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JULY 2022 (VOLUME 107, ISSUE 1)
EDITORIAL
STARTER Checklist for Antimalarial Therapeutic Efficacy Reporting
Mateusz Plucinski, Elizabeth A. Ashley, Quique Bassat, Meera Venkatesan, Philip J. Rosenthal, and Eric S. Halsey
IMAGES IN CLINICAL TROPICAL MEDICINE
Minimally Invasive Resection of Giant Neurocysticercal Cyst
Paul Albert Trubin, Sacit Bulent Omay, and Albert I. Ko
Ruptured Pulmonary Hydatid Cyst Complicated by COVID-19
Recep Tekin, Serdar Onat, and Rojbin Ceylan Tekin
Lepromatous Leprosy with Vitiligo, a Clinical Diagnostic Challenge
Harpreet Singh Pawar, Harish Kumar Sagar, and Ankur Singh
Stories from the Field
A Man Who Died of COVID-19 in Karachi
Rabab Batool
Perspective Piece
Refugee Crisis: Why Scientists and Scholars Need to Step Up
Carly Ching and Muhammad H. Zaman
Review Article
Modeling the Health and Economic Impact of Substandard and Falsified Medicines: A Review of Existing Models and Approaches
Sachiko Ozawa, Colleen R. Higgins, Jude I. Nwokike, and Souly Phanouvong
Meeting Report
Strengthening Bioinformatics and Genomics Analyses Skills in Africa for Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Report of the 2nd Conference of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network
Itunuoluwa Isewon, Chisom Soremekun, Marion Adebiyi, Charles Adetunji, Adewale Joseph Ogunleye, Amos Orenyi Bajeh, Emmanuel Oluwatobi Asani, Babatunde Gbadamosi, Opeyemi Soremekun, Brenda Udosen, Christopher Kintu, Roseline Ogundokun, Micheal Olaolu Arowolo, Opeyemi Matiluko, Oyekanmi Nashiru, Ezekiel Adebiyi, Chinwe Ekenna, and Segun Fatumo
Articles
Assessment of the Quality of Injectable Antibiotics in Benin
Angèle Modupè Dohou, Achille Loconon Yémoa, Dodji Boris Aurel Guidan, Seyive Hélène Solange Ahouandjinou, Ahmed Amoussa, Francis Moïse Dossou, Roland Marini Djang’eing’a, and Olivia Dalleur
Introduction of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool to Inform Prescribing for Pediatric Diarrhea in Bangladesh and Mali: Do Provider Expectations Predict Experiences?
Adama M. Keita, Ben J. Brintz, Ashraful I. Khan, Md. Taufiqul Islam, Zahid Hasan Khan, Youssouf Keita, Jennifer Hwang, Eric J. Nelson, Firdausi Qadri, Samba Sow, Daniel T. Leung, and Melissa H. Watt
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Latrine Management Approaches in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Myanmar
Marta Domini, Sunny Guidotti Pereira, Aye Win, Lae Yee Win, and Daniele Lantagne
Secular Growth Trends in Early Childhood—Evidence from Two Low-Income Birth Cohorts Recruited over a Decade in Vellore, India
Beena Koshy, Arun S. Karthikeyan, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Anuradha Bose, Sushil John, and Gagandeep Kang
Microbiological Impacts of Decontamination of Stethoscopes and Assessment of Disinfecting Practices among Physicians in Pakistan: A Quality Improvement Survey
Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Musharaf Zaman, Muhammad Saad Babar, Fareeha Imran, Aasma Noveen Ajmal, Muna Malik, Jalees Khalid Khan, Irfan Ullah, and Muhammad Sohaib Asghar
Gut Resistome after Antibiotics among Children with Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Catherine E. Oldenburg, Armin Hinterwirth, Millogo Ourohiré, Clarisse Dah, Moussa Ouédraogo, Ali Sié, Valentin Boudo, Cindi Chen, Kevin Ruder, Lina Zhong, Elodie Lebas, Fanice Nyatigo, Benjamin F. Arnold, Kieran S. O’Brien, and Thuy Doan
Carriage of Plasmid-Mediated Colistin Resistance-1-Positive Escherichia coli in Humans, Animals, and Environment on Farms in Vietnam
Phuong Thi Lan Nguyen, Hung Thi Mai Tran, Hai Anh Tran, Thai Duy Pham, Tan Minh Luong, Thanh Ha Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong Nguyen, Tho Thi Thi Nguyen, Ha Thi An Hoang, Chi Nguyen, Duong Nhu Tran, Anh Duc Dang, Masato Suzuki, Thanh Viet Le, Anne-Laure Bañuls, Marc Choisy, Rogier H. Van Doorn, and Huy Hoang Tran
Association between Pathogenic Variants of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Growth in Children under 5 Years of Age in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study
Rina Das, Parag Palit, Md Ahshanul Haque, Tahmeed Ahmed, and A. S. G Faruque
Outbreak of Typhoid Fever in Children of Urban Vellore: A Report from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India Cohort
Manikandan Srinivasan, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, J. Senthil Kumar, Ranjith Kumar Ramasamy, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Pratheepa Aasaithampi, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Gagandeep Kang, and Jacob John
Case Report: Community-Acquired Burkholderia cepacia Pneumonia of a Patient with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Qiang Li and Li-Ping Ma
Mycobacterium ulcerans Experimental Dormancy
Ahmed Loukil, Rym Lalaoui, Hervé Bogreau, Sofiane Regoui, Michel Drancourt, and Nassim Hammoudi
Case Report: Chemoradiation with Paclitaxel and Carboplatin Unveiling Leprosy Type 1 Downgrading Reaction
B Savitha, Kabir Sardana, Ananta Khurana, Seema Rani, Soumya Sachdeva, and Arvind Ahuja
Case Report: Pulmonary Leptospirosis Misdiagnosed as COVID-19
Jean-Marie Turmel, Claude Olive, Bastien Bigeard, Sylvie Abel, Rishika Banydeen, Laura Daoud, Pierre-Marie Fayolle, and André Cabié for the COVID-19 Study Group of the University Hospital of Martinique
Case Report: Leptospirosis by Wild Rat Bite in Winter in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan
Tetsuya Suzuki, Shinichiro Morioka, Tatsuya Kikuchi, Lubna Sato, Hidetoshi Nomoto, Kei Yamamoto, Nobuo Koizumi, Kayoko Hayakawa, Satoshi Kutsuna, and Norio Ohmagari
Experimental Rickettsia typhi Infection in Monodelphis domestica: Implications for Opossums as an Amplifying Host in the Suburban Cycle of Murine Typhus
Lucas S. Blanton, Bethany R. Quade, Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández, Nicole L. Mendell, Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, Donald H. Bouyer, John L. VandeBerg, and David H. Walker
Role of Immunotherapy in Pythium insidiosum Keratitis
Onsiri Thanathanee, Chavakij Bhoomibunchoo, Orapin Anutarapongpan, Olan Suwan-apichon, Korawin Charoensuk, and Ariya Chindamporn
Case Report: Plantar Cyst Caused by Phaeoacremonium inflatipes in an Immunocompetent Male, Resolving with Combination Potassium Iodide and Itraconazole Therapy
Jaspriya Sandhu, Jaismine Kaur Kohli, Sunil Kumar Gupta, and Veenu Gupta
Characterization of Recalcitrant Dermatophytosis in a Multicenter Study in Sri Lanka
Nayani P. Madarasingha, Surammika Eriyagama, Primali I. Jayasekera, Shreenika De Silva, Saman Gunasekera, D. M. Munasingha, Premini Rajendran, S. M. B. Ekanayaka, Janani Liyanange, N. Thamilvannan, Buthsiri Sumanasena, Felicia Srisaravanabavanathan, and Binari Wijenayake
Epidemiology of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections among Primary School Children in the States of Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Tripura, India, 2015–2016
Sandipan Ganguly, Sharad Barkataki, Prerna Sanga, K. Boopathi, Kaliaperumal Kanagasabai, Shanmugasundaram Devika, Sumallya Karmakar, Punam Chowdhury, Rituparna Sarkar, Dibyendu Raj, Leo James, Shanta Dutta, Suzy J. Campbell, and Manoj Murhekar
Case Report: Laparoscopic Management of Acute Appendicitis Resulting from Ascaris lumbricoides
Catalina Castañeda, Diego Valbuena, William Salamanca, David Acevedo, and Mauricio Pedraza
Impact of Three to Five Rounds of Mass Drug Administration on Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in School-Aged Children in North-Central Nigeria
Emily Griswold, Abel Eigege, Solomon Adelamo, Bulus Mancha, Nwodu Kenrick, Yohana Sambo, Joseph Ajiji, Gideon Zam, Jacob Solomon, Rita O. Urude, Jonathan Kadimbo, Jacob Danboyi, Emmanuel Miri, Andrew W. Nute, Lindsay Rakers, Obiageli Nebe, Chukwuma Anyaike, Paul Weiss, Gregory S. Noland, and Frank Richards
Urine 1H-NMR Metabolomics to Discriminate Neurocysticercosis Patients from Healthy Controls: An Exploratory Study
Juan M. Lopez, Vanessa E. Leyva, Javier A. Bustos, Erika Perez, Sofía S. Sanchez, Herbert Saavedra, Isidro Gonzales, Helena Maruenda, and Hector H. Garcia for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
Prevalence of Chagas Disease and Associated Factors in an Endemic Area of Northeastern Argentina
Inés María Baeck, Pablo Mando, Belén María Virasoro, Alfredo Martinez, Soledad Zarate, Ricardo Valentini, and Ignacio Lopez Saubidet
Case Report: Cambodian National Malaria Surveillance Program Detection of Plasmodium knowlesi
Christina Yek, Sreyngim Lay, Jennifer A. Bohl, Somnang Man, Sophana Chea, Chanthap Lon, Vida Ahyong, Cristina M. Tato, Joseph L. DeRisi, Siv Sovannaroth, and Jessica E. Manning
Insights into Plasmodium vivax Asymptomatic Malaria Infections and Direct Skin-Feeding Assays to Assess Onward Malaria Transmission in the Amazon
Marta Moreno, Katherine Torres, Carlos Tong, Stefano S. García Castillo, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, Gerson Guedez, Lutecio Torres, Manuela Herrera-Varela, Layné Guerra, Mitchel Guzman-Guzman, Daniel Wong, Roberson Ramirez, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Jan E. Conn, Dionicia Gamboa, and Joseph M. Vinetz
Case Report: COVID Associated Pancytopenia Unmasking Previously Undiagnosed Pernicious Anemia
Javier J. Barranco-Trabi, Robert Minns, Roushon Akter, Katherine Park, Sean Babb, and Jennifer Masel
Facemask Usage Among Pedestrians in Most Crowded Urban Districts of Kabul, Afghanistan, During the Third COVID-19 Wave: An Observational Study
Arash Nemat, Abdullah Asady, Ahmad Wali Ataye, Tamim Jan Danishmand, Mohammad Yasir Essar, and Nahid Raufi
The Influence of Nationality and Socio-demographic Factors on Urban Slum Dwellers’ Threat Appraisal, Awareness, and Protective Practices against COVID-19 in Thailand
Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen and Siwarat Pattanasri
Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in Ghana and the Impact of Public Health Interventions
Sylvia K. Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Cost-effectiveness of a Dengue Vector Control Intervention in Colombia
Alejandra Taborda, Cindy Chamorro, Juliana Quintero, Gabriel Carrasquilla, and Darío Londoño
Two-year Decay of Zika Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in People Living in an Endemic Region in Brazil
Tereza Magalhaes, Clarice N. L. Morais, Elisa A. N. Azevedo, Iracema J. A. A. Jacques, Priscila M. S. Castanha, Marli T. Cordeiro, Cynthia Braga, Thomas Jaenisch, Ernesto T. A. Marques, and Brian D. Foy
Apelin Association with Hepatic Fibrosis and Esophageal Varices in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus
Lamyaa Abdellatif Soliman, Rania A. Zayed, Dalia Omran, Fadwa Said, Samar Kamal Darweesh, Doaa Mohamed Ghaith, Rasha Eletreby, Mahmoud Salama Barakat, Mahmoud M. Bendary, Doaa Zakaria Zaky, Eman Amer, and Iman Rifaat Elmahgoub
Improving Care for Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B via Establishment of a Disease Registry
Malini B. DeSilva, Ann Settgast, Ella Chrenka, Amy J. Kodet, and Patricia F. Walker
Identification of Knockdown Resistance Mutations in the Cimex hemipterus (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) in Iran
Mehdi Tiotour, Minoo Shaddel, Mohammad Aminianfar, Hadi Mirahmadi, Gholamreza Barzegar, Rahmat Solgi, and Mohammad Darvishi
Night Time Extension of Aedes aegypti Human Blood Seeking Activity
Bryson Alberto Ndenga, Francis Maluki Mutuku, Harun Njenga Ngugi, Joel Omari Mbakaya, Dunstan Mukoko, Uriel Kitron, and Angelle Desiree LaBeaud
Genome Size Variation of Chagas Disease Vectors of the Rhodniini Tribe
Marie Merle, Jonathan Filée, Jader de Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Almeida, Florence Mougel, Héloïse Bastide, Marc Girondot, João Aristeu da Rosa, and Myriam Harry
LetterS to the Editor
On Hazardous Pills for Weight Loss and Cysticercosis
María Teresa Galán-Puchades and Màrius V. Fuentes
Excess Mortality Is Not Synonymous with COVID-19–Related Deaths
Camilla Mattiuzzi and Giuseppe Lippi
In Response
The Reasons for Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Christopher T. Leffler and Sneha Konda