Balbir Singh

Summary

Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Country: Malaysia

Publications

  1. ncbi The impact of ecological conditions on the prevalence of malaria among orangutans
    Nathan D Wolfe
    Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2:97-103. 2002
  2. ncbi A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beings
    Balbir Singh
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Lancet 363:1017-24. 2004
  3. ncbi Severe malaria - a case of fatal Plasmodium knowlesi infection with post-mortem findings: a case report
    Janet Cox-Singh
    Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Centre for Infection, St George s University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK
    Malar J 9:10. 2010
  4. ncbi Bionomics of Anopheles latens in Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo in relation to the transmission of zoonotic simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi
    Cheong H Tan
    Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Malar J 7:52. 2008
  5. ncbi Orangutans not infected with Plasmodium vivax or P. cynomolgi, Indonesia
    Balbir Singh
    Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Emerg Infect Dis 15:1657-8. 2009
  6. ncbi Clinical and laboratory features of human Plasmodium knowlesi infection
    Cyrus Daneshvar
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
    Clin Infect Dis 49:852-60. 2009
  7. ncbi Plasmodium knowlesi: reservoir hosts and tracking the emergence in humans and macaques
    Kim Sung Lee
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    PLoS Pathog 7:e1002015. 2011
  8. ncbi Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in humans is widely distributed and potentially life threatening
    Janet Cox-Singh
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
    Clin Infect Dis 46:165-71. 2008
  9. ncbi Morphological features and differential counts of Plasmodium knowlesi parasites in naturally acquired human infections
    Kim Sung Lee
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Malar J 8:73. 2009
  10. ncbi Plasmodium knowlesi from archival blood films: further evidence that human infections are widely distributed and not newly emergent in Malaysian Borneo
    Kim Sung Lee
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Unversiti Malaysia Sarawak, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia
    Int J Parasitol 39:1125-8. 2009

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Publications17

  1. ncbi The impact of ecological conditions on the prevalence of malaria among orangutans
    Nathan D Wolfe
    Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2:97-103. 2002
    ..The results provide an example of how an ecological change can influence pathogen prevalence...
  2. ncbi A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beings
    Balbir Singh
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Lancet 363:1017-24. 2004
    ..We aimed to investigate whether such infections could be attributable to a variant form of P malariae or a newly emergent Plasmodium species...
  3. ncbi Severe malaria - a case of fatal Plasmodium knowlesi infection with post-mortem findings: a case report
    Janet Cox-Singh
    Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Centre for Infection, St George s University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK
    Malar J 9:10. 2010
    ..Zoonotic malaria caused by Plasmodium knowlesi is an important, but newly recognized, human pathogen. For the first time, post-mortem findings from a fatal case of knowlesi malaria are reported here...
  4. ncbi Bionomics of Anopheles latens in Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo in relation to the transmission of zoonotic simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi
    Cheong H Tan
    Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Malar J 7:52. 2008
    ..A study was initiated to identify the vectors of malaria, to elucidate where transmission is taking place and to understand the bionomics of the vectors in Kapit...
  5. ncbi Orangutans not infected with Plasmodium vivax or P. cynomolgi, Indonesia
    Balbir Singh
    Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Emerg Infect Dis 15:1657-8. 2009
    ..We found that these orangutans are not hosts of P. cynomolgi and P. vivax. Analysis of >or=1 genes is needed to identify Plasmodium spp. infecting orangutans...
  6. ncbi Clinical and laboratory features of human Plasmodium knowlesi infection
    Cyrus Daneshvar
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
    Clin Infect Dis 49:852-60. 2009
    ..Plasmodium knowlesi is increasingly recognized as a cause of human malaria in Southeast Asia but there are no detailed prospective clinical studies of naturally acquired infections...
  7. ncbi Plasmodium knowlesi: reservoir hosts and tracking the emergence in humans and macaques
    Kim Sung Lee
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    PLoS Pathog 7:e1002015. 2011
    ..However, ongoing ecological changes resulting from deforestation, with an associated increase in the human population, could enable this pathogenic species of Plasmodium to switch to humans as the preferred host...
  8. ncbi Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in humans is widely distributed and potentially life threatening
    Janet Cox-Singh
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
    Clin Infect Dis 46:165-71. 2008
    ..The objectives of the present study were to determine the geographic distribution of P. knowlesi malaria in the human population in Malaysia and to investigate 4 suspected fatal cases...
  9. ncbi Morphological features and differential counts of Plasmodium knowlesi parasites in naturally acquired human infections
    Kim Sung Lee
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Malar J 8:73. 2009
    ..knowlesi parasites in human infections were made, photographs were taken, and morphological features were compared with those of P. malariae and P. falciparum...
  10. ncbi Plasmodium knowlesi from archival blood films: further evidence that human infections are widely distributed and not newly emergent in Malaysian Borneo
    Kim Sung Lee
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Unversiti Malaysia Sarawak, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia
    Int J Parasitol 39:1125-8. 2009
    ..knowlesi in Sarawak and its past occurrence. Taken together with data from previous studies, our findings suggest that P. knowlesi malaria is not a newly emergent disease in humans...
  11. ncbi Clinical and parasitological response to oral chloroquine and primaquine in uncomplicated human Plasmodium knowlesi infections
    Cyrus Daneshvar
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaria Research Centre, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Malar J 9:238. 2010
    ..There are no studies assessing the detailed parasitological response to treatment of knowlesi malaria infections in man and whether antimalarial resistance occurs...
  12. ncbi Swedish traveller with Plasmodium knowlesi malaria after visiting Malaysian Borneo
    Ulf Bronner
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Malaria Research Centre, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Malar J 8:15. 2009
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  13. ncbi Knowlesi malaria: newly emergent and of public health importance?
    Janet Cox-Singh
    Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Trends Parasitol 24:406-10. 2008
    ..A complete emergence of P. knowlesi into the human population could be overwhelming and, although challenging, the prevention of this situation deserves serious consideration...
  14. ncbi A TaqMan real-time PCR assay for the detection and quantitation of Plasmodium knowlesi
    Paul C S Divis
    Malaria Research Centre, University Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Malar J 9:344. 2010
    ..and Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale, was designed and validated against clinical samples...
  15. ncbi Fragmented population structure of plasmodium falciparum in a region of declining endemicity
    Thomas G Anthony
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia
    J Infect Dis 191:1558-64. 2005
    ..The population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum differs between endemic regions, but the characteristics of a population recently fragmented by effective malaria control have been unknown...
  16. ncbi Human Infections with Plasmodium knowlesi, the Philippines
    Jennifer Luchavez
    Research Institute for Tropical Medicine Parasitology, Fillinvest Compound, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Muntinlupa 1781, The Philippines
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:811-3. 2008
    ..This study suggests that this zoonotic infection is found across a relatively wide area in Palawan and documents autochthonous cases in the country...
  17. ncbi Nested PCR analysis of Plasmodium parasites
    Georges Snounou
    Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
    Methods Mol Med 72:189-203. 2002