Background Parasitic zoonoses (PZs) pose a significant but often neglected threat to public
health, especially in developing countries. In order to obtain a better understanding of their …

Amphibian declines and extinctions are critical concerns of biologists around the world. The
estimated current rate of amphibian extinction is known, but how it compares to the …

Public interest in most aspects of the environment is sharply declining relative to other
subjects, as measured by internet searches performed on Google. Changes in the search …

Background Infections with Strongyloides stercoralis and other helminths represent
important, yet often neglected issues in developing countries. Indeed, strongyloidiasis can …

In this paper we make a proposal for reforming biomedical research that is aimed to align
research more closely with the so-called fair-share principle according to which the …

Recent analyses of Internet search behaviour conclude that the public's interest in
environmental issues is falling (McCallum and Bury, Biodiv Conserv 22: 1355–1367, 2013) …

Background: In recent years, there has been an improvement in the in vitro and in vivo
methodology for the screening of anti-chagasic compounds. Millions of compounds can now …

To construct a disease-specific health research opportunity index (ROI), we first define a
normalized disease-specific variable, Xnd. Let Ynd be the raw measurement m for disease d …

Background After many years of neglect, schistosomiasis control is going to scale. The
strategy of choice is preventive chemotherapy, that is the repeated large-scale …

Background Academic research is one of the main avenues through which humans can fight
the threat of infectious diseases. However, there have been concerns regarding whether the …