RESEARCH PROFILE

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Tuberculosis epidemiology and novel transmission routes in rural Tanzania, with Professor Elizabeth M Wellington, Life Sciences, - Dr Orin A Courtenay - Biological Sciences, Funded by: National Institutes of Health, Project Start Date: 01/08/2010 Project End Date: 31/07/2015
• Field trials of a synthetic sex pheromone as a tool to reduce viseral leishmaniasis transmission (WT Strategic Translation Award) led by Keele (Warwick co-applicant), with - -, Funded by: Keele University, Project Start Date: 01/07/2010 Project End Date: 31/10/2013
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Antoniou, M., Messaritakis, I., Christodoulou, V., Ascoksilaki, I., Kanavakis, N., Sutton, A. J., Carson, C. and Courtenay, O.(2009) 'Increasing incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece' Emerging Infectious Diseases 15 (6), 932 - 934 (1080-6059) [article]
• Carson, C., Antoniou, M., Ruiz-Argüello, M. B., Alcami, A., Christodoulou, V., Messaritakis, I., Blackwell, J. M. and Courtenay, O.(2009) 'A prime/boost DNA/Modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccine expressing recombinant Leishmania DNA encoding TRYP is safe and immunogenic in outbred dogs, the reservoir of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis' Vaccine 27 (7), 1080 - 1086 (0264-410X) [article]
• O. Courtenay, L.A. Reilly, F.P. Sweeney, V. Hibberd, S. Bryan, A. Ul-Hassan, C. Newman, D.W. Macdonald, R. J. Delahay, G. J. Wilson and E. M. H. Wellington(2006) 'Is Mycobacterium bovis in the environment important for the persistence of bovine tuberculosis?' Biology Letters 2 460 - 462
• Courtenay O, Quinnell RJ, Garcez LM, Shaw JJ, Dye C(2002) 'Infectiousness in a cohort of Brazilian dogs: why culling fails to control visceral leishmaniasis in areas of high transmission' Journal Of Infectious Diseases 186 1314 - 1320 (0022-1899)
• Travis Emma R.; Gaze William H.; Pontiroli Alessandra; et al(2011) 'An Inter-Laboratory Validation of a Real Time PCR Assay to Measure Host Excretion of Bacterial Pathogens, Particularly of Mycobacterium bovis' PLoS One 6 (11), (1932-6203)

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