BRICE NATCHEMA

Background

Natchema Soh Fonkou Brice is research assistant at CRID. Prior to this, he worked mainly on the epidemiology of neglected tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted intestinal parasitoses. Globally, he examined the levels of transmission of these parasitoses and associated risk factors in some communities in Southern Cameroon.

Research

Malaria transmission: Epidemiology of malaria transmission through parasitological and entomological surveys, including vectors and humans. Plasmodium-vector interaction, vector control tools, insecticide resistance genes, molecular biology, RNA/DNA sequencing, bioinformatics: How insecticide exposure and resistance (metabolic and target site) affect the ability of malaria vectors to transmit Plasmodium parasites to humans. Investigation of the antimalarial properties of the latest vector control tools (Interceptor G2 (chlorfenapyr)) and the entomological and/or epidemiological efficacy(ies) of spatial repellents (transfluthrin). Monitoring resistance or reduced efficacy of the latest vector control tools such as chlorfenapyr-based nets (Interceptor G2 and Permanet Dual).

• Areas of interest:

Neglected tropical diseases, Malaria transmission, Plasmodium-Vector interactions, vectors control tools, insecticide resistance genes, molecular biology, Plasmodium and vector species’ genomics, RNA and DNA sequencing, Bioinformatics.

• Research – an overview of  your research areas(s)
  

Bioinformatics, evolutionary genomics, insecticide resistance, Microbiome, pipeline development

• Research areas

Malaria transmission and epidemiology

• Bench supervisor
  

  Dr. Magellan Tchouakui

• Some conferences and workshops attended
  

  – 8th Pan-African Malaria Conference, Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda, 21-27 April 2024 (Oral presentation) – 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa, Mulungushi Conference Centre, Lusaka, Zambia, 27-30 November 2023 (Oral presentation): – 9th Pan African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2023 (Oral presentation) –Workshp on IRS, ITN data analysis/WHO guidelines for vector control products in Bagamoyo-Tanzania (2023) –Bioinformatics and Vector Genomics Data Analysis Workshop, Yaoundé (CRID), 24th – 28th February 2025 -37th Residential 3-week Summer Course in Epidemiology, Florence (Italy), 16th June – 4th July 2025

   

• Publications

  • – Brice Natchema S. F. et al. (2023). Entomological longitudinal surveys in two contrasted eco-climatic settings in Cameroon reveal a high malaria transmission from Anopheles funestus associated with GSTe2 metabolic resistance. BMC infectious diseases journal, 23:738. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08698-8. – Natchema S. F. Brice et al. (2020). Environmental Sanitation Factors and human Behaviour Associated with Intestinal Parasitic Infections in Rural Communities of Cameroon. International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health, 40(4): 1-12.  10.9734/ijtdh/2019/v40i430232 – Nkengazong L, Natchema B, Ojong L et al. (2018). Transmission pattern of neglected tropical diseases (STHs and amibiasis) in a rural community of South Cameroun : A need to involve all age groups on control strategy. International journal of current research and academic review 6(8): 83-91.  https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcrar.2018.608.009