Strong interferon-gamma mediated cellular immunity to scrub typhus demonstrated using a novel whole cell antigen ELISpot assay in rhesus macaques and... (Publications)
Scrub typhus is a febrile infection caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, which causes significant morbidity and mortality across the Asia-Pacific region. The control
Antimalarial inhibitors targeting serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) with <em>in vivo</em> efficacy and analysis of their binding mode based on... (Publications)
Target-based approaches toward new antimalarial treatments are highly valuable to prevent resistance development. We report several series of pyrazolopyran-based inhibitors targeting the enzyme serine
Clinical and laboratory predictors of death in African children with features of severe malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The criteria for defining severe malaria have evolved over the last 20 years. We aimed to assess the strength of association of death with features currently characterizing severe malaria
3-hydroxy-N'-arylidenepropanehydrazonamides with halo-substituted phenanthrene scaffolds cure <em>P. berghei</em> infected mice when administered... (Publications)
Structural optimization of 3-hydroxy-N'-arylidenepropanehydrazonamides provided new analogs with nanomolar to subnanomolar antiplasmodial activity against asexual blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum
The Mini-FLOTAC technique for the diagnosis of helminth and protozoan infections in humans and animals (Publications)
This protocol is an extension to: Nat. Protoc. 5, 503-515 (2010); doi: 10.1038/nprot.2009.235; published online 25 February 2010The FLOTAC is a sensitive, accurate, and precise technique for the diagn
Patient-identified priorities leading to attempted suicide (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Attempted suicide is a major public health problem. AIM: The aim of this study was to identify patient-identified problems and triggers typically leading to attempted suicide. METHOD: A re
First-trimester artemisinin derivatives and quinine treatments and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Africa and Asia: a meta-analysis of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Animal embryotoxicity data, and the scarcity of safety data in human pregnancies, have prevented artemisinin derivatives from being recommended for malaria treatment in the first trimester