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Title
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Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Zika virus
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Description
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Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...
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Title
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Updated phylogeny of chikungunya virus suggests lineage-specific RNA architecture
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Author
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Janies, Daniel
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, has recently emerged in the Americas from lineages from two continents: Asia and Africa. Historically, CHIKV circulated as at least four lineages worldwide with both...
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Title
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Twinkle twinkle brittle star : the draft genome of Ophioderma brevispinum (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) as a resource for regeneration research
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert, Kofsky, Janice
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background Echinoderms are established models in experimental and developmental biology, however genomic resources are still lacking for many species. Here, we present the draft genome of Ophioderma brevispinum, an emerging model organism in the f...
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Title
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Sequence-based identification of Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background: The recent finding of a typically non-African Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia emphasizes the need for detailed species identification and characterization for effective malaria vector surveillance. Molecular approaches increase t...
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Title
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Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
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Description
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In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...
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Title
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Phylogeny of echinoderm hemoglobins
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Linchangco, Gregorio V., Jr.
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background Recent genomic information has revealed that neuroglobin and cytoglobin are the two principal lineages of vertebrate hemoglobins, with the latter encompassing the familiar myoglobin and alpha-globin/beta-globin tetramer hemoglobin, and ...
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Title
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Patch dynamics modeling framework from pathogens' perspective : Unified and standardized approach for complicated epidemic systems
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Lo, Eugenia, Dulin, Michael
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Mathematical models are powerful tools to investigate, simulate, and evaluate potential interventions for infectious diseases dynamics. Much effort has focused on the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR)-type compartment models. These models consi...
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Title
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Modeling Plasmodium falciparum diagnostic test sensitivity using machine learning with histidine-rich protein 2 variants
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Author
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Ford, Colby, Janies, Daniel, Alemayehu, Gezahegn, Lo, Eugenia, Blackburn, Kayla, Lopez, Karen, Dieng, Cheikh Cambel, Golassa, Lemu
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Subjects--Topical
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Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum
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Description
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Malaria, predominantly caused by Plasmodium falciparum, poses one of largest and most durable health threats in the world. Previously, simplistic regression-based models have been created to characterize malaria rapid diagnostic test performance, ...
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Title
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Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Rush, Nathaniel, Witter, Zachary, Williams, John
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Scorpions have evolved a variety of toxins with a plethora of biological targets, but characterizing their evolution has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of scorpion relationships grounded in modern, genome-scale...
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Title
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Insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The movement of malaria vectors into new areas is a growing concern in the efforts to control malaria. The recent report of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia has raised the necessity to understand the insecticide resistance status...
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Title
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Geographical distribution of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and other regions in the Horn of Africa has raised concerns about its potential impact on malaria transmission. We report here the findings of a surv...
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Title
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Genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 in Assosa zone, Ethiopia : its impact on the performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Blackburn, Kayla, Lopez, Karen, Lo, Eugenia
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are commonly used for the diagnosis of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. However, false negative results of RDT caused by genetic variation of P. falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 genes (pfhrp...