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Kyaw L. Thwai

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Malaria control and the unexpected spread of diagnostic-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Peru

Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza, Abebe Alemu Fola, Alfred Simkin, Kyaw L. Thwai, Jonathan J. Juliano, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Parul Johri, Cobi M Henry, Luis Cabrera-Sosa, Gerardo Porras-Laymito, Qin Cheng, Oliver John Watson, Dionicia Gamboa, Hugo O. Valdivia, Jonathan B. Parr

The paper analyzes the spread of Plasmodium falciparum with hrp2/3 deletions in Peru, finding that demographic changes from malaria control and potential selection pressures drove their fixation.

bioRxiv · Feb 26, 2026 · PreprintGenetics

A novel CRISPR-based malaria diagnostic capable of Plasmodium detection, speciation, and drug-resistance genotyping

Clark H. Cunningham, Christopher M. Hennelly, Jessica T. Lin, Ratawan Ubalee, Ross M. Boyce, Edgar Mugema Mulogo, Nicholas J. Hathaway, Kyaw L. Thwai, Fernandine Phanzu, Albert Ntumba Kalonji, Kashamuka Mwandagalirwa, Antoinette Tshefu, SR Meshnick, JJ Juliano, Jonathan B. Parr

Novel malaria SHERLOCK assays enabled robust detection, speciation, and genotyping of Plasmodium spp. in diverse samples collected in Africa and Asia.

EBioMedicine · Jun 1, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

The Impact of Antimalarial Resistance on the Genetic Structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the DRC

Robert Verity, Özkan Aydemir, Nicholas F. Brazeau, Oliver John Watson, Nicholas J. Hathaway, Melchior Kashamuka Mwandagalirwa, Patrick W. Marsh, Kyaw L. Thwai, Travis M. Fulton, Madeline Denton, Andrew Parker Morgan, Jonathan B. Parr, Patrick K. Tumwebaze, Melissa D. Conrad, Philip Jon Rosenthal, , Jonathan J. Juliano

This study analyzes the genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the DRC, identifying an east-west haplotype divide linked to antimalarial resistance and evidence of gene flow and selection pressures.

Nature Communications · Apr 30, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics