ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2020
A One Health Approach for Guinea Worm Disease Control: Scope and Opportunities.
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- Slaying the Serpent: A Research Agenda to Expand Intervention Development and Accelerate Guinea Worm Eradication Efforts.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
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- Dog screening as a novel complementary guinea worm disease control tool to mitigate persistence in Chad: A modeling study.Parasite epidemiology and control · 2023Article
- Assessment of integrated patterns of human-animal-environment health: a holistic and stratified analysis.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- Guinea Worm Disease: A Neglected Diseases on the Verge of Eradication.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Review
- Modelling to infer the role of animals in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis transmission and elimination in the DRC.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Quantifying conflict zones as a challenge to certification of Guinea worm eradication in Africa: a new analytical approach.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Diagnosing point-of-care diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Review
- Towards global control of parasitic diseases in the Covid-19 era: One Health and the future of multisectoral global health governance.Advances in parasitology · 2021Article
- One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases-Multisectoral Solutions to Endemic Challenges.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Article
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Abstract
Guinea worm disease (GWD) is a neglected tropical disease that was targeted for eradication several decades ago because of its limited geographical distribution, predictable seasonality, straightforward diagnosis, and exclusive infection of humans. However, a growing body of evidence challenges this last attribute and suggests that GWD can affect both humans and animal populations. The One Health approach emphasizes the relatedness of human, animal, and environmental health. We reviewed epidemiological evidence that could support the utility of a One Health approach for GWD control in the six countries that have reported human GWD cases since 2015-Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan. Human GWD cases have dramatically declined, but recent years have seen a gradual increase in human case counts, cases in new geographies, and a rapidly growing number of animal infections. Taken together, these suggest a need for an adjusted approach for eradicating GWD using a framework rooted in One Health, dedicated to improving disease surveillance and in animals; pinpointing the dominant routes of infection in animals; elucidating the disease burden in animals; determining transmission risk factors among animals and from animals to humans; and identifying practical ways to foster horizontal and multidisciplinary approaches.
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