List of works - Veerle Lejon

A CATT negative result after treatment for human African trypanosomiasis is no indication for cure

scientific article

A LiTat 1.5 variant surface glycoprotein-derived peptide with diagnostic potential for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

A combined CXCL10, CXCL8 and H-FABP panel for the staging of human African trypanosomiasis patients

scientific article

A new format of the CATT test for the detection of human African Trypanosomiasis, designed for use in peripheral health facilities

scientific article published on 9 December 2009

A semi-quantitative ELISA for detection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense specific antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients.

scientific article published on May 1998

Accuracy of individual rapid tests for serodiagnosis of gambiense sleeping sickness in West Africa

scientific article

Analytical sensitivity of loopamp and quantitative real-time PCR on dried blood spots and their potential role in monitoring human African trypanosomiasis elimination

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Antimicrobial resistance in invasive non-typhoid Salmonella from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: emergence of decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility and extended-spectrum beta lactamases

scientific article

Aparasitemic serological suspects in Trypanosoma brucei gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a potential human reservoir of parasites?

scientific article published on 24 May 2006

Blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier and intrathecal immunoglobulins compared to field diagnosis of central nervous system involvement in sleeping sickness

Candidate gene polymorphisms study between human African trypanosomiasis clinical phenotypes in Guinea

scientific article

Cerebrospinal Fluid-Derived Microvesicles From Sleeping Sickness Patients Alter Protein Expression in Human Astrocytes

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Cerebrospinal fluid neopterin as marker of the meningo-encephalitic stage of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

scientific article

Characterization of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense variant surface glycoprotein LiTat 1.5.

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

Comparison of different DNA preparation protocols for PCR diagnosis of Human African Trypanosomosis in Côte d'Ivoire

scientific article published in June 2002

Comparison of operational criteria for treatment outcome in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR HUMAN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS ELIMINATION AND CLINICAL TRIALS: THE DITECT-HAT PROJECT

Detection of light subunit neurofilament and glial fibrillary acidic protein in cerebrospinal fluid of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense-infected patients.

scientific article published on January 1999

Development of a latex agglutination test with recombinant variant surface glycoprotein for serodiagnosis of surra

scientific article published on 6 September 2014

Diagnosis of Persistent Fever in the Tropics: Set of Standard Operating Procedures Used in the NIDIAG Febrile Syndrome Study

scientific article

Diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis in 2001

scientific article published on January 2001

Diagnostic accuracy and feasibility of serological tests on filter paper samples for outbreak detection of T.b. gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article

Diagnostic accuracy of PCR in gambiense sleeping sickness diagnosis, staging and post-treatment follow-up: a 2-year longitudinal study

scientific article

Diagnostic accuracy of loopamp Trypanosoma brucei detection kit for diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis in clinical samples

scientific article

Discovery and verification of osteopontin and Beta-2-microglobulin as promising markers for staging human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article

Do Cryptic Reservoirs Threaten Gambiense-Sleeping Sickness Elimination?

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Elimination of sleeping sickness hindered by difficult diagnosis

scientific article published on October 2013

Equivalence trial of melarsoprol and nifurtimox monotherapy and combination therapy for the treatment of second-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

scientific article

Evaluation of an EDTA version of CATT/Trypanosoma brucei gambiense for serological screening of human blood samples

scientific article published on January 2002

Evaluation of the micro-CATT, CATT/Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, and LATEX/T b gambiense methods for serodiagnosis and surveillance of human African trypanosomiasis in West and Central Africa

scientific article

External quality assessment of Giemsa-stained blood film microscopy for the diagnosis of malaria and sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

External quality assessment of reading and interpretation of malaria rapid diagnostic tests among 1849 end-users in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Short Message Service (SMS).

scientific article

False positivity of non-targeted infections in malaria rapid diagnostic tests: the case of human african trypanosomiasis

scientific article

Follow-up of Card Agglutination Trypanosomiasis Test (CATT) positive but apparently aparasitaemic individuals in Côte d'Ivoire: evidence for a complex and heterogeneous population

article

Gambiense human african trypanosomiasis and immunological memory: effect on phenotypic lymphocyte profiles and humoral immunity

scientific article

How to shorten patient follow-up after treatment for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness.

scientific article published in February 2010

Human African trypanosomiasis

article from 2013

Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012.

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Human African trypanosomiasis: a latex agglutination field test for quantifying IgM in cerebrospinal fluid.

scientific article published on January 1998

Human African trypanosomiasis: quantitative and qualitative assessment of intrathecal immune response

scientific article published on November 2003

Human african trypanosomiasis diagnosis in first-line health services of endemic countries, a systematic review

scientific article

Identification of mimotopes with diagnostic potential for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense variant surface glycoproteins using human antibody fractions

scientific article

Identification of peptide mimotopes of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense variant surface glycoproteins

scientific article

IgM quantification in the cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients by a latex card agglutination test.

scientific article published on August 2002

Immune trypanolysis test as a promising bioassay to monitor the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Immune trypanolysis test with blood spotted on filter paper for epidemiological surveillance of sleeping sickness

article

Improved Models of Mini Anion Exchange Centrifugation Technique (mAECT) and Modified Single Centrifugation (MSC) for sleeping sickness diagnosis and staging

scientific article

Improved latex agglutination test for detection of antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infected patients

scientific article published on May 1999

Innovative digital technologies for quality assurance of diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on 13 September 2018

Interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8 and IL-10 in serum and CSF of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness patients before and after treatment.

scientific article published on May 2002

Intermediate susceptibility to ciprofloxacin among Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates in Lima, Peru

scientific article published on 26 December 2013

Intrathecal immune response pattern for improved diagnosis of central nervous system involvement in trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on 15 April 2003

Introducing the TrypanoGEN biobank: A valuable resource for the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article

Invasive Salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium infections, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007-2011. ⬇️

scientific article published on April 2014

Low specificities of HIV diagnostic tests caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

scientific article

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 are powerful staging markers for human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Neopterin is a cerebrospinal fluid marker for treatment outcome evaluation in patients affected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

scientific article

Neuro-inflammatory risk factors for treatment failure in "early second stage" sleeping sickness patients treated with pentamidine

scientific article published on November 2003

New WHO guidelines for treatment of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis including fexinidazole: substantial changes for clinical practice

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

New biomarkers for stage determination in Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness patients

scientific article published on 7 January 2013

Novel markers for treatment outcome in late-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on July 2008

Options for field diagnosis of human african trypanosomiasis

scientific article

Performance of Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Malaria and Human African Trypanosomiasis by Diagnostic Laboratories in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Results of a Nation-Wide External Quality Assessment

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

Performance of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for detection of antibodies against T. congolense and T. vivax in goats

scientific article published on October 2003

Performance of parasitological and molecular techniques for the diagnosis and surveillance of gambiense sleeping sickness

scientific article

Persistence of Leishmania donovani antibodies in past visceral leishmaniasis cases in India

scientific article

Rapid diagnostic test for sleeping sickness

scientific article published in March 2013

Rapid diagnostic tests for neurological infections in central Africa

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Recombinant RoTat 1.2 variable surface glycoprotein as antigen for diagnosis of Trypanosoma evansi in dromedary camels.

scientific article published on April 2005

Review Article: cerebrospinal fluid in human African trypanosomiasis: a key to diagnosis, therapeutic decision and post-treatment follow-up.

scientific article

Revisiting the immune trypanolysis test to optimise epidemiological surveillance and control of sleeping sickness in West Africa

scientific article

Salmonella typhi in the democratic republic of the congo: fluoroquinolone decreased susceptibility on the rise

scientific article

Sensitivity and specificity of HAT Sero-K-SeT, a rapid diagnostic test for serodiagnosis of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: a case-control study

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

Serological markers for Leishmania donovani infection in Nepal: agreement between direct agglutination test and rK39 ELISA

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Single centrifugation of cerebrospinal fluid in a sealed pasteur pipette for simple, rapid and sensitive detection of trypanosomes

article by T.W Miézan et al published May 2000 in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Specificity of serological screening tests and reference laboratory tests to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a prospective clinical performance study

scientific article published in 2024

Stage determination and follow-up in sleeping sickness.

scientific article

Stage determination and therapeutic decision in human African trypanosomiasis: value of polymerase chain reaction and immunoglobulin M quantification on the cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients in Côte d'Ivoire.

scientific article published in July 2003

Stage determination in sleeping sickness: comparison of two cell counting and two parasite detection techniques

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

TLTF in cerebrospinal fluid for detection and staging of T. b. gambiense infection

scientific article

The Art of Writing and Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Laboratories in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Guidelines and Best Practices

scientific article

The COMBAT project: controlling and progressively minimizing the burden of vector-borne animal trypanosomosis in Africa

scientific article published in 2022

The challenge of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness diagnosis outside Africa

scientific article published on December 2003

The complex health seeking pathway of a human African trypanosomiasis patient in Côte d'Ivoire underlines the need of setting up passive surveillance systems

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

The separation of trypanosomes from blood by anion exchange chromatography: From Sheila Lanham's discovery 50 years ago to a gold standard for sleeping sickness diagnosis

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Tolerance to Trypanosomatids: A Threat, or a Key for Disease Elimination?

scientific article

Towards saliva-based screening for sleeping sickness?

scientific article published on July 2003

Treatment failure related to intrathecal immunoglobulin M (IgM) synthesis, cerebrospinal fluid IgM, and interleukin-10 in patients with hemolymphatic-stage sleeping sickness

scientific article

Trypa-NO! contributes to the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis by combining tsetse control with "screen, diagnose and treat" using innovative tools and strategies

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense Spliced Leader RNA Is a More Specific Marker for Cure of Human African Trypanosomiasis Than T. b. gambiense DNA.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Trypanosoma lewisi or T. lewisi-like infection in a 37-day-old Indian infant

scientific article

[Diagnosis of sleeping sickness stage: towards a new approach]

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

List of works by Veerle Lejon

A CATT negative result after treatment for human African trypanosomiasis is no indication for cure

A LiTat 1.5 variant surface glycoprotein-derived peptide with diagnostic potential for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

A combined CXCL10, CXCL8 and H-FABP panel for the staging of human African trypanosomiasis patients

A new format of the CATT test for the detection of human African Trypanosomiasis, designed for use in peripheral health facilities

A semi-quantitative ELISA for detection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense specific antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients.

Accuracy of individual rapid tests for serodiagnosis of gambiense sleeping sickness in West Africa

Analytical sensitivity of loopamp and quantitative real-time PCR on dried blood spots and their potential role in monitoring human African trypanosomiasis elimination

Antimicrobial resistance in invasive non-typhoid Salmonella from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: emergence of decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility and extended-spectrum beta lactamases

Aparasitemic serological suspects in Trypanosoma brucei gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a potential human reservoir of parasites?

Blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier and intrathecal immunoglobulins compared to field diagnosis of central nervous system involvement in sleeping sickness

Candidate gene polymorphisms study between human African trypanosomiasis clinical phenotypes in Guinea

Cerebrospinal Fluid-Derived Microvesicles From Sleeping Sickness Patients Alter Protein Expression in Human Astrocytes

Cerebrospinal fluid neopterin as marker of the meningo-encephalitic stage of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

Characterization of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense variant surface glycoprotein LiTat 1.5.

Comparison of different DNA preparation protocols for PCR diagnosis of Human African Trypanosomosis in Côte d'Ivoire

Comparison of operational criteria for treatment outcome in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR HUMAN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS ELIMINATION AND CLINICAL TRIALS: THE DITECT-HAT PROJECT

Detection of light subunit neurofilament and glial fibrillary acidic protein in cerebrospinal fluid of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense-infected patients.

Development of a latex agglutination test with recombinant variant surface glycoprotein for serodiagnosis of surra

Diagnosis of Persistent Fever in the Tropics: Set of Standard Operating Procedures Used in the NIDIAG Febrile Syndrome Study

Diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis in 2001

Diagnostic accuracy and feasibility of serological tests on filter paper samples for outbreak detection of T.b. gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

Diagnostic accuracy of PCR in gambiense sleeping sickness diagnosis, staging and post-treatment follow-up: a 2-year longitudinal study

Diagnostic accuracy of loopamp Trypanosoma brucei detection kit for diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis in clinical samples

Discovery and verification of osteopontin and Beta-2-microglobulin as promising markers for staging human African trypanosomiasis

Do Cryptic Reservoirs Threaten Gambiense-Sleeping Sickness Elimination?

Elimination of sleeping sickness hindered by difficult diagnosis

Equivalence trial of melarsoprol and nifurtimox monotherapy and combination therapy for the treatment of second-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

Evaluation of an EDTA version of CATT/Trypanosoma brucei gambiense for serological screening of human blood samples

Evaluation of the micro-CATT, CATT/Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, and LATEX/T b gambiense methods for serodiagnosis and surveillance of human African trypanosomiasis in West and Central Africa

External quality assessment of Giemsa-stained blood film microscopy for the diagnosis of malaria and sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

External quality assessment of reading and interpretation of malaria rapid diagnostic tests among 1849 end-users in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Short Message Service (SMS).

False positivity of non-targeted infections in malaria rapid diagnostic tests: the case of human african trypanosomiasis

Follow-up of Card Agglutination Trypanosomiasis Test (CATT) positive but apparently aparasitaemic individuals in Côte d'Ivoire: evidence for a complex and heterogeneous population

Gambiense human african trypanosomiasis and immunological memory: effect on phenotypic lymphocyte profiles and humoral immunity

How to shorten patient follow-up after treatment for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness.

Human African trypanosomiasis

Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012.

Human African trypanosomiasis: a latex agglutination field test for quantifying IgM in cerebrospinal fluid.

Human African trypanosomiasis: quantitative and qualitative assessment of intrathecal immune response

Human african trypanosomiasis diagnosis in first-line health services of endemic countries, a systematic review

Identification of mimotopes with diagnostic potential for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense variant surface glycoproteins using human antibody fractions

Identification of peptide mimotopes of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense variant surface glycoproteins

IgM quantification in the cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients by a latex card agglutination test.

Immune trypanolysis test as a promising bioassay to monitor the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

Immune trypanolysis test with blood spotted on filter paper for epidemiological surveillance of sleeping sickness

Improved Models of Mini Anion Exchange Centrifugation Technique (mAECT) and Modified Single Centrifugation (MSC) for sleeping sickness diagnosis and staging

Improved latex agglutination test for detection of antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infected patients

Innovative digital technologies for quality assurance of diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis

Interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8 and IL-10 in serum and CSF of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness patients before and after treatment.

Intermediate susceptibility to ciprofloxacin among Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates in Lima, Peru

Intrathecal immune response pattern for improved diagnosis of central nervous system involvement in trypanosomiasis

Introducing the TrypanoGEN biobank: A valuable resource for the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis

Invasive Salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium infections, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007-2011. ⬇️

Low specificities of HIV diagnostic tests caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 are powerful staging markers for human African trypanosomiasis

Neopterin is a cerebrospinal fluid marker for treatment outcome evaluation in patients affected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

Neuro-inflammatory risk factors for treatment failure in "early second stage" sleeping sickness patients treated with pentamidine

New WHO guidelines for treatment of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis including fexinidazole: substantial changes for clinical practice

New biomarkers for stage determination in Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness patients

Novel markers for treatment outcome in late-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis

Options for field diagnosis of human african trypanosomiasis

Performance of Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Malaria and Human African Trypanosomiasis by Diagnostic Laboratories in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Results of a Nation-Wide External Quality Assessment

Performance of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for detection of antibodies against T. congolense and T. vivax in goats

Performance of parasitological and molecular techniques for the diagnosis and surveillance of gambiense sleeping sickness

Persistence of Leishmania donovani antibodies in past visceral leishmaniasis cases in India

Rapid diagnostic test for sleeping sickness

Rapid diagnostic tests for neurological infections in central Africa

Recombinant RoTat 1.2 variable surface glycoprotein as antigen for diagnosis of Trypanosoma evansi in dromedary camels.

Review Article: cerebrospinal fluid in human African trypanosomiasis: a key to diagnosis, therapeutic decision and post-treatment follow-up.

Revisiting the immune trypanolysis test to optimise epidemiological surveillance and control of sleeping sickness in West Africa

Salmonella typhi in the democratic republic of the congo: fluoroquinolone decreased susceptibility on the rise

Sensitivity and specificity of HAT Sero-K-SeT, a rapid diagnostic test for serodiagnosis of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: a case-control study

Serological markers for Leishmania donovani infection in Nepal: agreement between direct agglutination test and rK39 ELISA

Single centrifugation of cerebrospinal fluid in a sealed pasteur pipette for simple, rapid and sensitive detection of trypanosomes

Specificity of serological screening tests and reference laboratory tests to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a prospective clinical performance study

Stage determination and follow-up in sleeping sickness.

Stage determination and therapeutic decision in human African trypanosomiasis: value of polymerase chain reaction and immunoglobulin M quantification on the cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients in Côte d'Ivoire.

Stage determination in sleeping sickness: comparison of two cell counting and two parasite detection techniques