Section outline

  • Lecture: Introduction to NTDs and vector-borne diseases

    Introduction to NTDS, basics of vector-borne transmission

    Faculty:  Caryn Bern, Roly Gosling, Jimee Hwang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1109

    • Prospectus:

    • Required Reading:

    • Yamey G, Torreele E. The world's most neglected diseases. BMJ 2002;325:176-7. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Ribeiro J.M.C., Valenzuela J.G. Vector Biology In: Guerrant RL, Walker DH, Weller PF, eds. Tropical infectious diseases: principles, pathogens and practice. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2011:45-51. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Hotez PJ, Molyneux DH, Fenwick A, Kumaresan J, Sachs SE, Sachs JD, Savioli L. Control of neglected tropical diseases. N Engl J Med. 2007 Sep 6;357(10):1018-27. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

      Warrell D, Gilles H. Essential Malariology 4th ed. 2002: 73-78

    • Pates H, Curtis C. Mosquito behaviour and vector control. Annu Rev Entomol 2005: 50: 53–70 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Smith DL, Perkins TA, Reiner RC Jr et al. Recasting the theory of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission dynamics and control. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Apr;108(4):185-97. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • World Health Organization. First WHO report on neglected tropical diseases: working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases. WHO/HTM/NTD/2010.1. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment:

       

    • Article review/discussion sign-up Forum

      Please use the forum to post your date preference.

      Date

      Article review/discussion

      Student sign-up

      1/12/2015

      Leishmaniasis

      1/26/2015

      Chagas disease

      2/2/2015

      Trachoma 

      2/9/2015

      Arboviruses

      2/23/2015

      Malaria 

      3/2/2015

      Schistosomiasis