Jack Richards

Contrasting Epidemiology and Population Genetics of COVID-19 Infections Defined by Multilocus Genotypes in SARS-CoV-2 Genomes Sampled Globally.

Felicia Hui Min Chan, Ricardo Ataide, Jack S Richards, Charles A Narh

Journal article  |  2022  |  Viruses

Since its emergence in 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has spread and evolved globally, with newly emerged variants of concern (VOCs) accounting ..

Strategies That Facilitate Extraction-Free SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests.

David J Delgado-Diaz, Dhanasekaran Sakthivel, Hanh HT Nguyen, Khashayar Farrokzhad, William Hopper, Charles A Narh, Jack S Richards

Journal article  |  2022  |  Viruses

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented global demand for in vitro diagnostic reagents. Supply shortages and hoardi..

Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tools for Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Infections

Dhanasekaran Sakthivel, David Delgado-Diaz, Laura McArthur, William Hopper, Jack S Richards, Charles A Narh

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a recently emerged and highly contagious virus that causes coronav..

Guiding the Immune Response to a Conserved Epitope in MSP2, an Intrinsically Disordered Malaria Vaccine Candidate

Jeffrey Seow, Sreedam C Das, Rodrigo AV Morales, Ricardo Ataide, Bankala Krishnarjuna, Mitchell Silk, David K Chalmers, Jack Richards, Robin F Anders, Christopher A MacRaild, Raymond S Norton

Journal article  |  2021  |  VACCINES

The malaria vaccine candidate merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2) has shown promise in clinical trials and is in part responsible f..

Liposome engraftment and antigen combination potentiate the immune response towards conserved epitopes of the malaria vaccine candidate MSP2

Sreedam C Das, Jason D Price, Katharine Gosling, Nicola MacLennan, Ricardo Ataide, Jeffrey Seow, Vashti Irani, Ines I Atmosukarto, Robin F Anders, Jack S Richards, Christopher A MacRaild, Raymond S Norton

Journal article  |  2021  |  VACCINE

Merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2) is a highly abundant, GPI-anchored surface antigen on merozoites of the malaria parasite Plasmo..

Fast and safe: Optimising multiple sclerosis infusions during COVID-19 pandemic

Louise Rath, Minh Viet Bui, Julian Ellis, John Carey, Josephine Baker, Lisa Taylor, Hasini Fernando, Nicola Taylor, Poppy Savage, Janene Richards, Michael Zhong, Tomas Kalincik, Olga Skibina, Robb Wesselingh, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Mastura Monif, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt

Journal article  |  2021  |  MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND RELATED DISORDERS

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic challenges multiple sclerosis services to be innovative in delivering infusible therapies. To re..

Review of Burden, Clinical Definitions, and Management of COVID-19 Cases

Laura McArthur, Dhanasekaran Sakthivel, Ricardo Ataide, Felicia Chan, Jack S Richards, Charles A Narh

Journal article  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Our understanding of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), its clinical manifestations, and t..

Malaria vaccine candidates displayed on novel virus-like particles are immunogenic and induce transmission-blocking activity

Jo-Anne Chan, David Wetzel, Linda Reiling, Kazutoyo Miura, Damien R Drew, Paul R Gilson, David A Anderson, Jack S Richards, Carole A Long, Manfred Suckow, Volker Jenzelewski, Takafumi Tsuboi, Michelle J Boyle, Michael Piontek, James G Beeson

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS ONE

The development of effective malaria vaccines remains a global health priority. Currently, the most advanced vaccine, known as RTS..

Display of malaria transmission-blocking antigens on chimeric duck hepatitis B virus-derived virus-like particles produced in Hansenula polymorpha

David Wetzel, Jo-Anne Chan, Manfred Suckow, Andreas Barbian, Michael Weniger, Volker Jenzelewski, Linda Reiling, Jack S Richards, David A Anderson, Betty Kouskousis, Catherine Palmer, Eric Hanssen, Gerhard Schembecker, Juliane Merz, James G Beeson, Michael Piontek

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS ONE

BACKGROUND: Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is one of the major threats to human health globally. Despite huge efforts in ..

Human antibodies against DBP

Jack S Richards, Paul A Ramsland

Journal article  |  2019  |  NATURE MICROBIOLOGY