Anthony Ford
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
11 Papers
1 Citations
Anthony Ford is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasmodium vivax & Gene. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications.
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Frequent expansion of Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein in Ethiopia and its epidemiological significance.
Eugenia Lo,Jessica B. Hostetler,Delenasaw Yewhalaw,Richard D. Pearson,Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid,Karthigayan Gunalan,Daniel Kepple,Anthony Ford,Daniel Janies,Julian C. Rayner,Louis H. Miller,Guiyun Yan +11 more
TL;DR: PvDBP copy number in Duffy-negative heterozygotes was not significantly different from that inuffy-positives, providing no support for the hypothesis that increased copy number is a specific association with Duffy-negativity, although the number of Duffy-Negatives was small and further sampling is required to test this association thoroughly.
Population Normalization in SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Implications from Statewide Wastewater Monitoring in Missouri
C. C. Li,Majid Bayati,S. Hsu,Hsiao-Ying Hsieh,W. Lindsi,Anthony M Belenchia,Sally A. Zemmer,J. Klutts,Martin Samuelson,M. Reynolds,Elizabeth S. Semkiw,H.-Y. Johnson,Tara Foley,C. Wieberg,Jeffrey D. Wenzel,Terri D. Lyddon,Mary LePique,Clayton A. Rushford,B. B. Salcedo,Kara Gardner Young,Maddie Graham,Reinier Suarez,Anthony Ford,Dagmara S. Antkiewicz,Kayley H. Janssen,Martin M. Shafer,M. Cecilia Johnson,C.-H. Lin +27 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a universal wastewater biomarker for population normalization for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and compare three wastewater biomarkers, i.e., caffeine, paraxanthine, and pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV), for WBE.
Prevalence and distribution of Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein gene duplications in Sudan
Safaa A. M. Ahmed,Kareen Pestana,Anthony Ford,Mohammed Elfaki,Eiman Gamil,Arwa F. Elamin,T. M. Elfaki,Sumaia Abukashawa,Eugenia Lo,Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the prevalence and type of PvDBP duplications, and its relationship to demographic and clinical features, and found that parasitemia was significantly higher in samples with the Malagasy-type than those without duplications.
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From Genes to Biomarkers: Understanding the Biology of Malaria Gametocytes and Their Detection
Daniel Kepple,Anthony Ford,Ebony Little,Gabrielle Kolesar,Beka Raya Abagero,Ashley N. Blackwell,Swarnapali De Silva Indrasekara,Delenasaw Yewhalaw,Eugenia Lo +8 more
- 30 Aug 2021
TL;DR: The biology of Plasmodium gametocytes, existing tools forgametocyte detection, and features of gametocyte genes are provided to help develop better detection biomarkers and effective strategies to reduce transmission in malaria-endemic countries.
Whole Genome Sequencing of Plasmodium vivax Isolates Reveals Frequent Sequence and Structural Polymorphisms in Erythrocyte Binding Genes
Anthony Ford,Daniel Kepple,Beka Raya Abagero,Jordan Connors,Richard D. Pearson,Sarah Auburn,Sisay Getachew,Colby T. Ford,Karthigayan Gunalan,Louis H. Miller,Daniel Janies,Julian C. Rayner,Guiyun Yan,Delenasaw Yewhalaw,Eugenia Lo +14 more
TL;DR: Single nucleotide polymorphism and copy number variation in Whole Genome Sequence (WGS) data from 44 P. vivax samples isolated from symptomatic malaria patients in southwestern Ethiopia showed various levels of gene flow at a small geographical scale, and allowed a panel of informative Single Nucleotide Polymorphic markers diagnostic at a micro-geographical scale.