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        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/drug-resistance-threatens-asias-health-and-economy\" title=\"Drug resistance threatens Asia's health and economy\" class=\"state-published\">Drug resistance threatens Asia's health and economy</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">18 May 2016</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">New and unexpected health threats have emerged in Asia that could weigh on the world's fastest growing and most dynamic region. Diseases associated with obesity and smoking are rising, and will cause tens of millions of deaths from heart and lung disease and cancer in coming decades. But alongside these lifestyle-associated conditions, the old foe of infectious disease is reemerging and threatens to cause an even greater health and economic disaster.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/drug-resistance-triggers-war-to-wipe-out-malaria-in-the-mekong-region\" title=\"Drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region\" class=\"state-published\">Drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">4 May 2016</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">No one knows exactly why resistance to malaria drugs always emerges first in this remote western province of Cambodia, nestled in the Cardamom Mountains. \u201cThe reasons are as much social as biological,\u201d says malariologist Tom Peto, who is here in this dusty, unremarkable-looking town battling the latest threat to global malaria control: multiple drug\u2013resistant (MDR) malaria.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/tracii-anti-malarial-drug-resistance-study-begins-to-recruit-patients\" title=\"TRACII anti-malarial drug resistance study begins to recruit patients\" class=\"state-published\">TRACII anti-malarial drug resistance study begins to recruit patients</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">21 March 2016</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">The Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration II (TRACII) study has begun recruitment, with about 180 subjects enrolled to date in 12 sites in seven countries in Asia and Africa, researchers announced at the second TRACII investigators\u2019 meeting held 7 March in Bangkok.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/not-treating-pregnant-women-with-malaria-not-an-option\" title=\"Not treating pregnant women with malaria 'not an option'\" class=\"state-published\">Not treating pregnant women with malaria 'not an option'</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Publication</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">14 March 2016</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Dr Joel Tarning from MORU discusses his New England Journal of Medicine editorial on treating malaria in pregnancy, outlining new evidence on the effectiveness of artemisinin-combination therapies in pregnant women with malaria.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/artemisinins-should-replace-quinine-for-first-trimester-malaria-treatment-says-new-study\" title=\"Artemisinins should replace quinine for first-trimester malaria treatment, says new study\" class=\"state-published\">Artemisinins should replace quinine for first-trimester malaria treatment, says new study</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Publication</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">SMRU</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">11 February 2016</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Artemisinins, the most effective antimalarials available, should be endorsed in the first trimester of pregnancy to ensure optimal treatment of falciparum malaria in pregnant women, reports a paper published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/millions-at-risk-of-little-known-deadly-tropical-disease\" title=\"Millions at risk of little known deadly tropical disease\" class=\"state-published\">Millions at risk of little known deadly tropical disease</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Publication</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">12 January 2016</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Melioidosis, a difficult to diagnose deadly bacterial disease, is likely to be present in many more countries than previously thought, reports a paper published online today in the journal Nature Microbiology. The study predicts that melioidosis is present in 79 countries, including 34 that have never reported the disease.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/how-drug-resistant-parasites-in-asia-could-lead-to-a-global-comeback-for-malaria\" title=\"How Drug-Resistant Parasites in Asia Could Lead to a Global Comeback for Malaria\" class=\"state-published\">How Drug-Resistant Parasites in Asia Could Lead to a Global Comeback for Malaria</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">SMRU</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">27 December 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Although the Wang Pha clinic was established to treat malaria, it hasn't had a malaria case at all in several days. Now, patients come with other ailments or to visit the maternity ward. \"When no one is worried, that's when we have to worry,\" said professor Francois Nosten, director of the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, which includes Wang Pha and four other clinics along the Thai-Myanmar border.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/smru-preventing-neural-tube-defects-with-folate-supplements\" title=\"SMRU: Preventing neural tube defects with folate supplements\" class=\"state-published\">SMRU: Preventing neural tube defects with folate supplements</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">SMRU</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">11 November 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">In the past few months, the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) has begun a campaign to make pregnant Karen women and their husbands aware of the importance of pre-conceptual folate to prevent neural tube defects in newborns.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/mass-drug-administration-under-way-in-myanmar-villages\" title=\"Mass drug administration under way in Myanmar villages\" class=\"state-published\">Mass drug administration under way in Myanmar villages</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">SMRU</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">4 September 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">The Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) led Malaria Elimination Task Force has undertaken mass drug administration campaigns in Eastern Karen State, Myanmar in areas with a high sub microscopic Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/pharmacometric-research-at-moru-to-expand-thanks-to-gates-foundation-grant\" title=\"Pharmacometric research at MORU to expand thanks to Gates Foundation grant\" class=\"state-published\">Pharmacometric research at MORU to expand thanks to Gates Foundation grant</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">31 August 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has approved a three-year grant that will lead to an expansion of the pharmacometric research group within MORU\u2019s Department of Clinical Pharmacology.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/mapping-malaria-in-myanmar\" title=\"Mapping Malaria in Myanmar\" class=\"state-published\">Mapping Malaria in Myanmar</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MOCRU</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">27 April 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Fearing that drug resistant malaria will reach Africa, Prof Fran\u00e7ois Nosten and his team are among those scientists who are scrambling to stop it while they still can. Drug resistance to artemisinin has been steadily increasing in Southeast Asia. Having emerged in Cambodia in 2007, it since has been recorded in Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar. Artemisinin is the last remaining effective drug against the resistant falciparum strain, and there are no suitable replacements yet.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/how-best-to-test-ebola-treatments\" title=\"How best to test Ebola treatments\" class=\"state-published\">How best to test Ebola treatments</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Publication</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">14 April 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">An unconventional clinical trial design might have advantages over classical trials for testing treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD), suggests a study published this week in PLOS Medicine. The work of an international team led by John Whitehead of Lancaster University, UK and Ben Cooper (Oxford University, UK, and Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok, Thailand) provides much-needed data to inform a debate on the scientific and ethical justification for non-randomized EVD trials that has taken place in the editorial pages of a number of medical journals in past months.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/artemisinin-resistant-malaria-established-across-myanmar-now-within-25km-of-indian-border\" title=\"Artemisinin-resistant malaria established across Myanmar, now within 25km of Indian border\" class=\"state-published\">Artemisinin-resistant malaria established across Myanmar, now within 25km of Indian border</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">20 February 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Bangkok / Oxford (UK), 20 February 2015 - Resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin is established in Myanmar and has reached within 25km of the Indian border, a study published today in Lancet Infectious Diseases reports. Artemisinin resistance threatens to follow the same historical trajectory from Southeast Asia to the Indian subcontinent as seen in the past with other antimalarial medicines.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n", 
        "\n\n    <div class=\"listing-item listing-item-search\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/NewsArticle\">\n        \n        <div class=\"media-body\">\n        \n            <h4 class=\"media-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https://www.tropmedres.ac/news/genetics-underpinning-antimalarial-drug-resistance-revealed\" title=\"Genetics underpinning antimalarial drug resistance revealed\" class=\"state-published\">Genetics underpinning antimalarial drug resistance revealed</a>\n            </h4>\n            \n            \n                <p class=\"categories-list\">\n                    \n\n    \n            \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">MORU Bangkok</span>\n            \n        \n        \n            \n                <span class=\"label label-primary\">Research</span>\n            \n        \n\n    \n\n\n                </p>\n            \n\n            \n                <p class=\"details\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">19 January 2015</p>\n            \n                            \n            \n                <p data-truncate=\"yes\" data-truncate-lines=\"2\">Largest genome-wide study of parasite provides clearest picture yet of genetic changes driving artemisinin resistance\r\nartemisinin-genetics-resistance. Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, 19 January 2015 \u2013 The largest genome-wide association study to date of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum unveils a complex genetic architecture that enables the parasite to develop resistance to our most effective antimalarial drug, artemisinin.</p>\n            \n\n            \n                                \n        </div>\n        \n    </div>\n\n\n"
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