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Overview

Taane G. Clark is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several domains within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on infectious diseases, molecular biology, epidemiology, and molecular medicine.

Their work is documented in journals and publication venues including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Medicine
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Nature Communications

Clark has contributed extensively to the study of tuberculosis and mycobacterial infections, malaria research and control, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, mosquito-borne diseases, vaccines, immunoinformatics, and genomics and phylogenetic studies. Major topics they have explored include:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Clark include Susana Campino, Jody Phelan, Emilia Mańko, Ernest Diez Benavente, and Anton Spadar, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Clark are:

  • Robust barcoding and identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages for epidemiological and clinical studies (2020, Genome Medicine)
  • Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Assessing Survival in Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Discordant bioinformatic predictions of antimicrobial resistance from whole-genome sequencing data of bacterial isolates: an inter-laboratory study (2020, Microbial Genomics)
  • How Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Progresses: The Natural History of ME/CFS (2020, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • The Governance and Implementation of the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study (2021, Antibiotics)

Best Publications

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity with epidural or spinal anaesthesia: results from overview of randomised trials.

    Anthony Rodgers;Natalie Walker;S Schug;A McKee

  • Survival Analysis Part I: Basic concepts and first analyses

    T G Clark;M J Bradburn;S B Love;D G Altman

  • Prevention of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis with low dose aspirin: Pulmonary Embolism Prevention (PEP) trial

    J O'Brien;H Duncan;G Kirsh;V Allen

  • Survival Analysis Part II: Multivariate data analysis – an introduction to concepts and methods

    M J Bradburn;T G Clark;S B Love;D G Altman

  • A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains.

    Francesc Coll;Ruth McNerney;José Afonso Guerra-Assunção;Judith R. Glynn

  • The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

    Keertan Dheda;Tawanda Gumbo;Gary Maartens;Kelly E. Dooley

  • Blood pressure, cholesterol, and stroke in eastern Asia

    A Rodgers;S MacMahon;T Yee;T Clark

  • Targeted Restoration of the Intestinal Microbiota with a Simple, Defined Bacteriotherapy Resolves Relapsing Clostridium difficile Disease in Mice

    Trevor D. Lawley;Simon Clare;Alan W. Walker;Mark D. Stares

  • Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

    Magnus Manske;Magnus Manske;Olivo Miotto;Olivo Miotto;Susana Campino;Susana Campino;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn

  • A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites.

    Björn F. C. Kafsack;Núria Rovira-Graells;Taane G. Clark;Cristina Bancells

  • Genetic polymorphisms and personality in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    M. R. Munafò;T. G. Clark;L. R. Moore;Elizabeth Payne

  • 1999 World Health Organization-International Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the management of hypertension. Guidelines sub-committee of the World Health Organization.

    J. Chalmers;S Macmahon;G. Mancia;J. A. Whitworth

  • Independent Emergence of Artemisinin Resistance Mutations Among Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia

    Shannon Takala-Harrison;Christopher G. Jacob;Cesar Arze;Michael P. Cummings

  • Whole genome sequencing of multiple Leishmania donovani clinical isolates provides insights into population structure and mechanisms of drug resistance

    Tim Downing;Hideo Imamura;Saskia Decuypere;Taane G. Clark

  • The genome of the simian and human malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

    A. Pain;U. Böhme;A. E. Berry;K. Mungall

  • Survival Analysis Part III: Multivariate data analysis – choosing a model and assessing its adequacy and fit

    M J Bradburn;T G Clark;S B Love;D G Altman

  • Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

    Muminatou Jallow;Yik Ying Teo;Yik Ying Teo;Kerrin S. Small;Kerrin S. Small;Kirk A. Rockett;Kirk A. Rockett

  • Missing... presumed at random: cost-analysis of incomplete data.

    Andrew Briggs;Taane Clark;Jane Wolstenholme;Philip Clarke

  • Quantification of the completeness of follow-up.

    Taane G Clark;Douglas G Altman;Bianca L De Stavola

Frequent Co-Authors

Susana Campino
Susana Campino London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Ruth McNerney
Ruth McNerney University of Cape Town
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kirk A. Rockett
Kirk A. Rockett University of Oxford
Sarah Auburn
Sarah Auburn Charles Darwin University
Martin L. Hibberd
Martin L. Hibberd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Miguel Viveiros
Miguel Viveiros Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Chris Drakeley
Chris Drakeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Colin J. Sutherland
Colin J. Sutherland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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