espite the World Health Assem-bly's enthusiastic adoption in 1991 of a resolution to " eliminate leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000 " , it remains an important cause of global chronic neurological disability. 1 The optimistic belief that leprosy could be conquered despite a limited understanding of its epidemiology was principally based on the availability of effective multidru...

INTRODUCTION In 2005, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal joined forces to eliminate Visceral Leishmaniasis (or kala-azar) from the region by 2015. In Bangladesh the elimination target is set at less than one new case per 10,000 population per year at upazila (sub-district) level. As the deadline approaches, we review the status of the elimination initiative in this country. METHODS We collected all...

The identification performance of children (5 to 6 years, n = 180; 9to 10years, n = 180) and adults (n = 180) was examined using three types of video lineup procedures: simultaneous, sequential and elimination. Participants viewed a videotaped staged theft and then attempted to identify the culprit from a target-present or target-absent video lineup. Correct identifications in simultaneous and ...

Lysis of infected cells by CD8(+) T cells is an important mechanism for the control of virus infections, but remains difficult to quantify in vivo. Here, we study the elimination kinetics of viral antigen-positive lymphocytes by antiviral CD8(+) T cells using flow cytometry and mathematical analysis. In mice acutely infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, more than 99.99 % of target c...

BACKGROUND Global decline in malaria episodes over the past decade gave rise to a debate to target malaria elimination in eligible countries. However, investigation regarding researchers' perspectives on barriers and facilitating factors to effective implementation of a malaria elimination policy in South Africa (SA) is lacking. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the malaria researc...