Zeleke Mekonnen

The paper develops and tests tools to quantify soil-transmitted helminth eggs in fecal sludge from school pit latrines in Ethiopia, finding that latrine-based surveys can be as precise as stool-based surveys for certain parasites.

The paper assesses genetic diversity of soil-transmitted helminths across regions and evaluates its impact on molecular diagnostic targets using low-coverage genome sequencing and in vitro assays.

This paper develops a hybridization capture method to enrich mitochondrial genomes of soil-transmitted helminths from fecal samples, achieving high enrichment and sensitivity.

This study evaluates SNPs in β-tubulin genes of human soil-transmitted helminths to assess their association with benzimidazole resistance, finding no strong evidence for their role as resistance markers.

This study presents the first population genomics analysis of Trichuris trichiura using whole-genome sequencing of ancient and modern samples, revealing genetic structure and admixture patterns across human and primate hosts.