Ocean plankton populations as excitable media

JE Truscott, J Brindley - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 1994 - Elsevier
Plankton populations undergo dramatic surges. Rapid increases and decreases by a factor
of 10 or more are observed, often separated by relatively stable interludes. We propose a …

[HTML][HTML] How effective is school-based deworming for the community-wide control of soil-transmitted helminths?

RM Anderson, JE Truscott, RL Pullan… - PLoS neglected …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The London Declaration on neglected tropical diseases was based in part on a
new World Health Organization roadmap to “sustain, expand and extend drug access …

[HTML][HTML] Can chemotherapy alone eliminate the transmission of soil transmitted helminths?

JE Truscott, TD Hollingsworth, SJ Brooker… - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Background Amongst the world’s poorest populations, availability of anthelmintic treatments
for the control of soil transmitted helminths (STH) by mass or targeted chemotherapy has …

[HTML][HTML] Should the goal for the treatment of soil transmitted helminth (STH) infections be changed from morbidity control in children to community-wide transmission …

RM Anderson, HC Turner, JE Truscott… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Morbidity induced by infection with the major soil transmitted infections (STH—Ascaris
lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworms) results in an estimated 5.19 million …

Soil-transmitted helminths: mathematical models of transmission, the impact of mass drug administration and transmission elimination criteria

JE Truscott, HC Turner, SH Farrell… - Advances in parasitology, 2016 - Elsevier
Infections caused by soil-transmitted helminthias (STHs) affect over a billion people
worldwide, causing anaemia and having a large social and economic impact through poor …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths through mass drug administration: The DeWorm3 cluster randomized trial …

…, R Sarkar, F Schär, A Szpiro, JE Truscott… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Current control strategies for soil-transmitted helminths (STH) emphasize morbidity control
through mass drug administration (MDA) targeting preschool- and school-age children, …

Are we on our way to achieving the 2020 goals for schistosomiasis morbidity control using current World Health Organization guidelines?

J Toor, R Alsallaq, JE Truscott… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… James E Truscott , James E Truscott … Jaspreet Toor, Ramzi Alsallaq, James E Truscott,
Hugo C Turner, Marleen Werkman, David Gurarie, Charles H King, Roy M Anderson, Are We on …

Investigating the effectiveness of current and modified World Health Organization guidelines for the control of soil-transmitted helminth infections

SH Farrell, LE Coffeng, JE Truscott… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… James E Truscott , James E Truscott … Sam H Farrell, Luc E Coffeng, James E Truscott,
Marleen Werkman, Jaspreet Toor, Sake J de Vlas, Roy M Anderson, Investigating the Effectiveness …

[HTML][HTML] What impact will the achievement of the current World Health Organisation targets for anthelmintic treatment coverage in children have on the intensity of soil …

JE Truscott, HC Turner, RM Anderson - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Background It is the aim of the World Health Organisation to eliminate soil-transmitted helminths
(STH) as a health problem in children. To this end, the goal is to increase anthelmintic …

Response of a deterministic epidemiological system to a stochastically varying environment

JE Truscott, CA Gilligan - Proceedings of the National …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Fluctuations in the natural environment introduce variability into the biological systems that
exist within them. In this paper, we develop a model for the influence of random fluctuations in …