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Public health Publications

Year Abstract/Paper Journal Author(s) Sort ascending
2007 Hepatosplenomegaly in Kenyan schoolchildren: Exacerbation by concurrent chronic exposure to malaria and Schistosoma mansoni infection.

Trop Med Int Health, 12, 1442-1449. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Wilson, S.; Vennervald, B.J.; Kadzo, H.; Ireri, E.; Amaganga, C.; Booth, M.; Kariuki, H.C.; Mwatha, J.K.; Kimani, G.; Ouma, J.H.; Muchuri, E.; Dunne, D.W.
2009 Hepatosplenomegaly associated with chronic malaria exposure: evidence for a pro-inflammatory mechanism exacerbated by schistosomiasis.

Parasite Immunol, 31, 64-71 (Wiley)

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.
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.
2007 Age-adjusted Plasmodium falciparum antibody levels in school-aged children are a stable marker of microgeographical variations in exposure to Plasmodium infection.

BMC Infectious Diseases, 7, 67 Published online 2007 June 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-67. (BioMed Central)

Wilson, S.; Booth, M.; Jones, .FM.; Mwatha, J.K.; Kimani, G.; Kariuki, H.F.; Vennervald, B.J.; Ouma, J.H.; Muchiri, E.; Dunne, D.W.
2006 Suppression of RANTES in children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

 Haematologica, 91, 1396-1399 (Ferrata Storti Foundation)

Were, T.; Hittner, J.B.; Ouma, C.; Otieno, R.O.; Orago, A.S.S.; Ong’echa, J.M; Vulule, JM.; Keller, C.C.; Perkins, DJ.
2009 Naturally-acquired hemozoin by monocytes promotes suppression of RANTES in children with malarial anemia through an IL-10-dependent mechanism.

Microbes and Infection, 11, 811-819. (Elsevier)

Were, T.; Davenport, G.C.; Yamo, O.E.; Hittner, J.B.; Awandare, G.A.; Otieno, M.F.; Ouma, C.; Orago, A.S.S.; Vulule, J.M.; Ongecha, J.M.; Perkins, D.J.
2011 Knowledge and Behavior as determinants of anti-malarial drug use in a peri-urban population from malaria holoendemic region of western Kenya.

Malaria Journal 10(1):99.

Watsierah CA, Jura WGZO, Kaseje D, Abon’go B, Ouma C
2011 Using Food Grade Lye “Omushelekha” in the Formulation of Health Products from Commonly Consumed African Indigenous Vegetables and Vegetable Combinations.

Functional Foods in Health and Disease.  5: 189-197.

Walingo MK, Habwe FO
2005 Regression of hepatosplenomegaly in Kenyan school-aged children after praziquantel treatment and three years of greatly reduced exposure to Schistosoma mansoni.

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 99(2), 150-60. (Medline)

Vennervald, B.J.; Booth, M.; Butterworth. A.E.; Kariuki. H.C.; Kadzo, H.; Ireri, E.; Amaganga, C.; Kimani, G.; Kenty, L.; Mwatha, J.; Ouma, J.H.; Dunne, D.W.
2009 Functional characterization and protein-protein interactions of trypanosome splicing factors U2AF35, U2AF65 and SF1

Mol Biochem. Parasitol. 164, 137-146. (Elsevier)

Vazquez, M.P.; Mualem, D.; Bercovich, N.; Zeev Stern, M.; Nyambega, B.; Barda,O.; Masiga,D.; Gupta, S.K.; Michaeli, S.; Levin, M.J.