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Overview

Mark J. Taylor is affiliated with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant concentration on infectious diseases and parasitology. Additional subfields of study include ecology, insect science, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. This wide scope supports investigations into complex biological and environmental interactions affecting human health.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass parasitic diseases research and treatment, parasites and host interactions, parasite biology and host interactions, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, insects and parasite interactions, the lymphatic system and diseases, and mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Frequent publication venues for Mark J. Taylor's research include:

  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Parasites & Vectors

Several recurrent co-authors have been part of their research collaborations, including:

  • Joseph D. Turner
  • Andrew Steven
  • Stephen A. Ward
  • Louise A. Kelly-Hope
  • Samuel Wanji

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark J. Taylor are:

  • "Why onchocerciasis transmission persists after 15 annual ivermectin mass drug administrations in South-West Cameroon," 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • "Anti-Wolbachia drugs for filariasis," 2021, Trends in Parasitology
  • "Tetracyclines improve experimental lymphatic filariasis pathology by disrupting interleukin-4 receptor-mediated lymphangiogenesis," 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Quantifying the socio-economic impact of leg lymphoedema on patient caregivers in a lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis co-endemic district of Ethiopia," 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Diverse RNA viruses of parasitic nematodes can elicit antibody responses in vertebrate hosts," 2024, Nature Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis.

    Mark J Taylor;Achim Hoerauf;Moses Bockarie

  • Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts of filarial nematodes.

    Mark J. Taylor;Claudio Bandi;Achim Hoerauf

  • The role of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in the pathogenesis of river blindness

    Amélie v. Saint André;Nathan M. Blackwell;Laurie R. Hall;Achim Hoerauf

  • Wolbachia Bacteria of Filarial Nematodes

    M.J Taylor;A Hoerauf

  • Inflammatory responses induced by the filarial nematode Brugia malayi are mediated by lipopolysaccharide-like activity from endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria.

    Mark J. Taylor;Helen F. Cross;Katja Bilo

  • Wolbachia endobacteria depletion by doxycycline as antifilarial therapy has macrofilaricidal activity in onchocerciasis: a randomized placebo-controlled study

    Achim Hoerauf;Sabine Specht;Marcelle Büttner;Kenneth Pfarr

  • Mass drug treatment for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis.

    David H Molyneux;Mark Bradley;Achim Hoerauf;Dominique Kyelem

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Doxycycline in the treatment of human onchocerciasis: Kinetics of Wolbachia endobacteria reduction and of inhibition of embryogenesis in female Onchocerca worms.

    Achim Hoerauf;Sabine Mand;Lars Volkmann;Marcelle Büttner

  • Doxycycline reduces plasma VEGF-C/sVEGFR-3 and improves pathology in lymphatic filariasis.

    Alexander Yaw Debrah;Sabine Mand;Sabine Specht;Yeboah Marfo-Debrekyei

  • The Wolbachia endosymbiont as an anti-filarial nematode target.

    Barton E. Slatko;Mark J. Taylor;Jeremy M. Foster

  • Population dynamics of Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts in Brugia malayi

    Helen F McGarry;Gillian L Egerton;Mark J Taylor

  • Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline only treatment of Onchocerca volvulus in an area of Loa loa co-endemicity: a randomized controlled trial.

    Joseph D. Turner;Nicholas Tendongfor;Mathias Esum;Kelly L. Johnston

  • Anti-Wolbachia drug discovery and development: safe macrofilaricides for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.

    Mark J. Taylor;Achim Hoerauf;Simon Townson;Barton E. Slatko

  • Wolbachia Lipoprotein Stimulates Innate and Adaptive Immunity through Toll-like Receptors 2 and 6 to Induce Disease Manifestations of Filariasis

    Joseph D. Turner;R. Stuart Langley;Kelly L. Johnston;Katrin Gentil

  • Severe reactions to filarial chemotherapy and release of Wolbachia endosymbionts into blood.

    Helen F Cross;Melang Haarbrink;Gill Egerton;Maria Yazdanbakhsh

  • Onchocerciasis: the Role of Wolbachia Bacterial Endosymbionts in Parasite Biology, Disease Pathogenesis, and Treatment

    Francesca Tamarozzi;Alice Halliday;Katrin Gentil;Achim Hoerauf

  • Wolbachia Bacteria of Filarial Nematodes: A Target for Control?

    M.J. Taylor;C. Bandi;A.M. Hoerauf;J. Lazdins

  • Does Increasing Treatment Frequency Address Suboptimal Responses to Ivermectin for the Control and Elimination of River Blindness

    Kwadwo K. Frempong;Martin Walker;Robert A. Cheke;Robert A. Cheke;Edward Jenner Tetevi

  • The Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts of filarial nematodes.

    J. M. Foster;A. Hoerauf;B. E. Slatko;M. J. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph D. Turner
Joseph D. Turner Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Achim Hoerauf
Achim Hoerauf University of Bonn
Samuel Wanji
Samuel Wanji University of Buea
Stephen A. Ward
Stephen A. Ward Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Barton E. Slatko
Barton E. Slatko Baylor College of Medicine
Eric Pearlman
Eric Pearlman University of California, Irvine
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Moses J. Bockarie
Moses J. Bockarie European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
Jennifer Keiser
Jennifer Keiser Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore

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