ReviewThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Contributions of the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) to Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination: Key Findings and Messages for Future Goals, Thresholds, and Operational Research.
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- SCORE Studies on the Impact of Drug Treatment on Morbidity due toThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Pooled it
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- SCORE Operational Research on Moving toward Interruption of Schistosomiasis Transmission.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Trial
- Challenges in Protocol Development and Interpretation of the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Intervention Studies.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Trial
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Primary caregivers of Preschool children towardsJournal of public health research · 2025Article
- The research contribution of the Schistosomiasis Collection at the Natural History Museum (SCAN): highlights, challenges and future directions.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Review
- UrogenitalOpen forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- One-year impact of behavioural interventions on schistosomiasis-related knowledge, attitude and practices of primary schoolchildren in Pemba, Tanzania.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2024Article
- Improved Assessment ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Detecting twoFrontiers in parasitology · 2024Article
- Contextual factors influencing schistosomiasis treatment and identification of delivery platforms for arpraziquantel in hard-to-reach areas and populations in Homa Bay County, Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Re-assessment of schistosomiasis in nine endemic districts with cluster sampling in Sierra Leone.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- High Specificity but Low Sensitivity of Lab-on-a-Disk Technique in Detecting Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs among Pre- and School-Aged Children in North-Western Tanzania.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of pediatric schistosomiasis in hard-to-reach areas and populations: a scoping review.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
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- Defining elimination as a public health problem for schistosomiasis control programmes: beyond prevalence of heavy-intensity infections.The Lancet. Global health · 2022Review
- Human rights as a framework for eliminating female genital schistosomiasis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Novel tools and strategies for breaking schistosomiasis transmission: study protocol for an intervention study.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for the identification of freshwater snails from Senegal, including intermediate hosts of schistosomes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
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Abstract
Herein, we summarize what we consider are major contributions resulting from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) program, including its key findings and key messages from those findings. Briefly, SCORE's key findings are as follows: i) biennial mass drug administration (MDA) with praziquantel can control schistosomiasis to moderate levels of prevalence; ii) MDA alone will not achieve elimination; iii) to attain and sustain control throughout endemic areas, persistent hotspots need to be identified following a minimal number of years of annual MDA and controlled through adaptive strategies; iv) annual MDA is more effective than biennial MDA in high-prevalence areas; v) the current World Health Organization thresholds for decision-making based on the prevalence of heavy infections should be redefined; and vi) point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen urine assays are useful for
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