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2025-06-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2025-06-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This case report presents a rare instance of concomitant splenic tuberculosis (TB), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-related T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and malaria in a 28-year-old pregnant wo...
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2025-04-15 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2025-04-15 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This case report presents a rare instance of concomitant splenic tuberculosis (TB), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-related T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and malaria in a 28-year-old pregnant wo...
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2023-09-25 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2023-09-25 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Artemisinin-combined treatments are the recommended first-line treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, but they are being threatened by emerging artemisinin resistance. Mutations in ...
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2023-09-06 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2023-09-06 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a rapidly emerging virus causing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, had no known effective prophylax...
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2016-10-03 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2016-10-03 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Multiple community-based approaches can aid in quantifying mortality in the absence of reliable health facility data. Community-based sentinel site surveillance that was used to document...
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2013-11-11 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2013-11-11 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Between 2000 and 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières diagnosed and treated 4,831 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Pokot region straddling the border between Uganda and Kenya. ...
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2009-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2009-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Accuracy of an rK39 rapid diagnostic test (DiaMed-IT-Leish ) for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was compared with splenic aspiration and the direct agglutination test (DAT) in a population ...
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2015-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2015-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Widespread availability of monotherapies and falsified antimalarials is thought to have contributed to the historical development of multidrug-resistant malaria in Cambodia. This study a...
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2018-02-22 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2018-02-22 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Early diagnosis and treatment is the principal strategy to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL), or kala-azar in East Africa. As VL strikes remote rural, sparsely populated areas, kala-az...
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2019-10-07 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2019-10-07 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), a neglected parasitic skin disease, is endemic in Pakistan, where Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major are the causative protozoan species. Standard trea...
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2004-04-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2004-04-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We estimated the pre-intervention prevalence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (Tbg) trypanosomiasis using the lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) methods in 14 parishes of Terego County...
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2010-05-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-05-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In April 2004, 137 children 6-59 months of age with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria (Caala, Central Angola) were randomized to receive either artemether-lumefantrine (Co...
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2004-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2004-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense relies on an initial serologic screening with the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CA...
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2017-12-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2017-12-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Displaced persons living in camps are at an increased risk of diarrheal diseases. Subclinical carriage of pathogens may contribute to the spread of disease, especially for microbes that ...
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2015-11-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2015-11-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We report the case of an Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA-negative pregnant woman who delivered an EBOV RNA-positive stillborn infant at a community health center in rural Sierra Leone, 1 month af...
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2020-03-05 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2020-03-05 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Point-of-care urine-lipoarabinomannan (LAM) Alere Determine TB-LAM assay has shown utility diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-positive, severely immunocompromised, TB-symptomatic patien...
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2014-07-21 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2014-07-21 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Adequate clinical and parasitologic cure by artemisinin combination therapies relies on the artemisinin component and the partner drug. Polymorphisms in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroq...
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2016-10-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2016-10-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The 2014 Ebola epidemic has shown the importance of accurate and rapid triage tools for patients with suspected Ebola virus disease (EVD). Our objective was to create a predictive score ...
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2015-03-23 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2015-03-23 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Malaria is a leading cause of pediatric mortality, and Uganda has the highest incidences in the world. Increased morbidity and mortality are associated with delays to care. This qualitat...