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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023

From serological surveys to disease burden: a modelling pipeline for Chagas disease.

Julia Ledien, Zulma M Cucunubá, Gabriel Parra-Henao, Eliana Rodríguez-Monguí, Andrew P Dobson, Susana B Adamo, Luis Gerardo Castellanos, María-Gloria Basáñez, Pierre Nouvellet

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The epidemiology of Chagas disease in the Americas.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024
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  3. Accelerating Progress Towards the 2030 Neglected Tropical Diseases Targets: How Can Quantitative Modeling Support Programmatic Decisions?Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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9 authors.

Julia LedienSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.
Zulma M CucunubáDepartamento de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, 110231 Bogotá, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-8165-3198
Gabriel Parra-HenaoCentro de Investigación en Salud para el Trópico, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 470002, Santa Marta, Colombia.
Eliana Rodríguez-MonguíDepartamento de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, 110231 Bogotá, Colombia.
Andrew P DobsonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Susana B AdamoCenter for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9168-7172
Luis Gerardo CastellanosDepartment of Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC 20037, USA.
María-Gloria BasáñezLondon Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research (LCNTDR) & MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (GIDA), Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5031-3361
Pierre NouvelletSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6094-5722

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1Medical Research Council MR/R024855/1World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) set the elimination of Chagas disease intradomiciliary vectorial transmission as a goal by 2020. After a decade, some progress has been made, but the new 2021-2030 WHO roadmap has set even more ambitious targets. Innovative and robust modelling methods are required to monitor progress towards these goals. We present a modelling pipeline using local seroprevalence data to obtain national disease burden estimates by disease stage. Firstly, local seroprevalence information is used to estimate spatio-temporal trends in the Force-of-Infection (FoI). FoI estimates are then used to predict such trends across larger and fine-scale geographical areas. Finally, predicted FoI values are used to estimate disease burden based on a disease progression model. Using Colombia as a case study, we estimated that the number of infected people would reach 506 000 (95% credible interval (CrI) = 395 000-648 000) in 2020 with a 1.0% (95%CrI = 0.8-1.3%) prevalence in the general population and 2400 (95%CrI = 1900-3400) deaths (approx. 0.5% of those infected). The interplay between a decrease in infection exposure (FoI and relative proportion of acute cases) was overcompensated by a large increase in population size and gradual population ageing, leading to an increase in the absolute number of Chagas disease cases over time. This article is part of the theme issue 'Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs'.

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AgingChagas DiseaseColombiaCost of IllnessHumansNeglected DiseasesSeroepidemiologic Studiesburden of diseaseChagas diseaseForce-of-Infectioninfectious diseasesmodellingRandom Forest

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PMID37598701
PMCPMC10440172

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