Name: Edwin Too
Country: Nigeria
Affiliation:
Research officer,
Kenya Medical Research Institute,
Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development.
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Address:
Kenya Medical Research Institute,
Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development.
Research Interests:
- Assessment of therapeutic efficacy to the antifolates, artemisinin and non-artemisinin based combinations against falciparum malaria.
- Molecular characterization and application of radionuclide techniques for the detection of drug-resistant malaria parasites.
- Monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy using quantitative assays, e.g nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (QT-NASBA) and RT-PCR.
- Transmission dynamics studies post-artemisinin-based intervention.
- Parasite population studies determining origin and dispersal mechanisms of resistant parasites.
- Human population studies investigating protection to malaria disease and prevalence of some human immune genes and other phenotypic markers.
- Diagnosis of malaria parasites.
- In vitro screening of traditional medicines for antimalarial activity, towards bio-prospecting for antimalarial agents.
Biography:
Publications:
- Evaluation of Efficacy of Artemether Lumefantrine and Dihydro-Artemisinin Piperaquine in Clearance of Gametocytes in Uncomplicated Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria and Effectiveness of Microscopy and Rt-Pcr in Gametocytes Detection.
- PfEMP1 DBLα Sequence Tags in Genomic DNA of P. falciparum Field Isolates from Two Malaria Endemic Sites in Kenya.
- In Vivo Anti-malarial Test of Essential Oil Extracted from Nigella sativa (L.) Seeds‟. The Journal of Ethnopharmacology. Sabah O mar, Rahma U. Yusuf, Edwin Too. (2009).