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