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| Title |
A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Towards Control and Elimination
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| Published in |
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, April 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001547 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Boakye A. Boatin, María-Gloria Basáñez, Roger K. Prichard, Kwablah Awadzi, Rashida M. Barakat, Héctor H. García, Andrea Gazzinelli, Warwick N. Grant, James S. McCarthy, Eliézer K. N'Goran, Mike Y. Osei-Atweneboana, Banchob Sripa, Guo-Jing Yang, Sara Lustigman |
| Abstract |
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 infections, the availability of donated or affordable drugs that are mostly safe and moderately efficacious, and the implementation of viable mass drug administration (MDA) interventions have prompted the establishment of various large-scale control and elimination programmes. These programmes have benefited from improved epidemiological mapping of the infections, better understanding of the scope and limitations of currently available diagnostics and of the relationship between infection and morbidity, feasibility of community-directed or school-based interventions, and advances in the design of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) protocols. Considerable success has been achieved in reducing morbidity or suppressing transmission in a number of settings, whilst challenges remain in many others. Some of the obstacles include the lack of diagnostic tools appropriate to the changing requirements of ongoing interventions and elimination settings; the reliance on a handful of drugs about which not enough is known regarding modes of action, modes of resistance, and optimal dosage singly or in combination; the difficulties in sustaining adequate coverage and compliance in prolonged and/or integrated programmes; an incomplete understanding of the social, behavioural, and environmental determinants of infection; and last, but not least, very little investment in research and development (R&D). The Disease Reference Group on Helminth Infections (DRG4), established in 2009 by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), was given the mandate to undertake a comprehensive review of recent advances in helminthiases research, identify research gaps, and rank priorities for an R&D agenda for the control and elimination of these infections. This review presents the processes undertaken to identify and rank ten top research priorities; discusses the implications of realising these priorities in terms of their potential for improving global health and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); outlines salient research funding needs; and introduces the series of reviews that follow in this PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases collection, "A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans." |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 219 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 215 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 38 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 17% |
| Researcher | 32 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 9% |
| Other | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 44 | 20% |
| Unknown | 37 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 51 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 47 | 21% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 36 | 16% |
| Unknown | 49 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2015.
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#3,365
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