Resources

11 Dec 2024

Starworms 

A Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funded project that aims to strengthen the monitoring and surveillance of drug efficacy and anthelmintic resistance in programs for eliminating and controlling soil-transmitted helminth infections in humans. The website contains tools and other resources with this focus.

11 Dec 2024

DIGPCR

The Ghent University Digital PCR Consortium. The website contains tools and recourses on digital PCR.

11 Dec 2024

A general framework to support cost-efficient fecal egg count method and study design choices for large-scale STH deworming programs – monitoring of therapeutic drug efficacy as a case study.

Luc E Coffeng, Johnny Vlaminck, Piet Cools, Matthew Denwood, Marco Albonico, Shaali M Ame, Mio Ayana, Daniel Dana, Giuseppe Cringoli, Sake J de Vlas, Alan Fenwick, Michael French, Adama Kazienga, Jennifer Keiser, Stefanie Knopp, Gemechu Leta, Leonardo F. Matoso, Maria P. Maurelli, Antonio Montresor, Greg Mirams, Zeleke Mekonnen, Rodrigo Corrêa-Oliveira, Simone A. Pinto, Laura Rinaldi, Somphou Sayasone, Peter Steinmann, Eurion Thomas, Jozef Vercruysse, Bruno Levecke. medRxiv 2023.01.06.23284253

11 Dec 2024

Non-local validated parametrization of an agent-based model of local-scale Taenia solium transmission in North-West Peru.

Pizzitutti F, Bonnet G, Gonzales-Gustavson E, Gabriël S, Pan WK, Pray IW, Gonzalez AE, Garcia HH, O'Neal SE; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru. PLoS One. 2022 Sep 27;17(9):e0275247.

11 Dec 2024

Movements of free-range pigs in rural communities in Zambia: an explorative study towards future ring interventions for the control of Taenia solium.

Van Damme I, Pray I, Mwape KE, Trevisan C, Coudenys F, Mubanga C, Mwelwa C, Vaernewyck V, Dorny P, O'Neal SE, Gabriël S. Parasites and Vectors 2022, 15(1):150.

11 Dec 2024

Epidemiological, clinical and radiological characteristics of people with neurocysticercosis in Tanzania-A cross-sectional study.

Stelzle D, Makasi C, Schmidt V, Trevisan C, van Damme I, Welte TM, Ruether C, Fleury A, Dorny P, Magnussen P, Zulu G, Mwape KE, Bottieau E, Gabriël S, Ngowi BJ, Winkler AS; SOLID collaborators.PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2022,16(11):e0010911. eCollection 2022 Nov.

11 Dec 2024

Foodborne Parasites and Their Complex Life Cycles Challenging Food Safety in Different Food Chains.

Gabriël S, Dorny P, Saelens G, Dermauw V. Foods 2022, 12(1):142.

11 Dec 2024

Comparison of coproprevalence and seroprevalence to guide decision-making in national soil-transmitted helminthiasis control programs: Ethiopia as a case study.

Sara Roose, Gemechu Tadesse Leta, Johnny Vlaminck, Birhanu Getachew, Kalkidan Mekete, Iris Peelaers, Peter Geldhof, Bruno Levecke. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2022, 16(10): e0010824.

11 Dec 2024

NTDroadmap 2030 

The road map sets global targets and milestones to prevent, control, eliminate or eradicate 20 diseases and disease groups as well as cross-cutting targets aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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