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Use of malaria rapid diagnostic test to identify Plasmodium knowlesi infectionThomas F McCutchan
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 12735 Twinbrook Pkwy, Rockville, MD 20892, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1750-2. 2008..We report the use of a rapid test to supplement microscopic analysis in distinguishing the 5 malaria species that infect humans...
Compensatory evolution in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium ovaleThomas F McCutchan
Growth and Development Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0425, USA
Genetics 166:637-40. 2004..The appearance of compensatory mutations and intermediate states in P. ovale raises interesting questions about population structure that could have considerable impact on the control of the associated disease...
Measuring the effects of an ever-changing environment on malaria controlThomas F McCutchan
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, Section of Growth and Development, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0425, USA
Infect Immun 72:2248-53. 2004..These results indicate that dominant environmental parameters associated with malaria deaths can be addressed before their application to a less malleable human system...
Radiation-induced cellular and molecular alterations in asexual intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparumMiranda S Oakley
Division of Bacterial, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, USA
J Infect Dis 207:164-74. 2013..irradiation is commonly used to create attenuation in Plasmodium parasites. However, there are no systematic studies on the survival, reversion of virulence, and molecular basis for γ-radiation-induced cell death in malaria parasites...
Molecular factors and biochemical pathways induced by febrile temperature in intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum parasitesMiranda S M Oakley
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH, Rockville, MD 20892, USA
Infect Immun 75:2012-25. 2007..These studies enhance the possibility of designing vaccines and drugs on the basis of disruption in molecules and pathways of parasite survival and virulence activated in response to febrile temperatures...
Pathogenic roles of CD14, galectin-3, and OX40 during experimental cerebral malaria in miceMiranda S Oakley
Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA
PLoS ONE 4:e6793. 2009..We find that OX40, a marker of both T cell activation and memory, is selectively upregulated in the brain during ECM and its distribution among CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells accumulated in the brain vasculature is approximately equal...
Molecular mechanism of host specificity in Plasmodium falciparum infection: role of circumsporozoite proteinDharmendar Rathore
Growth and Development Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Biol Chem 278:40905-10. 2003..falciparum CSP (PfCSP). We suggest that a difference in the binding affinity for the liver cell receptor is a mechanism involved in maintaining the host specificity by the malaria parasite...
Molecular correlates of experimental cerebral malaria detectable in whole bloodMiranda S Oakley
Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Infect Immun 79:1244-53. 2011..A subset of these mediators of ECM warrant validation in P. falciparum-infected young African children as diagnostic markers of CM...
Clinical and molecular aspects of malaria feverMiranda S Oakley
Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD, USA
Trends Parasitol 27:442-9. 2011..The potential molecular mechanisms that could be responsible for the induction and regulation of cyclical malaria fevers caused by different species of Plasmodium are also discussed...
Ambient glucose concentration and gene expression in Plasmodium falciparumJun Fang
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Mol Biochem Parasitol 133:125-9. 2004
The effects of glucose concentration on the reciprocal regulation of rRNA promoters in Plasmodium falciparumJun Fang
Section of Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0425, USA
J Biol Chem 279:720-5. 2004..These putative promoter structures are considerably different from one another and contain structures remarkably similar to rRNA control elements in other organisms...
Host biomarkers and biological pathways that are associated with the expression of experimental cerebral malaria in miceMiranda S Oakley
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Infect Immun 76:4518-29. 2008..Our studies greatly enhance the repertoire of host molecules for use as diagnostics and novel therapeutics in CM...
Construction of a gene library with mung bean nuclease-treated genomic DNADharmendar Rathore
Growth and Development Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Methods Mol Med 72:253-63. 2002
Thermoregulation in a parasite's life cycleJun Fang
Growth and Development Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0425, USA
Nature 418:742. 2002..falciparum from human to mosquito. Our findings offer new insight into how the malaria parasite senses and reacts to its environment...
Disruption of a Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance-associated protein (PfMRP) alters its fitness and transport of antimalarial drugs and glutathioneDipak Kumar Raj
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, Research Technologies Branch, and Biostatistical Research Branch, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 8132, USA
J Biol Chem 284:7687-96. 2009..The results suggest that PfMRP plays a role in the efflux of glutathione, CQ, and QN and contributes to parasite responses to multiple antimalarial drugs, possibly by pumping drugs outside the parasite...
Local adaptation and vector-mediated population structure in Plasmodium vivax malariaDeirdre A Joy
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Mol Biol Evol 25:1245-52. 2008....
Construction of genomic libraries from the DNA of Plasmodium speciesLeda M Cummings
Institute for Genome Research, Rockville, MD, USA
Methods Mol Med 72:241-51. 2002
Binding and invasion of liver cells by Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites. Essential involvement of the amino terminus of circumsporozoite proteinDharmendar Rathore
Growth and Development Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID/National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Drive MSC 0425, Bethesda, MD 20892-0425, USA
J Biol Chem 277:7092-8. 2002..This indicates that both assays are measuring interrelated phenomenon and points to the essential involvement for the amino-terminal portion of the CS protein in these processes...
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the avian malarial parasite Plasmodium (Novyella) juxtanucleareJessica C Kissinger
Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou FIOCRUZ Avenida Augusto de Lima 1715, Barro Preto, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 30190 002, Brazil
J Parasitol 88:769-73. 2002....
Beyond bed netsThomas F McCutchan
Science 319:33. 2008
Construction of Plasmodium falciparum lambda cDNA librariesDavid A Fidock
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, The Bronx, NY, USA
Methods Mol Med 72:265-75. 2002
Plasmodium Juxtanucleare associated with mortality in black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) admitted to a rehabilitation centerK Christiana Grim
Medical Department, The Baltimore Zoo, Baltimore, Maryland 21217, USA
J Zoo Wildl Med 34:250-5. 2003..A species-specific variable region of this gene was compared with the same region on genes from other known avian malarial organisms, establishing that Plasmodium juxtanucleare was involved...
An immunologically cryptic epitope of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein facilitates liver cell recognition and induces protective antibodies that block liver cell invasionDharmendar Rathore
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
J Biol Chem 280:20524-9. 2005....
Malaria control in Africa: a mirage à troisThomas F McCutchan
Future Microbiol 3:479-83. 2008
Typing Plasmodium yoelii microsatellites using a simple and affordable fluorescent labeling methodJian Li
Laboratory of Parasitology Research, School of Life Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, The People s Republic of China
Mol Biochem Parasitol 155:94-102. 2007..yoelii. There is a good possibility that this method can be applied to type MS from other malaria parasites including important human pathogens Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax...
Is a monkey malaria from Borneo an emerging human disease?Thomas F McCutchan
Future Microbiol 3:115-8. 2008
Antimalarial drugs: current status and new developmentsDharmendar Rathore
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Washington Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Expert Opin Investig Drugs 14:871-83. 2005....
