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Peter Siba

Researcher at Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research

Publications -  329
Citations -  12437

Peter Siba is an academic researcher from Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 324 publications receiving 10767 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Siba include University of Western Australia & James Cook University.

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The Gut Microbiota of Rural Papua New Guineans: Composition, Diversity Patterns, and Ecological Processes

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the microbiome alterations detected in industrialized societies might arise from modern lifestyle factors limiting bacterial dispersal, which has implications for human health and the development of strategies aimed to redress the impact of westernization.
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Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

Magnus Manske, +78 more
- 19 Jul 2012 - 
TL;DR: Methods for the large-scale analysis of genetic variation in Plasmodium falciparum by deep sequencing of parasite DNA obtained from the blood of patients with malaria, either directly or after short-term culture are described.
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A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, +90 more
- 13 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: A population expansion in northeast Australia during the Holocene epoch associated with limited gene flow from this region to the rest of Australia, consistent with the spread of the Pama–Nyungan languages is inferred.
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The Peopling of the Pacific from a Bacterial Perspective

TL;DR: The hpSahul populations in New Guinea and Australia have diverged sufficiently to indicate that they have remained isolated for the past 23,000 to 32,000 years, and the second human expansion from Taiwan 5000 years ago dispersed one of several subgroups of the Austronesian language family into Melanesia and Polynesia.
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Reported reasons for not using a mosquito net when one is available: a review of the published literature

TL;DR: The current evidence-base is not sufficient in scope or quality to reliably inform mosquito net promoting interventions or campaigns targeted at individuals who own, but do not (reliably) use, mosquito nets.