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Marleen Boelaert was affiliated with the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp in Belgium. Their research focused primarily on infectious diseases, with a substantial body of work related to parasitology, public health, and epidemiology within tropical medicine contexts.

Their academic contributions spanned multiple fields, notably Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Within these, they specialized in subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Virology.

Boelaert's main research topics included:

  • Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

Their publication record included a number of articles in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues were:

  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Among Boelaert's recent papers were:

  • Male predominance in reported Visceral Leishmaniasis cases: Nature or nurture? A comparison of population-based with health facility-reported data, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Impact of tiny targets on Glossina fuscipes quanzensis, the primary vector of human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Impact of the visceral leishmaniasis elimination initiative on Leishmania donovani transmission in Nepal: a 10-year repeat survey, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Antibiotic use prior to seeking medical care in patients with persistent fever: a cross-sectional study in four low- and middle-income countries, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Xenodiagnosis to address key questions in visceral leishmaniasis control and elimination, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Frequent collaborators included Epco Hasker, François Chappuis, Emmanuel Bottieau, Kristien Verdonck, and Barbara Barbé, with collaboration counts ranging from eight to eleven joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Visceral leishmaniasis: what are the needs for diagnosis, treatment and control?

    François Chappuis;François Chappuis;Shyam Sundar;Asrat Hailu;Hashim Ghalib

  • Visceral leishmaniasis : current status of control, diagnosis, and treatment, and a proposed research and development agenda

    Philippe J Guerin;Philippe J Guerin;Piero Olliaro;Piero Olliaro;Shyam Sundar;Marleen Boelaert

  • Spread of Vector-borne Diseases and Neglect of Leishmaniasis, Europe

    Jean-Claude Dujardin;Lenea Campino;Carmen Cañavate;Jean-Pierre Dedet

  • Control of visceral leishmaniasis in latin america-a systematic review.

    Gustavo A. S. Romero;Marleen Boelaert

  • Liposomal Amphotericin B for the Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis

    Caryn Bern;Jill Adler-Moore;Juan Berenguer;Marleen Boelaert

  • Kashin–Beck Osteoarthropathy in Rural Tibet in Relation to Selenium and Iodine Status

    Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes;Carl Suetens;Françoise Mathieu;Françoise Begaux

  • Combination therapy for visceral leishmaniasis

    Johan van Griensven;Manica Balasegaram;Filip Meheus;Jorge Alvar

  • Increasing Failure of Miltefosine in the Treatment of Kala-azar in Nepal and the Potential Role of Parasite Drug Resistance, Reinfection, or Noncompliance

    Suman Rijal;Bart Ostyn;Surendra Uranw;Surendra Uranw;Keshav Rai

  • Efficacy of Miltefosine in the Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis in India After a Decade of Use

    Shyam Sundar;Anup Singh;Madhukar Rai;Vijay K Prajapati

  • A meta-analysis of the diagnostic performance of the direct agglutination test and rK39 dipstick for visceral leishmaniasis

    François Chappuis;Suman Rijal;Alonso Soto;Joris Menten

  • Recurrence in tuberculosis: relapse or reinfection?

    Marie-Laurence Lambert;Epco Hasker;Armand Van Deun;Dominique Roberfroid

  • The poorest of the poor: a poverty appraisal of households affected by visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India.

    M. Boelaert;F. Meheus;A. Sanchez;S. P. Singh

  • Clinical and Parasite Species Risk Factors for Pentavalent Antimonial Treatment Failure in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Peru

    Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas;Gianfranco Tulliano;Roger Araujo-Castillo;Cesar Miranda-Verastegui

  • Diagnostic tests for kala-azar: a multi-centre study of the freeze-dried DAT, rK39 strip test and KAtex in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

    M. Boelaert;S. El-Safi;A. Hailu;M. Mukhtar

  • Visceral Leishmaniasis in the Indian Subcontinent: Modelling Epidemiology and Control

    Anette Stauch;Ram Rup Sarkar;Albert Picado;Bart Ostyn

  • A comparative study of the effectiveness of diagnostic tests for visceral leishmaniasis.

    Marleen Boelaert;Suman Rijal;Sudhir Regmi;Rupa Singh

  • Asymptomatic Leishmania Infection: A New Challenge for Leishmania Control

    Om Prakash Singh;Epco Hasker;David Sacks;Marleen Boelaert

  • Selenium and iodine supplementation of rural Tibetan children affected by Kashin-Beck osteoarthropathy

    Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes;Françoise Mathieu;Marleen Boelaert;Françoise Begaux

  • Rapid tests for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in patients with suspected disease

    Marleen Boelaert;Kristien Verdonck;Joris Menten;Temmy Sunyoto

  • Incidence of symptomatic and asymptomatic Leishmania donovani infections in high-endemic foci in India and Nepal: a prospective study

    Bart Ostyn;Kamlesh Gidwani;Basudha Khanal;Albert Picado;Albert Picado

Frequent Co-Authors

Shyam Sundar
Shyam Sundar Banaras Hindu University
Jean-Claude Dujardin
Jean-Claude Dujardin Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Jan Jacobs
Jan Jacobs KU Leuven
Philippe Büscher
Philippe Büscher Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Clive R. Davies
Clive R. Davies London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Pradeep Das
Pradeep Das Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences
Marc Coosemans
Marc Coosemans Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Dinesh Mondal
Dinesh Mondal International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Asrat Hailu
Asrat Hailu Addis Ababa University
Rosanna W. Peeling
Rosanna W. Peeling London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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