London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research publishes 2021 research highlights

The London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research has published its new research booklet 'An Innovative Research Collaboration: Selected Research Highlights 2021'. The booklet contains 15 articles in which researchers provide a non-technical introduction to their research, why the research is necessary and the impact the research will have. 

Research includes:

• Reaching elimination of transmission of onchocerciasis by 2030: What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic?
• DeWorm3: Charting a path towards the elimination of soil transmitted helminths
• Guiding targeting of interventions against visceral leishmaniasis using modelling
• The schistosome and snail resource
• Spatial analysis to support trachoma elimination and surveillance
• Reservoir dynamics of rabies in southeast Tanzania: Understanding the role of wildlife and implications for elimination
• Atomic force microscopy identified a novel glycan mode of attachment between Leishmania and the sand fly midgut
• Force-of-Infection of Taenia solium porcine cysticercosis: A modelling analysis to assess global incidence and prevalence trends
• Understanding the role of disease knowledge and risk perception in shaping preventive behaviour for selected vector-borne diseases in Guyana
• Conjunctival scarring, corneal pannus and Herbert's pits in adolescent children in trachoma-endemic populations of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
• Point-of-care diagnostics and environmental monitoring of schistosomiasis transmission
• BILHIV in YourSelf: Integrating schistosomiasis self-testing into reproductive health in Zambia
• Anticipating the impact of global change on snakebite envenoming
• A spatio-temporal approach to short-term forecasting of visceral leishmaniasis diagnoses in India 
• New research highlights the importance of a One Health approach to reach the NTD road map targets for elimination of schistosomiasis 
• New research highlights considerable burden of neuropsychiatric disease caused by neglected parasitic infection