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Jacqueline Smith, James M Alfieri, Nick Anthony, Peter Arensburger, Giridhar N Athrey, Jennifer Balacco, Adam Balic, Philippe Bardou, Paul Barela, Yves Bigot, Heath Blackmon, Pavel M Borodin, Rachel Carroll, Meya C Casono, Mathieu Charles, Hans Cheng, Maddie Chiodi, Lacey Cigan, Lyndon M Coghill, Richard Crooijmans, Neelabja Das, Sean Davey, Asya Davidian, Fabien Degalez, Jack M Dekkers, Martijn Derks, Abigail B Diack, Appolinaire Djikeng, Yvonne Drechsler, Alexander Dyomin, Olivier Fedrigo, Steven R Fiddaman, Giulio Formenti, Laurent A F Frantz, Janet E Fulton, Elena Gaginskaya, Svetlana Galkina, Rodrigo A Gallardo, Johannes Geibel, Almas Gheyas, Cyrill John P Godinez, Ashton Goodell, Jennifer A M Graves, Daren K Griffin, Bettina Haase, Jian-Lin Han, Olivier Hanotte, Lindsay J Henderson, Zhuo-Cheng Hou, Kerstin Howe, Lan Huynh, Evans Ilatsia, Erich Jarvis, Sarah M Johnson, Jim Kaufman, Terra Kelly, Steve Kemp, Colin Kern, Jacob H Keroack, Christophe Klopp, Sandrine Lagarrigue, Susan J Lamont, Margaret Lange, Anika Lanke, Denis M Larkin, Greger Larson, John King N Layos, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Lyubov P Malinovskaya, Rebecca J Martin, Maria Luisa Martin Cerezo, Andrew S Mason, Fiona M McCarthy, Michael J McGrew, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Christine Kamidi Muhonja, William Muir, Kévin Muret, Terence Murphy, Ismael Ng'ang'a, Masahide Nishibori, Rebecca E O'Connor, Moses Ogugo, Ron Okimoto, Ochieng Ouko, Hardip R Patel, Francesco Perini, María Ines Pigozzi, Krista C Potter, Peter D Price, Christian Reimer, Edward S Rice, Nicolas Rocos, Thea F Rogers, Perot Saelao, Jens Schauer, Robert Schnabel, Valerie Schneider, Henner Simianer, Adrian Smith, Mark P Stevens, Kyle Stiers, Christian Keambou Tiambo, Michele Tixier-Boichard, Anna A Torgasheva, Alan Tracey, Clive A Tregaskes, Lonneke Vervelde, Ying Wang, Wesley C Warren, Paul D Waters, David Webb, Steffen Weigend, Anna Wolc, Alison E Wright, Dominic Wright, Zhou Wu, Masahito Yamagata, Chentao Yang, Zhong-Tao Yin, Michelle C Young, Guojie Zhang, Bingru Zhao, Huaijun Zhou
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January 30, 2023: Cytogenetic and Genome Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca Webster, Silvana Sekuloski, Anand Odedra, Stephen Woolley, Helen Jennings, Fiona Amante, Katharine R Trenholme, Julie Healer, Alan F Cowman, Emily M Eriksson, Priyanka Sathe, Jocelyn Penington, Adam J Blanch, Matthew W A Dixon, Leann Tilley, Michael F Duffy, Alister Craig, Janet Storm, Jo-Anne Chan, Krystal Evans, Anthony T Papenfuss, Louis Schofield, Paul Griffin, Bridget E Barber, Dean Andrew, Michelle J Boyle, Fabian de Labastida Rivera, Christian Engwerda, James S McCarthy
BACKGROUND: There is a clear need for novel approaches to malaria vaccine development. We aimed to develop a genetically attenuated blood-stage vaccine and test its safety, infectivity, and immunogenicity in healthy volunteers. Our approach was to target the gene encoding the knob-associated histidine-rich protein (KAHRP), which is responsible for the assembly of knob structures at the infected erythrocyte surface. Knobs are required for correct display of the polymorphic adhesion ligand P...
November 22, 2021: BMC Medicine
#3
JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Farouk Chughlay, Karen I Barnes, Myriam El Gaaloul, Nada Abla, Jörg J Möhrle, Paul Griffin, Paul van Giersbergen, Stephanie E Reuter, Hayley B Schultz, Anita Kress, Peter Tapley, Rebecca A Webster, Timothy Wells, James S McCarthy, Bridget E Barber, Louise Marquart, Michelle J Boyle, Christian R Engwerda, Stephan Chalon
Despite repeated malaria infection, individuals living in malaria endemic areas remain vulnerable to re-infection. The Janus kinase (JAK1/2) inhibitor ruxolitinib could potentially disrupt the parasite-induced dysfunctional immune response when administered with anti-malarial therapy. This randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, single center phase 1 trial investigated the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profile of ruxolitinib and the approved antimalarial artemether-lumefantrine in combination...
October 25, 2021: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
#4
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James S McCarthy, Azrin N Abd-Rahman, Katharine A Collins, Louise Marquart, Paul Griffin, Anne Kümmel, Aline Fuchs, Cornelis Winnips, Vishal Mishra, Katalin Csermak-Renner, J Prakash Jain, Preetam Gandhi
The spiroindolone cipargamin, a new antimalarial compound that inhibits Plasmodium ATP4, is currently in clinical development. This study aimed to characterize the antimalarial activity of cipargamin in healthy volunteers experimentally infected with blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum Eight subjects were intravenously inoculated with parasite-infected erythrocytes and received a single oral dose of 10 mg cipargamin 7 days later. Blood samples were collected to monitor the development and clearance of parasitemia and plasma cipargamin concentrations...
January 20, 2021: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
#5
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katharine A Collins, Azrin N Abd-Rahman, Louise Marquart, Emma Ballard, Nathalie Gobeau, Paul Griffin, Stephan Chalon, Jörg J Möhrle, James S McCarthy
BACKGROUND: Interventions that effectively target Plasmodium vivax are critical for the future control and elimination of malaria. We conducted a P. vivax volunteer infection study to characterize the antimalarial activity of artefenomel, a new drug candidate. METHODS: Eight healthy, malaria-naive participants were intravenously inoculated with blood-stage P. vivax and subsequently received a single oral 200-mg dose of artefenomel. Blood samples were collected to monitor the development and clearance of parasitemia, and plasma artefenomel concentration...
March 15, 2022: Journal of Infectious Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
James S McCarthy, Thomas Rückle, Suzanne L Elliott, Emma Ballard, Katharine A Collins, Louise Marquart, Paul Griffin, Stephan Chalon, Jörg J Möhrle
Artefenomel and DSM265 are two new compounds that have been shown to be well tolerated and effective when administered as monotherapy malaria treatment. This study aimed to determine the safety, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of artefenomel and DSM265 administered in combination to healthy subjects in a volunteer infection study using the Plasmodium falciparum induced blood stage malaria model. Thirteen subjects were inoculated with parasite-infected erythrocytes on Day 0 and received a single oral dose of artefenomel and DSM265 on Day 7...
November 4, 2019: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
#7
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katharine A Collins, Thomas Rückle, Suzanne Elliott, Louise Marquart, Emma Ballard, Stephan Chalon, Paul Griffin, Jörg J Möhrle, James S McCarthy
DSM265 is a novel antimalarial drug in clinical development that acts as a selective inhibitor of Plasmodium dihydroorotate dehydrogenase. In a previous phase 1b study, a single 150-mg dose of DSM265 showed partial efficacy against experimentally induced blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum malaria (IBSM). Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling predicted a human efficacious dose of 340 mg. The primary objectives of the current study were to determine the safety and efficacy of a single oral 400-mg dose of DSM265 against P...
April 2019: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
#8
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Silvana Sekuloski, Michael R Batzloff, Paul Griffin, William Parsonage, Suzanne Elliott, Jon Hartas, Peter O'Rourke, Louise Marquart, Manisha Pandey, Fran A Rubin, Jonathan Carapetis, James McCarthy, Michael F Good
BACKGROUND: Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a serious human pathogen that affects people of different ages and socio-economic levels. Although vaccination is potentially one of the most effective methods to control GAS infection and its sequelae, few prototype vaccines have been investigated in humans. In this study, we report the safety and immunogenicity of a novel acetylated peptide-protein conjugate vaccine candidate MJ8VAX (J8-DT), when delivered intramuscularly to healthy adults...
2018: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
John Woodford, G Dennis Shanks, Paul Griffin, Stephan Chalon, James S McCarthy
Liver dysfunction has long been recognized as a clinical feature of malaria. We have observed delayed elevation in the transaminase portion of liver function tests (LFTs) after treatment in some participants undergoing induced blood stage malaria infection. We sought to determine whether similar LFT elevations occur after naturally acquired infection. We performed a retrospective audit of confirmed cases of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in Queensland, Australia, from 2006 to 2016. All LFT results from malaria diagnosis until 28 days after diagnosis were collected with demographic and clinical information to describe longitudinal changes...
April 2018: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
#10
Mariaelisa Graff, Robert A Scott, Anne E Justice, Kristin L Young, Mary F Feitosa, Llilda Barata, Thomas W Winkler, Audrey Y Chu, Anubha Mahajan, David Hadley, Luting Xue, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Marcel den Hoed, Tarunveer S Ahluwalia, Qibin Qi, Julius S Ngwa, Frida Renström, Lydia Quaye, John D Eicher, James E Hayes, Marilyn Cornelis, Zoltan Kutalik, Elise Lim, Jian'an Luan, Jennifer E Huffman, Weihua Zhang, Wei Zhao, Paula J Griffin, Toomas Haller, Shafqat Ahmad, Pedro M Marques-Vidal, Stephanie Bien, Loic Yengo, Alexander Teumer, Albert Vernon Smith, Meena Kumari, Marie Neergaard Harder, Johanne Marie Justesen, Marcus E Kleber, Mette Hollensted, Kurt Lohman, Natalia V Rivera, John B Whitfield, Jing Hua Zhao, Heather M Stringham, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Charlotte Huppertz, Gonneke Willemsen, Wouter J Peyrot, Ying Wu, Kati Kristiansson, Ayse Demirkan, Myriam Fornage, Maija Hassinen, Lawrence F Bielak, Gemma Cadby, Toshiko Tanaka, Reedik Mägi, Peter J van der Most, Anne U Jackson, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Veronique Vitart, Jonathan Marten, Pau Navarro, Claire Bellis, Dorota Pasko, Åsa Johansson, Søren Snitker, Yu-Ching Cheng, Joel Eriksson, Unhee Lim, Mette Aadahl, Linda S Adair, Najaf Amin, Beverley Balkau, Juha Auvinen, John Beilby, Richard N Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Alain G Bertoni, John Blangero, Amélie Bonnefond, Lori L Bonnycastle, Judith B Borja, Søren Brage, Fabio Busonero, Steve Buyske, Harry Campbell, Peter S Chines, Francis S Collins, Tanguy Corre, George Davey Smith, Graciela E Delgado, Nicole Dueker, Marcus Dörr, Tapani Ebeling, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Tõnu Esko, Jessica D Faul, Mao Fu, Kristine Færch, Christian Gieger, Sven Gläser, Jian Gong, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Harald Grallert, Tanja B Grammer, Niels Grarup, Gerard van Grootheest, Kennet Harald, Nicholas D Hastie, Aki S Havulinna, Dena Hernandez, Lucia Hindorff, Lynne J Hocking, Oddgeir L Holmens, Christina Holzapfel, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Jie Huang, Tao Huang, Jennie Hui, Cornelia Huth, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Alan L James, John-Olov Jansson, Min A Jhun, Markus Juonala, Leena Kinnunen, Heikki A Koistinen, Ivana Kolcic, Pirjo Komulainen, Johanna Kuusisto, Kirsti Kvaløy, Mika Kähönen, Timo A Lakka, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Cecilia M Lindgren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert Luben, Michel Marre, Yuri Milaneschi, Keri L Monda, Grant W Montgomery, Marleen H M De Moor, Antonella Mulas, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, A W Musk, Reija Männikkö, Satu Männistö, Narisu Narisu, Matthias Nauck, Jennifer A Nettleton, Ilja M Nolte, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Matthias Olden, Ken K Ong, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Lavinia Paternoster, Jeremiah Perez, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ulrike Peters, Patricia A Peyser, Inga Prokopenko, Hannu Puolijoki, Olli T Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik, Rajesh Rawal, Paul M Ridker, Lynda M Rose, Igor Rudan, Cinzia Sarti, Mark A Sarzynski, Kai Savonen, William R Scott, Serena Sanna, Alan R Shuldiner, Steve Sidney, Günther Silbernagel, Blair H Smith, Jennifer A Smith, Harold Snieder, Alena Stančáková, Barbara Sternfeld, Amy J Swift, Tuija Tammelin, Sian-Tsung Tan, Barbara Thorand, Dorothée Thuillier, Liesbeth Vandenput, Henrik Vestergaard, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Marie-Claude Vohl, Uwe Völker, Gérard Waeber, Mark Walker, Sarah Wild, Andrew Wong, Alan F Wright, M Carola Zillikens, Niha Zubair, Christopher A Haiman, Loic Lemarchand, Ulf Gyllensten, Claes Ohlsson, Albert Hofman, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G Uitterlinden, Louis Pérusse, James F Wilson, Caroline Hayward, Ozren Polasek, Francesco Cucca, Kristian Hveem, Catharina A Hartman, Anke Tönjes, Stefania Bandinelli, Lyle J Palmer, Sharon L R Kardia, Rainer Rauramaa, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Veikko Salomaa, Brenda W J H Penninx, Eco J C de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma, Terho Lehtimäki, Massimo Mangino, Markku Laakso, Claude Bouchard, Nicholas G Martin, Diana Kuh, Yongmei Liu, Allan Linneberg, Winfried März, Konstantin Strauch, Mika Kivimäki, Tamara B Harris, Vilmundur Gudnason, Henry Völzke, Lu Qi, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, John C Chambers, Jaspal S Kooner, Philippe Froguel, Charles Kooperberg, Peter Vollenweider, Göran Hallmans, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Andres Metspalu, Nicholas J Wareham, Claudia Langenberg, David R Weir, David J Porteous, Eric Boerwinkle, Daniel I Chasman, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Inês Barroso, Mark I McCarthy, Timothy M Frayling, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Cornelia M van Duijn, Michael Boehnke, Iris M Heid, Karen L Mohlke, David P Strachan, Caroline S Fox, Ching-Ti Liu, Joel N Hirschhorn, Robert J Klein, Andrew D Johnson, Ingrid B Borecki, Paul W Franks, Kari E North, L Adrienne Cupples, Ruth J F Loos, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006528.].
August 2017: PLoS Genetics
#11
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mariaelisa Graff, Robert A Scott, Anne E Justice, Kristin L Young, Mary F Feitosa, Llilda Barata, Thomas W Winkler, Audrey Y Chu, Anubha Mahajan, David Hadley, Luting Xue, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Marcel den Hoed, Tarunveer S Ahluwalia, Qibin Qi, Julius S Ngwa, Frida Renström, Lydia Quaye, John D Eicher, James E Hayes, Marilyn Cornelis, Zoltan Kutalik, Elise Lim, Jian'an Luan, Jennifer E Huffman, Weihua Zhang, Wei Zhao, Paula J Griffin, Toomas Haller, Shafqat Ahmad, Pedro M Marques-Vidal, Stephanie Bien, Loic Yengo, Alexander Teumer, Albert Vernon Smith, Meena Kumari, Marie Neergaard Harder, Johanne Marie Justesen, Marcus E Kleber, Mette Hollensted, Kurt Lohman, Natalia V Rivera, John B Whitfield, Jing Hua Zhao, Heather M Stringham, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Charlotte Huppertz, Gonneke Willemsen, Wouter J Peyrot, Ying Wu, Kati Kristiansson, Ayse Demirkan, Myriam Fornage, Maija Hassinen, Lawrence F Bielak, Gemma Cadby, Toshiko Tanaka, Reedik Mägi, Peter J van der Most, Anne U Jackson, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Veronique Vitart, Jonathan Marten, Pau Navarro, Claire Bellis, Dorota Pasko, Åsa Johansson, Søren Snitker, Yu-Ching Cheng, Joel Eriksson, Unhee Lim, Mette Aadahl, Linda S Adair, Najaf Amin, Beverley Balkau, Juha Auvinen, John Beilby, Richard N Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Alain G Bertoni, John Blangero, Amélie Bonnefond, Lori L Bonnycastle, Judith B Borja, Søren Brage, Fabio Busonero, Steve Buyske, Harry Campbell, Peter S Chines, Francis S Collins, Tanguy Corre, George Davey Smith, Graciela E Delgado, Nicole Dueker, Marcus Dörr, Tapani Ebeling, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Tõnu Esko, Jessica D Faul, Mao Fu, Kristine Færch, Christian Gieger, Sven Gläser, Jian Gong, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Harald Grallert, Tanja B Grammer, Niels Grarup, Gerard van Grootheest, Kennet Harald, Nicholas D Hastie, Aki S Havulinna, Dena Hernandez, Lucia Hindorff, Lynne J Hocking, Oddgeir L Holmens, Christina Holzapfel, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Jie Huang, Tao Huang, Jennie Hui, Cornelia Huth, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Alan L James, John-Olov Jansson, Min A Jhun, Markus Juonala, Leena Kinnunen, Heikki A Koistinen, Ivana Kolcic, Pirjo Komulainen, Johanna Kuusisto, Kirsti Kvaløy, Mika Kähönen, Timo A Lakka, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Cecilia M Lindgren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert Luben, Michel Marre, Yuri Milaneschi, Keri L Monda, Grant W Montgomery, Marleen H M De Moor, Antonella Mulas, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, A W Musk, Reija Männikkö, Satu Männistö, Narisu Narisu, Matthias Nauck, Jennifer A Nettleton, Ilja M Nolte, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Matthias Olden, Ken K Ong, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Lavinia Paternoster, Jeremiah Perez, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ulrike Peters, Patricia A Peyser, Inga Prokopenko, Hannu Puolijoki, Olli T Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik, Rajesh Rawal, Paul M Ridker, Lynda M Rose, Igor Rudan, Cinzia Sarti, Mark A Sarzynski, Kai Savonen, William R Scott, Serena Sanna, Alan R Shuldiner, Steve Sidney, Günther Silbernagel, Blair H Smith, Jennifer A Smith, Harold Snieder, Alena Stančáková, Barbara Sternfeld, Amy J Swift, Tuija Tammelin, Sian-Tsung Tan, Barbara Thorand, Dorothée Thuillier, Liesbeth Vandenput, Henrik Vestergaard, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Marie-Claude Vohl, Uwe Völker, Gérard Waeber, Mark Walker, Sarah Wild, Andrew Wong, Alan F Wright, M Carola Zillikens, Niha Zubair, Christopher A Haiman, Loic Lemarchand, Ulf Gyllensten, Claes Ohlsson, Albert Hofman, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G Uitterlinden, Louis Pérusse, James F Wilson, Caroline Hayward, Ozren Polasek, Francesco Cucca, Kristian Hveem, Catharina A Hartman, Anke Tönjes, Stefania Bandinelli, Lyle J Palmer, Sharon L R Kardia, Rainer Rauramaa, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Veikko Salomaa, Brenda W J H Penninx, Eco J C de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma, Terho Lehtimäki, Massimo Mangino, Markku Laakso, Claude Bouchard, Nicholas G Martin, Diana Kuh, Yongmei Liu, Allan Linneberg, Winfried März, Konstantin Strauch, Mika Kivimäki, Tamara B Harris, Vilmundur Gudnason, Henry Völzke, Lu Qi, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, John C Chambers, Jaspal S Kooner, Philippe Froguel, Charles Kooperberg, Peter Vollenweider, Göran Hallmans, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Andres Metspalu, Nicholas J Wareham, Claudia Langenberg, David R Weir, David J Porteous, Eric Boerwinkle, Daniel I Chasman, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Inês Barroso, Mark I McCarthy, Timothy M Frayling, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Cornelia M van Duijn, Michael Boehnke, Iris M Heid, Karen L Mohlke, David P Strachan, Caroline S Fox, Ching-Ti Liu, Joel N Hirschhorn, Robert J Klein, Andrew D Johnson, Ingrid B Borecki, Paul W Franks, Kari E North, L Adrienne Cupples, Ruth J F Loos, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen
Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active...
April 2017: PLoS Genetics
#12
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
James S McCarthy, Julie Lotharius, Thomas Rückle, Stephan Chalon, Margaret A Phillips, Suzanne Elliott, Silvana Sekuloski, Paul Griffin, Caroline L Ng, David A Fidock, Louise Marquart, Noelle S Williams, Nathalie Gobeau, Lidiya Bebrevska, Maria Rosario, Kennan Marsh, Jörg J Möhrle
BACKGROUND: DSM265 is a novel antimalarial that inhibits plasmodial dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, an enzyme essential for pyrimidine biosynthesis. We investigated the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of DSM265, and tested its antimalarial activity. METHODS: Healthy participants aged 18-55 years were enrolled in a two-part study: part 1, a single ascending dose (25-1200 mg), double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study, and part 2, an open-label, randomised, active-comparator controlled study, in which participants were inoculated with Plasmodium falciparum induced blood-stage malaria (IBSM) and treated with DSM265 (150 mg) or mefloquine (10 mg/kg)...
June 2017: Lancet Infectious Diseases
#13
REVIEW
Ruth O Payne, Paul M Griffin, James S McCarthy, Simon J Draper
Modern controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) clinical trials have almost entirely focussed on Plasmodium falciparum, providing a highly informative means to investigate host-pathogen interactions as well as assess potential new prophylactic and therapeutic interventions. However, in recent years, there has been renewed interest in Plasmodium vivax, with CHMI models developed by groups in Colombia, the USA, and Australia. This review summarizes the published experiences, and examines the advantages and disadvantages of the different models that initiate infection either by mosquito bite or using a blood-stage inoculum...
February 2017: Trends in Parasitology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul Griffin, Cielo Pasay, Suzanne Elliott, Silvana Sekuloski, Maggy Sikulu, Leon Hugo, David Khoury, Deborah Cromer, Miles Davenport, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Karen Ivinson, Christian Ockenhouse, James McCarthy
BACKGROUND: Interventions to interrupt transmission of malaria from humans to mosquitoes represent an appealing approach to assist malaria elimination. A limitation has been the lack of systems to test the efficacy of such interventions before proceeding to efficacy trials in the field. We have previously demonstrated the feasibility of induced blood stage malaria (IBSM) infection with Plasmodium vivax. In this study, we report further validation of the IBSM model, and its evaluation for assessment of transmission of P...
December 2016: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
#15
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
James S McCarthy, Thomas Rückle, Elhadj Djeriou, Cathy Cantalloube, Daniel Ter-Minassian, Mark Baker, Peter O'Rourke, Paul Griffin, Louise Marquart, Rob Hooft van Huijsduijnen, Jörg J Möhrle
BACKGROUND: Ferroquine (SSR97193) is a candidate anti-malarial currently undergoing clinical trials for malaria. To better understand its pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) parameters the compound was tested in the experimentally induced blood stage malaria infection model in volunteers. METHODS: Male and non-pregnant female aged 18-50 years were screened for this phase II, controlled, single-centre clinical trial. Subjects were inoculated with ~1800 viable Plasmodium falciparum 3D7A-infected human erythrocytes, and treated with a single-dose of 800 mg ferroquine...
September 13, 2016: Malaria Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Danielle I Stanisic, John Gerrard, James Fink, Paul M Griffin, Xue Q Liu, Lana Sundac, Silvana Sekuloski, Ingrid B Rodriguez, Jolien Pingnet, Yuedong Yang, Yaoqi Zhou, Katharine R Trenholme, Claire Y T Wang, Hazel Hackett, Jo-Anne A Chan, Christine Langer, Eric Hanssen, Stephen L Hoffman, James G Beeson, James S McCarthy, Michael F Good
Plasmodium falciparum is the most virulent human malaria parasite because of its ability to cytoadhere in the microvasculature. Nonhuman primate studies demonstrated relationships among knob expression, cytoadherence, and infectivity. This has not been examined in humans. Cultured clinical-grade P. falciparum parasites (NF54, 7G8, and 3D7B) and ex vivo-derived cell banks were characterized. Knob and knob-associated histidine-rich protein expression, CD36 adhesion, and antibody recognition of parasitized erythrocytes (PEs) were evaluated...
September 2016: Infection and Immunity
#17
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James S McCarthy, Mark Baker, Peter O'Rourke, Louise Marquart, Paul Griffin, Rob Hooft van Huijsduijnen, Jörg J Möhrle
OBJECTIVES: OZ439, or artefenomel, is an investigational synthetic ozonide antimalarial with similar potency, but a significantly improved pharmacokinetic profile, compared with artemisinins. We wished to measure key pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters and the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic relationship of artefenomel in humans to guide the drug's further development as combination therapy in patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We tested artefenomel in the human induced blood-stage malaria (IBSM) model...
September 2016: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
#18
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cielo J Pasay, Rebecca Rockett, Silvana Sekuloski, Paul Griffin, Louise Marquart, Christopher Peatey, Claire Y T Wang, Peter O'Rourke, Suzanne Elliott, Mark Baker, Jörg J Möhrle, James S McCarthy
BACKGROUND: Piperaquine, coformulated with dihydroartemisinin, is a component of a widely used artemisinin combination therapy. There is a paucity of data on its antimalarial activity as a single agent. Such data, if available, would inform selection of new coformulations. METHODS: We undertook a study in healthy subjects, using the induced blood stage malaria (IBSM) model to test the antimalarial activity of single doses of piperaquine (960, 640, and 480 mg) in 3 cohorts...
July 1, 2016: Journal of Infectious Diseases
#19
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James S McCarthy, Louise Marquart, Silvana Sekuloski, Katharine Trenholme, Suzanne Elliott, Paul Griffin, Rebecca Rockett, Peter O'Rourke, Theo Sloots, Iñigo Angulo-Barturen, Santiago Ferrer, María Belén Jiménez-Díaz, María-Santos Martínez, Rob Hooft van Huijsduijnen, Stephan Duparc, Didier Leroy, Timothy N C Wells, Mark Baker, Jörg J Möhrle
Effective progression of candidate antimalarials is dependent on optimal dosing in clinical studies, which is determined by a sound understanding of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD). Recently, two important translational models for antimalarials have been developed: the NOD/SCID/IL2Rγ(-/-) (NSG) model, whereby mice are engrafted with noninfected and Plasmodium falciparum-infected human erythrocytes, and the induced blood-stage malaria (IBSM) model in human volunteers. The antimalarial mefloquine was used to directly measure the PK/PD in both models, which were compared to previously published trial data for malaria patients...
June 2016: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
#20
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James S McCarthy, Paul M Griffin, Silvana Sekuloski, A Taylor Bright, Rebecca Rockett, David Looke, Suzanne Elliott, David Whiley, Theo Sloots, Elizabeth A Winzeler, Katharine R Trenholme
BACKGROUND: Major impediments to development of vaccines and drugs for Plasmodium vivax malaria are the inability to culture this species and the extreme difficulty in undertaking clinical research by experimental infection. METHODS: A parasite bank was collected from a 49-year-old woman with P. vivax infection, characterized, and used in an experimental infection study. RESULTS: The donor made a full recovery from malaria after collection of a parasite bank, which tested negative for agents screened for in blood donations...
November 15, 2013: Journal of Infectious Diseases
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