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Year Abstract/Paper Journal Sort descending Author(s)
2012 Functional Haplotypes of Fc gamma (Fc?) receptor (Fc?RIIA and Fc?RIIIB) predict risk to repeated episodes of severe malarial anemia and mortality in Kenyan children.

Human Genetics. 131(2): 289-299.

Ouma C, Davenport GC , Garcia S, Kempaiah P, Chaudhary A, Were T, Anyona SB, Raballah E, Konah SN, Hittner JB, Vulule JM, Ong’echa JM and Perkins DJ
2012 Water hyacinth eichornia crassipes (mart.) Solms-Laubach dynamics and succession in the Nyanza gulf of Lake Victoria (East Africa)

Implications for water quality and biodiversity conservation. The Scientific World Journal.

Gichuki, J., Omondi, R., Okurut, T., Matano, A., Boera, P., Jembe, T. and Ofulla A.
2008 Increased circulating interleukin (IL)-23 in children with malarial anemia:

In vivo and in vitro relationship with co-regulatory cytokines IL-12 and IL-10. Clinical Immunology, 126, 211-221. (Elsevier)

Ong'echa, J.M.; Remo, A.M.; Kristoff, J.; Hittner, J.B.; Were, T.; Ouma, C.; Otieno, R.O.; Vulule, J.M.; Keller, C.C.; Awandare, G.A.; Perkins, D.J.
2008 Hepatosplenomegaly is associated with low regulatory and Th2 responses to schistosome antigens in childhood schistosomiasis and malaria coinfection.

Infect Immun. 76, 2212-2218. (American Society for Microbiology)

Wilson, S.; Jones, F.M.; Mwatha, J.K.; Kimani, G.; Booth, M.; Kariuki, H.C.; Vennervald, B.J.; Ouma, J.H.; Muchiri, E.; Dunne, D.W.
2012 Functional Promoter Haplotypes of Interleukin-18 Condition Susceptibility to Severe Malarial Anemia and Childhood Mortality.

Infect. Immun., 80, (2) (American Society for Microbiology).

Anyona, S.B.; Kempaiah, P.; Raballah, E.; Ouma, C.; Were, T.; Davenport, G.C.; Konah, S.N.; Vulule, J.M.; Hittner, J.B.; Gichuki, C.W.; Ong'echa, J.M.; Perkins, D.J.
2004 Gamma interferon responses to Plasmodium falciparum Liver-Stage Antigen 1 and Thrombospondin-Related adhesive protein and their relationship to age, transmission intensity, and protection against malaria.

Infection and Immunity, 72, 5135-5142. (American Society for Microbiology)

John, C.C.; Moormann, A.M.; Sumba, P.O.; Ofulla, A.V.; Pregibon, D.C.; Kazura, J.W..
2004 Cytokine production in whole blood cultures from a fishing community in a highly Schistosomiasis mansoni-endemic area of Uganda: the differential effect of parasite worm and egg antigens.

Infection and Immunity, 72, 728-734  (American Society for Microbiology)

Joseph, S.; Jones, F.M.; Kimani, G.; Mwatha, J.K.; Kamau, T.; Kazibwe, F.; Kemijumbi, J.; Kabatereine, N.B.; Booth, M.; Kariuki, C.; Ouma, J.H.; Vennervald, B.J.; Dunne, D.W.
2005 Distinct Th1-and Th2-Type Prenatal Cytokine Responses to Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Invasion Ligands.

Infection and Immunity, 73, 3462-3470  (American Society for Microbiology)

Malhotra, I.; Mungai, P.; Muchiri, E.; Ouma, J.; Sharma, S.; Kazura, J.W.; King, C.L.
2006 Acquisition of hemozoin by monocytes down-regulates interleukin-12 p40 (IL-12p40) transcripts and circulating IL-12p70 through an IL-10-dependent mechanism: in vivo and in vitro findings in severe malarial anemia.

Infection and Immunity, 74(9), 5249-5260. (American Society for Microbiology)

Keller, C.C.; Yamo, O.; Ouma, C.; Ong’echa, J.M.; Ounah, D.; Hittner, J.B.; Vulule, J.M.; Perkins, D.J.
2007 Role of monocyte-acquired hemozoin in suppression of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in children with severe malarial anemia.

Infection and Immunity, 75(1), 201-10. (American Society for Microbiology)

Awandare, G.A.; Ouma, Y.; Ouma, C.; Were, T.; Otieno, R.; Keller, C.C.; Davenport, G.C.; Hittner, J.B.; Vulule, J.; Ferrell, R.; Ong'echa, J.M.; Perkins, D.J.