Nosten worked out of a bamboo hospital — the first Shoklo
Malaria Research Unit.
Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo
Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine typhus and Scrub typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
That's the «nightmare scenario,» adds François Nosten, who runs the Mahidol group's Shoklo
Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, along the border with Myanmar.
But Tsiri Agbenyega, head of
the Malaria Research Unit at Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana and chairman of the RTS, S Clinical Trials Partnership Committee, remains optimistic.
Not exact matches
We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine
Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating
malaria.
«The ability of MMV048 to block all life cycle stages of the
malaria parasite, offer protection against infection as well as potentially block transmission of the parasite from person to person suggests that this compound could contribute to the eradication of
malaria, a disease that claims the lives of several hundred thousand people every year,» said Professor Chibale, Founder and Director of H3D, founding Director of the South African Medical
Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery
Research Unit at UCT, and senior author of the paper.
While
malaria deaths have been halved, this progress is at risk if artemisinin ceases to be effective,» says Nick Day, Director of the Mahidol - Oxford Tropical Medicine
Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand.
TRAC is a large multi-centre collaboration coordinated by Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine
Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises a range of research institutions as well as National Malaria Control Programmes and the World Health Organizatio
Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises a range of
research institutions as well as National Malaria Control Programmes and the World Health Organizatio
research institutions as well as National
Malaria Control Programmes and the World Health Organization (WHO).
TRAC is a large - scale collaboration coordinated by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine
Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises research groups and National Malaria Control Programmes in each of the study - site countries, along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization (W
Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises
research groups and National Malaria Control Programmes in each of the study - site countries, along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization (W
research groups and National
Malaria Control Programmes in each of the study - site countries, along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and the Global
Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO GMP).
Mahamadou has gained wide experience in positions such as Assistant Professor of Parasitology, Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, Bamako, and Associate Professor of Parasitology - Mycology at the same university, where he currently holds two positions: Professor of Parasitology - Mycology, and he is Head of the Mali
Malaria Vaccine Development
Unit,
Malaria Research and Training Center.