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Public health Publications

Year Abstract/Paper Journal Author(s)
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 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.
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 Reduced immune complex binding capacity and increased complement susceptibility of red cells from children with severe malaria-associated anaemia.

Molecular Medicine, 14, 89-97. (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research)

Owuor, B.O.; Odhiambo, C.O.; Otieno, W.O., Adhiambo, C.; Makawiti, D.W.; Stoute, J.A.
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.
2008 Polymorphic variability in the IL-1? promoter associated with protection from severe malarial anemia and functional changes in IL-1? production.

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 198(8), 1219-1226. (Infectious Diseases Society of America)

Ouma, C.; Gregory, G.C.; Awandare, G.A.; Keller, C.C.; Were, T.; Otieno, M.F.; Vulule, J.M.; Martinson, J.; Ong’echa, J.M.; Ferrell, R.E.; Perkins, D.J.
2008 Multidrug resistance of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Typhimurium isolated from clinical samples at two rural hospitals in Western Kenya.

J Infect Developing Countries; 2(2), 106-111 (Porto Conte Ricerche Research Centre)

Onyango, D., Machioni, F.; Kakai, R.; Waindi, E.N.
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 Medicinal plants used in the treatment of fungal and bacterial infections in and around Queen Elizabeth Biosphere Reserve, Western Uganda.

African Journal of Ecology 46, 90-97. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Kamatenesi-Mugisha, M.; Oryem-Origa, H.; Olwa-Odyek; Makawiti, 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.