A Case for Using Genomics and a Bioinformatics Pipeline to Develop Sensitive and Species-Specific PCR-Based Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths

by Jessica R. Grant, Nils Pilotte, Nils Pilotte, Steven A. Williams, Steven A. Williams
Published 2019-09-01

Selection and exploitation of prevalent, tandemly repeated genomic targets for improved real-time PCR-based detection of Wuchereria bancrofti and Plasmodium falciparum in mosquitoe...

by Michael F Zulch, Nils Pilotte, Jessica R Grant, Corrado Minetti, Lisa J Reimer, Steven A Williams
Published 2020-01-01

Improved PCR-Based Detection of Soil Transmitted Helminth Infections Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Approach to Assay Design.

by Nils Pilotte, Marina Papaiakovou, Jessica R Grant, Lou Ann Bierwert, Stacey Llewellyn, James S McCarthy, Steven A Williams
Published 2016-03-01

Molecular detection of intestinal helminths and protozoa among young children in Dosso Region, Niger [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

by Kristen Aiemjoy, Ahmed M. Arzika, Catherine Cook, Elodie Lebas, Nils Pilotte, Jessica R. Grant, Steven A. Williams, Thomas M. Lietman, Jeremy D. Keenan
Published 2020-08-01

A novel, species-specific, real-time PCR assay for the detection of the emerging zoonotic parasite Ancylostoma ceylanicum in human stool.

by Marina Papaiakovou, Nils Pilotte, Jessica R Grant, Rebecca J Traub, Stacey Llewellyn, James S McCarthy, Alejandro J Krolewiecki, Rubén Cimino, Rojelio Mejia, Steven A Williams
Published 2017-07-01

Comparison of multi-parallel qPCR and double-slide Kato-Katz for detection of soil-transmitted helminth infection among children in rural Bangladesh.

by Jade Benjamin-Chung, Nils Pilotte, Ayse Ercumen, Jessica R Grant, Jacqueline R M A Maasch, Andrew M Gonzalez, Ashanta C Ester, Benjamin F Arnold, Mahbubur Rahman, Rashidul Haque, Alan E Hubbard, Stephen P Luby, Steven A Williams, John M Colford
Published 2020-04-01