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  1. Epidemiological, vectorial and landscape changes in the context of declining Onchocerca volvulus transmission across the Kakoi-Koda focus, Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  2. Modelling of onchocerciasis-associated skin and ocular disease and the impact of ivermectin treatment
  3. Vector-borne helminthiases: a road map for current and future research to support control and elimination in sub-Saharan Africa
  4. Modelling anti-Ov16 Seroprevalence for the Control and Elimination of Onchocerciasis
  5. Onchocerciasis-associated skin and ocular disease and the impact of ivermectin treatment on morbidity prevalence: a modelling study
  6. Modelling transmission thresholds and hypoendemic stability for onchocerciasis elimination
  7. Reaching Elimination of Onchocerciasis Transmission with Long-term Vector Control and Ivermectin Treatment in West Africa: The Example of Togo
  8. MBG Mapping of the Prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in Cameroon between 1971 and 2020
  9. Revisiting immunity vs. exposure in schistosomiasis: A mathematical modeling study of delayed concomitant immunity
  10. Modelling onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy and the impact of ivermectin treatment on its prevalence and incidence
  11. Usability, acceptability and cost of the SD BIOLINE Ov16 rapid diagnostic test for onchocerciasis surveillance in endemic communities in the middle belt of Ghana
  12. An Updated Economic Assessment of Moxidectin Treatment Strategies for Onchocerciasis Elimination
  13. Persistence of onchocerciasis and associated dermatologic and ophthalmic pathologies after 27 years of ivermectin mass drug administration in the middle belt of Ghana
  14. Introduction to the special issue: challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs
  15. From serological surveys to disease burden: a modelling pipeline for Chagas disease
  16. Vector control and entomological capacity for onchocerciasis elimination
  17. Immunodiagnosis of cystic echinococcosis in livestock: Development and validation dataset of an ELISA test using a recombinant B8/2 subunit of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato
  18. Modelling diagnostics for Echinococcus granulosus surveillance in sheep using Latent Class Analysis: Argentina as a case study
  19. Reducing onchocerciasis-associated morbidity in onchocerciasis-endemic foci with high ongoing transmission: a focus on the children.
  20. How modelling can help steer the course set by the World Health Organization 2021-2030 roadmap on neglected tropical diseases
  21. Spatiotemporal variations in exposure: Chagas disease in Colombia as a case study
  22. Demographic patterns of human antibody levels to Simulium damnosum s.l. saliva in onchocerciasis-endemic areas: An indicator of exposure to vector bites
  23. Integrating geostatistical maps and infectious disease transmission models using adaptive multiple importance sampling
  24. Spatial distribution and risk factors for human cysticercosis in Colombia
  25. ‘Slash and clear’ vector control for onchocerciasis elimination and epilepsy prevention: a protocol of a cluster randomised trial in Cameroonian villages
  26. Neurocysticercosis and HIV/AIDS co‐infection: A scoping review
  27. Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning
  28. How modelling can help steer the course set by the World Health Organization 2021-2030 roadmap on neglected tropical diseases
  29. Human immune response against salivary antigens of Simulium damnosum s.l.: A new epidemiological marker for exposure to blackfly bites in onchocerciasis endemic areas
  30. Unusual Localization of Blood-Borne Loa loa Microfilariae in the Skin Depends on Microfilarial Density in the Blood: Implications for Onchocerciasis Diagnosis in Coendemic Areas
  31. Scaling-Down Mass Ivermectin Treatment for Onchocerciasis Elimination: Modeling the Impact of the Geographical Unit for Decision Making
  32. Supporting Drug Development for Neglected Tropical Diseases Using Mathematical Modeling
  33. What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for the next decade of onchocerciasis control and elimination?
  34. Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis: From parasite biology and immunology to diagnosis and control
  35. Taking the strain out of onchocerciasis? A reanalysis of blindness and transmission data does not support the existence of a savannah blinding strain of onchocerciasis in West Africa
  36. Force-of-infection of Taenia solium porcine cysticercosis: a modelling analysis to assess global incidence and prevalence trends
  37. Predicted Impact of COVID-19 on Neglected Tropical Disease Programs and the Opportunity for Innovation
  38. Integrating geostatistical maps and transmission models using adaptive multiple importance sampling
  39. Moxidectin: an oral treatment for human onchocerciasis
  40. Designing antifilarial drug trials using clinical trial simulators
  41. Modelling for policy: The five principles of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Modelling Consortium
  42. Serological Evaluation of Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Bakoye and Falémé Foci, Mali
  43. Structural Uncertainty in Onchocerciasis Transmission Models Influences the Estimation of Elimination Thresholds and Selection of Age Groups for Seromonitoring
  44. Situation analysis of onchocerciasis in Cameroon: a protocol for systematic review of epidemiological studies and impact of disease control interventions
  45. Modelling for Taenia solium control strategies beyond 2020
  46. Global Trends of Seroprevalence and Universal Screening Policy for Chagas Disease in Donors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  47. Schistosomiasis — Assessing Progress toward the 2020 and 2025 Global Goals
  48. The World Health Organization 2030 goals for Taenia solium: Insights and perspectives from transmission dynamics modelling
  49. Modelling exposure heterogeneity and density dependence in onchocerciasis using a novel individual-based transmission model, EPIONCHO-IBM: Implications for elimination and data needs
  50. Atypical Clinical Manifestations of Loiasis and Their Relevance for Endemic Populations
  51. The World Health Organization 2030 goals for Taenia solium: Insights and perspectives from transmission dynamics modelling
  52. The World Health Organization 2030 goals for onchocerciasis: Insights and perspectives from mathematical modelling
  53. Insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling on the proposed WHO 2030 goals for Chagas disease
  54. From river blindness to river epilepsy: Implications for onchocerciasis elimination programmes
  55. Economic evaluations of onchocerciasis interventions: a systematic review and research needs
  56. Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region
  57. Strategies for tackling Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis: A systematic review and comparison of transmission models, including an assessment of the wider Taeniidae family transmission models
  58. Complementary Paths to Chagas Disease Elimination: The Impact of Combining Vector Control With Etiological Treatment
  59. How Can Onchocerciasis Elimination in Africa Be Accelerated? Modeling the Impact of Increased Ivermectin Treatment Frequency and Complementary Vector Control
  60. Modelling the impact of larviciding on the population dynamics and biting rates of Simulium damnosum (s.l.): implications for vector control as a complementary strategy for onchocerciasis elimination in Africa
  61. Collaborate or Collapse: Capacity Building in Zoonotic and Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling
  62. The Population Biology and Transmission Dynamics of Loa loa
  63. From river blindness control to elimination: bridge over troubled water
  64. Report of the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy
  65. Identifying co-endemic areas for major filarial infections in sub-Saharan Africa: seeking synergies and preventing severe adverse events during mass drug administration campaigns
  66. Spatiotemporal distribution and population at risk of soil-transmitted helminth infections following an eight-year school-based deworming programme in Burundi, 2007–2014
  67. Systematic review of studies generating individual participant data on the efficacy of drugs for treating soil-transmitted helminthiases and the case for data-sharing
  68. Modelling historical changes in the force-of-infection of Chagas disease to inform control and elimination programmes: application in Colombia
  69. The global burden of disease study 2013: What does it mean for the NTDs?
  70. Genome-wide analysis of ivermectin response by Onchocerca volvulus reveals that genetic drift and soft selective sweeps contribute to loss of drug sensitivity
  71. Macrofilaricidal Efficacy of Repeated Doses of Ivermectin for the Treatment of River Blindness
  72. Venezuela and its rising vector-borne neglected diseases
  73. The Genomic Architecture of Novel Simulium damnosum Wolbachia Prophage Sequence Elements and Implications for Onchocerciasis Epidemiology
  74. Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al.
  75. Socio-demographic determinants of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in migrant workers of Peninsular Malaysia
  76. Modelling the elimination of river blindness using long-term epidemiological and programmatic data from Mali and Senegal
  77. Assessing the impact of intervention strategies against Taenia solium cysticercosis using the EPICYST transmission model
  78. How universal is coverage and access to diagnosis and treatment for Chagas disease in Colombia? A health systems analysis
  79. Development and evaluation of a Markov model to predict changes in schistosomiasis prevalence in response to praziquantel treatment: a case study of Schistosoma mansoni in Uganda and Mali
  80. The impact of an 8-year mass drug administration programme on prevalence, intensity and co-infections of soil-transmitted helminthiases in Burundi
  81. Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: the human blood index of sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex
  82. Countering the Zika epidemic in Latin America
  83. Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases diagnostics: the sensitivity of skin snips for Onchocerca volvulus in near elimination and surveillance settings
  84. Does Increasing Treatment Frequency Address Suboptimal Responses to Ivermectin for the Control and Elimination of River Blindness?
  85. New approaches to measuring anthelminthic drug efficacy: parasitological responses of childhood schistosome infections to treatment with praziquantel
  86. Evidence of suppression of onchocerciasis transmission in the Venezuelan Amazonian focus
  87. Increased mortality attributed to Chagas disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  88. Model-Based Geostatistical Mapping of the Prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in West Africa
  89. Mathematical Modelling of Trachoma Transmission, Control and Elimination
  90. Preface
  91. River Blindness
  92. Quantitative analyses and modelling to support achievement of the 2020 goals for nine neglected tropical diseases
  93. Estimating the Future Impact of a Multi-Pronged Intervention Strategy on Ocular Disease Sequelae Caused by Trachoma: A Modeling Study
  94. Estimation of changes in the force of infection for intestinal and urogenital schistosomiasis in countries with schistosomiasis control initiative-assisted programmes
  95. Required duration of mass ivermectin treatment for onchocerciasis elimination in Africa: a comparative modelling analysis
  96. Larval and adult environmental temperatures influence the adult reproductive traits of Anopheles gambiae s.s.
  97. Human Onchocerciasis: Modelling the Potential Long-term Consequences of a Vaccination Programme
  98. Modelling Anopheles gambiae s.s. Population Dynamics with Temperature- and Age-Dependent Survival
  99. Onchocerciasis Transmission in Ghana: Persistence under Different Control Strategies and the Role of the Simuliid Vectors
  100. The potential impact of moxidectin on onchocerciasis elimination in Africa: an economic evaluation based on the Phase II clinical trial data
  101. Potential effects of warmer worms and vectors on onchocerciasis transmission in West Africa
  102. Improving statistical inference on pathogen densities estimated by quantitative molecular methods: malaria gametocytaemia as a case study
  103. Antibiotics in ingested human blood affect the mosquito microbiota and capacity to transmit malaria
  104. Preface
  105. Therapeutic Efficacy and Macrofilaricidal Activity of Doxycycline for the Treatment of River Blindness
  106. Neglected tools for neglected diseases: mathematical models in economic evaluations
  107. Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: biting and parous rates of host-seeking sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex
  108. Temperature during larval development and adult maintenance influences the survival of Anopheles gambiae s.s.
  109. Models for measuring anthelmintic drug efficacy for parasitologists
  110. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010: Interpretation and Implications for the Neglected Tropical Diseases
  111. Reaching the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases Goals for Onchocerciasis: An Economic Evaluation of Increasing the Frequency of Ivermectin Treatment in Africa
  112. Prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa: 1990–2010
  113. Modelling the impact of ivermectin on River Blindness and its burden of morbidity and mortality in African Savannah: EpiOncho projections
  114. Temperature during larval development and adult maintenance influences the survival of Anopheles gambiae s.s.
  115. Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: biting and parous rates of host-seeking sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex
  116. Reductions in genetic diversity of Schistosoma mansoni populations under chemotherapeutic pressure: the effect of sampling approach and parasite population definition
  117. The Cost of Annual versus Biannual Community-Directed Treatment of Onchocerciasis with Ivermectin: Ghana as a Case Study
  118. Identifying host species driving transmission of schistosomiasis japonica, a multihost parasite system, in China
  119. Association between Response to Albendazole Treatment and β-Tubulin Genotype Frequencies in Soil-transmitted Helminths
  120. Predicting mosquito infection from Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte density and estimating the reservoir of infection
  121. Uncertainty Surrounding Projections of the Long-Term Impact of Ivermectin Treatment on Human Onchocerciasis
  122. Onchocerciasis: The Pre-control Association between Prevalence of Palpable Nodules and Skin Microfilariae
  123. Using a Nonparametric Multilevel Latent Markov Model to Evaluate Diagnostics for Trachoma
  124. Costs of crowding for the transmission of malaria parasites
  125. Ascaris lumbricoides
  126. Temporal and micro-spatial heterogeneity in the distribution of Anopheles vectors of malaria along the Kenyan coast
  127. Stability and change in the distribution of cytospecies of the Simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in southern Ghana from 1971 to 2011
  128. Contributors
  129. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
  130. Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
  131. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Modelling for Control and Elimination
  132. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Basic Research and Enabling Technologies to Support Control and Elimination of Helminthiases
  133. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Health Research and Capacity Building in Disease-Endemic Countries for Helminthiases Control
  134. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Intervention for Control and Elimination
  135. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: The Problem of Helminthiases
  136. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Diagnostics for Control and Elimination Programmes
  137. A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Towards Control and Elimination
  138. Paradigm lost: how parasite control may alter pattern and process in human helminthiases
  139. Density-Dependent Mortality of the Human Host in Onchocerciasis: Relationships between Microfilarial Load and Excess Mortality
  140. Anaemia in Ugandan preschool-aged children: the relative contribution of intestinal parasites and malaria
  141. Modelling the impact of vector control interventions on Anopheles gambiae population dynamics
  142. Integrated monitoring and evaluation and environmental risk factors for urogenital schistosomiasis and active trachoma in Burkina Faso before preventative chemotherapy using sentinel sites
  143. Individual Predisposition, Household Clustering and Risk Factors for Human Infection with Ascaris lumbricoides: New Epidemiological Insights
  144. Observed Reductions in Schistosoma mansoni Transmission from Large-Scale Administration of Praziquantel in Uganda: A Mathematical Modelling Study
  145. Population biology of malaria within the mosquito: density-dependent processes and potential implications for transmission-blocking interventions
  146. Targeting Antibiotics to Households for Trachoma Control
  147. Trickle or clumped infection process? An analysis of aggregation in the weights of the parasitic roundworm of humans, Ascaris lumbricoides
  148. Trickle or clumped infection process? A stochastic model for the infection process of the parasitic roundworm of humans, Ascaris lumbricoides
  149. Reducing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission in Africa: A Model-Based Evaluation of Intervention Strategies
  150. Onchocerciasis
  151. Modelling Trachoma for Control Programmes
  152. Mass Treatment of Parasitic Disease: Implications for the Development and Spread of Anthelmintic Resistance
  153. The temporal dynamics of Plasmodium density through the sporogonic cycle within Anopheles mosquitoes
  154. Anopheles mortality is both age- and Plasmodium-density dependent: implications for malaria transmission
  155. Measuring Morbidity Associated with Urinary Schistosomiasis: Assessing Levels of Excreted Urine Albumin and Urinary Tract Pathologies
  156. The epidemiology and control of urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in schoolchildren on Unguja Island, Zanzibar
  157. Identifying sub-optimal responses to ivermectin in the treatment of River Blindness
  158. The Development of an Age-Structured Model for Trachoma Transmission Dynamics, Pathogenesis and Control
  159. Parasite genetic differentiation by habitat type and host species: molecular epidemiology ofSchistosoma japonicumin hilly and marshland areas of Anhui Province, China
  160. Estimating Household and Community Transmission of Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis
  161. Sampling strategies to detect anthelmintic resistance: the perspective of human onchocerciasis
  162. Review of "Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology" by D.U. Pfeiffer, T.P. Robinson, M. Stevenson, K. B. Stevens, D.J. Rogers and A.C.A. Clements
  163. Chapter 11 Onchocerca–Simulium Interactions and the Population and Evolutionary Biology of Onchocerca volvulus
  164. Onchocerciasis Control: Vision for the Future from a Ghanian perspective
  165. Density-dependent effects on the weight of female Ascaris lumbricoides infections of humans and its impact on patterns of egg production
  166. A parasitological survey, in rural Zanzibar, of pre-school children and their mothers for urinary schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases and malaria, with observations on the prevalence of anaemia
  167. Population Genetics of Schistosoma japonicum within the Philippines Suggest High Levels of Transmission between Humans and Dogs
  168. Mathematical modelling of parasitic infections: from data and parameter estimation to evolutionary implications
  169. Rates of microfilarial production by Onchocerca volvulus are not cumulatively reduced by multiple ivermectin treatments
  170. Hispanic Latin America, Spain and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: A rich source of reference material for public health, epidemiology and tropical medicine
  171. Vector competence of Simulium oyapockense s.l. and S. incrustatum for Onchocerca volvulus: Implications for ivermectin-based control in the Amazonian focus of human onchocerciasis, a multi-vector–host system
  172. Effect of single-dose ivermectin on Onchocerca volvulus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  173. An Analysis of Genetic Diversity and Inbreeding in Wuchereria bancrofti: Implications for the Spread and Detection of Drug Resistance
  174. DENSITY DEPENDENCE AND THE SPREAD OF ANTHELMINTIC RESISTANCE
  175. Hispanic Latin America, Spain and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: a rich source of reference material for public health, epidemiology and tropical medicine
  176. Micro-epidemiology of urinary schistosomiasis in Zanzibar: Local risk factors associated with distribution of infections among schoolchildren and relevance for control
  177. Contribution of migrant coffee labourers infected with Onchocerca volvulusto the maintenance of the microfilarial reservoir in an ivermectin-treated area of Mexico
  178. School-based control of urinary schistosomiasis on Zanzibar, Tanzania: Monitoring micro-haematuria with reagent strips as a rapid urological assessment
  179. Vector competence for Onchocerca volvulus in the Simulium (Notolepria) exiguum complex: Cytoforms or density-dependence?
  180. Trachoma: transmission, infection, and control
  181. Density-dependent host choice by disease vectors: epidemiological implications of the ideal free distribution
  182. An analysis of the population genetics of potential multi-drug resistance inWuchereria bancroftidue to combination chemotherapy
  183. Population biology of multispecies helminth infection: Competition and coexistence
  184. Progression of Plasmodium berghei through Anopheles stephensi Is Density-Dependent
  185. Density dependence and the control of helminth parasites
  186. River Blindness: A Success Story under Threat?
  187. Population genetics of concurrent selection with albendazole and ivermectin or diethylcarbamazine on the possible spread of albendazole resistance in Wuchereria bancrofti
  188. Microfilarial distribution of Loa loa in the human host: population dynamics and epidemiological implications
  189. Co-infection withOnchocerca volvulusandLoa loamicrofilariae in central Cameroon: are these two species interacting?
  190. Human infection patterns and heterogeneous exposure in river blindness
  191. Consumer-Resource Dynamics. By William W. Murdoch, Cheryl J. Briggs & Roger M. Nisbet, pp. 462. Monographs in Population Biology, 36. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA and Oxford, UK, 2003. ISBN 0 691 00658 X (hbk) and 0 691 00657 1 (pbk). £5...
  192. Population biology of multispecies helminth infection: interspecific interactions and parasite distribution
  193. Diurnal biting periodicity of parous Simulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) vectors in the onchocerciasis Amazonian focus
  194. Density dependence and overdispersion in the transmission of helminth parasites
  195. Spatial and temporal variation in biting rates and parasite transmission potentials of onchocerciasis vectors in Ecuador
  196. 2.6 EPIDEMIOLOGY, PARASITE BIOLOGY, MODELING
  197. Incidence of Blindness during the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in Western Africa, 1971–2002
  198. Association between microfilarial load and excess mortality in onchocerciasis: an epidemiological study
  199. Bayesian statistics for parasitologists
  200. Uptake of Onchocerca volvulus (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) by Simulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) Is Not Strongly Dependent on the Density of Skin Microfilariae in the Human Host
  201. Experimental studies on the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus by its vector in the Sanaga valley (Cameroon): Simulium squamosum B. Intake of microfilariae a...
  202. Transmission intensity and the patterns of Onchocerca volvulus infection in human communities.
  203. Models for the population biology and control of human onchocerciasis
  204. Human Onchocerciasis in the Amazonian Area of Southern Venezuela: Spatial and Temporal Variations in Biting and Parity Rates of Black Fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) Vectors
  205. Amazonian onchocerciasis: parasitological profiles by host-age, sex, and endemicity in southern Venezuela
  206. Parasitological indicators of onchocerciasis relevant to ivermectin control programmes in the Amazonian focus of southern Venezuela
  207. Phosphoglucomutase and trehalase isoenzymes of Venezuelan Simulium vectors of Onchocerca volvulus
  208. Onchocerca–Simulium complexes in Venezuela: can human onchocerciasis spread outside its present endemic areas?
  209. Population biology of human onchocerciasis
  210. Onchocerciasis hyperendemic in the Unturán Mountains: the value of recombinant antigens in describing a new transmission area in southern Venezuela
  211. Onchocerciasis in the Amazonian focus of southern Venezuela: altitude and blackfly species composition as predictors of endemicity to select communities for ivermectin control programmes
  212. Determination of Sample Sizes for the Estimation of Onchocerca volvulus (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) Infection Rates in Biting Populations of Simulium ochraceum s.l. (Diptera: Simuliidae) and Its Application to Ivermectin Control Programs
  213. Density-dependent processes in the transmission of human onchocerciasis: relationship between microfilarial intake and mortality of the simuliid vector
  214. Density-dependent processes in the transmission of human onchocerciasis: relationship between the numbers of microfilariae ingested and successful larval development in the simuliid vector
  215. Density-dependent processes in the transmission of human onchocerciasis: intensity of microfilariae in the skin and their uptake by the simuliid host
  216. Vector competence ofSimulium metallicums.l. (Diptera: Simuliidae) in two endemic areas of human onchocerciasis in northern Venezuela
  217. Rapport final du séminaire de modellisation apliquée pour l'optimisation des prises de décisions et du suivi des programmes de contrôle de la maladie du sommeil
  218. The vectoral role of several blackfly species (Diptera: Simuliidae) in relation to human onchocerciasis in the Sierra Parima and Upper Orinoco regions of Venezuela
  219. Experimental and natural infection of Simulium sanchezi by Mansonella ozzardi in the Middle Orinoco region of Venezuela
  220. Development of Onchocerca volvulus Larvae in Simulium pintoi in the Amazonas Region of Venezuela