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Ananias A. Escalante

Ananias A. Escalante

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64
Citations
13229
World Ranking
2805
National Ranking
1228

Overview

Ananias A. Escalante is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant number of publications across subfields such as Parasitology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's main areas of study include topics related to Malaria Research and Control, Vector-borne infectious diseases, Bird parasitology and diseases, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Viral Infections and Vectors, and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions.

Frequent publication venues where Ananias A. Escalante has contributed include:

  • Malaria Journal
  • Parasitology
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Among recent published papers are:

  • "Association of Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H genotypes with delayed parasite clearance in Rwanda: an open-label, single-arm, multicentre, therapeutic efficacy study" (2021) in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Contrast-FEL-A Test for Differences in Selective Pressures at Individual Sites among Clades and Sets of Branches" (2020) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Malaria in Southern Venezuela: The hottest hotspot in Latin America" (2021) in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Malaria in Venezuela: changes in the complexity of infection reflects the increment in transmission intensity" (2020) in Malaria Journal
  • "Why Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are so different? A tale of two clades and their species diversities" (2022) in Malaria Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ananias A. Escalante include:

  • M. Andreína Pacheco
  • Francisco C. Ferreira
  • Venkatachalam Udhayakumar
  • Axl S. Cepeda
  • Nubia E. Matta

Best Publications

  • GENETIC DIVERSITY WITHIN CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM AND RELATED CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPECIES

    Lihua Xiao;Una M. Morgan;Josef Limor;Ananias Escalante

  • Two Nonrecombining Sympatric Forms of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium ovale Occur Globally

    Colin J. Sutherland;Naowarat Tanomsing;Debbie Nolder;Mary Oguike

  • GENETIC POLYMORPHISM AMONG CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM ISOLATES: EVIDENCE OF TWO DISTINCT HUMAN TRANSMISSION CYCLES

    Peng Mm;Xiao L;Freeman Ar;Arrowood Mj

  • Association of Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H genotypes with delayed parasite clearance in Rwanda: an open-label, single-arm, multicentre, therapeutic efficacy study.

    Aline Uwimana;Noella Umulisa;Meera Venkatesan;Samaly S. Svigel

  • The evolution of primate malaria parasites based on the gene encoding cytochrome b from the linear mitochondrial genome.

    Ananias A. Escalante;Denise E. Freeland;William E. Collins;Altaf A. Lal

  • Phylogeny of the malarial genus Plasmodium, derived from rRNA gene sequences

    Ananias A. Escalante;Francisco J. Ayala

  • Wild primate populations in emerging infectious disease research: the missing link?

    Nathan D. Wolfe;Ananias A. Escalante;William B. Karesh;Annelisa Kilbourn

  • The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax exhibits greater genetic diversity than Plasmodium falciparum

    Daniel E Neafsey;Kevin Galinsky;Rays H Y Jiang;Lauren Young

  • Genetic Polymorphism and Natural Selection in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Ananias A. Escalante;Altaf A. Lal;Francisco J. Ayala

  • Evolutionary origin of human and primate malarias: evidence from the circumsporozoite protein gene.

    A A Escalante;E Barrio;F J Ayala

  • Evolutionary origin of Plasmodium and other Apicomplexa based on rRNA genes.

    Ananias A. Escalante;Francisco J. Ayala

  • Diversity and evolution of the envelope gene of dengue virus type 1.

    Ana P. Goncalvez;Ananias A. Escalante;Flor H. Pujol;Juan E. Ludert

  • On the diversity of malaria parasites in African apes and the origin of Plasmodium falciparum from Bonobos.

    Sabrina Krief;Ananias A. Escalante;M. Andreina Pacheco;Lawrence Mugisha

  • Evolution of Modern Birds Revealed by Mitogenomics: Timing the Radiation and Origin of Major Orders

    M. Andreína Pacheco;Fabia U. Battistuzzi;Miguel Lentino;Roberto F. Aguilar

  • A monkey's tale: the origin of Plasmodium vivax as a human malaria parasite.

    Ananias A. Escalante;Omar E. Cornejo;Denise E. Freeland;Amanda C. Poe

  • Plasmodium cynomolgi genome sequences provide insight into Plasmodium vivax and the monkey malaria clade

    Shin Ichiro Tachibana;Steven A. Sullivan;Satoru Kawai;Shota Nakamura

  • Extreme Polymorphism in a Vaccine Antigen and Risk of Clinical Malaria: Implications for Vaccine Development

    Shannon L. Takala;Drissa Coulibaly;Mahamadou A. Thera;Adrian H. Batchelor

  • Population genomics studies identify signatures of global dispersal and drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax

    Daniel N Hupalo;Zunping Luo;Alexandre Melnikov;Patrick L Sutton

  • Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among triatomine vectors of Chagas' disease

    Daniel F. Lyman;Fernando A. Monteiro;Ananias A. Escalante;Celia Cordon-Rosales

  • Polymorphism in the gene encoding the apical membrane antigen-1 (AMA-1) of Plasmodium falciparum. X. Asembo Bay Cohort Project

    Ananias A. Escalante;Heather M. Grebert;Sansanee C. Chaiyaroj;Magda Magris

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkatachalam Udhayakumar
Venkatachalam Udhayakumar Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John W. Barnwell
John W. Barnwell Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Altaf A. Lal
Altaf A. Lal Sun Pharma (India)
Simon Kariuki
Simon Kariuki Kenya Medical Research Institute
Laurence Slutsker
Laurence Slutsker Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine
William E. Collins
William E. Collins Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kazuyuki Tanabe
Kazuyuki Tanabe Osaka University
Jane M. Carlton
Jane M. Carlton New York University
Liwang Cui
Liwang Cui University of South Florida

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