About Neglected Tropical Diseases

Neglected tropical diseases are a group of diseases that affect a significant proportion of the world population across tropical and sub-tropical regions. These diseases are prevalent in areas with a lack of sanitation, clean water, and healthcare; and where the population lives in close proximity to animals and disease vectors. Given this, the burden of these diseases overwhelmingly rests on the poorest and most isolated members of society globally.

In the early 2000s, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a list of 17 priority neglected tropical diseases which has since been expanded to include three more. These include:

• Buruli ulcer
• Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)
• Dengue and Chikungunya
• Dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease)
• Echinococcosis
• Foodborne trematode infections
• Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
• Leishmaniasis
• Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
• Lymphatic filariasis (Elephantiasis)
• Mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis and other deep mycoses
• Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
• Rabies
• Scabies and other ectoparasitoses
• Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia)
• Soil-transmitted helminthiases
• Snakebite envenoming
• Taeniasis and cysticercosis
• Trachoma
• Yaws (Endemic treponematoses)

The Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection brings together all content published on F1000Research related to neglected tropical diseases. We welcome all outputs from basic microbiological research, to clinical studies, public health policy and research into the impact of these diseases on the populations affected.

F1000Research’s open transparent publishing model along with our open data policy will ensure the Collection presents open, transparently reported and reusable findings and data that can contribute towards the WHO goal of a 90% reduction in individuals requiring interventions for NTDs by 2030.