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Michela

Menegon

Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases

Istituto Superiore di Sanitą

Viale R. Elena 299

00161 - Rome - Italy

Studi e formazione:

1997 Biology Degree, University La Sapienza of Rome , Italy .

2000-2004 PhD in Microbiology and Virology, University La Sapienza of Rome , Italy

Incarichi, attivitą didattica 

1997-98 Postgraduate fellow in the Department of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanitą, Rome , Italy .

1998-04 Research fellow in the Department of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanitą.

2004-Research scientist in the Department of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanitą.

Sintesi delle attivitą

Current research interests: Molecular epidemiology of malaria: molecular diagnosis of the four human malaria plasmodia, genotyping of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax field isolates, identification and characterization of genes associated with parasites-human host interactions and drug-resistance in Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax.

Pubblicazioni recenti selezionate

  1. Menegon M, Majori G, Severini C. Genetic variations of the Plasmodium vivax dihydropteroate synthase gene. Acta Tropica, 2006, 9:196-199.

  2. Severini C, Menegon M, Sannella AR, Paglia MG, Narciso P, Matteelli A, Gulletta M, Caramello P, Canta F, Xayavong MV, Moura IN, Pieniazek NJ, Taramelli D, Majori G. Prevalence of pfcrt point mutations and level of chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Africa. Infection, Genetics and Evololution 2006, 6: 262-268

  3. Leclerc MC, Durand P, Gauthier C, Patot S, Billotte N, Menegon M, Severini C, Ayala FJ, Renaud F. Meager genetic variability of the human malaria agent Plasmodium vivax. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA , 2004, 101:14455-60.

  4. Severini C, Menegon M, Di Luca M, Abdullaev I, Majori G, Razakov SA, Gradoni L. Risk of Plasmodium vivax malaria reintroduction in Uzbekistan : genetic characterization of parasites and status of potential malaria vectors in the Surkhandarya region. Transaction of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine of Hygiene. 2004, 98:585-92.

  5.  Menegon M, Severini C, Sannella A, Paglia MG, Sangare D, Abdel-Wahab A, Abdel-Muhsin AA, Babiker H, Walliker D, Alano P. Genotyping of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 2000, 111:153-61.