Kathryn Tiedje

Evolutionary analyses of the major variant surface antigen-encoding genes reveal population structure of Plasmodium falciparum within and between continents

Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Kathryn E Tiedje, Virginie Rougeron, Michael F Duffy, Sedigheh Zakeri, Tepanata Pumpaibool, Pongchai Harnyuttanakorn, OraLee H Branch, Lastenia Ruiz-Mesia, Thomas S Rask, Franck Prugnolle, Anthony T Papenfuss, Yao-ban Chan, Karen P Day

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS Genetics

Malaria remains a major public health problem in many countries. Unlike influenza and HIV, where diversity in immunodominant surfa..

Evolution of Antimalarial Drug Resistance Markers in the Reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum Infections in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Charles A Narh, Anita Ghansah, Michael F Duffy, Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Christiana O Onwona, Abraham R Oduro, Kwadwo A Koram, Karen P Day, Kathryn E Tiedje

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: The majority of Plasmodium falciparum infections, constituting the reservoir in all ages, are asymptomatic in high-tra..

Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum

Shai Pilosof, Qixin He, Kathryn E Tiedje, Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Karen P Day, Mercedes Pascual

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLoS Biology

GLOBAL STRUCTURE OF THE VAR GENES ENCODING THE MAJOR VARIANT SURFACE ANTIGEN OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM

Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Kathryn E Tiedje, Virginie Rougeron, Sedigheh Zakeri, Tepanata Pumpaibool, Pingchai Harnyuttanakorn, OraLee H Branch, Lastenia Ruiz-Mesia, Michael F Duffy, Thomas S Rask, Franck Prugnolle, Yao-Ban Yao-Ban Chan, Anthony T Papenfuss, Karen P Day

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

EVOLUTION OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM AFTER AN OUTBREAK FACILITATES LOW ENDEMICITY MALARIA TRANSMISSION IN ECUADOR

Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Fabian E Saenz, Claudia A Vera-Arias, Kathryn E Tiedje, Karen P Day

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Networks of genetic similarity reveal non-neutral processes shape strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum

Qixin He, Shai Pilosof, Kathryn E Tiedje, Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Yael Artzy-Randrup, Edward B Baskerville, Karen P Day, Mercedes Pascual

Journal article  |  2018  |  Nature Communications

Signatures of competition and strain structure within the major blood-stage antigen of Plasmodium falciparum in a local community in Ghana

Mary M Rorick, Yael Artzy-Randrup, Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Kathryn E Tiedje, Thomas S Rask, Abraham Oduro, Anita Ghansah, Kwadwo Koram, Karen P Day, Mercedes Pascual

Journal article  |  2018  |  Ecology and Evolution

Evolutionary structure of Plasmodium falciparum major variant surface antigen genes in South America: Implications for epidemic transmission and surveillance

Virginie Rougeron, Kathryn E Tiedje, Donald S Chen, Thomas S Rask, Dionicia Gamboa, Amanda Maestre, Lise Musset, Eric Legrand, Oscar Noya, Erhan Yalcindag, Francois Renaud, Franck Prugnolle, Karen P Day

Journal article  |  2017  |  Ecology and Evolution

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHRONIC ASYMPTOMATIC PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM INFECTIONS AMONG ALL AGES IN AN AREA WITH SEASONAL MALARIA TRANSMISSION IN BONGO DISTRICT, GHANA

Kathryn E Tiedje, Godfred Agongo, Anita Ghansah, Thomas Anyorigiya, Daniel Azongo, Aprielle Wills, Timothy Awine, Abraham Oduro, Kwadwo A Koram, Mercedes Pascual, Karen P Day

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Population genomics of virulence genes of Plasmodium falciparum in clinical isolates from Uganda

Shazia Ruybal-Pesantez, Kathryn E Tiedje, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Thomas S Rask, Moses R Kamya, Bryan Greenhouse, Grant Dorsey, Michael F Duffy, Karen P Day

Journal article  |  2017  |  Scientific Reports