Publications

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2020–June 2021 (November 5, 2021 / 70(44);1527–1533)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2019–June 2020 (October 30, 2020 / 69(43);1563–1568)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2018–June 2019 (November 1, 2019 / 68(43);979–984)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2017–June 2018 (November 16, 2018 / 67(45);1265–1270)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2016–June 2017 (December 8, 2017 / 66(48):1327–1331)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2015–June 2016 (October 14, 2016 / 65(40):1112–1116)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2014–June 2015 (October 23, 2015 / 64(41):1061–1065)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2013–June 2014 (November 21, 2014 / 63(46):1050–1054)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis—January 2012–June 2013 (October 25, 2013 / 62(42):829–833)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis — January 2011–June 2012 (October 26, 2012 / 61(42);854-857)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January 2010–June 2011 (October 28, 2011; 60(42):1450–3)
Renewed Transmission of Dracunculiasis — Chad, 2010 (June 10, 2011 / 60(22);744-748)
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January 2009–June 2010 (October 1, 2010 / 59(38):1239–1242)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)

Possible Role of Fish and Frogs as Paratenic Hosts of Dracunculus medinensis, Chad. Eberhard ML, Yabsley MJ, Zirimwabagabo H, Bishop H, Cleveland CA, Maerz JC, Bringolf R, Ruiz-Tiben E. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016;22(8):1428–30.
Possible Role of Fish as Transport Hosts for Dracunculus spp. Larvae (Vol . 23/No.9 September 2017)
Guinea Worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection in a wild-caught frog, Chad. Eberhard ML, Cleveland CA, Zirimwabagabo H, Yabsley MJ, Ouakou PT, Ruiz-Tiben E. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016;22(11):1961–2.
Innovative Approaches to Infectious Disease Prevention in Women Women (Vol. 10/No. 11 November 2004)
The Guinea Worm Eradication Effort: Lessons for the Futurepdf icon (Vol.4/No. 3 July-September 1998)
Progress Toward the Eradication of Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease): 1994 (Vol. 1/No. 2 April-June 1995)

CDC Authored and Co-Authored Papers (selected)

Guagliardo SAJ, Thiele E, Unterwegner K, Nanguita NN, Dousso L, Ouakou PT, Zirimwabagabo H, Ruiz-Tiben E, Hopkins DR, Roy SL, Cama V, Bishop H, Sapp S, Yerian S, Weiss AJ. Epidemiologic and Molecular Investigations of a Point-Source Outbreak of Dracunculus medinensis Infecting Humans and Dogs in Chad: a Cross-Sectional Study. Lancet Microbe. 2021 November 23; published online ahead of print; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s2666-5247(21)00209-3external icon
Ribado JV, Li NJ, Thiele E, Lyons H, Cotton JA, Weiss A, Ouakou PT, Moundai T, Zirimwabagabo H, Guagliardo SAJ, Chabot-Couture G, Proctor JL. Linked Surveillance and Genetic Data Uncovers Programmatically Relevant Geographic Scale of Guinea Worm Transmission in Chad. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021; 15(5):e0009609; doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009609external icon
Karki S, Weiss A, Dcruz J, Hunt D, Haigood B, Ouakou PT, Chop E, Zirimwabagabo H, Rubenstein BL, Yerian S, Roy SL, Kamb ML, Guagliardo SA. Assessment of the Chad Guinea Worm Surveillance Information System: A Pivotal Foundation for Eradication. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021; 15(8): e0009675; doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009675external icon
Guagliardo SAJ, Ruiz-Tiben E, Hopkins DR, Weiss AJ, Ouakou PT, Zirimwabagabo H, Unterwegner K, Tindall D, Cama VA, Bishop H, Sapp SGH, Roy SL. Surveillance of Human Guinea Worm in Chad, 2010–2018. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021; 105(1):188–95; doi: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1525external icon
Guagliardo SAJ, Wiegand R, Roy SL, Cleveland CA, Zirimwabagabo H, Chop E, Tchindebet Ouakou P, Ruiz-Tiben E, Hopkins D, Weiss A. Correlates of variation in worm burden in dogs infected with Guinea worm. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021; 104(4):1418 –24; doi: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0924external icon
Rubenstein BL, Roy SL, Unterwegner K, Yerian S, Weiss A, Zirimwabagabo H, Chop E, Romero M, Ouakou PT, Moundai T, Guagliardo SAJ. Community-Based Guinea Worm Surveillance in Chad: Evaluating a System at the Intersection of Human and Animal Disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021; 15 (3):e0009285; doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009285external icon
Liu EW, Sircar, AD, Matchanga K, Mahamat AM, Ngarhor N, Ouakou PT, Zirimwabagabo H, Ruiz-Tiben E, Sankara D, Wiegand R, Roy SL. Investigation of Dracunculiasis Transmission Among Humans—Chad, 2013–2017. Am J Trop Med Hyg. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021; 104(2):724–730; doi: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0584external icon
Priest JW, Ngandolo BNR, Lechenne M, Cleveland CA, Yabsley MJ, Weiss AJ, Roy SL, Cama V. Development of a Multiplex Bead Assay for the Detection of Canine IgG₄Antibody Responses to Guinea Worm. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jan; 104(1):303–312; doi: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0914external icon
Priest JW, Stuchlik O, Reed M, Soboslay P, Cama V, Roy SL. Development of a Multiplex Bead Assay for the Detection of IgG Antibody Responses to Guinea Worm. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Dec; 103(6), 2294–2304; doi: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0511external icon
Guagliardo SAJ, Roy SL, Ruiz-Tiben E, Zirimwabagabo H, Romero M, Chop E, Ouakou PT, Hopkins DR, Weiss AJ. Guinea Worm in Domestic Dogs in Chad: A Description and Analysis of Surveillance Data. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 May 28; 14(5): e0008207; doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008207external icon
Cromwell EA, Roy S, Sankara DP, Weiss A, Stanaway J, Goldberg E, Pigott DM, Larson H, Vollset SE, Krohn K, Foreman K, Hotez P, Bhutta Z, Bekele BB, Edessa D, Kassembaum N, Mokdad A, Murray CJL, Hay SI. 2018. Slaying Little Dragons: The Impact of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program on Dracunculiasis Disability Averted from 1990 to 2016 Gates Open Research. 2018; 2:30, doi: https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12827.1external icon
Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E, Eberhard ML, Weiss A, Withers PC Jr, Roy SL, Sienko DG. 2018. Dracunculiasis Eradication: Are We There Yet? Am J Trop Med Hyg doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0204.
Sreenivasan N, Weiss A, Djiatsa JP, Toe F, Djimadoumaji N, Ayers T, Eberhard M, Ruiz-Tiben E, Roy S. 2017. Recurrence of Guinea Worm Disease in Chad after a 10-Year Absence: Risk Factors for Human Cases Identified in 2010–2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg 92(2):575–82.
Eberhard ML, Ruiz-Tiben E, Hopkins DR. Dogs and Guinea Worm Eradication. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Nov;16(11):1225–6.
Al-Awadi AR, Al-Kuhlani A, Breman JG, Doumbo O, Eberhard ML, Guiguemde RT, Magnussen P, Molyneux DH, Nadim A. Guinea worm (Dracunculiasis) eradication: update on progress and endgame challenges. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2014 May 108(5):249-51.
Eberhard ML, Ruiz-Tiben E, Hopkins DR, Farrell C, Toe F, Weiss A, Withers PC Jr, Jenks MH, Thiele EA, Cotton JA, Hance Z, Holroyd N, Cama VA, Tahir MA, Mounda T. The peculiar epidemiology of dracunculiasis in Chad. Am J Trop Med Hyg Online Nov 25, 2013; doi:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0554.
Glenshaw MT, Roy S, Ruiz-Tiben E, Downs P, Williamson J, Eberhard M. Guinea Worm Disease Outcomes in Ghana: Determinants of Broken Worms. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Aug;81(2):305-12.
Hochberg N, Ruiz-Tiben E, Downs P, Fagan J, Maguire JH. The Role of Case Containment Centers in the Eradication of Dracunculiasis in Togo and Ghana. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Nov;79(5):722-8.
Bimi L, Freeman AR, Eberhard ML, Ruiz-Tiben E, Pieniazek NJ. Differentiating Dracunculus medinensis from D. insignis, by the Sequence Analysis of the 18S rRNA Gene. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2005 Jul;99(5):511-7.
Eberhard ML, Brandt FH. The Role of Tadpoles and Frogs as Paratenic Hosts in the Life Cycle of Dracunculus insignis (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea). J Parasitol. 1995 Oct;81(5):792-3.
Hopkins DR, Azam M, Ruiz-Tiben E, Kappus KD. Eradication of Dracunculiasis from Pakistan. Lancet. 1995 Sep 2;346(8975):621-4.
Sullivan JJ, Bishop HS, Hightower AW. Susceptibility of Four Species of Copepods, from Areas of Endemic Dracunculus medinensis, to the North American D. insignis. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 1991 Dec;85(6):637-43.
Brandt FH, Eberhard ML. Inoculation of Ferrets with Ten Third-Stage Larvae of Dracunculus insignis. J Parasitol. 1991 Oct;77(5):786-7.
Broderson JR, Eberhard ML, Welch BG, Brandt FH. Spinal Dracunculiasis in an Experimentally Infected Ferret. Lab Anim Sci. 1991 Apr;41(2):180-2.
Eberhard ML, Brandt FH, Kaiser RL. Chlortetracycline for Dracunculiasis. Lancet. 1991 Feb 23;337(8739):500.
Kappus KD, Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E, Imtiaz R, Andersen J, Azam M, Attiq A. A Strategy to Speed the Eradication of Dracunculiasis. World Health Forum. 1991;12(2):220-5.
Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E. Strategies for Dracunculiasis Eradication. Bull World Health Organ. 1991;69(5):533-40.
Imtiaz R, Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E. Permanent Disability from Dracunculiasis. Lancet. 1990 Sep 8;336(8715):630.
Imtiaz R, Anderson JD, Long EG, Sullivan JJ, Cline BL. Monofilament Nylon Filters for Preventing Dracunculiasis: Durability and Copepod Retention After Long Term Field Use in Pakistan. Trop Med Parasitol. 1990 Sep;41(3):251-3.
Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E. Dracunculiasis Eradication: Target 1995. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1990 Sep;43(3):296-300.
Eberhard ML, Brandt FH, Ruiz-Tiben E, Hightower A. Chemoprophylactic Drug Trials for Treatment of Dracunculiasis Using the Dracunculus insignis-Ferret Model. J Helminthol. 1990 Jun;64(2):79-86.
Brandt FH, Eberhard ML. Dracunculus insignis in Ferrets: Comparison of Inoculation Routes. J Parasitol. 1990 Feb;76(1):93-5.
Eberhard ML, Ruiz-Tiben E, Wallace SV. Dracunculus insignis: Experimental Infection in the Ferret, Mustela putorius furo. J Helminthol. 1988 Sep;62(3):265-70.
Sullivan JJ, Long EG. Synthetic-Fibre Filters for Preventing Dracunculiasis: 100 Versus 200 Micrometres Pore Size. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1988;82(3):465-6.
Hopkins DR. Dracunculiasis Eradication: A Mid-Decade Status Report. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1987 Jul;37(1):115-8.
Hopkins DR. Dracunculiasis: An Eradicable Scourge. Epidemiol Rev. 1983 Jan;5(1):208-19.
Hopkins DR, Foege WH. Guinea Worm Disease. Science. 1981 May 1;212(4494):495.

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