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Public health Publications

Year Abstract/Paper Journal Author(s) Sort ascending
2007 Factors affecting human IgE and IgG responses to allergen-like molecules from Schistosoma mansoni: molecular structure and patterns of in vivo exposure.

Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 142, 40-50 (S. Karger AG, Basel)

Fitzsimmons, C.M., McBeath, R., Joseph, S., Jones, F.M., Walter, K., Hoffmann, K.F., Kariuki, H.C., Mwatha, J.K., Kimani, G., Kabatereine, N.B., Vennervald, B.J., Ouma, J.H., Dunne, DW.
2006 Malaria hotspot areas in a highland Kenya site are consistent in epidemic and non-epidemic years and are associated with ecological factors.

Malaria Journal, 5, 78-88. (BioMed Central)

Ernst, K.C.; Adoka, S.O; Kowuor, D.O.; Wilson, M.L. John, C.C.
2006 Applied and basic research on the epidemiology, morbidity, and immunology of schistosomiasis in fishing communities on Lake Albert Uganda.

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100, 216-223 (Medline)

Dunne, D.W.; Vennervald, B.J.; Booth, M.; Joseph, S.; Fitzsimmons, C.P. Sturrock, R.F.; Ouma, J.H.; Mwatha, J.K.; Kimani, G.; Kariuki, H.C.; Kazibwe, F.; Tukahebwa, E.; Kabatereine, N.B.
2010 Hematological predictors of increased severe anemia in Kenyan children co-infected with Plasmodium falciparum and HIV-1.

American Journal of Hematology, 85; 227 – 233 (Wiley)

Davenport, G.C.; Ouma, C.; Hittner, J.B.; Were, T.; Ouma, Y.; Ong'echa, J.M.; Perkins, D.J.
2005 Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum antigens vary by age and antigen in children in a malaria-holoendemic area of Kenya.

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 24, 680-684 (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)

Chelimo, K.; Ofulla, A.V.; Narum, D.L.; Kazura, J.W.; Lanar, D.E.; John, C.C.
2011 Age-related differences in naturally acquired T cell memory to Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1.

PLoS One: 6(9).

Chelimo K, Embury PB, Sumba PO, Vulule J, Ofulla AV, Long C, Kazura JW, Moormann AM.
2004 Exposure to malaria affects the regression of hepatosplenomegaly after treatment for Schistosoma mansoni infection in Kenyan children.

BMC Med. 2(1), Published online 2004 September 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-2-36. (BioMed Central)

Booth, M.; Vennervald, B.J.; Butterworth, A.E.; Kariuki, H.C.; Amaganga, C.; Kimani, G.; Mwatha, J.K.; Otedo, A.; Ouma, J.H.; Dunne, D.W.
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.
2006 A macrophage migration inhibitory factor promoter polymorphism is associated with high-density parasitemia in children with malaria.

 Genes and Immunity, 7(7), 568-575. (Nature Publishing Group).

Awandare, G.A.; Ouma, C.; Keller, C.C.; Were. T.; Otieno, R.O.; Ouma, Y.; Davenport, G.C.; Hittner, B.J.; Ong’echa, J.M.O.; Ferrell, R.; Perkins, D.J.
2009 MIF (Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor) Promoter Polymorphisms and Susceptibility to Severe Malarial Anemia.

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 200, 629–637 (Infectious Diseases Society of America)

Awandare, G.A.; Martinson, J.J.; Were, T.; Ouma, C.; Davenport, G.C.; Ong’echa, J.M.; Wang, W.; Leng, L.; Ferrell, R.E.; Bucala, R.; Perkins, DJ.