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Public health Publications

Year Sort descending Abstract/Paper Journal Author(s)
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.
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.
2006 Carriage of DRB1*13 Is Associated with Increased Posttreatment IgE Levels against Schistosoma mansoni Antigens and Lower Long-Term Reinfection Level.

The Journal of Immunology, 176, 7112-7118. (American Association of Immunologists)

Booth, M.; Shaw, M.A.; Carpenter, D.; Joseph, S; Kabatereine, N.B.; Kariuki, H.C.; Mwatha, J.K.; Jones, F.M.; Vennervald, B.J.; Ouma, J.H.; Dunne, D.W.
2006 Parasitemia, anemia, and malarial anemia in infants and young children in a rural holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission area.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 74, 376-385. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)

Ong’echa, J.M.; Keller, C.C.; Were, T.; Ouma, C.; Otieno, R.O.; Landis-Lewis, Z.; Ochiel, D.O.; Slingluff, J.L.; Ogonji, M.; Orago, A.S.; Vulule. J.M.; Kaplan, S.S.; Day, R.D.; Perkins, D.J.
2006 Increased severe anemia in HIV-1-exposed and HIV-1-positive infants and children during acute malaria.

AIDS, 20(2), 275-280 (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (London, United Kingdom)).

Otieno, R.O.; Ouma, C.; Ong'echa, J.M.; Keller, C.C.; Were, T.; Waindi, E.N.; Michaels, M.G.; Day, R.D.; Vulule, 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.
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.
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.
2007 Microgeographical and Ethnic Variations in Water Contact and Schistosoma mansoni exposure within a Ugandan Fishing Community.

Trop Med Int Health. 12, 724-735. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Pinot de Moira, A.; Fulford, A.J.; Kabatereine, N.B.; Kazibwe, F.; Ouma, J.; Dunne, D.W.; Booth, M.
2007 The oxytocic properties of Luffa cylindrica (L.) M. Roem. and Bidens pilosa L., traditionally used medicinal plants from Western Uganda.

African Journal of Ecology 45, 88-93. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Kamatenesi-Mugisha, M.; Makawiti, D. W.; Oryem-Origa H.; Olwa-Odyek; Nganga, J.