ReviewInfectious diseases of poverty2017
Towards interruption of schistosomiasis transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: developing an appropriate environmental surveillance framework to guide and to support 'end game' interventions.
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- Detecting and identifying Schistosoma infections in snails and aquatic habitats: A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Pooled it
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- The impact and cost of a new rapid diagnostic test for school-based prevalence mapping and monitoring and evaluation surveys of schistosomiasis: A modelling study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- The role of immunoglobulin E in non-atopic disorders.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Prevalence of humanEClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Precision public health in schools enabled by wastewater surveillance: A case study of COVID-19 in an Upstate New York middle-high school campus during the 2021-2022 academic year.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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- Environmental DNA in human and veterinary parasitology - Current applications and future prospects for monitoring and control.Food and waterborne parasitology · 2022Article
- High prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection and stunting among school age children in communities along the Albert-Nile, Northern Uganda: A cross sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Reconciling Egg- and Antigen-Based Estimates of Schistosoma mansoni Clearance and Reinfection: A Modeling Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
- Recombinant Expression and Biophysical Characterization of a DruggableAdvanced pharmaceutical bulletin · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection among fishermen in Busega district, Tanzania.PloS one · 2022Article
- Polyparasitism with Schistosoma haematobium, Plasmodium and soil-transmitted helminths in school-aged children in Muyuka-Cameroon following implementation of control measures: a cross sectional study.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Loopamp™Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
- The epidemiological status of urogenital schistosomiasis among reproductive aged individuals in the Tiko Health Area- a semi-urban setting in the Mount Cameroon area.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- An outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis, alongside increasing urogenital schistosomiasis prevalence, in primary school children on the shoreline of Lake Malawi, Mangochi District, Malawi.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2020Article
- Assessing the diversity and distribution of potential intermediate hosts snails for urogenital schistosomiasis: Bulinus spp. (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) of Lake Victoria.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Future schistosome hybridizations: Will all Schistosoma haematobium hybrids please stand-up!PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
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Abstract
Schistosomiasis is a waterborne parasitic disease in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly common in rural populations living in impoverished conditions. With the scale-up of preventive chemotherapy, national campaigns will transition from morbidity- to transmission-focused interventions thus formal investigation of actual or expected declines in environmental transmission is needed as 'end game' scenarios arise. Surprisingly, there are no international or national guidelines to do so in sub-Saharan Africa. Our article therefore provides an introduction to key practicalities and pitfalls in the development of an appropriate environmental surveillance framework. In this context, we discuss how strategies need to be adapted and tailored to the local level to better guide and support future interventions through this transition. As detection of egg-patent infection in people becomes rare, careful sampling of schistosome larvae in freshwater and in aquatic snails with robust species-specific DNA assays will be required. Appropriate metrics, derived from observed prevalence(s) as compared with predetermined thresholds, could each provide a clearer insight into contamination- and exposure-related dynamics. Application could be twofold, first to certify areas currently free from schistosomiasis transmission or second to red-flag recalcitrant locations where extra effort or alternative interventions are needed.
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