Publications

Silva LK, Liu S, Blanton RE. Microsatellite analysis of pooled Schistosoma mansoni DNA: an approach for studies of parasite populations. Parasitology. 2006 Mar;132(Pt 3):331-338. PUBMED

Blank W, Reis E, Thiong'o F, Braghiroli J, Santos J, Melo P, Guimarães I, Silva L, Carmo T, Reis M, Blanton RE. Analysis of Schistosma mansoni population structure using total fecal egg sampling. J Parasitol. 2009 Aug;95(4):881-889.. PMCID: PMC2826833. PUBMED

Blank WA, Test MR, Liu SF, Lewis FA, Blanton RE. Long-term genetic stability and population dynamics of laboratory strains of Schistosoma mansoni. J Parasitol. 2010 Oct;96(5):900-7. PMCID: PMC3881424. PUBMED

Blank WA, Liu SF, Prasad J, Blanton RE. Host Mouse Strain Is Not Selective for a Laboratory Adapted Strain of Schistosoma mansoni. J Parasitol. 2011 Jun;97(3):518-21 PMCID:PMC3882756. PUBMED

Blanton RE, Blank WA, Costa JM, Carmo TM, Reis EA, Silva LK, Barbosa LM, Test MR, Reis MG. Schistosoma mansoni population structure and persistence after praziquantel treatment in two villages of Bahia, Brazil. Int J Parasitol. 2011 Aug 15;41 (10):1093-1099. PMCID: PMC3155667. PUBMED

Souza SS, Barbosa LM, Guimarães IC, Blank WA, Reis RB, Reis MG, Blanton RE, Andrade ZA. Genetic Population Structure of Cercariae from an Urban Foci of Schistosoma mansoni, Brazil. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Nov 87(5):843-849. PMCID: PMC3516259. PUBMED

Barbosa LM, Silva LK, Azevedo TM, Costa JM, Reis EA, Reis MG, Blank WA, Blanton RE. Characteristics of the human host have little influence on which local Schistosoma mansoni populations are acquired. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Dec 5;7(12):e2572. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002572. PMID: 21784077 PUBMED

Amber M. Koskey, Jenny C. Fisher, A. Murat Eren, Rafael Ponce Terashima, Mitermayer G Reis, Ronald E. Blanton, and Sandra L. McLellan. Blautia and Prevotella sequences distinguish human and animal fecal pollution in Brazil surface waters. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2014 Dec;6(6):696-704. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12189 PUBMED

Rafael Ponce-Terashima, Amber M Koskey, Mitermayer G Reis, Sandra L McLellan, and Ronald E Blanton. Sources and Distribution of Surface Water Fecal Contamination and Prevalence of Schistosomiasis in a Brazilian Village. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2014 Oct 2;8(10):e3186. PUBMED

Blanton, RE, Barbosa, LM, Reis, EA, Carmo, TM, dos Santos, CRA, Costa, JM, Aminu, PT, Blank, WA, Reis, RB, Guimarães, IC, Silva, LK, Reis, MG. The relative contribution of immigration or local increase in persistence of urban schistosomiasis in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. PLoS NTD, 2015 Mar 16;9(3):e0003521. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003521. PMCID: PMC4361398 PUBMED

Barbosa LM, Reis EA, Dos Santos CR, Costa JM, Carmo TM, Aminu PT, Pitanga TN, Ponce-Terashima R, Blank WA, Silva LK, Reis MG, Blanton RE. Repeated praziquantel treatments remodel the genetic and spatial landscape of schistosomiasis risk and transmission. Int J Parasitol. 2016 May, 46: 343-350. PUBMED

Barbosa, LM, Rodrigues, MDS, Silva, LK, Reis, MG, Blanton, RE. The effect of sample size on estimates of genetic differentiation and effective population size for Schistosoma mansoni populations, Int J Parasitol. 2018 Dec;48(14):1149-1154. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.10.001 .

Riley LW and Blanton, RE. Diseases: Definitions, Approaches, and Scope of the Field. In: Advances in Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Microbiol Spectr. 2018 Nov;6(6). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.AME-0001-2018 .

Blanton, RE. Population Genetics and Molecular Epidemiology of Eukaryotes. In: Advances in Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. Microbiol Spectr. 2018 Nov;6(6). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.AME-0002-2018.

Blanton, RE. Population Structure and Dynamics of Helminthic Infection: Schistosomiasis. Microbiol Spectr. 2019 Jul;7(4). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.AME-0009-2019

Bartley, PS, Domitrovic, TN, Moretto, VT, Santos, CS, Ponce-Terashima, R, Reis, MG, Barbosa, LM, Blanton, RE, Bonomo, RA, Perez, F. Antibiotic resistance in Enterobacteriaceae from surface waters in urban Brazil highlights the risks of poor sanitation, Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 Jun;100(6):1369-1377. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0726 .

Zanardi VS, Barbosa LM, Simões FM, Thiengo SC, Blanton RE, Ribeiro Junior G, Silva LK, Reis MG. Prevalence of Infection of Biomphalaria glabrata by Schistosoma mansoni and the risk of urban Schistosomiasis mansoni in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2019 Sep 5;52:e20190171. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0171-2019

Silva, L. K., Barbosa, L. M., Kovach, J. D., Dos Santos Teixeira, R., Soares, Ê. S., Cardoso, C. W., Marques, R., Dos Santos, T. P., G Reis, M., & Blanton, R. E. (2020). The changing profile of schistosomiasis in a changing urban landscape. International journal for parasitology, 50(1), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2019.10.003

Moretto, V. T., Bartley, P. S., Ferreira, V. M., Santos, C. S., Silva, L. K., Ponce-Terashima, R. A., Blanton, R. E., Reis, M. G., & Barbosa, L. M. (2021). Microbial source tracking and antimicrobial resistance in one river system of a rural community in Bahia, Brazil. Brazilian journal of biology = Revista brasleira de biologia, 82, e231838. https://doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.231838

Moretto, V. T., Cordeiro, S. M., Bartley, P. S., Silva, L. K., Ponce-Terashima, R., Reis, M. G., Blanton, R. E., & Barbosa, L. M. (2021). Antimicrobial-resistant enterobacteria in surface waters with fecal contamination from urban and rural communities. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 54, e0724-2020. https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0724-2020