Category
Professor
Paul
Newton
Head of Medicine Quality Research Group
Email
Research Theme
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
Point-of-care ultrasound in the diagnosis of melioidosis in Laos
Huson, M., Kling, K., Chankongsin, S., Phongluxa, K., Keoluangkhot, V., Newton, P., Dance, D., Heller, T., & Neumayr, A. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103(2), 675-678.
Spatial epidemiology of Japanese encephalitis virus and other infections of the central nervous system infections in Lao PDR (2003-2011): A retrospective analysis
Rattanavong, S., Dubot-Pérès, A., Mayxay, M., Vongsouvath, M., Lee, S., Cappelle, J., Newton, P., & Parker, D. (2020). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(5).
COVID-19 and risks to the supply and quality of tests, drugs, and vaccines
Newton, P., Bond, K., & 53 signatories from 20 countries. (2020). Lancet Global Health .
Selection of diagnostic cutoffs for murine typhus IgM and IgG immunofluorescence assay: a systematic review
Dhawan, S., Robinson, M., Stenos, J., Graves, S., Wangrangsimakul, T., Newton, P., Day, N., & Blacksell, S. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103(1), 55-63.
A need to raise the bar - A systematic review of temporal trends in diagnostics for Japanese encephalitis virus infection, and perspectives for future research
Bharucha, T., Shearer, F., Vongsouvath, M., Mayxay, M., de Lamballerie, X., Newton, P., Zitzmann, N., Gould, E., & Dubot-Pérès, A. (2020). International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 95, P444 - 456.
Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies versus artemisinin-based combination therapies for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a multicentre, open-label, randomised clinical trial
Miotto, O., van der Pluijm, R., Tripura, R., Hoglund, R., Pyae Phyo, A., Lek, D., ul Islam, A., Anvikar, A., Satpathi, P., Satpathi, S., Behera, P., Tripura, A., Baidya, S., Onyamboko, M., Chau, N., Sovann, Y., Suon, S., Sreng, S., Mao, S., … Maude, R. (2020). Lancet, 395(10233), 1345-1360.
Bacteremia caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase–producing Enterobacteriaceae in Vientiane, Lao PDR: a 5-year study
Chang, K., Rattanavong, S., Mayxay, M., Keoluangkhot, V., Davong, V., Vongsouvath, M., Luangraj, M., Simpson, A., Newton, P., & Dance, D. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102(5), 1137-1143.
Harnessing gengue rapid diagnostic tests for the combined surveillance of Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya Viruses in Laos
Vongsouvath, M., Bharucha, T., Seephonelee, M., de Lamballerie, X., Newton, P., & Dubot-Peres, A. (2020). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102(6), 1244-1248.
Estimation of incidence of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Chanthavilay, P., Mayxay, M., Xongmixay, P., Roberts, T., Rattanavong, S., Vongsouvath, M., Newton, P., & Crump, J. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 102(4), 744-748.
Mass drug administrations with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and single low dose primaquine to eliminate Plasmodium falciparum have only a transient impact on Plasmodium vivax: Findings from randomised controlled trials
Phommasone, K., van Leth, F., Peto, T., Landier, J., Nguyen, T.-N., Tripura, R., Pongvongsa, T., Lwin, K., Kajeechiwa, L., Thwin, M., Parker, D., Wiladphaingern, J., Nosten, S., Proux, S., Nguon, C., Davoeung, C., Rekol, H., Adhikari, B., Promnarate, C., … von Seidlein, L. (2020). PLoS ONE, 15(2).
Typhoid in Laos: An 18-year perspective
Roberts, T., Rattanavong, S., Phommasone, K., Chansamouth, V., Davong, V., Keoluangkhot, V., Hongsakhone, S., Bounsavath, N., Mayxay, M., Vongsouvath, M., Dance, D., & Newton, P. (2020). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102(4), 749-757.
Correction to: The use of ultrasensitive quantitative-PCR to assess the impact of primaquine on asymptomatic relapse of Plasmodium vivax infections: a randomized, controlled trial in Lao PDR.
Phommasone, K., van Leth, F., Imwong, M., Henriques, G., Pongvongsa, T., Adhikari, B., Peto, T., Promnarate, C., Dhorda, M., Sirithiranont, P., Mukaka, M., Peerawaranun, P., Day, N., Cobelens, F., Dondorp, A., Newton, P., White, N., von Seidlein, L., & Mayxay, M. (2020). Malaria Journal, 19(1), 32.
Genomic surveillance for hypervirulence and multi-drug resistance in invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae from South and Southeast Asia
Wyres, K., Nguyen, T., Lam, M., Judd, L., Van Vinh Chau, N., Dance, D., Ip, M., Karkey, A., Ling, C., Miliya, T., Newton, P., Lan, N., Sengduangphachanh, A., Turner, P., Veeraraghavan, B., Vinh, P., Vongsouvath, M., Thomson, N., Baker, S., & Holt, K. (2020). Genome Medicine, 12.
The use of ultrasensitive quantitative-PCR to assess the impact of primaquine on asymptomatic relapse of Plasmodium vivax infections: a randomized, controlled trial in Lao PDR
Phommasone, K., Van Leth, F., Imwong, M., Henriques, G., Pongvongsa, T., Adhikari, B., Peto, T., Promnarate, C., Dorda, M., Sirithiranont, P., Mukaka, M., Peerawaranun, P., Day, N., Cobelens, F., Dondorp, A., Newton, P., White, N., Von Seidlein, L., & Mayxay, M. (2020). Malaria Journal, 19.
68 Scrub Typhus
Newton, P., & Day, N. (2020). In Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases (pp. 583-586). Elsevier.
A 3-Year-Old Boy from Laos With Right Suppurative Parotitis
Rattanavong, S., Douangnoulak, V., Norindr, B., Newton, P., & Fhogartaigh, C. (2020). In Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine (pp. 37-39).
A 30-Year-Old Male Chinese Trader With Fever in Laos
Newton, P., Keoluangkhot, V., Mayxay, M., Green, M., & Fernández, F. (2020). In Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine (pp. 108-110).
A 2-Month-Old Girl from Laos With Dyspnoea, Cyanosis and Irritability
Mayxay, M., Soukaloun, D., & Newton, P. (2020). In Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine (pp. 124-125).
A 72-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Extensive Skin Lesions on the Lower Leg
Slesak, G., Inthalad, S., & Newton, P. (2020). In Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine (pp. 67-69).
Drug-resistant scrub typhus
Wangrangsimakul, T., Phuklia, W., Newton, P., Richards, A., & Day, N. (2019). Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(6), 1580-1581.
Biosafety and biosecurity requirements for Orientia spp. diagnosis and research: recommendations for risk-based biocontainment, work practices and the case for reclassification to risk group 2
Blacksell, S., Robinson, M., Newton, P., Ruanchaimun, S., Salje, J., Wangrangsimakul, T., Wegner, Abdad, M., Bennett, A., Richards, A., Stenos, J., & Day, N. (2019). BMC Infectious Diseases, 19(2019).
Oxford nanopore MinION sequencing enables rapid whole genome assembly of rickettsia typhi in a resource-limited setting
Elliott, I., Batty, E., Ming, D., Robinson, M., Nawtaisong, P., De Cesare, M., Newton, P., & Bowden, R. (2019). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102(2), 408-414.
Real-time sampling of travelers shows intestinal colonization by multidrug-resistant bacteria to be a dynamic process with multiple transient acquisitions
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. (2019).
Global access to quality-assured medical products: the Oxford Statement and call to action
Newton, P., & Bond, K. (2019). Lancet Global Health, 7(12), e1609 - e1611.
Scrub typhus ecology: a systematic review of Orientia in vectors and hosts
Elliott, I., Pearson, I., Dahal, P., Thomas, N., Roberts, T., & Newton, P. (2019). Parasites and Vectors, 12(1).