Plasmodium Genomics and Genetics: New Insights into Malaria Pathogenesis, Drug Resistance, Epidemiology, and Evolution

X Su, KD Lane, L Xia, JM Sá… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Protozoan Plasmodium parasites are the causative agents of malaria, a deadly disease that
continues to afflict hundreds of millions of people every year. Infections with malaria …

Use cases for genetic epidemiology in malaria elimination

R Dalmat, B Naughton, TS Kwan-Gett, J Slyker… - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Background While traditional epidemiological approaches have supported significant
reductions in malaria incidence across many countries, higher resolution information about …

[HTML][HTML] An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples

A Ahouidi, M Ali, J Almagro-Garcia… - Wellcome Open …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A major obstacle to malaria elimination is the great capacity of the parasite and vector
populations to evolve in response to malaria control interventions. The widespread use of …

Malaria in Angola: recent progress, challenges and future opportunities using parasite demography studies

W Tavares, J Morais, JF Martins, RJ Scalsky… - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Over the past two decades, a considerable expansion of malaria interventions has occurred
at the national level in Angola, together with cross-border initiatives and regional efforts in …

A population genetic perspective on the origin, spread and adaptation of the human malaria agents Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax

V Rougeron, L Boundenga, C Arnathau… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Malaria is considered one of the most important scourges that humanity has faced during its
history, being responsible every year for numerous deaths worldwide. The disease is …

Performance of SNP barcodes to determine genetic diversity and population structure of Plasmodium falciparum in Africa

DC Argyropoulos, MH Tan, C Adobor, B Mensah… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Panels of informative biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been proposed
to be an economical method to fast-track the population genetic analysis of Plasmodium …

Consistent signatures of selection from genomic analysis of pairs of temporal and spatial Plasmodium falciparum populations from The Gambia

A Amambua-Ngwa, D Jeffries, R Amato, A Worwui… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Genome sequences of 247 Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected in The Gambia in
2008 and 2014 were analysed to identify changes possibly related to the scale-up of …

Multi-population genomic analysis of malaria parasites indicates local selection and differentiation at the gdv1 locus regulating sexual development

CW Duffy, A Amambua-Ngwa, AD Ahouidi, M Diakite… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Parasites infect hosts in widely varying environments, encountering diverse challenges for
adaptation. To identify malaria parasite genes under locally divergent selection across a …

Malaria epidemiology at the clone level

C Koepfli, I Mueller - Trends in parasitology, 2017 - cell.com
Genotyping to distinguish between parasite clones is nowadays a standard in many
molecular epidemiological studies of malaria. It has become crucial in drug trials and to …

High-resolution micro-epidemiology of parasite spatial and temporal dynamics in a high malaria transmission setting in Kenya

CS Nelson, KM Sumner, E Freedman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Novel interventions that leverage the heterogeneity of parasite transmission are needed to
achieve malaria elimination. To better understand spatial and temporal dynamics of …