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Autor:
Isabel Saldanha, Rachel Lea, Oliver Manangwa, Gala Garrod, Lee R Haines, Álvaro Acosta-Serrano, Harriet Auty, Martha Betson, Jennifer S Lord, Liam J Morrison, Furaha Mramba, Stephen J Torr, Lucas J Cunningham
Publikováno v:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 18, Iss 8, p e0012095 (2024)
BackgroundTsetse flies (Glossina sp.) are vectors of Trypanosoma brucei subspecies that cause human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Capturing and screening tsetse is critical for HAT surveillance. Classically, tsetse have been microscopically analysed
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/46acc7e2a5e14373885b306f1a4e1439
Autor:
David Wragg, Elizabeth A J Cook, Perle Latré de Laté, Tatjana Sitt, Johanneke D Hemmink, Maurine C Chepkwony, Regina Njeru, E Jane Poole, Jessica Powell, Edith A Paxton, Rebecca Callaby, Andrea Talenti, Antoinette A Miyunga, Gideon Ndambuki, Stephen Mwaura, Harriet Auty, Oswald Matika, Musa Hassan, Karen Marshall, Timothy Connelley, Liam J Morrison, B Mark deC Bronsvoort, W Ivan Morrison, Philip G Toye, James G D Prendergast
Publikováno v:
PLoS Genetics, Vol 18, Iss 4, p e1010099 (2022)
East Coast fever, a tick-borne cattle disease caused by the Theileria parva parasite, is among the biggest natural killers of cattle in East Africa, leading to over 1 million deaths annually. Here we report on the genetic analysis of a cohort of Bos
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https://doaj.org/article/b0a1ab77394044a9b14c19369b4212a7
Autor:
Pieter C Steketee, Federica Giordani, Isabel M Vincent, Kathryn Crouch, Fiona Achcar, Nicholas J Dickens, Liam J Morrison, Annette MacLeod, Michael P Barrett
Publikováno v:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 15, Iss 11, p e0009939 (2021)
Subspecies of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei are the causative agents of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), a debilitating neglected tropical disease prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa. HAT case numbers have steadily decreased since the
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/005c928361f64560b5b954accbc88a07
Autor:
Pieter C Steketee, Emily A Dickie, James Iremonger, Kathryn Crouch, Edith Paxton, Siddharth Jayaraman, Omar A Alfituri, Georgina Awuah-Mensah, Ryan Ritchie, Achim Schnaufer, Tim Rowan, Harry P de Koning, Catarina Gadelha, Bill Wickstead, Michael P Barrett, Liam J Morrison
Publikováno v:
PLoS Pathogens, Vol 17, Iss 7, p e1009734 (2021)
Animal African Trypanosomiasis (AAT) is a debilitating livestock disease prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa, a main cause of which is the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma congolense. In comparison to the well-studied T. brucei, there is a major paucit
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/d876db67785745d3836a0959a9e3e077
Autor:
Georgina Awuah-Mensah, Jennifer McDonald, Pieter C Steketee, Delphine Autheman, Sarah Whipple, Simon D'Archivio, Cordelia Brandt, Simon Clare, Katherine Harcourt, Gavin J Wright, Liam J Morrison, Catarina Gadelha, Bill Wickstead
Publikováno v:
PLoS Pathogens, Vol 17, Iss 1, p e1009224 (2021)
Animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) is a severe, wasting disease of domestic livestock and diverse wildlife species. The disease in cattle kills millions of animals each year and inflicts a major economic cost on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. C
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/7e6c01a524a1497aa79b402dc4f32933
Autor:
Federica Giordani, Daniel Paape, Isabel M Vincent, Andrew W Pountain, Fernando Fernández-Cortés, Eva Rico, Ning Zhang, Liam J Morrison, Yvonne Freund, Michael J Witty, Rosemary Peter, Darren Y Edwards, Jonathan M Wilkes, Justin J J van der Hooft, Clément Regnault, Kevin D Read, David Horn, Mark C Field, Michael P Barrett
Publikováno v:
PLoS Pathogens, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e1008932 (2020)
Livestock diseases caused by Trypanosoma congolense, T. vivax and T. brucei, collectively known as nagana, are responsible for billions of dollars in lost food production annually. There is an urgent need for novel therapeutics. Encouragingly, promis
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/a5d1aac4a0fd47b29679ea476bd015f8
Autor:
Jennifer S Lord, Rachel S Lea, Fiona K Allan, Mechtilda Byamungu, David R Hall, Jessica Lingley, Furaha Mramba, Edith Paxton, Glyn A Vale, John W Hargrove, Liam J Morrison, Stephen J Torr, Harriet K Auty
Publikováno v:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 14, Iss 8, p e0008288 (2020)
In the absence of national control programmes against Rhodesian human African trypanosomiasis, farmer-led treatment of cattle with pyrethroid-based insecticides may be an effective strategy for foci at the edges of wildlife areas, but there is limite
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/06a6b1d6aec441d3a896b8bf733e7d51
Autor:
Siddharth Jayaraman, Claire Harris, Edith Paxton, Anne-Marie Donachie, Heli Vaikkinen, Richard McCulloch, James P J Hall, John Kenny, Luca Lenzi, Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Christina Cobbold, Richard Reeve, Tom Michoel, Liam J Morrison
Publikováno v:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 13, Iss 4, p e0007262 (2019)
Antigenic variation is employed by many pathogens to evade the host immune response, and Trypanosoma brucei has evolved a complex system to achieve this phenotype, involving sequential use of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) genes encoded from a la
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e97f4a4757b749a9a3f0afa32c365e78
Autor:
Stephen M Chiweshe, Pieter C Steketee, Siddharth Jayaraman, Edith Paxton, Kyriaki Neophytou, Heidi Erasmus, Michel Labuschagne, Anneli Cooper, Annette MacLeod, Finn E Grey, Liam J Morrison
Publikováno v:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 13, Iss 2, p e0007189 (2019)
Human and animal African trypanosomiasis (HAT & AAT, respectively) remain a significant health and economic issue across much of sub-Saharan Africa. Effective control of AAT and potential eradication of HAT requires affordable, sensitive and specific
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/a45b9a793e4040ccb32ce3c4a32cd610
Autor:
Charlotte S McCarroll, Charlotte L Rossor, Linda R Morrison, Liam J Morrison, Christopher M Loughrey
Publikováno v:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 9, Iss 5, p e0003811 (2015)
African trypanosomiasis (AT), caused by Trypanosoma brucei species, results in both neurological and cardiac dysfunction and can be fatal if untreated. Research on the pathogenesis and treatment of the disease has centred to date on the characteristi
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/ddcde3e5fb8f4060a7578ed11c71f498