• Easy and fast method for expression and native extraction of Plasmodium vivax Duffy binding protein fragments 

      Moreno Pérez, Darwin Andrés; Baquero, Luis Alfredo; Bermúdez, Maritza; Gómez Muñoz, Laura Alejandra; Varela, Yahson; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso (2018)
      Background: The Plasmodium vivax Duffy binding protein (PvDBP) has been the most studied ligand binding human reticulocytes to date. This molecule has a cysteine-rich domain in region II (RII) which has been used as control ...
    • Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification as Point-of-Care Diagnosis for Neglected Parasitic Infections 

      Avendaño, Catalina; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso (2020)
      The World Health Organisation (WHO) has placed twenty diseases into a group known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), twelve of them being parasitic diseases: Chagas disease, cysticercosis/ taeniasis, echinococcosis, ...
    • Novel genes and mutations in patients affected by recurrent pregnancy loss 

      Quintero Ronderos, Paula; Mercier, Eric; González, Ronald; Suárez, Carlos Fernando; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso; Vaiman, Daniel; Gris, Jean-Christophe; Laissue, Paul (2017)
      Recurrent pregnancy loss is a frequently occurring human infertility-related disease affecting ~1% of women. It has been estimated that the cause remains unexplained in >50% cases which strongly suggests that genetic factors ...
    • Plasmodium falciparum pre-erythrocytic stage vaccine development 

      Molina Franky, Jessica; Cuy Chaparro, Laura; Camargo, Anny; Reyes, César; Gómez, Marcela; Salamanca, David Ricardo; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso; Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin (2020)
      Worldwide strategies between 2010 and 2017 aimed at controlling malarial parasites (mainly Plasmodium falciparum) led to a reduction of just 18% regarding disease incidence rates. Many biologically-derived anti-malarial ...
    • Self-assembling functional programmable protein array for studying protein-protein interactions in malaria parasites 

      Arévalo Pinzón, Gabriela; González González, María; Suárez, Carlos Fernando; Curtidor, Hernando; Carabias Sánchez, Javier; Muro, Antonio; LaBaer, Joshua; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso; Fuentes, Manuel (2018)
      Background: Plasmodium vivax is the most widespread malarial species, causing significant morbidity worldwide. Knowledge is limited regarding the molecular mechanism of invasion due to the lack of a continuous in vitro ...
    • Sexual forms obtained in a continuous in vitro cultured Colombian strain of Plasmodium falciparum (FCB2) 

      Ararat Sarria, Monica; Prado, Cesar Camilo; Camargo, Milena; Ospina, Laura Tatiana; Camargo, Paola Andrea; Curtidor, Hernando; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso (2020)
      Background: The epidemiological control of malaria has been hampered by the appearance of parasite resistance to anti-malarial drugs and by the resistance of mosquito vectors to control measures. This has also been associated ...
    • The prevalence of high-risk HPV types and factors determining infection in female colombian adolescents 

      Ríos Ospina, Luisa; Soto de León, Sara Cecilia; Camargo, Milena; Sánchez, Ricardo; Mancilla, Cindy Lizeth; Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin; Patarroyo, Manuel Alfonso (2016)
      This study reports six HR-HPV types' infection prevalence discriminated by species and multiple infection in unvaccinated Colombian female adolescents, as well as some factors modulating the risk of infection. HPV DNA for ...