LCNTDR publishes 2022 research highlights

The London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research has published its new research booklet 'An Innovative Research Collaboration: Selected Research Highlights 2022'. The booklet contains 14 articles in which researchers provide a non-technical introduction to their research, why the research is necessary and the impact the research will have. The booklet includes:

• Introduction by Professor Sir Roy Anderson
• Spillover, hybridisation, and persistence in schistosome transmission dynamics at the human-animal interface
• Population impacts of hypothetical interventions on face-washing water and latrine use on the prevalence of active trachoma among children
• Understanding the role of the diagnostic ‘reflex’ in the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis
• Vaccination against Ascaris – How bioinformatics can help us develop reliable vaccines
• Analysing the current cost-effectiveness estimates of preventive chemotherapy strategies for neglected tropical diseases
• ZooTRIP: Zoonotic transmission of intestinal parasites: Implications for control and elimination
• Project in focus: Tropical Data
• Challenges for transmission break programmes: monitoring individual non-treatment to mass drug administration
• A novel metabarcoding deep amplicon sequencing tool for Trypanosoma surveillance program
• Understanding the incidence and timing of rabies cases in domestic animals and wildlife in south-east Tanzania in the presence of widespread domestic dog vaccination campaigns
• Clinical development of an orally bioavailable drug for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis
• African schistosome molecular characterisation
• How important is the spatial movement of people in attempts to eliminate the transmission of human helminth infections by mass drug administration?
• Population genomic analyses of endemic Schistosoma mansoni

• The eco-epidemiology of snakebite and the benefits of redefining as a zoonosis