Development of a focused library of triazole-linked privileged-structure-based conjugates leading to the discovery of novel phenotypic hits against... (Publications)
biphenyl, and phenylpiperazine scaffolds. The resulting 18 compounds were then tested against seven parasite strains, and counter-screened for selectivity against two mammalian cell lines. In parallel, hERG
Author correction: The temporal dynamics and infectiousness of subpatent<em> Plasmodium falciparum </em>infections in relation to parasite density (Publications)
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The temporal dynamics and infectiousness of subpatent <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections in relation to parasite density (Publications)
individuals infected with subpatent asexual parasite densities are found to be approximately a third as infectious to mosquitoes as individuals with patent (asexual parasite) infection. These results indicate that [...] infection and infectiousness of subpatent infections. Asymptomatically infected individuals have lower parasite densities on average in low transmission settings compared to individuals in higher transmission
Pyrimethamine-resistant <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> parasites among Tanzanian children: a facility-based study using the polymerase chain reaction (Publications)
Twenty-eight percent of the examined 101 children had pyrimethamine-resistant parasites, 65% had pyrimethamine-sensitive parasites with the wild-type Ser-108 codon, and 9% had both alleles, suggesting a mixed [...] polymerase chain reaction method was used to estimate the proportion of pyrimethamine-resistant parasites in 101 children reporting with malaria at the hospital in Ifakara, a town in southern Tanzania. [...] mixed infection. None of the 21 children with clinical malaria had...
Regulation of sexual commitment in malaria parasites: a complex affair (Publications)
Malaria blood stage parasites commit to either one of two distinct cellular fates while developing within erythrocytes of their mammalian host: they either undergo another round of asexual replication [...] support or impair the ultimate goal of human-to-human transmission via the mosquito vector. Malaria parasites therefore evolved strategies to control investments into asexual proliferation versus gametocyte [...] control and environmental modulation of sexual commitment in the two most widely...
Interactions between immunity and metabolism: contributions from the metabolic profiling of parasite-rodent models (Publications)
the small-molecule level within a host organism, and specific metabolic fingerprints of several parasitic infections have been characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The application of multivariate statistical
Metabolism of (<em>R</em>)-praziquantel versus the activation of a Parasite Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin ion channel (Publications)
Praziquantel (PZQ) is an essential anthelmintic drug recently established to be an activator of a Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin (TRPM(PZQ) ) ion channel in trematode worms. Bioinformatic, mu