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Public health Publications

Year Abstract/Paper Sort descending Journal Author(s)
2011 Functional Promoter Haplotypes of Interleukin-18Condition Susceptibility to Severe Malarial Anemia and Childhood Mortality.

Infection and Immunity. 79 (12): 4923-4932.

Anyona S, Kempaiah P, Raballah E, Ouma C, Were T, Davenport G, Konah S, Vulule J, Hittner J, Gichuki C, Ong'echa J, and Perkins D
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..
2011 Genetic Structure of Hartebeest Populations Straddling a Transition Zone between Morphotypes.

Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research, 1(3), 131-149, (TextRoad Publication)

Ouma, C.; Roca, A.L.; Were, T.; Raballah, E.O.; Oguge, N.O.; Jura, W.G.Z.O.; Ochieng, J.W.; Hanotte, O.; Georgiadis, N
2008 Haplotypes of IL-10 promoter variants are associated with susceptibility to severe malarial anemia and functional changes in IL-10 production.

Human Genetics, 124(5), 515-524. (SpringerLink) 

Ouma, C.; Gregory, G.C.; Were, T.; Otieno, M.F.; Hittner, J.B.; Vulule, J.M.; Martinson, J.; Ong’echa, J.M.; Ferrell, R.E.; Perkins, D.J.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2009 Increased human IgE induced by killing Schistosoma mansoni in vivo iis associated with pretreatment Th2 cytokine responsiveness to worm antigens.

The Journal of Immunology, 2006, 177, 5490-5498. (American Association of Immunologists)

Klaudia, W.; Fulford, A.J.C.; McBeath, R., Joseph, S.; Jones, F.M.; Kariuki, H.C.; Mwatha, J.K.; Kimani, G.; Kabatereine, B.; Vennervald, Ouma, J.J.H.; Dunne, D.W.