Zikmund BartonicekNatural History Museum, London · Department of Life Sciences
Zikmund Bartonicek
Master of Science
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
May 2017 - August 2017
Position
- Master's Student
Description
- I have travelled to Southwest Cameroon to collect malacological data, assess the infection of invertebrate hosts with schistosomes, test susceptibility of host and non-host snails to molluscicide and collect environmental DNA samples.
Education
September 2016 - September 2017
Field of study
- Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors
September 2013 - September 2016
Publications
Publications (2)
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has expanded rapidly in ecological conservation and agriculture, with a growing literature describing their potential applications in global health efforts including vector control. Vector-borne diseases carry severe public health and economic impacts to over half of the global population yet conventional...
Within schistosomiasis control, assessing environmental risk of currently non-treated demographic groups e.g. pre-school-aged children (PSAC) and their mothers is important. We conducted a pilot micro-epidemiological assessment at the crater lake of Barombi Kotto, Cameroon with GPS tracking and infection data from 12 PSAC-mother pairs (n=24) overla...
