Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect.
The global priorities in the field of infectious diseases are constantly changing. While emerging viral infections have regularly dominated public health attention, which has only intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous bacterial diseases have previously caused, and continue to cause, sign...
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| author | Tshokey Tshokey Ablert I Ko Bart J Currie Claudia Munoz-Zanzi Cyrille Goarant Daniel H Paris David A B Dance Direk Limmathurotsakul Emma Birnie Eric Bertherat Gyanendra Gongal Jackie Benschop Jelmer Savelkoel John Stenos Kartika Saraswati Matthew T Robinson Nicholas P J Day Stephen R Graves Steven R Belmain Stuart D Blacksell Willem J Wiersinga |
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| description | The global priorities in the field of infectious diseases are constantly changing. While emerging viral infections have regularly dominated public health attention, which has only intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous bacterial diseases have previously caused, and continue to cause, significant morbidity and mortality-deserving equal attention. Three potentially life-threatening endemic bacterial diseases (leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses) are a huge public health concern especially in low- and middle-income countries. Despite their continued threat, these diseases do not receive proportionate attention from global health organizations and are not even included on the WHO list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This, in turn, has led to a vicious circle of neglect with continued, yet conceivably preventable, hospitalizations and deaths each year especially in the vulnerable population. This is a call from a group of multi-institutional experts on the urgent need to directly address the circle of neglect and raise support in terms of funding, research, surveillance, diagnostics, and therapeutics to alleviate the burden of these 3 diseases. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-159a8d4a872748d39eeb6f638b2e1e542025-02-05T05:33:27ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases1935-27271935-27352025-01-01191e001279610.1371/journal.pntd.0012796Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect.Tshokey TshokeyAblert I KoBart J CurrieClaudia Munoz-ZanziCyrille GoarantDaniel H ParisDavid A B DanceDirek LimmathurotsakulEmma BirnieEric BertheratGyanendra GongalJackie BenschopJelmer SavelkoelJohn StenosKartika SaraswatiMatthew T RobinsonNicholas P J DayStephen R GravesSteven R BelmainStuart D BlacksellWillem J WiersingaThe global priorities in the field of infectious diseases are constantly changing. While emerging viral infections have regularly dominated public health attention, which has only intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous bacterial diseases have previously caused, and continue to cause, significant morbidity and mortality-deserving equal attention. Three potentially life-threatening endemic bacterial diseases (leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses) are a huge public health concern especially in low- and middle-income countries. Despite their continued threat, these diseases do not receive proportionate attention from global health organizations and are not even included on the WHO list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This, in turn, has led to a vicious circle of neglect with continued, yet conceivably preventable, hospitalizations and deaths each year especially in the vulnerable population. This is a call from a group of multi-institutional experts on the urgent need to directly address the circle of neglect and raise support in terms of funding, research, surveillance, diagnostics, and therapeutics to alleviate the burden of these 3 diseases.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012796 |
| spellingShingle | Tshokey Tshokey Ablert I Ko Bart J Currie Claudia Munoz-Zanzi Cyrille Goarant Daniel H Paris David A B Dance Direk Limmathurotsakul Emma Birnie Eric Bertherat Gyanendra Gongal Jackie Benschop Jelmer Savelkoel John Stenos Kartika Saraswati Matthew T Robinson Nicholas P J Day Stephen R Graves Steven R Belmain Stuart D Blacksell Willem J Wiersinga Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
| title | Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. |
| title_full | Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. |
| title_fullStr | Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. |
| title_short | Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. |
| title_sort | leptospirosis melioidosis and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012796 |
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