Rachanee Udomsangpetch

TL;DR: The results indicate that cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes to endothelial cells and rosetting represent distinct genetic traits.

TL;DR: In a study of 5 patients with acute falciparum malaria who had previously undergone splenectomy, it was found that none of these 5 patients had any circulating RESA-RBCs, in contrast to the uniform finding of RESA, which confirms the central role of the spleen in the clearance of parasitized RBCs after antimalarial treatment with an artemisinin derivative.

TL;DR: The wheat germ cell-free system can be used to produce malaria proteins without any prior optimization of their biased codon usage, indicating that this new cell- free system-based protocol for the discovery of malaria vaccine candidates will be discussed.

TL;DR: P. falciparum parasites causing severe malaria were less selective and multiplied more at high parasitemias than those causing uncomplicated malaria.

TL;DR: This is the first Plasmodium GWAS, which included 189 culture-adapted P. falciparum parasites genotyped using a custom-built Affymetrix molecular inversion probe 3K malaria panel array with a coverage of ∼1 SNP per 7 kb and detected population structure, variation in recombination rate and loci under recent positive selection.