Publications
Estimating scrub typhus and murine typhus incidence among adolescents and adults in Yangon, Myanmar
Oo, W., Bowhay, T., Myat, T., Htike, W., Lwin, K., Blacksell, S., Tanganuchitcharnchai, A., Mayxay, M., Newton, P., Robinson, M., Ussher, J., Murdoch, D., Win, H., & Crump, J. (2025). Tropical Medicine and International Health.
Intravenous doxycycline, azithromycin, or both for severe scrub typhus
Varghese, G., Dayanand, D., Gunasekaran, K., Kundu, D., Wyawahare, M., Sharma, N., Chaudhry, D., Mahajan, S., Saravu, K., Aruldhas, B., Mathew, B., Nair, R., Newbigging, N., Mathew, A., Abhilash, K., Biswal, M., Prasad, A., Zachariah, A., Iyadurai, R., … Day, N. (2023). New England Journal of Medicine, 388(9), 792-803.
Orientia tsutsugamushi dynamics in vectors and hosts: ecology and risk factors for foci of scrub typhus transmission in northern Thailand
Elliott, I., Thangnimitchok, N., Chaisiri, K., Wangrangsimakul, T., Jaiboon, P., Day, N., Paris, D., Newton, P., & Morand, S. (2021). Parasites and Vectors, 14(1).
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). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(10).
A spatio-temporal analysis of scrub typhus and murine typhus in Laos; implications from changing landscapes and climate
Roberts, T., Parker, D., Bulterys, P., Rattanavong, S., Elliott, I., Phommasone, K., Mayxay, M., Chansamouth, V., Robinson, M., Blacksell, S., & Newton, P. (2021). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(8).
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.
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).
Drug-resistant scrub typhus
Wangrangsimakul, T., Phuklia, W., Newton, P., Richards, A., & Day, N. (2019). Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(6), 1580-1581.
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).
Scrub typhus and the misconception of doxycycline resistance
Wangrangsimakul, T., Phuklia, W., Newton, P., Richards, A., & Day, N. (2019). Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70(11), 2444-2449.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF SCRUB TYPHUS STUDY LANDSCAPE: PROTOCOL AND PRELIMINARY LITERATURE SEARCH RESULTS
Saraswati, K., Maguire, B., Singh, S., Day, N., & Guerin, P. (2019). TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 113, S230 - S231.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF SCRUB TYPHUS DRUG EFFICACY STUDY LANDSCAPE
Saraswati, K., Maguire, B., Singh, S., Day, N., & Guerin, P. (2019). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 101, 37-38.
Laboratory-acquired scrub typhus and murine typhus infections: The argument for risk-based approach to biosafety requirements for Orientia tsutsugamushi and Rickettsia typhi laboratory activities
Blacksell, S., Robinson, M., Newton, P., & Day, N. (2018). Clinical Infectious Diseases.
COME RAIN OR COME SHINE. DIFFERENTIAL SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF SCRUB TYPHUS AND MURINE TYPHUS IN THE LAO PDR
Roberts, T., Rattanavong, S., Elliot, I., Phommasone, K., Mayxay, M., Chansamouth, V., Homsana, A., Robinson, M., Blacksell, S., Parker, D., & Newton, P. (2018). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 99(4), 237-237.
Estimating the burden of scrub typhus: A systematic review
Bonell, A., Lubell, Y., Newton, P., Crump, J., & Paris, D. (2017). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(9), e0005838.
128 Scrub Typhus and Other Tropical Rickettsioses
Day, N., & Newton, P. (2017). In Infectious Diseases (pp. 1091 - 1097.e1). Elsevier.
Scrub Typhus and Other Tropical Rickettsioses
Day, N., & Newton, P. (2017). In Infectious Diseases, 2-Volume Set (pp. 1091 - 1097.e1).
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.
A systematic review of mortality from untreated scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi)
Taylor, A., Paris, D., & Newton, P. (2015). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(8).
Increased Nucleosomes and Neutrophil Activation Link to Disease Progression in Patients with Scrub Typhus but Not Murine Typhus in Laos.
Paris, D., Stephan, F., Bulder, I., Wouters, D., van der Poll, T., Newton, P., Day, N., & Zeerleder, S. (2015). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(8), e0003990.
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. (2015). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(8), e0004024.
Concurrent infection with murine typhus and scrub typhus in southern Laos--the mixed and the unmixed
Phommasone, K., Paris, D., Anantatat, T., Castonguay-Vanier, J., Keomany, S., Souvannasing, P., Blacksell, S., Mayxay, M., & Newton, P. (2013). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 7(8), ARTN e2163.
Inter- and intra-operator variability in the reading of indirect immunofluorescence assays for the serological diagnosis of scrub typhus and murine typhus.
Phetsouvanh, R., Thojaikong, T., Phoumin, P., Sibounheuang, B., Phommasone, K., Chansamouth, V., Lee, S., Newton, P., & Blacksell, S. (2013). Am J Trop Med Hyg, 88(5), 932-936.
63 Scrub Typhus
Newton, P., & Day, N. (2013). In Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease (pp. 542-545). Elsevier.