Julia Dunn

New paper from Cambodia NMCP and partners - an "Intensification Plan" to hasten elimination of Pf made use of forest-goer outreach, LLIHNs and regular data review/follow-up. Nevertheless, core case management and surveillance still essential for malaria control

Initially focused on limiting the spread of resistant parasites, the Mekong region reoriented towards #malaria elimination in 2015. Over six years, malaria cases declined by nearly 76%. ow.ly/g1BW50IR0Vg #WorldMalariaDay #EndMalaria @gatesfoundation

Interesting study on factors associated with decline of #malaria in Ayeyarwady Region #Myanmar nature.com/articles/s4159… . @CHAI_health

Strategies for mobile/migrant populations, cross-border surveillance, integration into the wider health system and radical cure of P. vivax were key themes identified in today’s brainstorm on priority research needed to support malaria elimination in the Asia-Pacific SRWG Meeting

I only seem to tweet when I need something, nevertheless... CHAI Malaria recruiting for two epidemiologist positions in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Come join us supporting NMCPs to eliminate malaria! tinyurl.com/4ltd8p82 (surveillance) tinyurl.com/1msp954y (analytics)

@H7RAL @imperialcollege @earthfluenza @lromancarrasco @Grantham_IC @MRC_Outbreak @ImperialSPH @CGDev @idsihealth You're the best! Congrats! Our quick beer in Hanoi seems like a bloody lifetime ago 🎉🥂

@schisto_tom Congratulations Tom!! 🙌🤩🎉

I wasn't expecting to submit my thesis from my disgustingly hot flat whilst drinking shots of beetroot juice, but that is what has occurred and it was as big of an anticlimax as I had anticipated, but not so bad. Thanks to everyone thats helped along the way xoxox

@MadeleineAClark @raphmtrs @ProfKatieEwer @George_Warimwe @Pirbright_Inst YOU'RE THE BEST 🥳👩‍🔬🍾

PhD in emerging infectious disease vaccinology...in what a surreal time! Thank you to my examiners @raphmtrs & Prof Rollier for a very interesting conversation, to @ProfKatieEwer @George_Warimwe and Simon Gubbins for your guidance and support 🙏 @Pirbright_Inst #Vaccineswork

Hi Friends, can anyone within the parasitology society help me with positive controls on intestinal parasites; Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum, Dicrocelium dendriticum, Trichostrongylus, Ancylostoma duodenale, and Strongyloides stercoralis. I will be highly grateful.

Come work with the good people @SwissTPH to provide modeling support to national malaria control programs. Make models less wrong and more useful! recruitingapp-2698.umantis.com/Vacancies/683/…

Also just realised that about 10% of this tweet is the word "group"... The word has lost all meaning

Further analysis compared qPCR outputs to eggs per gram. We found significant differences between mean DNA copy number when grouped by sample EPG intensity group. Possible evidence for being able to group qPCR outputs by intensity group? But not equating qPCR to an exact EPG

New paper! Collaborative work between Imperial, DMR Myanmar, UoPH Yangon and NHM – using qPCR to diagnose STH infections in areas of Myanmar that have achieved consistent, high MDA coverage @NTDResearch @lamarevilia @phylofacts @Raju_Misra29 rb.gy/j7ghjc

For further reading - see this opinion piece from two of the co-authors on the various opportunities, challenges and pitfalls of using qPCR for STH diagnosis. It’s got a punny title too which is always worth a click rb.gy/vw3sek

Also, species differentiation – 4.63% prevalence of A. ceylanicum. Zoonotic transmission a possibility? 🐕🐈

@lamarevilia @TrendsParasitol Amazing, Marina! 🤩

Thank you @TrendsParasitol ! More to come!

1/ Today is #WorldMalariaDay. Every year, 400k children die from a preventable disease. Right now malaria-endemic countries are rightly focused on the threat from #COVID19. But it is important that our community remembers the ever-present threat from diseases such as malaria.

Back to my first love, intestinal worms, any NTD minds please take a look at IDDO's agenda for harnessing the AWESOME POWER of data sharing and drawing research priorities directly from those who work in the field. Let them know what you think!