Presentations & Publications
2020
- Child health, parasites and lower socioeconomic status: Outcomes of a long-term screening, intervention and training study by health volunteers in rural Nepal.
Sürmeli A, Tolunay T, Yasin Y, et al. Acta Trop 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105263. - Imported malaria in semi-immune and non-immune travelers in non-malaria-endemic countries. Mischlinger J, Rönnberg C, Álvarez-Martínez M, et al. Clin Microbiol Rev 2020. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00104-19.
- Toxoplasma gondii-specific IgG avidity testing in pregnant women.
Garnaud C, Fricker-Hidalgo H, Evengård B, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.014. - Chagas disease in the United Kingdom: A review of cases at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases London 1995-2018. The current state of detection of Chagas disease in the UK.
González Sanz M, De Sario V, García-Mingo A et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020; 36: 101760. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101760. - Integrated chromosomal and plasmid sequence analyses reveal diverse modes of carbapenemase gene spread among Klebsiella pneumoniae.
David S, Cohen V, Reuter S et al. PNAS 2020; 117: 25043-25054. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003407117.
2018
- Toxoplasmosis in transplant recipients, Europe, 2010–2014.
Robert-Gangneux F, Meroni V, Dupont D, et al. Emerg Infect Dis 2018;24:1497-1504. doi: 10.3201/eid2408.180045
2016
- Comparison of Leishmania typing results in 16 European clinical laboratories. Van der Auwera G, Bart A, Chicharro C, Cortes S, Davidsson L, Di Muccio T, Dujardin JC, Felger I, Paglia MG, Grimm F11, Harms G, Jaffe CL, Manser M, Ravel C, Robert-Gangneux F, Roelfsema J, Töz S, Verweij JJ, Chiodini PL. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(49):30418.
2013

ESCMID PGTW Technical Workshop for Basic and Clinical Parasitology
Porto, Portugal, June 2013
2012

ESCMID PGEC Infections in Returning Travellers: There is no Border for Transmission of Infections
Jointly organised with the immunocompromised host group (ESGICH) and the food/water infection group (EFWISG)
Istanbul, Turkey, November 2012
Course material in the ESCMID OLL
ESCMID PGTW Postgraduate Workshop in Clinical Parasitology
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2012
2011

2010
ESCMID Postgraduate Technical Workshop Presentations available
Postgraduate Course in Clinical Parasitology
ESGCP organised this ESCMID PGTW in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7 - 11 June 2010.
2009
ESCMID Postgraduate Technical Workshop Presentations available
Postgraduate Course in Clinical Parasitology
ESGCP organized this ESCMID PGTW in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 8 - 12 June 2009.
ESCMID Postgraduate Technical Workshop Presentations available
Advanced Course in Clinical Parasitology
ESGCP organized this ESCMID PGTW in Paris, France, 30 - 31 March 2009.
2008
Prevention of toxoplasmosis in transplant patients
Derouin F, Pelloux H. Clin Microbiol Infect 2008; 14(12):1089-101.
2007
Rapid genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii by pyrosequencing.
Benjamin Edvinsson, Marie-Laure Darde, Hervé Pelloux and Birgitta Evengård (on behalf of ESGT)
Clin Microbiol and Infect, 13 (4), 424-429, 2007
Multicenter proficiency study for detection of Toxoplasma gondii in amniotic fluid by nucleic acid amplification methods.
Kaiser K, Van Loon AM, Pelloux H, Ferrandiz J, Picot S, Wallace P, Peyron F. (on behalf on ESGT)
Clinica Chimica Acta, 375. 99-103, 2007
2006
Real-time PCR targeting a 529-bp repeat element for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis.
Edvinsson B, Lappalainen M, Evengård B; ESCMID Study Group for Toxoplasmosis.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2006 Feb;12(2):131-6.
2004
DNA extraction and PCR assays for detection of Toxoplasma gondii.
Edvinsson B, Jalal S, Nord CE, Stray-pedersen B, Evengard B.
APMIS 2004;112(6): 342-8
Rapid and sensitive diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infections by PCR.
Jalal S, Nord CE, Lappalainen M, Evengård B.
Clin Microbiol Infect 2004, 10: 937-939