Mercedes Pascual

Also affiliated with New York University

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMathematics

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Driven by 34 papers. Top paper: “Neutral vs. non-neutral genetic footprints of Plasmodium falciparum multiclonal infections”.

Neutral vs. non-neutral genetic footprints of Plasmodium falciparum multiclonal infections

PLoS Computational Biology(2023)10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010816

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0.624DataRank · unranked

31 citations

Qixin He, Zhan Qi, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Dionne C. Argyropoulos, Mun Hua Tan +4 more

Hyper-diverse antigenic variation and resilience to transmission-reducing intervention in falciparum malaria

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-51468-6

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0.342DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Qixin He, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Karen P. Day, Mercedes Pascual, Qi Zhang

Measuring changes in Plasmodium falciparum census population size in response to sequential malaria control interventions

eLife(2023)10.7554/elife.91411

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Qi Zhang, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Qixin He, Mun Hua Tan +9 more

The neglected role of relative humidity in the interannual variability of urban malaria in Indian cities

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-28145-7

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64 citations

Pamela P. Martinez, Keshav G. Vaishnav, Vijay Kohli, V K Desai, Menno J. Bouma +2 more

Fine-scale heterogeneity in population density predicts wave dynamics in dengue epidemics

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-28231-w

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51 citations

Laís Picinini Freitas, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Aaron A. King, Mercedes Pascual, Victoria Romeo-Aznar

Age-specific patterns of DBLα var diversity can explain why residents of high malaria transmission areas remain susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum blood stage infection throughout life

International Journal for Parasitology(2022)10.1016/j.ijpara.2021.12.001

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38 citations

Kathryn E. Tiedje, Shai Pilosof, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Qixin He, Thomas S. Rask +6 more

Indoor residual spraying with a non-pyrethroid insecticide reduces the reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum in a high-transmission area in northern Ghana

PLOS Global Public Health(2022)10.1371/journal.pgph.0000285

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36 citations

Abraham Oduro, Oscar Bangre, Lucas Amenga–Etego, Samuel Dadzie, Maxwell A. Appawu +17 more

Neutral vs. non-neutral genetic footprints of Plasmodium falciparum multiclonal infections

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.06.27.497801

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2 citations

Qixin He, Qi Zhang, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Dionne C. Argyropoulos, Mun Hua Tan +4 more

Humidity – The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

Ecology Letters(2023)10.1111/ele.14228

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174 citations

Mercedes Pascual, Michael C. Wimberly, Leah R. Johnson, Courtney C. Murdock, Joel J. Brown

Disentangling local and global climate drivers in the population dynamics of mosquito-borne infections

Science Advances(2023)10.1126/sciadv.adf7202

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28 citations

Kévin Cazelles, Huaiyu Tian, Mario Chávez, Mercedes Pascual, Bernard Cazelles

Quantifying climatic and socioeconomic drivers of urban malaria in Surat, India: a statistical spatiotemporal modelling study

The Lancet Planetary Health(2023)10.1016/s2542-5196(23)00249-8

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10 citations

Rachel Lowe, Luc Anselin, Vikas Desai, Keshav G. Vaishnav, Ashish Naik +2 more

An immune memory–structured SIS epidemiological model for hyperdiverse pathogens

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2218499120

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14 citations

Qixin He, Mercedes Pascual, André M. de Roos

Measuring changes in Plasmodium falciparum census population size in response to sequential malaria control interventions

(2023)10.7554/elife.91411.1

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8 citations

Zhan Qi, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Qixin He, Mun Hua Tan +9 more

A paradoxical population structure of var DBLα types in Africa

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.11.05.565723

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4 citations

Kathryn E. Tiedje, Qian Feng, Zhan Qi, Mercedes Pascual, Heejung Shim +3 more

Measuring changes in Plasmodium falciparum census population size in response to sequential malaria control interventions

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.05.18.23290210

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3 citations

Qi Zhang, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Qixin He, Mun Hua Tan +9 more

Crowded and warmer: unequal dengue risk at high spatial resolution across a megacity of India

Conicet(2023)10.31223/x5ww9v

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2 citations

Mauricio Santos‐Vega, Olivier Telle, Richard Paúl, Mercedes Pascual, Victoria Romeo-Aznar

Author Response: Measuring changes in Plasmodium falciparum census population size in response to sequential malaria control interventions

(2023)10.7554/elife.91411.1.sa4

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1 citations

Qi Zhang, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Qixin He, Mun Hua Tan +9 more

Reviewer #3 (Public Review): Measuring changes in Plasmodium falciparum census population size in response to sequential malaria control interventions

(2023)10.7554/elife.91411.1.sa0

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Qi Zhang, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Qixin He, Mun Hua Tan +9 more

Crowded and warmer: Unequal dengue risk at high spatial resolution across a megacity of India

PLOS Climate(2024)10.1371/journal.pclm.0000240

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8 citations

Olivier Telle, Mauricio Santos‐Vega, Richard Paúl, Mercedes Pascual, Victoria Romeo-Aznar

Inference on spatiotemporal dynamics for coupled biological populations

Journal of The Royal Society Interface(2024)10.1098/rsif.2024.0217

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6 citations

Edward L. Ionides, Aaron A. King, Mercedes Pascual, Ning Ning, Jifan Li

Community-serving research addressing climate change impacts on vector-borne diseases

The Lancet Planetary Health(2024)10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00049-4

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6 citations

Mariel D. Friberg, Mercedes Pascual, José E. Calzada, Shirley Luckhart, Luke Bergmann +1 more

Strain variation and anomalous climate synergistically influence cholera pandemics

PLoS neglected tropical diseases(2024)10.1371/journal.pntd.0012275

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3 citations

Menno J. Bouma, Miquel-Àngel Rodríguez-Arias, Manojit Roy, Pau De Yebra, Desislava Petrova +3 more

Hyper-diverse antigenic variation and resilience to transmission-reducing intervention in falciparum malaria

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.02.01.24301818

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2 citations

Qixin He, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Karen P. Day, Mercedes Pascual, Qi Zhang

From multiplicity of infection to force of infection for sparsely sampled Plasmodium falciparum populations at high transmission

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.100076.1

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2 citations

Kathryn E. Tiedje, Karen P. Day, Mercedes Pascual, Qi Zhang

From multiplicity of infection to force of infection in sparsely sampled high-transmission Plasmodium falciparum populations

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.100076

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2 citations

Kathryn E. Tiedje, Karen P. Day, Mercedes Pascual, Qi Zhang

From multiplicity of infection to force of infection in sparsely sampled high-transmission Plasmodium falciparum populations

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.02.12.24302148

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Kathryn E. Tiedje, Karen P. Day, Mercedes Pascual, Qi Zhang

A paradoxical population structure of var DBLα types in Africa

PLoS Pathogens(2025)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012813

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3 citations

Kathryn E. Tiedje, Qian Feng, Qi Zhang, Mercedes Pascual, Heejung Shim +3 more

Var genes, strain hyperdiversity, and malaria transmission dynamics

Trends in Parasitology(2025)10.1016/j.pt.2025.04.010

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3 citations

Mun Hua Tan, Qixin He, Shazia Ruybal‐Pesántez, Qi Zhang, Kathryn E. Tiedje +2 more

Metagenomic complexity of high, seasonal transmission of Plasmodium spp. in asymptomatic carriers in Northern Sahelian Ghana

Communications Medicine(2025)10.1038/s43856-025-01088-y

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2 citations

Oscar Bangre, Cecilia A. Rios-Teran, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Samantha Deed, Qi Zhang +5 more

Metagenomic analysis reveals extreme complexity of Plasmodium spp. infections in high transmission in West Africa

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.04.29.25326533

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2 citations

Oscar Bangre, Cecilia A. Rios-Teran, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Samantha Deed, Zhan Qi +5 more

Predicting re-emergence times of dengue epidemics at low reproductive numbers: DENV1 in Rio de Janeiro, 1986-1990

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.05.02.20074104

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Victoria Romeo-Aznar, Edward L. Ionides, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Mercedes Pascual, Rahul Subramanian

Evolutionary trade-offs between functional and immune selection shape multigene families in pathogens

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.24.661038

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1 citations

Mercedes Pascual, Qixin He, Qi Zhang

Frequency-Dependent Competition Between Strains Imparts Persistence to Perturbations in a Model of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution(2021)10.3389/fevo.2021.633263

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22 citations

Shai Pilosof, Kathryn E. Tiedje, Karen P. Day, Mercedes Pascual, Qixin He

An antigenic diversification threshold for falciparum malaria transmission at high endemicity

PLoS Computational Biology(2021)10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008729

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10 citations

Mercedes Pascual, Qixin He