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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
Targeted capture and sequencing of Orientia tsutsugamushi genomes from chiggers and humans
Elliott, I., Thangnimitchok, N., de Cesare, M., Linsuwanon, P., Paris, D., Day, N., Newton, P., Bowden, R., & Batty, E. (2021). Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 91.
Targeted capture and sequencing of Orientia tsutsugamushi genomes from chiggers and humans
Elliott, I., Thangnimitchok, N., de Cesare, M., Linsuwanon, P., Paris, D., Day, N., Newton, P., Bowden, R., & Batty, E. (2021). Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 91.
Evolutionary histories and antimicrobial resistance in Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei in Southeast Asia
The, H., Bodhidatta, L., Pham, D., Mason, C., Thanh, T., Vinh, P., Turner, P., Hem, S., Dance, D., Newton, P., Phetsouvanh, R., Davong, V., Thwaites, G., Thomson, N., Baker, S., & Rabaa, M. (2021). Communications Biology, 4(1).
An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples
Ahouidi, A., Ali, M., Almagro-Garcia, J., Amambua-Ngwa, A., Amaratunga, C., Amato, R., Amenga-Etego, L., Andagalu, B., Anderson, T., Andrianaranjaka, V., Apinjoh, T., Ariani, C., Ashley, E., Auburn, S., Awandare, G., Ba, H., Baraka, V., Barry, A., Bejon, P., … Gamboa, D. (2021). Wellcome Open Research, 6, 42-42.
Dynamics of intestinal multidrug-resistant bacteria colonisation contracted by visitors to a high-endemic setting: a prospective, daily, real-time sampling study
Kantele, A., Kuenzli, E., Dunn, S., Dance, D., Newton, P., Davong, V., Mero, S., Pakkanen, S., Neumayr, A., Hatz, C., Snaith, A., Kallonen, T., Corander, J., & McNally, A. (2021). Lancet Microbe, 2(4), E151 - E158.
Impact of delays to incubation and storage temperature on blood culture results: a multi-centre study
Ling, C., Roberts, T., Soeng, S., Cusack, T.-P., Dance, D., Lee, S., Reed, T., Hinfonthong, P., Sihalath, S., Sengduangphachanh, A., Watthanaworawit, W., Wangrangsimakul, T., Newton, P., Nosten, F., Turner, P., & Ashley, E. (2021). BMC Infectious Diseases, 21(1).
Whole-genome assemblies of 16 Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from rivers in Laos
Liechti, N., Zimmermann, R., Zopfi, J., Robinson, M., Pierret, A., Ribolzi, O., Rattanavong, S., Davong, V., Newton, P., Wittwer, M., & Dance, D. (2021). Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10(4).
Systematic review of the scrub typhus treatment landscape: Assessing the feasibility of an individual participant-level data (IPD) platform
Saraswati, K., Maguire, B., McLean, A., Singh-Phulgenda, S., Ngu, R., Newton, P., Day, N., & Guérin, P. (2021). In medRxiv.
Outcome of Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) infection in pediatric and adult patients at Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR
Mayxay, M., Douangdala, P., Vilayhong, C., Phommasone, K., Chansamouth, V., Vongsouvath, M., Rattanavong, S., Chang, K., Sengvilaipaseuth, O., Chanthongthip, A., Thongpaseuth, S., Newton, P., & Dubot-Pérès, A. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104(2), 567-575.
Diagnostic accuracy of an in-house Scrub Typhus enzyme linked immunoassay for the detection of IgM and IgG antibodies in Laos.
Elders, P., Dhawan, S., Tanganuchitcharnchai, A., Phommasone, K., Chansamouth, V., Day, N., Garcia-Rivera, J., Hertz, J., Mayxay, M., Vongsouvath, M., Dubot-Pérès, A., Robinson, M., Newton, P., & Blacksell, S. (2020). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(12).
Impact of delays to incubation and storage temperature on blood culture results in tropical countries: A multi-centre study
Soeng, S., Ling, C., Cusack, T.-P., Dance, D., Hinfonthong, P., Lee, S., Newton, P., Nosten, F., Reed, T., Roberts, T., Sengduangphachanh, A., Sihalath, S., Wangrangsimakul, T., Turner, P., & Ashley, E. (2020). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 101, 195-195.
The risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia after P. falciparum malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis from the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network
Hossain, M., Commons, R., Douglas, N., Thriemer, K., Alemayehu, B., Amaratunga, C., Anvikar, A., Ashley, E., Asih, P., Carrara, V., Lon, C., D’Alessandro, U., Davis, T., Dondorp, A., Edstein, M., Fairhurst, R., Ferreira, M., Hwang, J., Janssens, B., … Price, R. (2020). PLOS Medicine, 17(11).
How many human pathogens are there in Laos? An estimate of national human pathogen diversity and analysis of historical trends.
Clarkson, M., Aguas, R., Sweet, K., Roberts, T., Strobel, M., & Newton, P. (2020). BMJ Global Health, 5(10).
The isolation of Orientia tsutsugamushi and Rickettsia typhi from human blood through mammalian cell culture – a descriptive series of 3,227 samples and outcomes in the Lao PDR
Ming, D., Phommadeechack, V., Panyanivong, P., Sengdatka, D., Phuklia, W., Chansamouth, V., Roberts, T., Blacksell, S., Newton, P., & Robinson, M. (2020). Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 58(12).
Comparison of thiamin diphosphate high-performance liquid chromatography and erythrocyte transketolase assays for evaluating thiamin status in malaria patients without beriberi
Taylor, A., Talwar, D., Lee, S., Cox, L., Mayxay, M., & Newton, P. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103(6), 2600-2604.
Non-malarial febrile illness: a systematic review of published aetiological studies and case reports from Southern Asia and South-eastern Asia, 1980-2015
Shrestha, P., Dahal, P., Ogbonnaa-Njoku, C., Das, D., Stepniewska, K., Thomas, N., Hopkins, H., Crump, J., Bell, D., Newton, P., Ashley, E., & Guérin, P. (2020). BMC Medicine, 18.
Non-malarial febrile illness: a systematic review of published aetiological studies and case reports from Africa, 1980–2015
Elven, J., Dahal, P., Ashley, E., Thomas, N., Shrestha, P., Stepniewska, K., Crump, J., Newton, P., Bell, D., Reyburn, H., Hopkins, H., & Guerin, P. (2020). BMC Medicine, 18.
Febrile illness mapping-much of the world without data and without evidence-based treatments
Newton, P., & Guerin, P. (2020). BMC Medicine, 18(1).
A systematic review of the untreated mortality of murine typhus.
Doppler, J., & Newton, P. (2020). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(9).
The effectiveness of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against hypoxic pneumonia in children in Lao People's Democratic Republic: An observational hospital-based test-negative study
Weaver, R., Nguyen, C., Chan, J., Vilivong, K., Lai, J., Lim, R., Satzke, C., Vongsakid, M., Newton, P., Mulholland, K., Gray, A., Dubot-Pérès, A., Dance, D., & Russell, F. (2020). Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 2.
Perception of health risks in Lao market vendors
Philavong, C., Pruvot, M., Reinharz, D., Mayxay, M., Khammavong, K., Milavong, P., Rattanavong, S., Horwood, P., Dussart, P., Douangngeun, B., Theppangna, W., Fine, A., Robinson, M., & Newton, P. (2020). Zoonoses and Public Health, 67(7), 796-804.
Genetic surveillance in the Greater Mekong Subregion and South Asia to support malaria control and elimination
Jacob, C., Thuy-Nhien, N., Mayxay, M., Maude, R., Quang, H., Hongvanthong, B., Vanisaveth, V., Duc, T., Rekol, H., van der Pluijm, R., Von Seidlein, L., Fairhurst, R., Nosten, F., Hossain, M., Park, N., Goodwin, S., Ringwald, P., Chindavongsa, K., Newton, P., … Phyo, A. (2020).
Marginalized mites: Neglected vectors of neglected diseases
Weitzel, T., Makepeace, B., Elliott, I., Chaisiri, K., Richards, A., & Newton, P. (2020). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases , 14(7).
Febrile Illness Evaluation in a Broad Range of Endemicities (FIEBRE): protocol for a multisite prospective observational study of the causes of fever in Africa and Asia
Hopkins, H., Bassat, Q., Chandler, C., Crump, J., Feasey, N., Ferrand, R., Kranzer, K., Lalloo, D., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., & Mabey, D. (2020). BMJ Open, 10(7).
Baseline results of a living systematic review for COVID-19 clinical trial registrations
Maguire, B., McLean, A., Rashan, S., Antonio, E., Bagaria, J., Bentounsi, Z., Brack, M., Caldwell, F., Carrara, V., Citarella, B., Dahal, P., Feteh, V., Guérin, M., Kennon, K., Bilton Lahaut, K., Makuka, G., Ngu, R., Obiesie, S., Richmond, C., … Guérin, P. (2020). Wellcome Open Research, 5.