Pyrethroid (PY) resistance is now rampant in most malaria-endemic countries, threatening to lower the effectiveness of standard long-lasting insecticide nets (LLINs) treated with PY only. Of the 88 countries that reported data on insecticide resistance...
With 3 years of follow-up, the single-dose tetravalent dengue vaccine, TV005, was well tolerated and immunogenic for all four serotypes in young children to adults, including individuals with no previous dengue exposure.
With 3 years of follow-up, the single-dose tetravalent dengue vaccine, TV005, was well tolerated and immunogenic for all four serotypes in young children to adults, including individuals with no previous dengue exposure.
Increasing the total dose of primaquine from 3·5 mg/kg to 7 mg/kg can reduce P vivax recurrences by more than 50% in most endemic regions, with a small associated increase in gastrointestinal symptoms.
Treatment of patients with G6PD activity of 30% or higher with 0·25–0·5 mg/kg per day primaquine regimens and patients with G6PD activity of 70% or higher with 0·25–1 mg/kg per day regimens were associated with similar risks of haemolysis to those in p...
71 years after its US Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale, and despite the hundreds of millions of doses cumulatively used in the world, the use of primaquine remains hampered by the many unk...
Tuberculosis is one of the world's oldest and deadliest infectious diseases. Every year, more than 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis, and more than a million die from the disease, most of whom are adults and adolescents.1 With close to half ...
The torchbearer for the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) fight was the International Society for NTDs' Co-Founder. He died on June 28, 2023, aged 51 years.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, declared an end to over two years of COVID-19 pandemic's emergency state in May 2023. However, experts in infectious diseases remain cautious about categorising COVID-19 as an endemic disease, given...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, declared an end to over two years of COVID-19 pandemic's emergency state in May 2023. However, experts in infectious diseases remain cautious about categorising COVID-19 as an endemic disease, given...
Laura Mamo is Health Equity Professor of Public Health at the San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA. Her work sits at the intersection of medical sociology and gender and cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine. Sexualisi...
Laura Mamo is Health Equity Professor of Public Health at the San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA. Her work sits at the intersection of medical sociology and gender and cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine. Sexualisi...
The newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 saltation variant, BA.2.86, has raised global concern (appendix 1 p 7). By Sept 8, 2023, 95 sequences were detected, of which their early sequences originated from multiple countries, had no epidemiological relevance, and w...
The newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 saltation variant, BA.2.86, has raised global concern (appendix 1 p 7). By Sept 8, 2023, 95 sequences were detected, of which their early sequences originated from multiple countries, had no epidemiological relevance, and w...
In his book The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: a Scientist's Warning, Peter Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA, and an internationally acclaimed researcher known for defending vaccines ...
In his book The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: a Scientist's Warning, Peter Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA, and an internationally acclaimed researcher known for defending vaccines ...