Edwin Michael

Summary

Affiliation: Imperial College
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Temporal epidemiology of microfilaraemia among migrant workers entering Kuwait
    Saeed Akhtar
    Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
    BMC Res Notes 1:8. 2008
  2. ncbi Incidence, risk factors and clinical epidemiology of melioidosis: a complex socio-ecological emerging infectious disease in the Alor Setar region of Kedah, Malaysia
    Muhammad R A Hassan
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    BMC Infect Dis 10:302. 2010
  3. ncbi Ecological meta-analysis of density-dependent processes in the transmission of lymphatic filariasis: survival of infected vectors
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
    J Med Entomol 46:873-80. 2009
  4. ncbi Mathematical models and lymphatic filariasis control: monitoring and evaluating interventions
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
    Trends Parasitol 22:529-35. 2006
  5. ncbi Vector transmission heterogeneity and the population dynamics and control of lymphatic filariasis
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Adv Exp Med Biol 673:13-31. 2010
  6. ncbi Transmission models and management of lymphatic filariasis elimination
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Adv Exp Med Biol 673:157-71. 2010
  7. ncbi Mathematical models and lymphatic filariasis control: endpoints and optimal interventions
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Trends Parasitol 22:226-33. 2006
  8. ncbi Mathematical modelling and the control of lymphatic filariasis
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    Lancet Infect Dis 4:223-34. 2004
  9. ncbi Epidemiological modelling for monitoring and evaluation of lymphatic filariasis control
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
    Adv Parasitol 65:191-237. 2007
  10. ncbi Complex ecological dynamics and eradicability of the vector borne macroparasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis
    Manoj Gambhir
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e2874. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Modeling lymphatic filariasis transmission and eradication in Papua New Guinea
    Edwin Michael; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. Modeling lymphatic filariasis transmission and eradication in Papua New Guinea
    Edwin Michael; Fiscal Year: 2010

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications28

  1. ncbi Temporal epidemiology of microfilaraemia among migrant workers entering Kuwait
    Saeed Akhtar
    Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait
    BMC Res Notes 1:8. 2008
    ....
  2. ncbi Incidence, risk factors and clinical epidemiology of melioidosis: a complex socio-ecological emerging infectious disease in the Alor Setar region of Kedah, Malaysia
    Muhammad R A Hassan
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    BMC Infect Dis 10:302. 2010
    ..However, data on the natural history, risk factors, and geographic epidemiology of the disease are still limited...
  3. ncbi Ecological meta-analysis of density-dependent processes in the transmission of lymphatic filariasis: survival of infected vectors
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
    J Med Entomol 46:873-80. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Mathematical models and lymphatic filariasis control: monitoring and evaluating interventions
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
    Trends Parasitol 22:529-35. 2006
    ..We focus on the use of such an approach for the control and/or elimination of the vector-borne parasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis...
  5. ncbi Vector transmission heterogeneity and the population dynamics and control of lymphatic filariasis
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Adv Exp Med Biol 673:13-31. 2010
    ....
  6. ncbi Transmission models and management of lymphatic filariasis elimination
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Adv Exp Med Biol 673:157-71. 2010
    ....
  7. ncbi Mathematical models and lymphatic filariasis control: endpoints and optimal interventions
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
    Trends Parasitol 22:226-33. 2006
    ....
  8. ncbi Mathematical modelling and the control of lymphatic filariasis
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
    Lancet Infect Dis 4:223-34. 2004
    ....
  9. ncbi Epidemiological modelling for monitoring and evaluation of lymphatic filariasis control
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
    Adv Parasitol 65:191-237. 2007
    ....
  10. ncbi Complex ecological dynamics and eradicability of the vector borne macroparasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis
    Manoj Gambhir
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e2874. 2008
    ....
  11. ncbi Global eradication of lymphatic filariasis: the value of chronic disease control in parasite elimination programmes
    Edwin Michael
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e2936. 2008
    ....
  12. ncbi Modeling the effects of weather and climate change on malaria transmission
    Paul Edward Parham
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    Environ Health Perspect 118:620-6. 2010
    ....
  13. ncbi Modelling climate change and malaria transmission
    Paul E Parham
    Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Praed Street, London W2 1PG, UK
    Adv Exp Med Biol 673:184-99. 2010
    ..The work presented here offers a theoretical framework upon which this future research may be developed...
  14. ncbi Geographic and ecologic heterogeneity in elimination thresholds for the major vector-borne helminthic disease, lymphatic filariasis
    Manoj Gambhir
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, UK
    BMC Biol 8:22. 2010
    ..thresholds, generated using the Bayesian fitting procedure, were then examined in order to evaluate site-specific heterogeneity in the values of these thresholds and investigate the ecological factors that may underlie such variability..
  15. ncbi Measuring the efficacy of insecticide treated bednets: the use of DNA fingerprinting to increase the accuracy of personal protection estimates in Tanzania
    Seyi Soremekun
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Trop Med Int Health 9:664-72. 2004
    ..When these percentages were used to adjust estimates of personal protection, it was found that the error due to mosquitoes not feeding in the rooms in which they were collected is negligible...
  16. ncbi Climate change epidemiology: methodological challenges
    Wei W Xun
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, Paddington, London, W2 1PG, UK
    Int J Public Health 55:85-96. 2010
    ..Hence, epidemiology must continue to adapt by developing new approaches and the integration of other disciplines such as geography and climatology, with an emphasis on informing policy-making and disseminating knowledge beyond the field...
  17. ncbi Elimination of lymphatic filariasis
    Edwin Michael
    Lancet 368:362-3; author reply 363-4. 2006
  18. ncbi The effect of single dose ivermectin alone or in combination with albendazole on Wuchereria bancrofti infection in primary school children in Tanzania
    Paul E Simonsen
    Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Jaegersborg Alle 1 D, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 98:462-72. 2004
    ....
  19. ncbi The effect of repeated half-yearly diethylcarbamazine mass treatment on Wuchereria bancrofti infection and transmission in two East African communities with different levels of endemicity
    Paul E Simonsen
    Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Charlottenlund, Denmark
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 70:63-71. 2004
    ..No change in transmission or mosquito infectivity was observed after treatment in the low-endemicity community. Implications of these observations for the control of Bancroftian filariasis are discussed...
  20. ncbi The effect of eight half-yearly single-dose treatments with DEC on Wuchereria bancrofti circulating antigenaemia
    Paul E Simonsen
    DBL Institute for Health Research and Development, Jaegersborg Alle 1D, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 99:541-7. 2005
    ....
  21. ncbi Concomitant parasitism: bancroftian filariasis and intestinal helminths and response to albendazole
    Prakash K Sahoo
    Division of Immunology, Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Bhubaneswar, India
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 73:877-80. 2005
    ..Confirmation of these findings in a larger cohort may yield important new insights regarding the role of using albendazole in the ongoing intervention programs for the control of lymphatic filariasis...
  22. ncbi Mass chemotherapy options to control lymphatic filariasis: a systematic review
    Daniel J Tisch
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7286, USA
    Lancet Infect Dis 5:514-23. 2005
    ..These results provide valuable estimates of drug effect using existing data, but highlight the need for more comprehensive comparative drug studies...
  23. ncbi Immunoepidemiology of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in two East African communities: antibodies to the microfilarial sheath and their role in regulating host microfilaraemia
    Paul E Simonsen
    DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 57, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
    Acta Trop 106:200-6. 2008
    ....
  24. ncbi Immunoepidemiology of Wuchereria bancrofti infection: parasite transmission intensity, filaria-specific antibodies, and host immunity in two East African communities
    Walter G Jaoko
    Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, P O Box 19676, Nairobi, Kenya
    Infect Immun 75:5651-62. 2007
    ....
  25. ncbi Human bancroftian filariasis: immunological markers of morbidity and infection
    Ashok K Satapathy
    Division of Immunology, Regional Medical Research Centre (Indian Council of Medical Research, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Orissa, India
    Microbes Infect 8:2414-23. 2006
    ..Since plasma levels of these cytokines are often determined by host genetics, studies on cytokine genetic polymorphisms could offer new insights into the relationship between infection and disease in human lymphatic filariasis...
  26. ncbi Filarial-specific antibody response in East African bancroftian filariasis: effects of host infection, clinical disease, and filarial endemicity
    Walter G Jaoko
    Department of Medical Microbiology, and Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 75:97-107. 2006
    ..They also suggest that community transmission intensity play a dominant but subtle role in shaping the observed response patterns...
  27. ncbi Filaria dance sign and subclinical hydrocoele in two east African communities with bancroftian filariasis
    Paul E Simonsen
    Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Jaegersborg Alle 1 D, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 96:649-53. 2002
    ..The application of ultrasonography as a tool in bancroftian filariasis epidemiological field studies thus indicated that scrotal pathology may be much more common in endemic areas than hitherto reported...
  28. ncbi Bancroftian filariasis infection, disease, and specific antibody response patterns in a high and a low endemicity community in East Africa
    Paul E Simonsen
    Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Charlottenlund
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 66:550-9. 2002
    ..Community transmission intensity thus appears to be an important determinant of observed inter-community variation in infection, disease, and host response patterns in Bancroftian filariasis...

Research Grants4

  1. Modeling lymphatic filariasis transmission and eradication in Papua New Guinea
    Edwin Michael; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  2. Modeling lymphatic filariasis transmission and eradication in Papua New Guinea
    Edwin Michael; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....