Publications

Ajjampur SSR, Aruldas K, Ásbjörnsdóttir KH, Avokpaho E, Bailey R, Cottrell G, …Pilotte N, et al.  Feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths: the Deworm3 community cluster-randomized controlled trial in Benin, India and Malawi.  Lancet.  2025; Aug 406: 475-488.  

Richardson DJ, Wray EM, Watters D, Hanif U, Jalbert E, Thompson E, …Pilotte N.  A Survey of Strongyle Nematodes in New England Dairy Goats and Evidence of Resistance by Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats to Strongyle Infection.  JAAS.  2025; Mar 78:20.

Rahman M, Jahan F, Hanif S, Yeamin A, Kasham Shoab A, Andrews JR, …Pilotte N, et al.  Effects of household concrete floors on maternal and child health: the CRADLE trial - a randomised controlled trial protocol.  BMJ Open.  2025; Feb 15:e090703.

Siko JEE, Dahmer KJ, Manoharan ZZ, Muthukumar A, Amato HK, LeBoa C, …Pilotte N, et al.  Environmental surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and enteric pathogens in settings without networked wastewater infrastructure.  PLoS Water.  2025; Jan 4(1): e0000337.

Pilotte N, Omballa V, Voss M, Padgett L, Manuel M, Goodman J, et al.  Development and validation of a high-throughput qPCR platform for the detection of soil-transmitted helminth infections.  PLoS Negl Trop Dis.  2025; Jan 19(1): e0012760.

Atsame J, Stapley JM, Ramani A, Mourou R, Ntsame E, Efame E, …Pilotte N, et al. Comparison of diagnostic tools to assess the feasibility of programmatic use of rapid diagnostic tests for onchocerciasis: a dataset from Gabon. Data Brief. 2024; Dec 57: 110901.

Papaiakovou M, Cimino RO, Pilotte N, Dunn J, Littlewood TJ, Williams SA, Krolewiecki AJ, et al. Comparison of multi-parallel quantitative real-time PCRs targeting different DNA regions and detecting soiltransmitted helminths in stool. Parasit Vectors. 2024; Sep 17: 390.

 Howlette M, Mayfield HJ, McPherson B, Rigby L, Thomsen R, Williams SA, Pilotte N, et al. Molecular xenomonitoring as an indicator of microfilaraemia prevalence for lymphatic filariasis in Samoa in 2019. Parasit Vectors. 2024; Sep 17: 382. 

Manuel M, Amato HK, Pilotte N, Chieng B, Araka SB, Siko JEE,...Sirois AR, et al. Soil surveillance for monitoring soiltransmitted helminth infections: method development and field testing in three countries. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024; Sep 18(9): e0012416. 

Evans CC, Pilotte N, Moorhead AR. Advances in the diagnosis of Brugia spp. infections. Pathogens. 2024; Aug 13: 714.

Doherty M, Grant JR, Pilotte N, Bennuru S, Fischer K, Fischer PU, Nutman TB, Pfarr K, Hoerauf A, Unnasch TR, Hassan HK, Wanji S, Lammie PJ, Ottesen E, Mackenzie C, Williams SA. (2023) Optimized strategy for real-time qPCR detection of Onchocerca volvulus DNA in pooled Simulium sp. blackfly vectors. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Dec 14; 17(12) e0011815. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011815 

Evans CC, Pilotte N, Williams SA, Moorhead AR.  Veterinary Diagnosis of Filarial Infection. In: Control of Human and Animal Filariases: Landscape, Challenges, and Approaches for Control (Drug Discovery in Infectious Diseases).  2022; Ed. Kaminsky R, Geary TG, Selzer PM.  Wiley VCH, Weinheim, Germany, p 125-160.

Pilotte N, Thomas T, Zulch MF, Sirois AR, Minetti C, Reimer LJ, et al. (2022) Targeting a highly repetitive genomic sequence for sensitive and specific molecular detection of the filarial parasite Mansonella perstans from human blood and mosquitoes. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16(12): e0010615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010615

Pilotte, N., Manuel, M., Walson, J. L., and Ajjampur, S. S. R. (2022). Community-wide mass drug administration for soil-transmitted helminths-risk of drug resistance and mitigation strategies. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 3. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fitd.2022.897155

Pryce J, Pilotte N, Menze B, Sirois AR, Zulch M, Agbor JP, et al. (2022) Integrated xenosurveillance of Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, Mansonella perstans and Plasmodium falciparum using mosquito carcasses and faeces: A pilot study in Cameroon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16(11): e0010868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010868

McPherson B, Mayfield HJ, McLure A, Gass K, Naseri T, Thomsen R, Williams SA, Pilotte N, Kearns T, Graves PM, Lau CL (2022) Evaluating molecular xenomonitoring as a tool for lymphatic filariasis surveillance in Samoa, 2018–2019. Trop Med Infect Dis 7(8), 203. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7080203

Halili S, Grant JR, Pilotte N, Gordon CA, Williams SA (2021) Development of a novel real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the sensitive detection of Schistosoma japonicum in human stool. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 15(10): e0009877. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009877