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Melanie J. Newport is affiliated with Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Microbiology, Small Animals, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
  • Actinomycetales infections and treatment
  • Infectious Diseases and Mycology
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance

Melanie J. Newport has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Nature Communications
  • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

Some recent publications include:

  • Innovative technologies to address neglected tropical diseases in African settings with persistent sociopolitical instability, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Modelling the spatial distribution of mycetoma in Sudan, 2021, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Clinical epidemiological characteristics of mycetoma in Eastern Sennar locality, Sennar State, Sudan, 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • The health and economic burden of podoconiosis in Ethiopia, 2020, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Host genetic susceptibility to mycetoma, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including the title "This Is My Jail" published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2022.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Melanie J. Newport are:

  • Kebede Deribe
  • Gail Davey
  • Jorge Cano
  • Ahmed Hassan Fahal
  • Rowa Hassan

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • A mutation in the interferon-gamma-receptor gene and susceptibility to mycobacterial infection.

    Melanie J Newport;Clare M Huxley;Sara Huston;Catherine M Hawrylowicz

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • INTERFERON-GAMMA-RECEPTOR DEFICIENCY IN AN INFANT WITH FATAL BACILLE CALMETTE-GUERIN INFECTION

    Emmanuelle Jouanguy;Frédéric Altare;Salma Lamhamedi;Patrick Revy

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Newborns Develop a Th1-Type Immune Response to Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccination

    Arnaud Marchant;Tessa Goetghebuer;Martin O. Ota;Ingrid Wolfe

  • Clinical features of dominant and recessive interferon γ receptor 1 deficiencies

    Susan E. Dorman;Capucine Picard;Capucine Picard;David Lammas;Klaus Heyne

  • Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2.

    Thorsten Thye;Fredrik O. Vannberg;Sunny H. Wong;Ellis Owusu-Dabo

  • The Global One Health Paradigm: Challenges and Opportunities for Tackling Infectious Diseases at the Human, Animal, and Environment Interface in Low-Resource Settings

    Wondwossen A. Gebreyes;Jean Dupouy-Camet;Melanie J. Newport;Celso J. B. Oliveira

  • Variation in the tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene promoter region may be associated with death from meningococcal disease

    Simon Nadel;Melanie J. Newport;Robert Booy;Michael Levin

  • Influence of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin on antibody and cytokine responses to human neonatal vaccination

    Martin O. C. Ota;Johan Vekemans;Susanna E. Schlegel-Haueter;Katherine Fielding

  • Acute lower respiratory tract infections and respiratory syncytial virus in infants in Guinea-Bissau: a beneficial effect of BCG vaccination for girls community based case-control study.

    Lone Graff Stensballe;Ernesto Nante;Inge Panum Jensen;Poul Erik Kofoed

  • Genetic regulation of immune responses to vaccines in early life

    M J Newport;M J Newport;T Goetghebuer;T Goetghebuer;Helen A Weiss;Hilton Whittle

  • Familial disseminated atypical mycobacterial infection in childhood: a human mycobacterial susceptibility gene?

    M. Levin;M.J. Newport;Panos Kalabalikis;N. Klein

  • Neonatal bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination induces adult-like IFN-gamma production by CD4+ T lymphocytes.

    Johan Vekemans;Johan Vekemans;Amedeo Amedei;Martin O. Ota;Mario M. D'Elios

  • Common variants at 11p13 are associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis

    Thorsten Thye;Ellis Owusu-Dabo;Fredrik O Vannberg;Reinout van Crevel

  • Comparative high-resolution analysis of linkage disequilibrium and tag single nucleotide polymorphisms between populations in the vitamin D receptor gene

    Sergey Nejentsev;Lisa Godfrey;Hywel Snook;Helene Rance

  • Interleukin-10, polymorphism in SLC11A1 (formerly NRAMP1), and susceptibility to tuberculosis

    Agnes A. Awomoyi;Arnaud Marchant;Arnaud Marchant;Joanna M. M. Howson;Keith P. W. J. McAdam

  • Podoconiosis: non-infectious geochemical elephantiasis.

    Gail Davey;Fasil Tekola;Melanie J. Newport

Frequent Co-Authors

Kebede Deribe
Kebede Deribe Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Arnaud Marchant
Arnaud Marchant Université Libre de Bruxelles
Charles N. Rotimi
Charles N. Rotimi National Institutes of Health
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
Giorgio Sirugo
Giorgio Sirugo University of Pennsylvania
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Adebowale Adeyemo
Adebowale Adeyemo National Institutes of Health
Keith P. W. J. McAdam
Keith P. W. J. McAdam London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Abraham Aseffa
Abraham Aseffa Armauer Hansen Research Institute

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