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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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The infective causes of hepatitis and jaundice amongst hospitalised patients in Vientiane, Laos.
Syhavong, B., Rasachack, B., Smythe, L., Rolain, J.-M., Roque-Afonso, A.-M., Jenjaroen, K., Soukkhaserm, V., Phongmany, S., Phetsouvanh, R., Soukkhaserm, S., Thammavong, T., Mayxay, M., Blacksell, S., Barnes, E., Parola, P., Dussaix, E., Raoult, D., Humphreys, I., Klenerman, P., … Newton, P. (2010). Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 104(7), 475-483.
Intrinsic fluoroquinolone resistance in Orientia tsutsugamushi.
Tantibhedhyangkul, W., Angelakis, E., Tongyoo, N., Newton, P., Moore, C., Phetsouvanh, R., Raoult, D., & Rolain, J.-M. (2010). International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 35(4), 338-341.
Diagnosis of scrub typhus.
Koh, G., Maude, R., Paris, D., Newton, P., & Blacksell, S. (2010). Am J Trop Med Hyg, 82(3), 368-370.
Impact of poor-quality medicines in the 'developing' world.
Newton, P., Green, M., & Fernández, F. (2010). Trends Pharmacol Sci, 31(3), 99-101.
In vivo parasitological measures of artemisinin susceptibility.
Stepniewska, K., Ashley, E., Lee, S., Anstey, N., Barnes, K., Binh, T., D’Alessandro, U., Day, N., de Vries, P., Dorsey, G., Guthmann, J.-P., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., Olliaro, P., Osorio, L., Price, R., Rowland, M., Smithuis, F., Taylor, W., … White, N. (2010). J Infect Dis, 201(4), 570-579.
Accuracy of AccessBio Immunoglobulin M and Total Antibody Rapid Immunochromatographic Assays for the Diagnosis of Acute Scrub Typhus Infection.
Blacksell, S., Jenjaroen, K., Phetsouvanh, R., Wuthiekanun, V., Day, N., Newton, P., & Ching, W.-M. (2010). Clinical and Vaccine Immunology : CVI, 17(2), 263-266.
Counterfeit and Substandard Anti-infectives in Developing Countries
Newton, P., Fernández, F., Green, M., Primo-Carpenter, J., & White, N. (2010). In Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries (pp. 413-443). Springer Nature.
Antimalarial drug quality: methods to detect suspect drugs
Kaur, H., Green, M., Hostetler, D., Fernández, F., & Newton, P. (2010). Journal of Clinical Practice, 7(1), 49-57.
Chapter 122 Scrub typhus and other tropical rickettsioses
Day, N., Newton, P., Parola, P., & Raoult, D. (2010). In Infectious Diseases (pp. 1231-1237). Elsevier.
Scrub typhus and other tropical rickettsioses
Day, N., Newton, P., Parola, P., & Raoult, D. (2010). In Infectious Diseases: Third Edition (pp. 1231-1237).
Poor quality drugs: grand challenges in high throughput detection, countrywide sampling, and forensics in developing countries
Fernandez, F., Hostetler, D., Powell, K., Kaur, H., Green, M., Mildenhall, D., & Newton, P. (2010). Analyst.
Molecular detection of Bartonella species in rodents from the Lao PDR.
Angelakis, E., Khamphoukeo, K., Grice, D., Newton, P., Roux, V., Aplin, K., Raoult, D., & Rolain, J. (2009). Clinical Microbiology and Infection : The Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 15 Suppl 2, 95-97.
Sennetsu neorickettsiosis: a probable fish-borne cause of fever rediscovered in Laos.
Newton, P., Rolain, J.-M., Rasachak, B., Mayxay, M., Vathanatham, K., Seng, P., Phetsouvanh, R., Thammavong, T., Zahidi, J., Suputtamongkol, Y., Syhavong, B., & Raoult, D. (2009). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 81(2), 190-194.
Comparison of indirect immunofluorescence assays for diagnosis of scrub typhus and murine typhus using venous blood and finger prick filter paper blood spots.
Phetsouvanh, R., Blacksell, S., Jenjaroen, K., Day, N., & Newton, P. (2009). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 80(5), 837-840.
Erratum: Postpartum traditions and nutrition practices among urban Lao women and their infants in Vientiane, Lao PDR
Barennes, H., Simmala, C., Odermatt, P., Thaybouavone, T., Vallee, J., Martinez-Aussel, B., Newton, P., & Strobel, M. (2009). European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63(3), 450-450.
Postpartum traditions and nutrition practices among urban Lao women and their infants in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
Barennes, H., Simmala, C., Odermatt, P., Thaybouavone, T., Vallee, J., Martinez-Aussel, B., Newton, P., & Strobel, M. (2009). European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63(3), 323-331.
Guidelines for field surveys of the quality of medicines: a proposal.
Newton, P., Lee, S., Goodman, C., Fernández, F., Yeung, S., Phanouvong, S., Kaur, H., Amin, A., Whitty, C., Kokwaro, G., Lindegårdh, N., Lukulay, P., White, L., Day, N., & White, N. (2009). PLoS Medicine, 3.
N-acetylcysteine as adjunctive treatment in severe malaria: a randomized, double-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial.
Charunwatthana, P., Abul Faiz, M., Ruangveerayut, R., Maude, R., Rahman, M., Roberts, L., Moore, K., Bin Yunus, E., Hoque, M., Hasan, M., Lee, S., Pukrittayakamee, S., Newton, P., White, N., Day, N., & Dondorp, A. (2009). Crit Care Med, 37(2), 516-522.
A phenomenon useful for the detection of Salmonella implementing a device from citrus extracts
Midorikawa, Y., Newton, P., Nakamura, S., Phetsouvanh, R., & Midorikawa, K. (2009). Tropical Medicine and Health, 37(3), 115.
Safety and efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in falciparum malaria: a prospective multi-centre individual patient data analysis
Zwang, J., Ashley, E., Karema, C., D’Alessandro, U., Smithuis, F., Dorsey, G., Janssens, B., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., Singhasivanon, P., Stepniewska, K., White, N., & Nosten, F. (2009). PLoS One, 4(7), e6358.
Safety and efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in falciparum malaria: a prospective multi-centre individual patient data analysis.
Zwang, J., Ashley, E., Karema, C., D’Alessandro, U., Smithuis, F., Dorsey, G., Janssens, B., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., Singhasivanon, P., Stepniewska, K., White, N., & Nosten, F. (2009). PloS One, 4(7).
Melioidosis
Rosenberg, M., Phetsouvanh, R., & Newton, P. (2009). In J. Spector & T. Gibson (Eds.), Atlas of pediatrics in the tropics : and resource-limited settings (pp. 163-165). American Academy of Pediatrics.
Fatal Chromobacterium violaceum septicaemia in northern Laos, a modified oxidase test and post-mortem forensic family G6PD analysis.
Slesak, G., Douangdala, P., Inthalad, S., Silisouk, J., Vongsouvath, M., Sengduangphachanh, A., Moore, C., Mayxay, M., Matsuoka, H., & Newton, P. (2009). Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 8(1).
Genetic history of hepatitis C virus in East Asia.
Pybus, O., Barnes, E., Taggart, R., Lemey, P., Markov, P., Rasachak, B., Syhavong, B., Phetsouvanah, R., Sheridan, I., Humphreys, I., Lu, L., Newton, P., & Klenerman, P. (2009). J Virol, 83(2), 1071-1082.
A stratified random survey of the proportion of poor quality oral artesunate sold at medicine outlets in the Lao PDR - implications for therapeutic failure and drug resistance.
Sengaloundeth, S., Fernández, F., Manolin, O., Phommavong, K., Insixiengmay, V., Hampton, C., Nyadong, L., Mildenhall, D., Hostetler, D., Khounsaknalath, L., Vongsack, L., Phompida, S., Vanisaveth, V., Syhakhang, L., & Newton, P. (2009). Malaria Journal, 8(1).