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RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORK
Ndao Lab Findings
Perera DJ, Hassan AS, Liu SS, Elahi SM, Gadoury C, Weeratna RD, Gilbert R, Ndao M. A low dose adenovirus vectored vaccine expressing Schistosoma mansoni Cathepsin B protects from intestinal schistosomiasis in mice. EBioMedicine. 2022 Apr 29;80:104036. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104036. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35500538; PMCID: PMC9065910.
Mouhoub E, Domenech P, Ndao M, Reed MB. The Diverse Applications of Recombinant BCG-Based Vaccines to Target Infectious Diseases Other Than Tuberculosis: An Overview. Front Microbiol. 2021 Oct 21;12:757858. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.757858. PMID: 34745066; PMCID: PMC8566895.
Sonzogni-Desautels K, Ndao M. Will Auranofin Become a Golden New Treatment Against COVID-19? Front Immunol. 2021 Sep 22;12:683694. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.683694. PMID: 34630379; PMCID: PMC8492993.
Perera DJ, Ndao M. Promising Technologies in the Field of Helminth Vaccines. Front Immunol. 2021 Aug 19;12:711650. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.711650. PMID: 34489961; PMCID: PMC8418310.
Hassan AS, Perera DJ, Ward BJ, Ndao M. Therapeutic activity of a Salmonella-vectored Schistosoma mansoni vaccine in a mouse model of chronic infection. Vaccine. 2021 Sep 15;39(39):5580-5588. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.08.031. Epub 2021 Aug 16. PMID: 34412919.
Perera DJ, Hassan AS, Jia Y, Ricciardi A, McCluskie MJ, Weeratna RD, Ndao M. Adjuvanted Schistosoma mansoni-Cathepsin B With Sulfated Lactosyl Archaeol Archaeosomes or AddaVax™ Provides Protection in a Pre-Clinical Schistosomiasis Model. Front Immunol. 2020 Nov 16;11:605288. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.605288. PMID: 33304354; PMCID: PMC7701121.
Perera D, Golizeh M, Ndao M. A Procedure for Analyzing the Proteomic Proteomics Profile of Schistosoma mansoni Cercariae. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2151:75-84. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0635-3_7. PMID: 32451997.
Hassan AS, Zelt NH, Perera DJ, Ndao M, Ward BJ. Vaccination against the digestive enzyme Cathepsin B using a YS1646 Salmonella enterica Typhimurium vector provides almost complete protection against Schistosoma mansoni challenge in a mouse model. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Dec 2;13(12):e0007490. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007490. Erratum in: PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Nov 4;15(11):e0009936. PMID: 31790394; PMCID: PMC6907844.
Sonzogni-Desautels K, Mead JR, Ndao M. Mouse Models for Use in Cryptosporidium Infection Studies and Quantification of Parasite Burden Using Flow Cytometry, qPCR, and Histopathology. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2052:229-251. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9748-0_14. PMID: 31452166.
Sonzogni-Desautels K, Di Lenardo TZ, Renteria AE, Gascon MA, Geary TG, Ndao M. A protocol to count Cryptosporidium oocysts by flow cytometry without antibody staining. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Mar 20;13(3):e0007259. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007259. PMID: 30893302; PMCID: PMC6443187.
Ruiz-Lancheros E, Golizeh M, Ndao M. Apolipoprotein A1 and Fibronectin Fragments as Markers of Cure for the Chagas Disease. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1955:263-273. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9148-8_20. PMID: 30868534.
Ruiz-Lancheros E, Rasoolizadeh A, Chatelain E, Garcia-Bournissen F, Moroni S, Moscatelli G, Altcheh J, Ndao M. Validation of Apolipoprotein A-1 and Fibronectin Fragments as Markers of Parasitological Cure for Congenital Chagas Disease in Children Treated With Benznidazole. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 1;5(11):ofy236. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy236. PMID: 30397621; PMCID: PMC6210386.
Ricciardi A, Zelt NH, Visitsunthorn K, Dalton JP, Ndao M. Immune Mechanisms Involved in Schistosoma mansoni-Cathepsin B Vaccine Induced Protection in Mice. Front Immunol. 2018 Jul 25;9:1710. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01710. PMID: 30090103; PMCID: PMC6068236.
Golizeh M, Melendez-Pena CE, Ward BJ, Saeed S, Santamaria C, Conway B, Cooper C, Klein MB, Ndao M; Canadian Co-Infection Cohort (CTN222). Proteomic fingerprinting in HIV/HCV co-infection reveals serum biomarkers for the diagnosis of fibrosis staging. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 2;13(4):e0195148. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195148. PMID: 29608613; PMCID: PMC5880398.
Lemieux MW, Sonzogni-Desautels K, Ndao M. Lessons Learned from Protective Immune Responses to Optimize Vaccines against Cryptosporidiosis. Pathogens. 2017 Dec 24;7(1):2. doi: 10.3390/pathogens7010002. PMID: 29295550; PMCID: PMC5874728.
Kardoush MI, Ward BJ, Ndao M. Serum Carbonic Anhydrase 1 is a Biomarker for Diagnosis of Human Schistosoma mansoni Infection. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Apr;96(4):842-849. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0021. PMID: 28500821; PMCID: PMC5392630.
Nath-Chowdhury M, Sangaralingam M, Bastien P, Ravel C, Pratlong F, Mendez J, Libman M, Ndao M. Real-time PCR using FRET technology for Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis species differentiation. Parasit Vectors. 2016 May 3;9:255. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1531-4. PMID: 27141967; PMCID: PMC4855858.
Kardoush MI, Ward BJ, Ndao M. Identification of Candidate Serum Biomarkers for Schistosoma mansoni Infected Mice Using Multiple Proteomic Platforms. PLoS One. 2016 May 3;11(5):e0154465. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154465. PMID: 27138990; PMCID: PMC4854390.
Ricciardi A, Visitsunthorn K, Dalton JP, Ndao M. A vaccine consisting of Schistosoma mansoni cathepsin B formulated in Montanide ISA 720 VG induces high level protection against murine schistosomiasis. BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Mar 5;16:112. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1444-z. PMID: 26945988; PMCID: PMC4779570.
Sonzogni-Desautels K, Renteria AE, Camargo FV, Di Lenardo TZ, Mikhail A, Arrowood MJ, Fortin A, Ndao M. Oleylphosphocholine (OlPC) arrests Cryptosporidium parvum growth in vitro and prevents lethal infection in interferon gamma receptor knock-out mice. Front Microbiol. 2015 Sep 23;6:973. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00973. PMID: 26441906; PMCID: PMC4585137.
Ricciardi A, Ndao M. Still hope for schistosomiasis vaccine. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2015;11(10):2504-8. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2015.1059981. PMID: 26176659; PMCID: PMC4635886.
Ricciardi A, Dalton JP, Ndao M. Evaluation of the immune response and protective efficacy of Schistosoma mansoni Cathepsin B in mice using CpG dinucleotides as adjuvant. Vaccine. 2015 Jan 3;33(2):346-53. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.11.016. Epub 2014 Nov 21. PMID: 25448114.
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
Our findings have been presented at:
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PARASITIOLOGY (ICOPA)
2022 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE AND MALARIA (ICTMM)
2022 (Bangkok, Thailand)
ANNUAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE (ASTMH)
2022 (Seattle, USA)
2021 (Virtual)
2020 (Virtual)
2019 (National Harbor, USA)
ANNUAL MONTREAL PARASITOLOGY SYMPOSIUM (AMPS)
2022 (St Hyacinthe, Canada)
2019 (St Anne de Bellevue, Canada)
ANNUAL MCGILL BIOMEDICAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE (AMBGC)
2022 (Virtual)
2021 (Virtual)
2020 (Virtual)
2019 (Montreal, Canada)
BEYOND SCIENCES INITIATIVE (BSI)
2021 (Virtual)
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM STUDENT DAY
2021 (Virtual)
MICRIOBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH DAY
2020 (Virtual)
2018 (Montreal, Canada)
INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVE IN INFECTION AND IMMUNITY (MI4) SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM
2019 (Montreal, Canada)
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND IMMUNITY IN GLOBAL HEALTH (IDIGH) RESEARCH DAY
2019 (Montreal, Canada)
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