Selected LCNTDR member publications 1 June 2022 – 31 July 2022

Selected LCNTDR member publications 1 June 2022 – 31 July 2022

Chagas Disease

• Towards environmental detection of Chagas disease vectors and pathogen – Nature, 14 June 2022
• Emergence of Congenital Chagas Disease in Ireland – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, July 2022
• Linear and Machine Learning modelling for spatiotemporal disease predictions: Force-of-Infection of Chagas disease – PLOS NTDs, 19 July 2022

Dengue

• Estimating dengue transmission intensity from serological data: A comparative analysis using mixture and catalytic models – PLOS NTDs, 11 July 2022

Leprosy

• Safer and newer antimicrobial drugs for leprosy – time to test monthly ROM in an adequately powered randomised trial? – Leprosy Review, 1 June 2022

Trachoma

• Evaluation of the efficacy of insecticide-treated scarves to protect children from the trachoma vector Musca sorbens (Diptera: Muscidae): A phase II randomised controlled trial in Oromia, Ethiopia – eClinicalMedicine, 8 June 2022

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths

• Transmission and diversity of Schistosoma haematobiumand S. bovis and their freshwater intermediate snail hosts Bulinus globosus and B. nasutus in the Zanzibar Archipelago, United Republic of Tanzania – PLOS NTDs, 5 July 2022
• Population genomics of ancient and modern Trichuris trichiura – Nature, 6 July 2022
• Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Beta-Tubulin Gene and Its Relationship with Treatment Response to Albendazole in Human Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Southern Mozambique – American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 18 July 2022
• Specific Nucleic AcId Ligation for the detection of Schistosomes: SNAILS – PLOS NTDs, 26 July 2022
• The Amazonian Tropical Bites Research Initiative, a hope for resolving zoonotic neglected tropical diseases in the One Health era – International Health, 27 July 2022

Other

• The effect of helminth infection on vaccine responses in humans and animal models: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Parasite Immunology, 17 June 2022
• Evaluation of antibody serology to determine current helminth and Plasmodium falciparum infections in a co-endemic area in Southern Mozambique – PLOS NTDs, 21 June 2022
• The economic evaluation of Cystic echinococcosis control strategies focused on zoonotic hosts: A scoping review – PLOS NTDs, 7 July 2022