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Melissa D. Conrad
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 55
Citations - 2403
Melissa D. Conrad is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasmodium falciparum & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1885 citations. Previous affiliations of Melissa D. Conrad include University of London & New York University.
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Absence of Putative Artemisinin Resistance Mutations Among Plasmodium falciparum in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Molecular Epidemiologic Study
Steve M. Taylor,Steve M. Taylor,Christian M. Parobek,Derrick K. DeConti,Kassoum Kayentao,Sheick Oumar Coulibaly,Brian Greenwood,Harry Tagbor,John V. Williams,Kalifa Bojang,Fanta Njie,Meghna Desai,Simon Kariuki,Julie Gutman,Don P. Mathanga,Andreas Mårtensson,Billy Ngasala,Melissa D. Conrad,Philip J. Rosenthal,Antoinette Tshefu,Ann M. Moormann,John M. Vulule,Ogobara K. Doumbo,Feiko O. ter Kuile,Feiko O. ter Kuile,Steven R. Meshnick,Jeffrey A. Bailey,Jonathan J. Juliano +27 more
TL;DR: An assay to quantify rare polymorphisms in parasite populations that uses a pooled deep-sequencing approach to score allele frequencies is developed and validated by evaluating mixtures of laboratory parasite strains, and used to screen P. falciparum parasites from >1100 African infections collected since 2002.
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Regressive Evolution in the Mexican Cave Tetra, Astyanax mexicanus
TL;DR: It is argued that the energetic cost of their maintenance is sufficiently high for eyes to be detrimental in the cave environment and selection can be caused either by selection or drift.
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Multi-trait evolution in a cave fish, Astyanax mexicanus.
Meredith E. Protas,Inna Tabansky,Melissa D. Conrad,Joshua B. Gross,Oriol Vidal,Clifford J. Tabin,Richard Borowsky +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping of 12 traits that differ significantly between the recently evolved Mexican cave tetra and its surface conspecific was investigated through QTL mapping.
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Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa: the calm before the storm?
TL;DR: This Review summarises evolving patterns of antimalarial drug resistance in Africa and indicates that resistance to artemisinins or key partner drugs included in combination therapies does not appear to be a substantial problem in Africa.
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Association between Trichomonas vaginalis and vaginal bacterial community composition among reproductive-age women.
Rebecca M. Brotman,L. Latey Bradford,Melissa D. Conrad,Pawel Gajer,Kevin A. Ault,Ligia Peralta,Larry J. Forney,Jane M. Carlton,Zaid Abdo,Jacques Ravel +9 more
TL;DR: T. vaginalis was associated with vaginal microbiota consisting of low proportions of lactobacilli and high proportions of Mycoplasma, Parvimonas, Sneathia, and other anaerobes, and the association was evaluated by exact logistic regression.