Susan Jarvi
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Inner Mongolia Agricultural University
China
Biography
Susan I. Jarvi studies host-parasite and parasite-parasite interactions and influences on transmission and virulence of infectious disease in the Hawaiian honeycreeper/malaria (Plasmodium relictum)/Avipoxvirus model. Jarvi is also studying resistance and /or tolerance to malaria and Avipoxvirus in native Hawaiian bird populations.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical science
Publications
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Jarvi SI, Farias ME, Lapointe DA, Belcaid M, Atkinson CT. Next-generation sequencing reveals cryptic mtDNA diversity of Plasmodium relictum in the Hawaiian Islands. Parasitology. 2013 Dec;140(14):1741-50.
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Jarvi SI, Pitt WC, Farias ME, Shiels L, Severino MG, Howe KM, Jacquier SH, Shiels AB, Amano KK, Luiz BC, Maher DE. Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the blood and peripheral tissues of wild Hawaiian rats (Rattus rattus) by a quantitative PCR (qPCR) Assay. PloS one. 2015 Apr 24;10(4):e0123064.
