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Bonnie L. Webster is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom and has a substantial research portfolio focusing on parasitology and related fields within immunology and microbiology as well as environmental science.

Their research contributions include extensive work on parasites and host interactions, parasite biology, helminth infection and control, and broader topics linked to global maternal and child health and global health and surgery. Specific areas of interest also encompass parasitic infections and diagnostics as well as trace elements in health.

Frequent publication venues for Bonnie L. Webster include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Parasites & Vectors
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers, including David Rollinson, Fiona Allan, Aidan M. Emery, J. Russell Stothard, and Tom Pennance.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Bonnie L. Webster include:

  • Snail-Related Contributions from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Program Including Xenomonitoring, Focal Mollusciciding, Biological Control, and Modeling (2020), American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Genetic analysis of praziquantel response in schistosome parasites implicates a transient receptor potential channel (2021), Science Translational Medicine
  • An update on female and male genital schistosomiasis and a call to integrate efforts to escalate diagnosis, treatment and awareness in endemic and non-endemic settings: The time is now (2022), Advances in Parasitology/Advances in parasitology
  • Future schistosome hybridizations: Will all Schistosoma haematobium hybrids please stand-up! (2020), PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Population genetics of African Schistosoma species (2021), Infection Genetics and Evolution

Bonnie L. Webster's main fields of study comprise:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Environmental Science

Subfields within their expertise include:

  • Parasitology
  • Ecology
  • Small Animals
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Best Publications

  • Outbreak of urogenital schistosomiasis in Corsica (France): an epidemiological case study

    Jérôme Boissier;Sébastien Grech-Angelini;Bonnie L Webster;Jean-François Allienne

  • Bidirectional introgressive hybridization between a cattle and human schistosome species.

    Tine Huyse;Tine Huyse;Bonnie L. Webster;Sarah Geldof;J. Russell. Stothard

  • Introgressive Hybridization of Schistosoma haematobium Group Species in Senegal: Species Barrier Break Down between Ruminant and Human Schistosomes

    Bonnie L. Webster;Oumar T. Diaw;Mohmoudane M. Seye;Joanne P. Webster

  • Added resolution among ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with complete small and large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA genes.

    Andrea Waeschenbach;Bonnie L. Webster;Rodney A. Bray;D.T.J. Littlewood

  • A revision of the interrelationships of Schistosoma including the recently described Schistosoma guineensis.

    Bonnie L. Webster;Vaughan R. Southgate;D. Timothy J. Littlewood

  • The complete mitochondrial genomes of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma spindale and the evolutionary history of mitochondrial genome changes among parasitic flatworms.

    D. Timothy J. Littlewood;Anne E. Lockyer;Bonnie L. Webster;David A. Johnston

  • Adding resolution to ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with large fragments of mtDNA

    Andrea Waeschenbach;B.L. Webster;D.T.J. Littlewood

  • Isothermal Recombinase Polymerase amplification (RPA) of Schistosoma haematobium DNA and oligochromatographic lateral flow detection

    A. Rosser;D. Rollinson;M. Forrest;B L Webster

  • Genetic analysis of praziquantel response in schistosome parasites implicates a Transient Receptor Potential channel

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  • Praziquantel treatment of school children from single and mixed infection foci of intestinal and urogenital schistosomiasis along the Senegal River Basin: monitoring treatment success and re-infection patterns.

    Bonnie L. Webster;Oumar T. Diaw;Mohmoudane M. Seye;Djibril S. Faye

  • Proposal for a new tapeworm order, Rhinebothriidea

    Claire J. Healy;Janine N. Caira;Kirsten Jensen;Bonnie L. Webster

  • Snail-Related Contributions from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Program Including Xenomonitoring, Focal Mollusciciding, Biological Control, and Modeling.

    Fiona Allan;Shaali M. Ame;Yves-Nathan T. Tian-Bi;Bruce V. Hofkin

  • Rapid diagnostic multiplex PCR (RD-PCR) to discriminate Schistosoma haematobium and S. bovis.

    B.L. Webster;D. Rollinson;J.R. Stothard;T. Huyse

  • Genetic Consequences of Mass Human Chemotherapy for Schistosoma mansoni: Population Structure Pre- and Post-Praziquantel Treatment in Tanzania

    Alice J. Norton;Charlotte M. Gower;Poppy H. L. Lamberton;Bonnie L. Webster

  • Development and application of an ethically and epidemiologically advantageous assay for the multi-locus microsatellite analysis of Schistosoma mansoni.

    C. M. Gower;J. Shrivastava;P. H. L. Lamberton;D. Rollinson

  • Mitogenomics and phylogenomics reveal priapulid worms as extant models of the ancestral Ecdysozoan.

    Bonnie L. Webster;Richard R. Copley;Ronald A. Jenner;Jacqueline A. Mackenzie-Dodds

  • An update on female and male genital schistosomiasis and a call to integrate efforts to escalate diagnosis, treatment and awareness in endemic and non-endemic settings: The time is now

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  • Precision mapping of snail habitat provides a powerful indicator of human schistosomiasis transmission

    Chelsea L. Wood;Susanne H. Sokolow;Isabel J. Jones;Andrew J Chamberlin

  • Ancient hybridization and adaptive introgression of an invadolysin gene in schistosome parasites

    Roy N Platt;Marina McDew-White;Winka Le Clec'h;Frédéric D Chevalier

  • Genetic diversity within Schistosoma haematobium: DNA barcoding reveals two distinct groups.

    Bonnie L. Webster;Aiden M. Emery;Joanne P. Webster;Anouk Gouvras

  • Genetic diversity of schistosomes and snails: implications for control

    David Rollinson;Joanne P. Webster;Bonnie Webster;Silvester Nyakaana

  • Whole-genome sequence of the bovine blood fluke Schistosoma bovis supports interspecific hybridization with S. haematobium

    Harald Oey;Martha Zakrzewski;Kerstin Gravermann;Neil D. Young

  • Molecular epidemiology of Schistosoma mansoni in Uganda: DNA barcoding reveals substantial genetic diversity within Lake Albert and Lake Victoria populations.

    J. R. Stothard;B. L. Webster;T. Weber;S. Nyakaana

  • Freshwater snails of biomedical importance in the Niger River Valley: evidence of temporal and spatial patterns in abundance, distribution and infection with Schistosoma spp.

    Muriel Rabone;Joris Hendrik Wiethase;Fiona Allan;Anouk Nathalie Gouvras

  • Schistosoma intercalatum: an endangered species in Cameroon?

    Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté;Vaughan R Southgate;Joseph Jourdane;Bonnie L Webster

  • Relationships within the Acanthocolpidae Lühe,1906 and their place among the Digenea

    Rodney A. Bray;Bonnie L. Webster;Pierre Bartoli;D. Timothy

  • Development of a recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) fluorescence assay for the detection of Schistosoma haematobium

    Penelope Rostron;Tom Pennance;Tom Pennance;Faki Bakar;David Rollinson

Frequent Co-Authors

David Rollinson
David Rollinson Natural History Museum
Joanne P. Webster
Joanne P. Webster Royal Veterinary College
J. Russell Stothard
J. Russell Stothard Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Tine Huyse
Tine Huyse KU Leuven
D. Timothy J. Littlewood
D. Timothy J. Littlewood Natural History Museum
Vr Southgate
Vr Southgate Natural History Museum
D. T. J. Littlewood
D. T. J. Littlewood Natural History Museum
Robin B. Gasser
Robin B. Gasser University of Melbourne
Xiao-Nong Zhou
Xiao-Nong Zhou Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention
Jürg Utzinger
Jürg Utzinger University of Basel

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