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Within-host microevolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae is rapid and adaptive during natural colonisation.
Chrispin Chaguza, Madikay Senghore, Ebrima Bojang, Rebecca A Gladstone, Stephanie W Lo, Peggy-Estelle Tientcheu, Rowan E Bancroft, Archibald Worwui, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Fatima Ceesay, Catherine Okoi, Lesley McGee, Keith P Klugman, Robert F Breiman, Michael R Barer, Richard A Adegbola, Martin Antonio, Stephen D Bentley, Brenda A Kwambana-Adams
Jul 28, 2021
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Socio-Economic Situation in Africa
Ebrima Ceesay
Apr 01, 2021
This article assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social and economic situation in Africa. The data used in this paper was generated from online survey questionnaire, in which the participants were asked questions...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Within-host microevolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae is rapid and adaptive during natural colonisation
Chrispin Chaguza, Madikay Senghore, Ebrima Bojang, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Stephanie W. Lo, Peggy-Estelle Tientcheu, Rowan E. Bancroft, Archibald Worwui, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Fatima Ceesay, Catherine Okoi, Lesley McGee, Keith P. Klugman, Robert F. Breiman, Michael R. Barer, Richard A. Adegbola, Martin Antonio, Stephen D. Bentley, Brenda A. Kwambana-Adams
Jul 10, 2020
Carriage Dynamics of Pneumococcal Serotypes in Naturally Colonized Infants in a Rural African Setting During the First Year of Life.
Chrispin Chaguza, Madikay Senghore, Ebrima Bojang, Stephanie W Lo, Chinelo Ebruke, Rebecca A Gladstone, Peggy-Estelle Tientcheu, Rowan E Bancroft, Archibald Worwui, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Fatima Ceesay, Catherine Okoi, Lesley McGee, Keith P Klugman, Robert F Breiman, Michael R Barer, Richard A Adegbola, Martin Antonio, Stephen D Bentley, Brenda A Kwambana-Adams
Jan 22, 2021
Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) carriage precedes invasive disease and influences population-wide strain dynamics, but limited data exist on temporal carriage patterns of serotypes due to the prohibitive costs of...
Respiratory infections drive hepcidin-mediated blockade of iron absorption leading to iron deficiency anemia in African children.
Andrew M Prentice, Amat Bah, Momodou W Jallow, Amadou T Jallow, Saikou Sanyang, Ebrima A Sise, Kabiru Ceesay, Ebrima Danso, Andrew E Armitage, Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Hal Drakesmith, Miriam Wathuo, Noah Kessler, Carla Cerami, Rita Wegmüller
May 09, 2019
Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most prevalent nutritional condition worldwide. We studied the contribution of hepcidin-mediated iron blockade to IDA in African children. We measured hepcidin and hemoglobin weekly, and...
The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa.
Deepti Gurdasani, Tommy Carstensen, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Luca Pagani, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, Savita Karthikeyan, Louise Iles, Martin O Pollard, Ananyo Choudhury, Graham RS Ritchie, Yali Xue, Jennifer Asimit, Rebecca N Nsubuga, Elizabeth H Young, Cristina Pomilla, Katja Kivinen, Kirk Rockett, Anatoli Kamali, Ayo P Doumatey, Gershim Asiki, Janet Seeley, Fatoumatta Sisay-Joof, Muminatou Jallow, Stephen Tollman, Ephrem Mekonnen, Rosemary Ekong, Tamiru Oljira, Neil Bradman, Kalifa Bojang, Michele Ramsay, Adebowale Adeyemo, Endashaw Bekele, Ayesha Motala, Shane A Norris, Fraser Pirie, Pontiano Kaleebu, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Chris Tyler-Smith, Charles Rotimi, Eleftheria Zeggini, Manjinder S Sandhu
Aug 15, 2018
Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic diversity is needed. The African Genome Variation Project provides a resource with which to...