Publications

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