MALARIA: Weekly Update from Malaria Nexus October 10 2013

Posted on 10 October 2013 New encouraging data from ongoing Phase III trial on the malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S GlaxoSmithKline presented this week at the 6th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria PAN African Conference in Durban promising data from an ongoing Phase III trial on the malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S.   Posted on 10 October 2013 Dr Jeffrey Dvorin receives a prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award Dr Jeffrey Dvorin recently received a prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award for his project that aims at generating a list of essential genes in Plasmodium falciparum.   Feature Articles   Posted on 09 October 2013 1912–2012: a century of research on Plasmodium vivax in vitro culture Trends in Parasitology, Volume 29, Issue 6, June 2013, Pages 286-294 Florian Noulin, Céline Borlon, Jan Van Den Abbeele, Umberto D’Alessandro, Annette Erhart   Posted on 09 October 2013 Distribution of dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) mutant alleles in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Thailand Acta Tropica, Volume 128, Issue 1, October 2013, Pages 137-143 Pimwan Thongdee, Jiraporn Kuesap, Kanchana Rungsihirunrat, Pongsri Tippawangkosol, Mathirut Mungthin, Kesara Na-Bangchang   Posted on 09 October 2013 Evaluation of substituted phenalenone analogues as antiplasmodial agents Experimental Parasitology, Volume 135, Issue 2, October 2013, Pages 456-458 David Gutiérrez, Ninoska Flores, Teresa Abad-Grillo, Grant McNaughton-Smith   Posted on 09 October 2013 Dematin, a human erythrocyte cytoskeletal protein, is a substrate for a recombinant FIKK kinase from Plasmodium falciparum Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 191, Issue 1, September 2013, Pages 20-23 Gabriel S. Brandt, Scott Bailey

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