Schistosomiasis Talks at the ASTMH annual meeting
06 Nov 2020
Wondering which session to go to at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene virtual meeting? Have no fear, we have all your schistosomiasis needs here.
13 November 2020
- 7:45AM Parasitology Pre-Meeting Course: The Science and Business of Vaccines Against Tropical Parasitic Diseases in the COVID19 Ere
16 November 2020
- 3:00PM 25. American Committee of Molecular, Cellular and Immunoparasitology (ACMCIP): Immunoparasitology and Vaccine Development. Chairs: Keke C. Fairfax & Pedro Gazzinelli-Guimaraes
- 459 - Modulation of human dendritic cell function through microfilariae-derived extracellular vesicles
- 460 - Environmental allergen sensitization promotes marked diversity in helminth-driven memory CD4+effector Th2 cells in humans
- 461 - Filarial coinfection is associated with higher bacterial burdens and altered plasma cytokine and chemokine responses in tuberculous lymphadenitis
- 462 - An Adenovirus-vector Expressing Cathepsin B Protects from Schistosomiasis Infection in a Pre-Clinical Model
- 3:00PM 26. Intestinal and Tissue Helminths: Soil-Transmitted Helminths - Control Meeting Room 10. Chairs: Jessica Aw & Rubina Imtiaz
- 1:30PM 17. Poster Session A Presentations Poster Hall
- 405 - Current diagnosis and biomarker discovery for the three major Schistosoma spp.: S. mansoni, S. haematobium, and S. japonicum
- 407 - Development of Genus- and Species-Specific Antigens for Detection of Antibodies against Schistosoma spp. Infections
- 409 - Diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni infections in asymptomatic Eritrean migrants by stool PCR and the detection of Circulating Anodic Antigen (CAA) in urine and serum
- 410 - Development of Novel Therapeutics Against Schistosomiasis
- 411 - Impact of periodic selective PZQ treatment on Schistosoma mansoni infection as monitored by Kato-Katz and POC-CCA in a schistosomiasis endemic community in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- 413 - High-risk water contact behaviour and increased infection risk among school-aged children with rapid Schistosoma mansoni (re)infection, Lake Victoria, Uganda
- 414 - Comparative vectorial competence of Biomphalaria sudanica and B. choanomphala, snail hosts of Schistosoma mansoni in the transmission hotspots of Lake Victoria basin in western Kenya
- 415 - Effects of agrochemical pollution on schistosomiasis ecology and epidemiology
- 416 - Prevalence, exposures, and risk for schistosomiasis in the U.S. military
- 417 - Potential Impact of Climate Change on Schistosomiasis: A global assessment attempt and adaptation case study in China
- 418 - Knowledge level of urinary schistosomiasis, a potential bottleneck to disease control in the hyperendemic health district of Kenieba Health District, Kayes, Mali
- 419 - Distribution of hyper-endemic foci of urinary schistosomiasis in Mali
- 420 - Prevalence and factors associated with schistosomiasis among adults aged 18-35 years in Kisumu County, Western Kenya
- 421 - Prevalence and Distribution of Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminths in 131 districts of 15 Provinces of Angola, 2018-2019
- 422 - Urogenital schistosomiasis among pre-school and school aged children in four districts of northwestern Tanzania after a decade of mass drug administration: geographical prevalence, performance of haematuria reagent strips and associated factors
- 423 - ABO blood groups do not predict schistosome infection profiles in highly endemic villages of Uganda
- 424 - Development of community efforts towards schistosomiasis vector genetic tools and control strategies
- 425 - Maternal Schistosomiasis Systemically Modulates Adaptive Immunity
- 431 - Assessing Behaviour Towards the Uptake of a Novel Low-cost Water Filtration System in Schistosomiasis-endemic Communities in Mwanza, Tanzania
- LB-5035 - Disruptions to schistosomiasis programmes due to COVID-19: an analysis of potential impact and mitigation strategies
17 November 2020
- 9:00AM 43. One Health: Interface of Human Health/Animal Diseases Meeting Room 12. Chairs: Claire Cornelius & Kristy Murray
- 11:45AM 49. Poster Session B Presentations Poster Hall
18 November 2020
- 9:00AM 79. American Committee of Molecular, Cellular and Immunoparasitology (ACMCIP): Parasite Biology, Genomics and Genome Editing Meeting Room 17. Chairs: Jessica C. Kissinger & Nicolas J. Wheeler
- 11:45AM 81. Poster Session C Presentations Poster Hall 1
- 657 - Frequency of Plasmodium falciparum and Schistosoma mansoni Co-infection in Yoro-village, Cameroon: Implication on Rapid Diagnosis of Malaria
- LB-5134 - Gender related differences in infection intensity, prevalence and risk of Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium: a systematic review
- LB-5135 - Effect of maternal praziquantel treatment for Schistosoma japonicum infection on the offspring susceptibility and immunologic response to infection at age six
- 1:45PM 82. Clinical Tropical Medicine: Vaccines, Travel Meeting Room 1 Chairs: Nouhoun Barry & Lin H. Chen
19 November 2020
- 3:00PM 161. Schistosomiasis and Other Trematodes: Diagnosis and Treatment Meeting Room 15 Chairs: Pytsje Hoekstra & Emily McDonald
- 1614 - Single and repeated praziquantel treatments significantly reduce Schistoma infection intensity but show a poor cure rate as demonstrated by urine Circulating Anodic Antigen diagnostics: results from the RePST trial
- 1616 - Comparison of POC-CCA with Kato-Katz in Diagnosing Schistosomiasis mansoni Infection in a Pediatric L-Praziquantel Clinical Trial
- 1617 - Evaluation of reporter particles to develop a point-of-care lateral flow assay to diagnose Schistosoma infection
- 1618 - Using an iterative process in the development of novel therapeutics to treat human schistosomiasis
- 1619 - Discovery and development of highly potent and efficacious Imidazopyrazine derivatives for the treatment and prevention of Schistosomiasis
- 1620 - Use of a tablet-based system with portable transducers to perform abdominal ultrasounds in a field investigation of schistosomiasis-related morbidity
- 5:00PM 176. Schistosomiasis and Climate Change Meeting Room 15 Chairs: Giulio De Leo & Jürg Utzinger
- Schistosomes, snails and climate change: Current trends and future expectations
- Climate change and schistosomiasis in Côte d'Ivoire: Vulnerability and resilience
- Potential impact of climate change on schistosomiasis: A global assessment attempt and adaptation case study in China
- Not “just” climate change: Other global change drivers of schistosomiasis transmission
- 10:45AM 131. Schistosomiasis - Trematodes: Epidemiology and Control Meeting Room 15 Chairs: Brita Ostermeier & Poppy Lamberton
- 1511 - Revisiting density dependence in schistosomes using sibship reconstruction
- 1517 - Schistosomiasis, a data-driven analysis of symptoms
- 1516 - Persistent Hotspots of Schistosoma mansoni Infections After 14 Years of Mass Drug Administration in Uganda: Operational or Biological Failures?
- 1515 - Schistosoma mansoni infection in a hard to reach district of Madagascar following four rounds of mass drug administration: results from repeated annual cross-sectional studies
- 1514 - Schistosoma mansoni transmission in Ugandan hotspot areas. Who is reinfecting whom?
- 1513 - Dynamics of parasite aggregation under intense control efforts: insights from the Zanzibar Elimination of Schistosomiasis Transmission (ZEST) Study
- 1512 - Mismatches in thermal optima of Schistosoma mansoni and Biomphalaria spp. life-history traits shift the thermal optimum of human schistosomiasis transmission under different intervention scenarios
- 1512 - Mismatches in thermal optima of Schistosoma mansoni and Biomphalaria spp. life-history traits shift the thermal optimum of human schistosomiasis transmission under different intervention scenarios
- 1:00PM 147. Schistosomiasis - Trematodes: Immunology, Pathology, Cellular, Molecular Meeting Room 15 Chair: Momar Ndao & Lisa Christine Gibbs
- 1565 - The role of vaginal inflammation in HIV vulnerability in Zambian women with Female Genital Schistosomiasis
- 1566 - Enhancing Cathepsin B responses of YS1646 Salmonella Typhimurium vectored vaccination using mucosal adjuvants in a murine schistosomiasis model
- 1567 - H06-IPSE, a Pathogen-Secreted Host Nucleus-Infiltrating Protein (Infiltrin), Varies in Internalization Mechanism and Efficiency by Target Cell Type
- 1568 - Comparative genomics of parasitic flatworms
- 1569 - Three years of annual mass drug administration is not sufficient to reduce prevalence of schistosomiasis-associated periportal fibrosis amongst school-aged children in a remote region of Madagascar
- 1570 - A Pilot Investigation Of Schistosome Hybrids: A Morphological Characterization Of Schistosoma haematobium Eggs, Within A Putative Hybrid Zone In Ogun State, Nigeria
- 1571 - Mapping Schistosoma haematobium for novel interventions against female genital schistosomiasis and associated HIV risk in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- 5:00PM 170. Integrated Control Measures for Neglected Tropical Diseases Meeting Room 9 Chairs: Malwina Carrion & Michael French
- 1642 - Reasons for insufficient preventive chemotherapy coverage for neglected tropical diseases, a multi-country analysis
- 1643 - Using participatory methods to improve NTDs programme outcomes in Nigeria and to inform intervention design
- 1644 - Brokered Design: A novel method for designing (and re-designing) NTD elimination programs
- 1645 - Information Sharing and Supply Chain Performance: Evidence from the Neglected Tropical Diseases Preventive Chemotherapy Supply Chain
- 1646 - Efforts towards strengthening the integration of Supply Chain of Neglected Tropical Disease medicines into the electronic Logistics Management Information System in Tanzania
- 1647 - Local Tips, Global Impact: Community-Driven solutions for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A case study of Kenya
- 1648 - Mathematical Modeling of the Interruption of the Transmission of Soil Transmitted Helminths Infections in Kenya
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