Background: The world has made great strides towards beating malaria, although about half of the world population is still exposed to the risk of contracting malaria. Developing an effective malaria vaccine was a huge challenge for medical science. In 2021 the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 vaccine (Mosquirix™), for widespread use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Scabies is an under-recognized global health problem with an unacceptably high prevalence in many settings worldwide. Fortunately, the World Health Organization (WHO) has formally designated scabies as a neglected tropical disease in 2017, in the hope of increasing awareness and encouraging efforts to eradicate it. Also, scabies has recently been included as part of the WHO roadmap for neglected tropical diseases 2021-2030, aimed at ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the printed version of the article, the name of the third author was misspelled. The correct name is as follows: Amal A. El-Moamly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We describe a new dicrocoeliid collected from the Eurasian water shrew Neomys fodiens in Bulgaria based on the combination of morphological characteristics and molecular data.
Results: Pojmanskatrema balcanica n. sp.