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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.
All Publications
Causes of fever - hoof beats are rarely from zebras
Newton, P. (2013). TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, 18, 7-7.
Building bridges between law enforcement and public health communities to combat pharmaceutical crime
Plancon, A., & Newton, P. (2013). TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, 18, 20-20.
63 Scrub Typhus
Newton, P., & Day, N. (2013). In Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease (pp. 542-545). Elsevier.
Eight novel hepatitis C virus genomes reveal the changing taxonomic structure of genotype 6.
Wang, H., Yuan, Z., Barnes, E., Yuan, M., Li, C., Fu, Y., Xia, X., Li, G., Newton, P., Vongsouvath, M., Klenerman, P., Pybus, O., Murphy, D., Abe, K., & Lu, L. (2013). J Gen Virol, 94(Pt 1), 76-80.
Complete genome of a genotype I Japanese encephalitis virus isolated from a patient with encephalitis in Vientiane, Lao PDR
Aubry, F., Vongsouvath, M., Nougairède, A., Phetsouvanh, R., Sibounheuang, B., Charrel, R., Rattanavong, S., Phommasone, K., Sengvilaipraserth, O., De Lamballerie, X., Newton, P., & Dubot-Pérès, A. (2013). Genome Announcements, 1(1), e00157 - 12.
Prognostic indicators in adults hospitalized with falciparum malaria in Western Thailand.
Newton, P., Stepniewska, K., Dondorp, A., Silamut, K., Chierakul, W., Krishna, S., Davis, T., Suputtamongkol, Y., Angus, B., Pukrittayakamee, S., Ruangveerayuth, R., Hanson, J., Day, N., & White, N. (2013). Malar J, 12(1).
Evaluation of a simple blood culture amplification and antigen detection method for diagnosis of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi bacteremia.
Castonguay-Vanier, J., Davong, V., Bouthasavong, L., Sengdetka, D., Simmalavong, M., Seupsavith, A., Dance, D., Baker, S., Le Thi Phuong, T., Vongsouvath, M., & Newton, P. (2013). J Clin Microbiol, 51(1), 142-148.
Use of the correlation coefficient to compare a point-of-care antigen test against a quantitative sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of cryptococcal meningitis.
Lee, S., & Newton, P. (2012). Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 55(12), 1744-1745.
Coagulation and inflammation in scrub typhus and murine typhus--a prospective comparative study from Laos.
Paris, D., Chansamouth, V., Nawtaisong, P., Löwenberg, E., Phetsouvanh, R., Blacksell, S., Lee, S., Dondorp, A., van der Poll, T., Newton, P., Levi, M., & Day, N. (2012). Clin Microbiol Infect, 18(12), 1221-1228.
How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines.
Attaran, A., Barry, D., Basheer, S., Bate, R., Benton, D., Chauvin, J., Garrett, L., Kickbusch, I., Kohler, J., Midha, K., Newton, P., Nishtar, S., Orhii, P., & McKee, M. (2012). BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 345, e7381.
Defining disease heterogeneity to guide the empirical treatment of febrile illness in resource poor settings
White, L., Newton, P., Maude, R., Pan-Ngum, W., Fried, Mayxay, M., Maude, R., & Day, N. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(9), e44545.
Comparison of performance of serum and plasma in panbio dengue and Japanese encephalitis virus enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.
Blacksell, S., Lee, S., Chanthongthip, A., Taojaikong, T., Thongpaseuth, S., Hübscher, T., & Newton, P. (2012). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 87(3), 573-575.
Evaluation of the Standard Diagnostics Leptospira IgM ELISA for diagnosis of acute leptospirosis in Lao PDR.
Tanganuchitcharnchai, A., Smythe, L., Dohnt, M., Hartskeerl, R., Vongsouvath, M., Davong, V., Lattana, O., Newton, P., & Blacksell, S. (2012). Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 106(9), 563-566.
A prospective assessment of the accuracy of commercial IgM ELISAs in diagnosis of Japanese encephalitis virus infections in patients with suspected central nervous system infections in Laos.
Moore, C., Blacksell, S., Taojaikong, T., Jarman, R., Gibbons, R., Lee, S., Chansamouth, V., Thongpaseuth, S., Mayxay, M., & Newton, P. (2012). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 87(1), 171-178.
High hospital incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in young infants in the Lao PDR
Luangxay, K., Sisouk, K., Vorlasan, L., Soumphonphakdy, B., Sengmouang, V., Anderson, M., Chansamouth, V., Phommasone, K., Bégué, R., & Newton, P. (2012). International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 16, e202 - e203.
Poor-quality antimalarial drugs in southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
Nayyar, G., Breman, J., Newton, P., & Herrington, J. (2012). The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 12(6), 488-496.
Burkholderia pseudomallei detection in surface water in southern Laos using Moore's swabs.
Vongphayloth, K., Rattanavong, S., Moore, C., Phetsouvanh, R., Wuthiekanun, V., Sengdouangphachanh, A., Phouminh, P., Newton, P., & Buisson, Y. (2012). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 86(5), 872-877.
The WWARN antimalarial quality surveyor.
Tabernero, P., & Newton, P. (2012). Pathogens and Global Health, 106(2), 77-78.
A major genome region underlying artemisinin resistance in malaria.
Cheeseman, I., Miller, B., Nair, S., Nkhoma, S., Tan, A., Tan, J., Al Saai, S., Phyo, A., Moo, C., Lwin, K., McGready, R., Ashley, E., Imwong, M., Stepniewska, K., Yi, P., Dondorp, A., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., White, N., … Anderson, T. (2012). Science, 336(6077), 79-82.
No evidence for spread of Plasmodium falciparum artemisinin resistance to Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos.
Mayxay, M., Khanthavong, M., Chanthongthip, O., Imwong, M., Lee, S., Stepniewska, K., Soonthornsata, B., Pongvongsa, T., Phompida, S., Hongvanthong, B., Ringwald, P., White, N., & Newton, P. (2012). Am J Trop Med Hyg, 86(3), 403-408.
Orientia tsutsugamushi in Human Scrub Typhus Eschars Shows Tropism for Dendritic Cells and Monocytes Rather than Endothelium
Paris, D., Phetsouvanh, R., Tanganuchitcharnchai, A., Jones, M., Jenjaroen, K., Vongsouvath, M., Ferguson, D., Blacksell, S., Newton, P., Day, N., & Turner, G. (2012). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Bartonella and Rickettsia in arthropods from the Lao PDR and from Borneo, Malaysia.
Kernif, T., Socolovschi, C., Wells, K., Lakim, M., Inthalad, S., Slesak, G., Boudebouch, N., Beaucournu, J.-C., Newton, P., Raoult, D., & Parola, P. (2012). Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 35(1), 51-57.
Bartonella and Rickettsia in arthropods from the Lao PDR and from Borneo, Malaysia
Kernif, T., Socolovschi, C., Wells, K., Lakim, M., Inthalad, S., Slesak, G., Boudebouch, N., Beaucournu, J.-C., Newton, P., Raoult, D., & Parola, P. (2012). Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 35(1), 51-57.