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Recent SCI Staff Publications Relating to Schistosomiasis

  1. Ajanga A, Lwambo NJS, Blair L, Nyandindi U, Fenwick A & Brooker S. Schistosoma mansoni in pregnancy and associations with anaemia in northwest Tanzania. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2006; 100(1): 59-63.
     
  2. Balen, J., Stothard, J.R., Kabatereine, N.B., Tukahebwa, E., Kazibwe, F., Whawell, S., Webster, J.P., Utzinger, J. & Fenwick. A. (2006). Morbidity due to Schistosoma mansoni: an epidemiological assessment of distended abdomen syndrome in Ugandan schoolchildren with observations on pre- and 1-year post anthelmintic chemotherapy. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Jun 8; (online pre-publication June 2006).
     
  3. Blair, L. & Webster, J.P. (2007). Dose-dependent schistosome-induced mortality and morbidity risk elevates host reproductive effort. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (20 (1) 54-61.
     
  4. Brooker S, Kabatereine NB, Myatt M, Stothard JR & Fenwick A. Rapid assessment of Schistosoma mansoni: the validity, applicability and cost-effectiveness of the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling method in Uganda. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2005;10(7):647-658.
     
  5. Brooker S; Kabatereine NB; Fleming FM; Devlin N. (2006) Cost and cost-effectiveness of nationwide school-based helminth control in Uganda: intra-country variation and effects of scaling up. Health Policy and Planning (sbt)
     
  6. Clements ACA, Lwambo N, Blair L, Kaatano G, Kinung’hi S, Webster JP, Fenwick A, Brooker S. (2006) Bayesian spatial analysis and disease mapping: tools to enhance planning and implementation of a schistosomiasis control programme in Tanzania. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2006; 11(4):490-503.
     
  7. Fenwick A. (25 Aug 2006). Waterborne infectious diseases--could they be consigned to history?. Science. 313:1077-1081
     
  8. Fenwick A; Keiser J; Utzinger J. (May 2006). Epidemiology, burden and control of schistosomiasis with particular consideration to past and current treatment trends. Drug future. 31:413-425.
     
  9. Fenwick A, Molyneux D, Nantulya V. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet 2005;365(9464):1029-1030
     
  10. Fenwick A. New initiatives against Africa’s worms. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2006:100,200-207.
     
  11. Fenwick, A & Webster, J.P. (2006). Schistosomiasis - challenges for control, treatment and drug resistance. Invited for: Current Opinion in Infectious Disease, 19, 577-582
     
  12. Fenwick A; Savioli L; Engels D; Robert Bergquist N; Todd MH. (Nov 2003). Drugs for the control of parasitic diseases: current status and development in schistosomiasis. Trends Parasitol. 19:509-515.
     
  13. Fleming FM; Brooker S; Geiger SM; Caldas IR; Correa-Oliveira R; Hotez PJ; Bethony JM. (2006) Synergistic associations between hookworm and other helminth species in a rural community in Brazil. Trop Med Int Health. 11: 56-64
     
  14. French MD, Rollinson D, Basáñez M-G, Mgeni AF, Khamis IS, Stothard JRS (2007) School-based control of urinary schistosomiasis on Zanzibar, Tanzania: Monitoring micro-haematuria with reagent strips as a rapid urological assessment. Journal of Pediatric Urology, 3: 364-368
     
  15. Garba A, Touré S, Dembélé R, Bosqué-Oliva E, Fenwick A. Implementation of national schistosomiasis control programmes in West Africa. Trends in Parasitology (in press).
     
  16. Golan, R., Gower, C.M., Emory, A.M., Rollinson, D. & Webster, J.P. (2007). Isolation and characterization of the first polymorphic microsatellite markers for Schistosoma haematobium and their application in multiplex reactions of larval stages. Molecular Ecology Notes.
     
  17. Gower CM, Webster JP. Intraspecific competition and the evolution of virulence in a parasitic trematode. Evolution 2005;59(3):544-553.
     
  18. Gower, C.M., Shrivastava, J., Lamberton, P.H.L, Rollinson, D., Emory, A., Webster, B.L., Kabatereine, N.B. & Webster, J.P. (2007). Development and application of an ethical and epidemiologically appropriate assay for the multi-locus microsatellite analysis of Schistosoma mansoni. Parasitology, 134, 4, 523-536.
     
  19. Kabatereine NB, Brooker S, Tukahebwa EM, Kazibwe F & Onapa A. (2004). Epidemiology and geography of Schistosoma mansoni in Uganda: implications for planning control. Tropical Medicine and International Health 9, 372-380.
     
  20. Kabatereine NB, Tukahebwa EM, Kazibwe F, Namwangye H, Zaramba S, Brooker S, Stothard JR, Kamenka C, Whawell S, Webster JP & Fenwick A. (2006). Progress towards country-wide control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Uganda. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2006:100. 208-215
     
  21. Kabatereine, N.B., Brooker, S., Koukounari, A., Kazibwe, F., Tukahebwa, E., Fleming, F. Zhang, Y., Webster, J.P., Stothard, J.R. & Fenwick, A. (2007). Impact on infection and morbidity of a national helminth control programme in Ugandan schoolchildren. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85 (2) 91-99.
     
  22. Kabatereine N, Fleming FM, Nyandindi U, Mwanza JCL, Blair L. (2006) The control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in East Africa. Trends in Parasitology Vol 22 No 7 - pp332-339
     
  23. Kabatereine, N.B., Tukahebwa, E., Kazibwe, F., Naringwe, H., Brooker, S., Stothard, J.R., Kamenka, C., Wahwell, S., Webster, J.P., Fenwick, A. (2006). Progress towards countrywide control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Uganda. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 100 (3), 208-215
     
  24. Koukounari A, Fenwick A, Whawell S, Kabatereine NB, Kazibwe F, Tukahebwa EM Stothard JR, Donnelly CA & Webster JP (2006). Morbidity indicators of Schistosoma mansoni: relationship between infection and anaemia in Ugandan schoolchildren before and after praziquantel and albendazole chemotherapy. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 75 (2) 278-286.
     
  25. Koukounari A, Sacko M, Keita A, Gabrielli AF, Landouré A, Dembelé R, Clements AC, Whawell S, Donnelly CA, Fenwick A, Traoré M & Webster JP. (2006). Assessment of ultrasound morbidity indicators for schistosomiasis in the context of large-scale control programmes, illustrated with experiences from Malian children. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 75 (6) 1042–1052
     
  26. Koukounari A, Gabrielli AF, Touré S, Bosqué-Oliva E, Zhang Y, Donnelly CA, Fenwick A, Webster JP. (2007). Urinary schistosomiasis infection and morbidity before and after large-scale administration of praziquantel in Burkina Faso. Journal of Infectious Diseases 196 (5):653-655.
     
  27. Lamberton, P.H.L., Kabatereine, N.B., Fenwick, A. & Webster, J.P. (2005) Adaptation and evolution of Schistosoma spp. in response to chemotherapeutic pressure. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99 (12) 948.
     
  28. Li J; Wang Y; Fenwick A; Clayton TA; Lau YY; Legido-Quigley C; Lindon JC; Utzinger J; Holmes E. (23 Jun 2007). A high-performance liquid chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based analysis of commercially available praziquantel tablets. J Pharm Biomed Anal.
     
  29. Montresor A, Odermatt P, Muth S, Iwata F, Raja’ay A, Assis A M, Zulkifli A, Kabatereine N B, Fenwick A, Al-Awaidy S, Allen H, Engels D, Savioli L (2005). The WHO dose pole for the administration of praziquantel is also accurate in non-African populations. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2005;99(1):78-81.
     
  30. Norton, A.J., Webster, J.P., Kane, R. & Rollinson. D. (2008). Inter-specific parasite competition: mixed infections of Schistosoma mansoni and S. rodhaini in the definitive host. Parasitology, 135, 1-12.
     
  31. Odogwu, S.E., Ramamurthy, N.K., Kabaterenine, N.B., Kazibwe, F., Tukahebwa, E., Webster, J.P., Fenwick, A. & Stothard, J.R. (2006). Schistosoma mansoni in infants (aged < 3 years) along the Ugandan shoreline of Lake Victoria. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 100, (4), 315-326.
     
  32. Rafferty, A., Rollinson, D. & Webster, J.P. (2005). Interspecific interactions between Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma rodhainin in the intermediate host. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99 (12) 951.
     
  33. Robinson, E., Lamberton, P.H.L., Stothard, R., Fenwick, A., Coles, G. & Webster, J.P. (2005). Development and evaluation of a field test for praziquantel resistance at three schools in Mayuge district, Uganda. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99 (12) 952.
     
  34. Stothard, J.R., Kabatereine, N.B., Tukahebwa, E., Kazibwe, F., Rollinson, D., Mathieson, W., Webster, J.P., & Fenwick, A. (2006). Use of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) dipsticks for detection of intestinal and urinary schistosomiasis. Acta Tropica, 97 (2), 219-228
     
  35. Stothard, J.R., Kabatereine, N.B., Tukahebwa, E., Kazibwe, F., Webster, J.P., & Fenwick, A. (2005). Field evaluation of the Meade Readiview handheld microscope for diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis in Ugandan school children. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 73(5), 2005, pp. 949–955
     
  36. Shrivastava, J., Qian, B.Z., McVean, G. & Webster, J.P. (2005) An insight into the genetic variability of Schistosoma japonicum in mainland China using DNA microsatellite markers. Molecular Ecology, 14, (3), 839-849
     
  37. Shrivastava, J., Gower, C.M., Balolong, E. jr, Wang, T.P, Qian, B.Z. & Webster, J.P. (2005). Population genetics of multi-host parasites – the case for molecular epidemiological studies of Schistosoma japonicum using naturally sampled larval stages. Parasitology, 131, 617-626
     
  38. Shrivastava, J., C.M. Gower, D. Rollinson, T-P Wang, P.H.L. Lamberton, B-Z Qian, E. Balolong Jr. & Webster, J.P. (2005). The importance and application of natural schistosome population sampling. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99 (12) 953.
     
  39. Touré S, Zhang Y, Bosque-Oliva E, Ky C, Ouedraogo A, Koukounari A, Gabrielli AF, Sellin B, Webster JP, Fenwick A. Two-year impact of single praziquantel treatment in the national control programme on schistosomiasis by preventive chemotherapy in Burkina Faso. Bulletin of World Health Organization, 2007 (submitted)
     
  40. Wang, T-P, Shrivastava, J., Johansen, M.V., Zhang, Z.K. & Webster, J.P. (2006) Does multiple hosts mean multiple parasites? : Population genetic structure of Schistosoma japonicum between definitive host species. International Journal for Parasitology, 36, 1317-1325.
     
  41. Webster, J.P., Shrivastava, J. & Johnson, P. & Blair, L. (2007). Is host-schistosome coevolution going anywhere?. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7:91 (13 June 2007).
     
  42. Webster, J.P., Koukounari, A., Lamberton, P.H.L., Stothard, J.R. & Fenwick, A. (2007). Evaluation and Application of potential schistosome-associated morbidity markers within large-scale mass chemotherapy programmes. Invited for: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In press.
     
  43. Webster, J.P. & Gower, C.M. (2006). Mate choice, frequency dependence, and the maintenance of resistance to parasitism. Invited for: Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly called American Zoologist). 46 (3), 407-418
     
  44. Webster, J.P. (2005). Parasitic manipulation: where else should we go? Invited for: Behavioural processes, 68, (3) 275-277
     
  45. Webster, J.P. (2005). Snail-schistosome interactions: sex and success. Invited for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 44 (6):661-661
     
  46. Zhang, Y., Koukounari, A., Kabatereine, N., Fleming, F., Kazibwe, F., Tukahebwa, E., Stothard, J.R., Webster, J.P. & Fenwick, A. (2007). Parasitological impact of two-year preventive chemotherapy on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Uganda. BMC Medicine, 2007 5:27 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-5-27
     
  47. Webster, J.P., Gower, C.M. & Norton, A.J. (2008). Application of evolutionary concepts to predicting and evaluating the impact of mass-chemotherapy schistosomiasis control programmes. Invited for Inaugural Edition of: Evolutionary Applications 1, 66-81.
     
  48. Webster, J.P., Gower, C.M. & Blair, L. (2004). Do Hosts and Parasites Coevolve?: empirical support from the Schistosoma system. Invited for: American Naturalist. 164, 5, S33-51.
     
  49. DeJong, R., Morgan, A.T., Wilson, W.D., Al-Jaser, M.H., Appleton, C.C., Coulibaly, G., Webster, J.P., Zanotti-Magalhaes, E.M., Paraense, W.L., Mkoji, G.M. & Loker, E.M. (2003). Phylogeography of Biomphalaria glabrata and Biomphalaria pfeifferri, important intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni from the New and Old World Tropics. Molecular Ecology, 12, 3041-3056.

Book Chapters

  1. Brooker S., Clements ACA. and Bundy DAP (2005). Global mapping and control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis. In: Global mapping of infectious diseases: methods, examples and emerging applications, edited by Hay SI, Graham AJ, Rogers DJ, Academic Press, London (in press).
     
  2. Fenwick A; Rollinson D; Southgate V. (2006). Implementation of human schistosomiasis control: Challenges and prospects. Adv Parasitol. 61:567-622.
     
  3. Rafferty, A.J.M., Blair, L. Rollinson, D & Webster, J.P. (in press). Schistosoma mansoni cercariae behavioural repertoire and the impact of host genotype and parasite pressure. In: ‘Medical and Veterinary Malacology in Africa’. Madsen, H., (ed). DBL publications

Although the author of the following article is not a member of SCI, we feel it is highly relevant to our work and worthy of your attention:

  1. King CH, Dickman K, Tisch DJ. Reassessment of the cost of chronic helmintic infection: a meta-analysis of disability-related outcomes in endemic schistosomiasis. Lancet 2005;365(9470):1561-1569.

 

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