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Arve Lee Willingham is affiliated with the United Arab Emirates University in the United Arab Emirates. Their research spans primarily the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology, with substantial work in subfields such as parasitology, infectious diseases, pathology and forensic medicine, ecology, and small animals.

The scientist's work centers on topics including viral infections and vectors, parasitic infections in humans and animals, parasites and host interactions, parasite biology and host interactions, vector-borne infectious diseases, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, and congenital anomalies and fetal surgery.

Frequent co-authors include Nighat Perveen, Uday Kishore, Olivier Sparagano, Khaja Mohteshamuddin, and Sabir Bin Muzaffar.

Publications have appeared in several venues, with notable representation in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Willingham include:

  • Comprehensive mapping of the exterior architecture of the dromedary camel brain, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • Host-pathogen interaction in arthropod vectors: Lessons from viral infections, 2023, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Genetic characterization of Strongyloides fuelleborni infecting free-roaming African vervets (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, 2023, International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Potential Elimination of Active Taenia solium Transmission in Africa, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Identification of Schistosoma mansoni Infection in a Nonhuman Primate from St. Kitts More than 50 Years after Interruption of Human Transmission, 2020, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Best Publications

  • World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis

    Paul R. Torgerson;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Brecht Devleesschauwer;Nicolas Praet;Niko Speybroeck

  • A Bayesian approach for estimating values for prevalence and diagnostic test characteristics of porcine cysticercosis

    Pierre Dorny;Ik Phiri;Jozef Vercruysse;Sarah Gabriël;Sarah Gabriël

  • The emergence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Eastern and Southern Africa as a serious agricultural problem and public health risk.

    Isaac K. Phiri;Helena Ngowi;Sonia Afonso;Elizabeth Matenga

  • Zoonoses and marginalised infectious diseases of poverty: Where do we stand?

    David H. Molyneux;Zuhair Hallaj;Gerald T Keusch;Donald P McManus

  • A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: diagnostics for control and elimination programmes.

    James S. McCarthy;Sara Lustigman;Guo-Jing Yang;Rashida M. Barakat

  • The current status of neurocysticercosis in Eastern and Southern Africa.

    N.A. Mafojane;C.C. Appleton;R.C. Krecek;L.M. Michael

  • Estimation of the cost of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

    H. Carabin;R. C. Krecek;R. C. Krecek;L. D. Cowan;L. Michael

  • Risk factors associated with porcine cysticercosis in selected districts of Eastern and Southern provinces of Zambia

    Cs Sikasunge;Ik Phiri;Am Phiri;Pierre Dorny

  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with human Taenia solium infections in Mbozi District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

    Gloria Mwanjali;Charles Kihamia;Deodatus Vitalis Conatus Kakoko;Faustin Lekule

  • A health-education intervention trial to reduce porcine cysticercosis in Mbulu District, Tanzania

    H.A. Ngowi;H. Carabin;A.A. Kassuku;M.R.S. Mlozi

  • The global burden of foodborne parasitic diseases: an update

    Paul R. Torgerson;Nilanthi R. de Silva;Eric M. Fèvre;Eric M. Fèvre;Fumiko Kasuga

  • Risk factors for the prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in Mbulu District, Tanzania

    H.A Ngowi;A.A Kassuku;G.E.M Maeda;M.E Boa

  • Prevalence and risk factors of porcine cysticercosis in Angónia District, Mozambique.

    Alberto Pondja;Luís Neves;James Mlangwa;Sónia Afonso

  • A helminthological survey of wild red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from the metropolitan area of Copenhagen.

    A.L. Willingham;N.W. Ockens;C.M.O. Kapel;J. Monrad

  • Control of Taenia solium Cysticercosis/Taeniosis

    Arve Lee Willingham;Dirk Engels

  • The prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in Eastern and Southern provinces of Zambia

    Ik Phiri;Pierre Dorny;Sarah Gabriël;Al Willingham

  • Control of the taeniosis/cysticercosis complex: future developments.

    Ana Flisser;Rossanna Rodríguez-Canul;Arve Lee Willingham

  • Distribution and density of cysticerci of Taenia solium by muscle groups and organs in naturally infected local finished pigs in Tanzania.

    M.E. Boa;A.A. Kassuku;A.L. Willingham;J.D. Keyyu

  • Estimating sensitivity and specificity of a faecal examination method for Schistosoma japonicum infection in cats, dogs, water buffaloes, pigs, and rats in Western Samar and Sorsogon Provinces, The Philippines.

    H. Carabin;E. Balolong;L. Joseph;S. T. Mcgarvey

  • Prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in swine from a community-based study in 21 villages of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

    RC Krecek;LM Michael;PM Schantz;L Ntanjana

  • Improving meat inspection and control in resource-poor communities: the Nepal example.

    Durga Datt Joshi;Mahendra Maharjan;Maria Vang Johansen;Arve Lee Willingham

  • Prevalence of porcine cysticercosis and associated risk factors in smallholder pig production systems in Mbeya region, southern highlands of Tanzania

    Erick V.G. Komba;Eliakunda C. Kimbi;Helena A. Ngowi;Sharadhuli I. Kimera

  • Prevalence of Taenia solium porcine cysticercosis in the Eastern, Southern and Western provinces of Zambia

    Chummy S. Sikasunge;Isaac K. Phiri;Andrew M. Phiri;Seter Siziya

  • Epidemiological studies of parasitic gastrointestinal nematodes, cestodes and coccidia infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe.

    Davies Mubika Pfukenyi;Samson Mukaratirwa;A.L. Willingham;J. Monrad

  • Prevalence and distribution of pig helminths in the Dongting Lake Region (Hunan Province) of the People's Republic of China.

    J. Boes;A.L. Willingham;Shi Fuhui;Hu Xuguang

  • Spatial clustering of porcine cysticercosis in Mbulu district, northern Tanzania.

    Helena A. Ngowi;Ayub A. Kassuku;Hélène Carabin;James E. D. Mlangwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Vang Johansen
Maria Vang Johansen University of Copenhagen
A.A. Kassuku
A.A. Kassuku Sokoine University of Agriculture
Pierre Dorny
Pierre Dorny Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Xiao-Nong Zhou
Xiao-Nong Zhou Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention
Remigio M. Olveda
Remigio M. Olveda Research Institute for Tropical Medicine
Isaac K. Phiri
Isaac K. Phiri University of Zambia
Banchob Sripa
Banchob Sripa Khon Kaen University
Samson Mukaratirwa
Samson Mukaratirwa Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine
Eric M. Fèvre
Eric M. Fèvre University of Liverpool
Paul R. Torgerson
Paul R. Torgerson University of Zurich

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