G D Shanks

Summary

Affiliation: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Changing patterns of clinical malaria since 1965 among a tea estate population located in the Kenyan highlands
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 94:253-5. 2000
  2. ncbi Malaria chemoprophylaxis in the age of drug resistance. II. Drugs that may be available in the future
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Component of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, 315 6 Rajvithi Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
    Clin Infect Dis 33:381-5. 2001
  3. ncbi A new primaquine analogue, tafenoquine (WR 238605), for prophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum malaria
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit, Nairobi, Kenya
    Clin Infect Dis 33:1968-74. 2001
  4. ncbi Meteorologic influences on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Highland Tea Estates of Kericho, Western Kenya
    G Dennis Shanks
    U S Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Nairobi, Africa
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:1404-8. 2002
  5. ncbi Travel as a risk factor for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the highlands of western Kenya
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Box 30137, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 99:71-4. 2005
  6. ncbi Malaria in Kenya's western highlands
    G Dennis Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
    Emerg Infect Dis 11:1425-32. 2005
  7. ncbi Modern malaria chemoprophylaxis
    G Dennis Shanks
    Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Drugs 65:2091-110. 2005
  8. ncbi Deaths from bacterial pneumonia during 1918-19 influenza pandemic
    John F Brundage
    Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:1193-9. 2008
  9. ncbi Travel as a risk factor for malaria requiring hospitalization on a highland tea plantation in western Kenya
    G Dennis Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit--Kenya
    J Travel Med 11:354-7. 2004
  10. ncbi Drug-free holidays: pre-travel versus during travel malaria chemoprophylaxis
    G Dennis Shanks
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:1-2. 2007

Detail Information

Publications18

  1. ncbi Changing patterns of clinical malaria since 1965 among a tea estate population located in the Kenyan highlands
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 94:253-5. 2000
    ..The coincident arrival of chloroquine resistance during the late 1980s in the subregion suggests that drug resistance is a key factor in the current pattern and burden of malaria among this highland population...
  2. ncbi Malaria chemoprophylaxis in the age of drug resistance. II. Drugs that may be available in the future
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Component of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, 315 6 Rajvithi Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
    Clin Infect Dis 33:381-5. 2001
    ..Its long half-life allows for infrequent dosing (currently tested at 200 mg base/week), and its effect on parasites at the liver stage may allow for drug discontinuation at the time of departure from the area of endemicity...
  3. ncbi A new primaquine analogue, tafenoquine (WR 238605), for prophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum malaria
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit, Nairobi, Kenya
    Clin Infect Dis 33:1968-74. 2001
    ..Prophylactic regimens of 200 mg or 400 mg of tafenoquine, taken weekly for < or =13 weeks, are highly efficacious in preventing falciparum malaria and are well tolerated...
  4. ncbi Meteorologic influences on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Highland Tea Estates of Kericho, Western Kenya
    G Dennis Shanks
    U S Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Nairobi, Africa
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:1404-8. 2002
    ..We conclude that climate changes have not caused the highland malaria resurgence in western Kenya...
  5. ncbi Travel as a risk factor for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the highlands of western Kenya
    G D Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Box 30137, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 99:71-4. 2005
    ..An increase in population gametocytaemia is possibly due to increased chloroquine resistance and suppressed infections contracted outside of the tea estates...
  6. ncbi Malaria in Kenya's western highlands
    G Dennis Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
    Emerg Infect Dis 11:1425-32. 2005
    ..Antimalarial drugs can limit the pool of gametocytes available to infect mosquitoes during the brief transmission season...
  7. ncbi Modern malaria chemoprophylaxis
    G Dennis Shanks
    Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Drugs 65:2091-110. 2005
    ..Travellers with a significant exposure to malaria require a comprehensive plan for prevention that includes anti-mosquito measures but which is still primarily be based on the regular use of efficacious antimalarial medications...
  8. ncbi Deaths from bacterial pneumonia during 1918-19 influenza pandemic
    John F Brundage
    Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:1193-9. 2008
    ..g., with bacterial vaccines and antimicrobial drugs), particularly if a pandemic strain-specific vaccine is unavailable or inaccessible to isolated, crowded, or medically underserved populations...
  9. ncbi Travel as a risk factor for malaria requiring hospitalization on a highland tea plantation in western Kenya
    G Dennis Shanks
    US Army Medical Research Unit--Kenya
    J Travel Med 11:354-7. 2004
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Travel within Kenya is a significant risk factor for hospitalization owing to malaria on the tea estates; expatriate travelers need to be aware that the East African highlands cannot be regarded as malaria free...
  10. ncbi Drug-free holidays: pre-travel versus during travel malaria chemoprophylaxis
    G Dennis Shanks
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:1-2. 2007
    ..Treatment regimens of antimalarial drugs taken prior to travel could protect persons for up to one month of exposure. We urge additional testing of pre-travel malaria chemoprophylaxis regimens...
  11. ncbi Climate change and the resurgence of malaria in the East African highlands
    Simon I Hay
    TALA Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Nature 415:905-9. 2002
    ..A high degree of temporal and spatial variation in the climate of East Africa suggests further that claimed associations between local malaria resurgences and regional changes in climate are overly simplistic...
  12. ncbi Hot topic or hot air? Climate change and malaria resurgence in East African highlands
    Simon I Hay
    Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
    Trends Parasitol 18:530-4. 2002
    ..We find the widespread increase in resistance of the malaria parasite to drugs and the decrease in vector control activities to be more likely driving forces behind the malaria resurgence...
  13. ncbi Mefloquine--its 20 years in the Thai Malaria Control Program
    Chansuda Wongsrichanalai
    US Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
    Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 35:300-8. 2004
    ..Thailand is the country with the most experience in the use of this drug in a malaria control program. We present here a review of mefloquine's pharmacology and usage in Thailand...
  14. ncbi Climate variability and malaria epidemics in the highlands of East Africa
    Simon I Hay
    Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK, OX1 3PS
    Trends Parasitol 21:52-3. 2005
    ..If proven, this would be an interesting result but we believe that the methods used do not test the hypothesis suggested...
  15. ncbi Malaria blood stage parasites activate human plasmacytoid dendritic cells and murine dendritic cells through a Toll-like receptor 9-dependent pathway
    Sathit Pichyangkul
    Department of Immunology and Medicine, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
    J Immunol 172:4926-33. 2004
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  16. ncbi What really happened during the 1918 influenza pandemic? The importance of bacterial secondary infections
    John F Brundage
    J Infect Dis 196:1717-8; author reply 1718-9. 2007
  17. ncbi Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era
    G Dennis Shanks
    Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Australia
    Lancet Infect Dis 8:564-70. 2008
    ..Deaths secondary to malaria (indirect malaria mortality) were at least as great as mortality directly attributed to malaria infections...
  18. ncbi Global warming and malaria: a call for accuracy
    Paul Reitera
    Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
    Lancet Infect Dis 4:323-4. 2004