Screening of the 'Open Scaffolds' collection from<em> Compounds Australia</em> identifies a new chemical entity with anthelmintic activities against... (Publications)
induced a characteristic, "coiled" xL3 phenotype (IC50 = 3.46-5.93 muM), inhibited motility of fourth-stage larvae (L4s; IC50 = 0.31-12.5 muM) and caused considerable cuticular damage to L4s in vitro.
A near-complete series of four atropisomeric jozimine A2-Type naphthylisoquinoline dimers with antiplasmodial and cytotoxic activities and related... (Publications)
with the S-configuration at C-3 and an oxygen function at C-6, such as the new ancistrobrevines K (5) and L (6). Furthermore, a new hybrid-type (i.e., mixed Ancistrocladaceae/Dioncophyllaceae-type) alkaloid [...] fibrosarcoma (HT1080), and multiple myeloma (MM.1S) cancer cells, displaying IC50 values of 12.0, 9.0, and 5.0 muM, respectively, whereas jozibrevines A (1a) and B (1b) were nontoxic in this concentration range
Temporal distribution of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>recrudescence following artemisinin-based combination therapy: an individual participant data... (Publications)
3703 recurrent infections were detected in 60 studies conducted in Africa (15,512 children aged < 5 years) and 23 studies conducted in Asia and South America (5272 patients of all ages). Using molecular [...] dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) efficacy trial in Africa was 47% [95% CI 19-90%] in children under 5 years old treated with > 48 mg/kg total piperaquine (PIP) dose and 9% [95% CI 0-22%] in those treated
Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of radiation-attenuated and chemo-attenuated PfSPZ vaccines in Equatoguinean adults (Publications)
of three doses of 2.7 x 10(6) PfSPZ of PfSPZ Vaccine at 8-week intervals and three doses of 1.0 x 10(5) PfSPZ of PfSPZ-CVac at 4-week intervals with each arm randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled [...] dose was 55% (8 of 13, P = 0.051) and at a median of 15 weeks after last PfSPZ Vaccine dose was 27% (5 of 15, P = 0.32). The higher VE in PfSPZ-CVac recipients of 55% with a 27-fold lower dose was likely
Effectiveness and profitability of preventive veterinary interventions in controlling infectious diseases of ruminant livestock in sub-Saharan Africa:... (Publications)
livestock diseases. The effectiveness and/or profitability of antimicrobial treatment (n = 5), test and slaughter (n = 5), and use of lay animal health workers (n = 1) applied exclusively, were evaluated in
Cross-sectional study of nutritional intake among patients undergoing tuberculosis treatment along the Myanmar-Thailand border (Publications)
on based on historical patient records. Out of a total of 28 participants, 20 (71.4%) were men and 5 (17.9%) were co-infected with HIV. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary outcome compared [...] patients supplementing their rations. Mean treatment length at time of survey was 20.7 weeks (95% CI: 16.5 to 24.8). A significantly higher proportion of women (8/8, 100%) met caloric requirements compared with
Global diversity and balancing selection of 23 leading <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>candidate vaccine antigens (Publications)
structure of leading vaccine candidate antigens of P. falciparum using the MalariaGEN Pf3K (version 5.1) resource, comprising more than 2600 genomes from 15 malaria endemic countries. A stringent variant [...] encoding 23 leading and novel candidate malaria vaccine antigens including csp, trap, eba175, ama1, rh5, and CelTOS. Our analysis shows that current malaria vaccine formulations are based on rare haplotypes
Increasing blood flow increases kt/V(urea) and potassium removal but fails to improve phosphate removal (Publications)
removal only improved from 28.1 +/- 1.3 to 31.4 +/- 1.5 (p = 0.050) when Qb was increased from 200 to 250 ml/min but remained unchanged at 31.2 +/- 1.5 mMol (NS compared to phosphate removal at Qb = 250 ml/min)
Estimating prevalence and infection intensity of soil-transmitted helminths using quantitative polymerase chain reaction and kato-katz in school-age... (Publications)
112 (58.6%) became positive. Similar prevalence for Ascaris lumbricoides (37.5% versus 34.6%) and Trichuris trichiura (6.5% versus 6.1%) were found by qPCR and Kato-Katz, respectively, while qPCR detected
Genetic characterization and population structure of drug-resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> isolated from Brazilian patients using... (Publications)
of 22.5%. We detected twenty novel mutations in three resistance genes, and six of these were observed in eight phenotypically resistant isolates. A cluster analysis of 170 isolates showed that 43.5% of
