Publications

epidemiology of polyparasitism with taenia solium, schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths in the co-endemic village of malanga, democratic republic of congo.	helminth co-infections are common in sub-saharan africa. however, little is known about the distribution and determinants of co-infections with taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis. building on a previous community-based study on human cysticercosis in malanga village, we investigated co-infections with taenia solium, soil-transmitted helminths (sths) and schistosoma spp and associated risk factors in a random subsample of 330 participants. real time pcr assays were used to detect dna of soil-t ...	2017	28336269
advances in neglected tropical disease vaccines: developing relative potency and functional assays for the na-gst-1/alhydrogel hookworm vaccine.	a new generation of vaccines for the neglected tropical diseases (ntds) have now advanced into clinical development, with the na-gst-1/alhydrogel hookworm vaccine already being tested in phase 1 studies in healthy adults. the current manuscript focuses on the often overlooked critical aspects of ntd vaccine product development, more specifically, vaccine stability testing programs. a key measure of vaccine stability testing is "relative potency" or the immunogenicity of the vaccine during storag ...	2017	28192438
diagnosing polyparasitism in a high-prevalence setting in beira, mozambique: detection of intestinal parasites in fecal samples by microscopy and real-time pcr.	many different intestinal parasite species can co-occur in the same population. however, classic diagnostic tools can only frame a particular group of intestinal parasite species. hence, one or two tests do not suffice to provide a complete picture of infecting parasite species in a given population. the present study investigated intestinal parasitic infections in beira, mozambique, i.e. in the informal settlement of inhamudima. diagnostic accuracy of five classical microscopy techniques and re ...	2017	28114314