Human helminthiases are of considerable public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa,
Asia, and Latin America. The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth …

Mathematical modelling of helminth infections has the potential to inform policy and guide
research for the control and elimination of human helminthiases. However, this potential …

Mosquito-borne diseases pose some of the greatest challenges in public health, especially
in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Efforts to control these diseases have been …

Background Lymphatic filariasis is targeted for elimination as a public health problem by
2020. The principal approach used by current programmes is annual mass drug …

Online and open access, Scientific Reports is a primary research publication from the
publishers of Nature, covering all areas of the natural sciences. Hosted on nature. com—the …

MicroRNAs have been shown to contribute to a repertoire of host-pathogen interactions
during viral infection. Our previous study demonstrated that microRNA-30e*(miR-30e*) …

Background Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the neglected tropical diseases targeted for
global elimination. The ability to interrupt transmission is, partly, influenced by the underlying …

Background Global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis are based on the annual mass
administration of antifilarial drugs to reduce the microfilaria reservoir available to the …

Background India has made great progress towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis. By
2015, most endemic districts had completed at least five annual rounds of mass drug …

The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) aims to eliminate the disease
as a public health problem by 2020 by conducting mass drug administration (MDA) and …