Sarai Vivas-Martinez
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Recent Articles
1.
Metzger W, Vivas-Martinez S
Lancet
. 2018 Mar;
391(10125):1021.
PMID: 29565013
No abstract available.
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Bottomley C, Isham V, Vivas-Martinez S, Kuesel A, Attah S, Opoku N, et al.
Parasit Vectors
. 2017 May;
10(1):240.
PMID: 28511662
In a Letter to the Editor, Eberhard et al. question the validity of our model of skin snip sensitivity and argue against the use of skin snips to evaluate onchocerciasis...
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Bottomley C, Isham V, Vivas-Martinez S, Kuesel A, Attah S, Opoku N, et al.
Parasit Vectors
. 2016 Jun;
9(1):343.
PMID: 27301567
Background: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control has proposed provisional thresholds for the prevalence of microfilariae in humans and of L3 larvae in blackflies, below which mass drug administration (MDA)...
4.
Botto C, Basanez M, Escalona M, Villamizar N, Noya-Alarcon O, Cortez J, et al.
Parasit Vectors
. 2016 Jan;
9:40.
PMID: 26813296
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has set goals for onchocerciasis elimination in Latin America by 2015. Most of the six previously endemic countries are attaining this goal by implementing...
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Lalremruata A, Magris M, Vivas-Martinez S, Koehler M, Esen M, Kempaiah P, et al.
EBioMedicine
. 2015 Oct;
2(9):1186-92.
PMID: 26501116
Background: The quartan malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae is the widest spread and best adapted human malaria parasite. The simian Plasmodium brasilianum causes quartan fever in New World monkeys and resembles...
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Baumann A, Magris M, Urbaez M, Vivas-Martinez S, Duran R, Nieves T, et al.
Malar J
. 2012 Feb;
11:46.
PMID: 22335967
Background: Malaria transmission in most of Latin America can be considered as controlled. In such a scenario, parameters of baseline immunity to malaria antigens are of specific interest with respect...
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Metzger W, Giron A, Vivas-Martinez S, Gonzalez J, Charrasco A, Mordmuller B, et al.
Malar J
. 2009 Dec;
8:291.
PMID: 20003328
Background: While the federal state of Amazonas bears the highest risk for malaria in Venezuela (2007: 68.4 cases/1000 inhabitants), little comprehensive information about the malaria situation is available from this...
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Filipe J, Boussinesq M, Renz A, Collins R, Vivas-Martinez S, Grillet M, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2005 Oct;
102(42):15265-70.
PMID: 16217028
Here we analyze patterns of human infection with Onchocerca volvulus (the cause of river blindness) in different continents and ecologies. In contrast with some geohelminths and schistosome parasites whose worm...
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Carabin H, Escalona M, Marshall C, Vivas-Martinez S, Botto C, Joseph L, et al.
Bull World Health Organ
. 2003 Sep;
81(7):482-90.
PMID: 12973640
Objective: To develop a Bayesian hierarchical model for human onchocerciasis with which to explore the factors that influence prevalence of microfilariae in the Amazonian focus of onchocerciasis and predict the...