Nick Van den Broeck, Somony Heng, Sovannaroth Siv, Vincent Sluydts, Tho Sochantha, Marc Coosemans, Lies Durnez Parasitic Nematode-Induced CD4+Foxp3+T Cells Can Ameliorate Allergic Airway Inflammation Shin Ae Kang, Mi-Kyung Park, Min Kyoung Cho, Sang Kyun Park, Min Seong Jang, Bo-Gie Yang, Myoung Ho Jang, Dong-Hee Kim, Hak Sun Yu Simple Fecal Flotation Is a Superior Alternative to Guadruple Kato Katz Smear Examination for the Detection of Hookworm Eggs in Human Stool Tawin Inpankaew, Fabian Schär, Virak Khieu, Sinuon Muth, Anders Dalsgaard, Hanspeter Marti, Rebecca J. Traub, Peter Odermatt Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Bartonella bacilliformis in Experimentally Infected Sand Flies by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) of the Pap31 Gene Nasikarn Angkasekwinai, Erin H. Atkins, Richard N. Johnson, John P. Grieco, Wei Mei Ching, Chien Chung Chao Inhibition of Autoimmune Chagas-Like Heart Disease by Bone Marrow Transplantation Maria C. Guimaro, Rozeneide M. Alves, Ester Rose, Alessandro O. Sousa, Ana de Cássia Rosa, Mariana M. Hecht, Marcelo V. Sousa, Rafael R. Andrade, Tamires Vital, Jiří Plachy, Nadjar Nitz, Jiří Hejnar, Clever C. Gomes, Antonio R. L. Teixeira Long-term Survival and Virulence of Mycobacterium leprae in Amoebal Cysts William H. Wheat, Amy L. Casali, Vincent Thomas, John S. Spencer, Ramanuj Lahiri, Diana L. Williams, Gerald E. McDonnell, Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero, Patrick J. Brennan, Mary Jackson Characterization of the Ca2+-Gated and Voltage-Dependent K+-Channel Slo-1 of Nematodes and Its Interaction with Emodepside Daniel Kulke, Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Sandra M. Miltsch, Adrian J. Wolstenholme, Aaron R. Jex, Robin B. Gasser, Cristina Ballesteros, Timothy G. Geary, Jennifer Keiser, Simon Townson, Achim Harder, Jürgen Krücken Golgi-Located NTPDase1 of Leishmania major Is Required for Lipophosphoglycan Elongation and Normal Lesion Development whereas Secreted NTPDase2 Is Dispensable for Virulence Fiona M. Sansom, Julie E. Ralton, M. Fleur Sernee, Alice M. Cohen, David J. Hooker, Elizabeth L. Hartland, Thomas Naderer, Malcolm J. McConville Comparison of Safety and Immunogenicity of PVRV and PCECV Immunized in Patients with WHO Category II Animal Exposure: A Study Based on Different Age Groups Yuan Fang, Li Chen, Man-Qing Liu, Zheng-Gang Zhu, Ze-Rong Zhu, Quan Hu Bayesian Risk Mapping and Model-Based Estimation of Schistosoma haematobium–Schistosoma mansoni Co-distribution in Côte d′Ivoire Frédérique Chammartin, Clarisse A. Houngbedji, Eveline Hürlimann, Richard B. Yapi, Kigbafori D. Silué, Gotianwa Soro, Ferdinand N. Kouamé, Eliézer K. N′Goran, Jürg Utzinger, Giovanna Raso, Penelope Vounatsou Evaluation of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Prototype Rapid Tests for Human African Trypanosomiasis Jeremy M. Sternberg, Marek Gierliński, Sylvain Biéler, Michael A. J. Ferguson, Joseph M. Ndung'u Functional Activity of Monocytes and Macrophages in HTLV-1 Infected Subjects Camila F. Amorim, Anselmo S. Souza, Angela G. Diniz, Natália B. Carvalho, Silvane B. Santos, Edgar M. Carvalho Universal Single-Probe RT-PCR Assay for Diagnosis of Dengue Virus Infections Erik Alm, Birgitta Lesko, Gunnel Lindegren, Clas Ahlm, Sandra Söderholm, Kerstin I. Falk, Nina Lagerqvist