Selected LCNTDR member publications 1 October 2022 – 31 December 2022

Chagas Disease

• Comparing in vivo bioluminescence imaging and the Multi-Cruzi immunoassay platform to develop improved Chagas disease diagnostic procedures and biomarkers for monitoring parasitological cure – PLOS NTDs, 3 October 2022
• Enteric nervous system regeneration and functional cure of experimental digestive Chagas disease with trypanocidal chemotherapy – bioRxiv, 14 December 2022

Dengue and Chikungunya

• Characterization and Involvement of Exosomes Originating from Chikungunya Virus-Infected Epithelial Cells in the Transmission of Infectious Viral Elements – International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 11 October 2022

Leishmaniasis

• Linear and conformational determinants of visceral leishmaniasis diagnostic antigens rK28 and rK39 – Parasites & Vectors, 22 October 2022
• Challenges of using modelling evidence in the visceral leishmaniasis elimination programme in India – PLOS Global Health, 29 November 2022

Lymphatic filariasis

• Comparing antigenaemia- and microfilaraemia as criteria for stopping decisions in lymphatic filariasis elimination programmes in Africa – PLOS NTDs, 12 December 2022

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths

• Potential drivers for schistosomiasis persistence: Population genetic analyses from a cluster-randomized urogenital schistosomiasis elimination trial across the Zanzibar islands – PLOS NTDs, 10 October 2022
• Molecular insights into the heat shock proteins of the human parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni– Parasites & Vectors, 13 October 2022
• Impact of a 5-Year Mass Drug Administration Programme for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases on the Spatial Distribution of Childhood Anaemia in Burundi from 2007 to 2011 – Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, 17 October 2022
• Factors associated with variation in single-dose albendazole pharmacokinetics: A systematic review and modelling analysis – PLOS NTDs, 28 October 2022
• Effects of ivermectin mass drug administration for malaria vector control on ectoparasites and soil-transmitted helminths: a cluster randomized trial – International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 3 November 2022
• Association between water, sanitation, and hygiene access and the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections in Wolayita, Ethiopia – Parasites & Vectors, 4 November 2022
• Development of real-time and lateral flow recombinase polymerase amplification assays for rapid detection of Schistosoma mansoni – Microbiology, 18 November 2022
• The Presence of Hemoglobin in Cervicovaginal Lavage Is Not Associated With Genital Schistosomiasis in Zambian Women From the BILHIV Study - Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 16 December 2022

Trachoma

• The conjunctival microbiome before and after azithromycin mass drug administration for trachoma control in a cohort of Tanzanian children – Frontiers in Public Health, 17 October 2022
• The conjunctival transcriptome in Ethiopians after trichiasis surgery: associations with the development of eyelid contour abnormalities and the effect of oral doxycycline treatment – Wellcome Open Research, 11 November 2022
• Baseline Prevalence of Trachoma in 13 Local Government Areas of Borno State, Nigeria – Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 5 December 2022
• Prevalence of Trachoma in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, after Implementation of the SAFE Strategy: Results of Four Population-Based Surveys – Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 13 December 2022
• Prevalence of Trachoma after Implementation of Trachoma Elimination Interventions in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia: Results of Impact Surveys in 131 Evaluation Units Covering 139 Districts – Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 15 December 2022
• Prevalence of Trachoma in Pre-validation Surveillance Surveys in 11 Evaluation Units (Covering 12 Districts) in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia: Results from 2018−2020 – Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 15 December 2022

Other

• Individual longitudinal compliance to neglected tropical disease mass drug administration programmes, a systematic review – medRxiv (preprint), 7 October 2022
• Is the incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis declining? - Trends is Parasitology, 15 November 2022
• Responding to the cuts in UK AID to neglected tropical diseases control programmes in Africa - Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 23 November 2022
• Evaluating and mitigating the potential indirect effect of COVID-19 on control programmes for seven neglected tropical diseases: a modelling study – The Lancet Global Health, November 2022
• The spatial distribution of cystic echinococcosis in Italian ruminant farms from routine surveillance data – Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 1 December 2022