Point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases: From methods to devices

C Wang, M Liu, Z Wang, S Li, Y Deng, N He - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The current widespread of COVID-19 all over the world, which is caused by SARS-CoV-2
virus, has again emphasized the importance of development of point-of-care (POC) …

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 …

Genomes of all known members of a Plasmodium subgenus reveal paths to virulent human malaria

TD Otto, A Gilabert, T Crellen, U Böhme… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent agent of human malaria, shares a recent common
ancestor with the gorilla parasite Plasmodium praefalciparum. Little is known about the other …

Expanding an expanded genome: long-read sequencing of Trypanosoma cruzi

L Berná, M Rodriguez, ML Chiribao… - Microbial …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
Although the genome of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, was
first made available in 2005, with additional strains reported later, the intrinsic genome …

The polyphyly of Plasmodium: comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the malaria parasites (order Haemosporida) reveal widespread taxonomic conflict

SC Galen, J Borner, ES Martinsen… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolutionary relationships among the apicomplexan blood pathogens known as the
malaria parasites (order Haemosporida), some of which infect nearly 200 million humans …

Revisiting gametocyte biology in malaria parasites

P Ngotho, AB Soares, F Hentzschel… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Gametocytes are the only form of the malaria parasite that is transmissible to the mosquito
vector. They are present at low levels in blood circulation and significant knowledge gaps …

Host-malaria parasite interactions and impacts on mutual evolution

X Su, C Zhang, DA Joy - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is the most deadly parasitic disease, affecting hundreds of millions of people
worldwide. Malaria parasites have been associated with their hosts for millions of years …

Mode and rate of evolution of haemosporidian mitochondrial genomes: timing the radiation of avian parasites

MA Pacheco, NE Matta, G Valkiūnas… - Molecular Biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Haemosporidians are a diverse group of vector-borne parasitic protozoa that includes the
agents of human malaria; however, most of the described species are found in birds and …

Why Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are so different? A tale of two clades and their species diversities

AA Escalante, AS Cepeda, MA Pacheco - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises
diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites …

Evolutionary genomics of anthroponosis in Cryptosporidium

JL Nader, TC Mathers, BJ Ward, JA Pachebat… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Human cryptosporidiosis is the leading protozoan cause of diarrhoeal mortality worldwide,
and a preponderance of infections is caused by Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum …