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J Zoo Wildl Med
December 2024
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA,
We describe a mortality event involving at least 44 adult American robins () that were found dead on the morning of February 25, 2023 in a residential backyard in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Five carcasses were submitted for diagnostic evaluation. All five robins were in good nutritional and feather condition with no external indicators of injury or illness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTher Adv Infect Dis
November 2024
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 0300 Michael Hooker Research Center, 135 Dauer Drive, Campus Box # 7431, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Background: Malaria during pregnancy contributes to significant perinatal morbidity and mortality, accounting for almost 25% of global maternal mortality. However, the epidemiology and risk factors for subclinical malaria among pregnant women living in refugee settlements is poorly understood.
Objective: To determine the prevalence and predictors of subclinical malaria among pregnant women in refugee settlements in Northern Uganda.
Malar J
September 2024
Eck Institute for Global Health & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Background: Reactive case detection (RCD) aims to reduce malaria transmission stemming from asymptomatic carriers. Symptomatic individuals diagnosed with malaria at a health centre are followed to their households, where members of the index case and neighbouring households are tested and treated for malaria. An RCD programme was tested in the Ashanti region of Ghana in order to study diagnostic accuracy in the hospital and household settings, assess the prevalence of subclinical infections and possible clustering in index case households, and identify operational challenges for future RCD programmes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc
May 2024
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo, Kenya.
Background: Subclinical inflammation and cognitive deficits have been separately associated with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections in schoolchildren. However, whether parasite-induced inflammation is associated with worse cognition has not been addressed. We conducted a cross-sectional pilot study to better assess the effect of asymptomatic P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Trop Med Hyg
November 2023
Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Despite historical dogma that Duffy blood group negativity of human erythrocytes confers resistance to Plasmodium vivax blood stage infection, cases of P. vivax malaria and asymptomatic blood stage infection (subclinical malaria) have recently been well documented in Duffy-negative individuals throughout Africa. However, the impact of Duffy negativity on the development of naturally acquired immunity to P.
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