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Paul
Newton
Head of Medicine Quality Research Group
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Medicine quality
Professor Paul Newton is Head of the IDDO Medicine Quality Research Group. He was appointed Head of the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN) Antimalarial Quality Group in 2010. He was the founding Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in the Microbiology Laboratory of Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, Laos, from 2000 to 2019 and now works based from Oxford. After junior doctor training in infectious disease and internal medicine in the UK, he worked in the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit in Bangkok on malaria and melioidosis for four years before moving to Laos.
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Temperature of a dengue rapid diagnostic test under tropical climatic conditions: a follow up study
Sengvilaipaseuth, O., Phommasone, K., de Lamballerie, X., Vongsouvath, M., Phonemixay, O., Blacksell, S., Mayxay, M., Keomany, S., Souvannasing, P., Newton, P., & Dubot-Pérès, A. (2017). PLoS ONE, 12(1).
Fake penicillin, The Third Man, and Operation Claptrap.
Newton, P., & Timmermann, B. (2016). BMJ, 355, i6494.
Prototype Positive Control Wells for Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests: Prospective Evaluation of Implementation among Health Workers in Lao People's Democratic Republic and Uganda.
Bell, D., Bwanika, J., Cunningham, J., Gatton, M., González, I., Hopkins, H., Kibira, S., Kyabayinze, D., Mayxay, M., Ndawula, B., Newton, P., Phommasone, K., Streat, E., & Umlauf, R. (2016). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96(2), 319-329.
Optimal health and disease management using spatial uncertainty: a geographic characterization of emergent artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum distributions in Southeast Asia
Grist, E., Flegg, J., Humphreys, G., Mas, I., Ashley, E., Humphreys, G., Dhorda, M., Dondorp, A., Hien, T., Maude, R., Mayxay, M., Nosten, F., Newton, P., Price, R., Smithuis, F., White, N., Woodrow, C., Guerin, P., & Gething, P. (2016). International Journal of Health Geographics, 15(37), 1-10.
Health risks of unknown medicines: evidence from adverse drug reactions in Laos
Caillet, C., Sichanh, C., Assemat, G., Malet-Martino, M., Sommet, A., Bagheri, H., Sengxeu, N., Mongkhonmath, N., Mayxay, M., Syhakhang, L., Lapeyre-Mestre, M., Newton, P., & Roussin, A. (2016). In Drug Safety (Vols. 39, Issues 10, pp. 1009-1009). Springer International Publishing.
An extended genotyping framework for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the cause of human typhoid.
Wong, V., Baker, S., Connor, T., Pickard, D., Page, A., Dave, J., Murphy, N., Holliman, R., Sefton, A., Millar, M., Dyson, Z., Dougan, G., & Holt, K. (2016). Nature Communications, 7, 12827.
The first Science Café in Laos
Cheah, P., Newton, P., & Mayxay, M. (2016). Lancet, 388(10052), 1376.
Predictable threats to public health through delaying universal access to innovative medicines for Hepatitis C: A pharmaceutical standpoint
Ravinetto, R., Weggheleire, A., Dorlo, T., Francque, S., Sokkab, A., Pouget, C., Meessen, B., Tabernero, P., Newton, P., & Lynen, L. (2016). Tropical Medicine and International Health, 21(12), 1490-1495.
Geographic distribution of amino acid mutations in DHFR and DHPS in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Lao PDR, India and Colombia
Saralamba, N., Nakeesathit, S., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., Osorio, L., Kim, J.-R., White, N., Day, N., Dondorp, A., & Imwong, M. (2016). Malaria Journal, 15(1).
Target Product Profile for a Diagnostic Assay to Differentiate between Bacterial and Non-Bacterial Infections and Reduce Antimicrobial Overuse in Resource-Limited Settings: An Expert Consensus.
Dittrich, S., Tadesse, B., Moussy, F., Chua, A., Zorzet, A., Tängdén, T., Dolinger, D., Page, A.-L., Crump, J., D’Acremont, V., Bassat, Q., Lubell, Y., Newton, P., Heinrich, N., Rodwell, T., & González, I. (2016). PLoS One, 8.
Large-scale survey for tickborne bacteria, Khammouan Province, Laos
Newton, P., Taylor, A., Vongphayloth, K., Vongsouvath, M., Grandadam, M., Brey, P., Brey, P., & Dittrich, S. (2016). Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(9).
Fingerprinting of falsified artemisinin combination therapies via direct analysis in real time coupled to a compact single quadrupole mass spectrometer
Bernier, M., Li, F., Musselman, B., Newton, P., & Fernández, F. (2016). Analytical Methods, 8(36), 6616-6624.
Asymptomatic Plasmodium infections in 18 villages of southern Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR (Laos)
Phommasone, K., Adhikari, B., Henriques, G., Pongvongsa, T., Phongmany, P., Von Seidlein, L., White, N., Day, N., Dondorp, A., Newton, P., Imwong, M., & Mayxay, M. (2016). Malaria Journal, 15(1).
Ethical challenges in designing and conducting medicine quality surveys
Parker, M., Tabernero, P., Ravinetto, R., Phanouvong, S., Yeung, S., Kitutu, F., Cheah, P., Mayxay, M., Guerin, P., & Newton, P. (2016). Tropical Medicine and International Health, 21(6), 799-806.
Correction: The Diversity and Geographical Structure of Orientia tsutsugamushi Strains from Scrub Typhus Patients in Laos.
Phetsouvanh, R., Sonthayanon, P., Pukrittayakamee, S., Paris, D., Newton, P., Feil, E., & Day, N. (2016). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5.
Using rapid diagnostic tests as a source of viral RNA for dengue serotyping by RT-PCR - a novel epidemiological tool
Vongsouvath, M., Phommasone, K., Sengvilaipaseuth, O., Kosoltanapiwat, N., Chantratita, N., Blacksell, S., Lee, S., de Lamballerie, X., Mayxay, M., Keomany, S., Newton, P., & Dubot-Pérès, A. (2016). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(5), e0004704 - e0004704.
A link between poor quality antimalarials and malaria drug resistance?
Newton, P., Caillet, C., & Guerin, P. (2016). Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, 14(6), 531-533.
The aetiologies and impact of fever in pregnant inpatients in Vientiane, Laos
Chansamouth, V., Thammasack, S., Phetsouvanh, R., Keoluangkot, V., Moore, C., Blacksell, S., Castonguay-Vanier, J., Dubot-Pérès, A., Tangkhabuanbutra, J., Tongyoo, N., Souphaphonh, P., Sengvilaipaseuth, O., Vongsouvath, M., Phommasone, K., Sengdethka, D., Seurbsanith, A., Craig, S., Hermann, L., Strobel, M., & Newton, P. (2016). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(4), e0004577.
Modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of biomarker tests as compared with pathogen-specific diagnostics in the management of undifferentiated fever in remote tropical settings
Lubell, Y., Althaus, T., Blacksell, S., Paris, D., Mayxay, M., Pan-Ngum, W., White, L., Day, N., & Newton, P. (2016). PLoS ONE, 11(3).
Dried cerebrospinal fluid spots for diagnosing Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) infection by Anti-JEV IgM antibody capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: Harnessing the potential of a fully saturated pre-cut filter paper disc
Bharucha, T., Sengvilaipaseuth, O., Chanthongthip, A., Phuangpanom, E., Phonemixay, O., Vongsouvath, M., Lee, S., Newton, P., & Dubot-Peres, A. (2016). In International Journal of Infectious Diseases (Vols. 45, Issue S1, pp. 151-151). Elsevier.
Pre-cut Filter Paper for Detecting Anti-Japanese Encephalitis Virus IgM from Dried Cerebrospinal Fluid Spots
Bharucha, T., Chanthongthip, A., Phuangpanom, S., Phonemixay, O., Sengvilaipaseuth, O., Vongsouvath, M., Lee, S., Newton, P., & Dubot-Pérès, A. (2016). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(3), e0004516.
Genomic epidemiology of artemisinin resistant malaria
MalariaGEN Plasmodium falciparum Community Project. (2016). ELife, 5.
Adverse drug reaction-related hospitalizations of adults in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: health risks of unknown medicines
Caillet, C., Sichanh, C., Assemat, G., Malet-Martino, M., Sommet, A., Bagheri, H., Mayxay, M., Syhakhang, L., Lapeyre-Mestre, M., Newton, P., & Roussin, A. (2016). In Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology (Vols. 30, Issue S1, p. 10). Wiley.
Population Structure Shapes Copy Number Variation in Malaria Parasites.
Cheeseman, I., Miller, B., Tan, J., Tan, A., Nair, S., Nkhoma, S., De Donato, M., Rodulfo, H., Dondorp, A., Branch, O., Mesia, L., Newton, P., Mayxay, M., Amambua-Ngwa, A., Conway, D., Nosten, F., Ferdig, M., & Anderson, T. (2016). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(3), 603-620.
The utility of blood culture fluid for the molecular diagnosis of Leptospira: A prospective evaluation
Dittrich, S., Rudgard, W., Woods, K., Silisouk, J., Phuklia, W., Davong, V., Vongsouvath, M., Phommasone, K., Rattanavong, S., Knappik, M., Craig, S., Weier, S., Tulsiani, S., Dance, D., & Newton, P. (2016). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 94(4), 736-740.