Raffy Jay C. Fornillos, MSc

Instructor 7
Ecology and Taxonomy Academic Group
MS in Biology (Genetics), University of the Philippines Diliman (2018)
Email: rcfornillos@up.edu.ph
TEACHING

Bio 11.1. Fundamentals of Biology I
Bio 116.1. Invertebrate Zoology
Bio 171 General Parasitology

RESEARCH

Phylogenetics and ecoepidemiological researches on schistosomiasis, taeniasis/cysticercosis, and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Parasitology, Molecular Helminthology, Medical Malacology

PUBLICATIONS
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  • 1. Manalo, D. L., Bolivar, J. K. G., Yap, P. R., Gomez, M. R. R., Saldo, Z. P., Espino, M. J. M., Dilig, J.E., Fornillos, R.J.C., Perez, S.A., Baga, R.A., Sunico, L.S., Fontanilla, I.K.C. and Leonardo, L. R. 2023. From Perpetual Wetness to Soil Chemistry: Enumerating Environmental and Physicochemical Factors Favoring Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi Snail Presence in the Municipality of Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 9(1), 9.
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  • 2. Tabios, I.K.B., Sato, M.O., Tantengco, O.A.G., Fornillos, R.J.C., Kirinoki, M., Sato, M., Rojo, R.D., Fontanilla, I.K.C., Chigusa, Y., Medina, P.M.B. and Kikuchi, M., 2022. Circulating microRNAs as Biomarkers of Hepatic Fibrosis in Schistosomiasis Japonica Patients in the Philippines. Diagnostics, 12(8), p.1902.
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  • 3. Cruz, T.T.M.D., Llanes, K.K.R., Toledo, J.M.S., Catabay, J.A., Fornillos, R.J.C., Fontanilla, I.K.C. and Paller, V.G.V., 2022. Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of Ascaridoid Parasites of Philippine species. Journal of Nematology, 54(1).
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  • 4. Tabios, I.K.B., Sato, M.O., Tantengco, O.A.G., Fornillos, R.J.C., Kirinoki, M., Sato, M., Rojo,R.D., Fontanilla, I.K.C., Chigusa, Y., Medina, P.M.B. and Kikuchi, M., 2022. Diagnostic Performance of Parasitological, Immunological, Molecular, and Ultrasonographic Tests in Diagnosing Intestinal Schistosomiasis in Fieldworkers From Endemic Municipalities in the Philippines. Frontiers in Immunology, 13.
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  • 5. Fornillos, R.J.C., Que, G.C.L., Mendoza, R.V.D., Fontanilla, I.K.C. and Ong, P.S., 2020. Molecular Identification of the Chinese Pond Mussel Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) from Mindoro and Leyte Islands, Philippines. Science Diliman, 32(2).
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  • 6. Leonardo, L., Varona, G., Fornillos, R.J., Manalo, D., Tabios, I.K., Moendeg, K., de Cadiz, A., Kikuchi, M., Chigusa, Y., Mistica, M. and Hernandez, L., 2020. Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi: Snail intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum in the Philippines. Acta Tropica, 210, p.105547.
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  • 7. Leonardo, L., Hernandez, L., Magturo, T.C., Palasi, W., Rubite, J.M., de Cadiz, A., Moendeg, K., Fornillos, R., Tabios, I.K., Mistica, M., Fontanilla, I.K.C., 2019. Current Status of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the Philippines. Acta Tropica, 203, p.105284.
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  • 8. Fornillos, R.J.C., Sato, M.O., Tabios, I.K.B., Sato, M., Leonardo, L.R., Chigusa, Y., Minamoto, T., Kikuchi, M., Legaspi, E.R., Fontanilla, I.K.C., 2019. Detection of Schistosoma japonicum and Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi environmental DNA and its potential utility to schistosomiasis japonica surveillance in the Philippines. PLoS One 14, e0224617. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224617.
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  • 9. Calata, F.I.C., Caranguian, C.Z., Mendoza, J.E.M., Fornillos, R.J.C., Tabios, I.K.B., Fontanilla, I.K.C., Leonardo, L.R., Sunico, L.S., Kawai, S., Chigusa, Y., Kikuchi, M., Sato, M., Minamoto, T., Baoanan, Z.G., Sato, M.O., 2019. Analysis of Environmental DNA and Edaphic Factors for the Detection of the Snail Intermediate Host Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi. Pathogens, 8, 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens8040160
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  • 10. Fornillos, R.J.C., Fontanilla, I.K.C., Chigusa, Y., Kikuchi, M., Kirinoki, M., Kato-Hayashi, N., Kawazu, S., Angeles, J.M., Tabios, I.K., Moendeg, K., Goto, Y., Tamayo, P.G., Gampoy, E.F., Pates, I., Chua, J.C., Leonardo, L.R., 2019. Infection rate of Schistosoma japonicum in the snail Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi in endemic villages in the Philippines: Need for snail surveillance technique. Tropical Biomedicine. 36, 402–411.
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  • 11. Sato, M.O., Adsakwattana, P., Fontanilla, I.K.C., Kobayashi, J., Sato, M., Pongvongsa, T., Fornillos, R.J.C., Waikagul, J., 2019. Odds, challenges and new approaches in the control of helminthiasis, an Asian study. Parasite Epidemiology and Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parepi.2018.e00083
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  • 12. Araujo Navas, A.L., Soares Magalhães, R.J., Osei, F., Fornillos, R.J.C., Leonardo, L.R., Stein, A., 2018. Modelling local areas of exposure to Schistosoma japonicum in a limited survey data environment. Parasites and Vectors 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3039-6
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  • 13. Chua, J.C., Tabios, I.K.,Tamayo, P.G., Leonardo, L.R., Fontanilla, I.K.C., Fornillos, R.J.C., De Chavez, E. R., Agatsuma, T., Kikuchi, M., Kato-Hayashi, N., Chigusa, Y. 2017. Genetic Comparison of Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi (Möllendorf, 1895) (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae), the Intermediate Host of Schistosoma japonicum in the Philippines, Based on 16S Ribosomal RNA Sequence. Science Diliman 292, 32–50.
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  • 14. Leonardo, L., Chigusa, Y., Kikuchi, M., Kato-Hayashi, N., Kawazu, S.-I., Angeles, J.M., Fontanilla, I.K., Tabios, I.K., Moendeg, K., Goto, Y., Fornillos, R.J., Tamayo, P.G., Chua, J.C., 2016. Schistosomiasis in the Philippines: Challenges and some successes in control. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 47.