Publication Highlights

• Current meningitis outbreak in Ghana: Historical perspectives and the importance of diagnostics

  • Kwarteng A, Amuasi J, Annan A, Ahuno S, Opare D, Nagel M, Vinnemeier C, May J, Owusu-Dabo E
  • Acta Tropica. 2017 May;169:51-56. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2017.01.014
  • 2017-05-01

• Alternative Quantiferon cytokines for diagnosis of children with active tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in Ghana

  • Lundtoft C, Awuah AA, Nausch N, Enimil A, Mayatepek E, Owusu-Dabo E, Jacobsen M
  • Medical microbiology and immunology. 2017 Jun;206(3):259-265. doi: 10.1007/s00430-017-0501-6
  • 2017-03-15

• Conducting an Enterprise Architecture Impact Study (EAIS) for Recommendations of Developing and Implementing Health Registries to Improve Data Collection and Public Health Surveillance

  • Wright MM
  • Emory University Electronic and Thesis and Dissertation Library 2017
  • 2017-12-05

• Constitutive STAT3 phosphorylation and IL-6/IL-10 co-expression are associated with impaired T-cell function in tuberculosis patients

  • Harling K, Adankwah E, Güler A, Afum-Adjei Awuah A, Adu-Amoah L, Mayatepek E, Owusu-Dabo E, Nausch N, Jacobsen M
  • Cellular & molecular immunology. 2019 Mar;16(3):275-287. doi: 10.1038/cmi.2018.5
  • 2018-03-19

• Improving estimation of ACT treatment coverage in Africa

  • Amuasi JH
  • The Lancet Global Health. 2017 Apr;5(4):e375-e376. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30087-6
  • 2017-04-01

• Integrating use of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen rapid diagnostic tests by community health workers during mass drug administration campaigns to improve uptake of praziquantel treatment among the adult population at Kome Island, North-Western Tanzania: a cluster randomized community trial

  • Mazigo HD, Amuasi JH, Osei I, Kinung'hi SM
  • BMC Public Health. 2018 Jul 6;18(1):840. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5732-y
  • 2018-07-06

• Missed opportunities for the diagnosis of Brucella infection among slaughterhouse workers at the Kumasi Abattoir, Ghana

  • Amegashie EA, Annan, AA, Awuah AAA, Larbi R, Addofoh N, Feglo PK, & Owusu-Dabo E
  • Journal of Epidemiological Research. 2017 3(2):58. doi:10.5430/jer.v3n2p58, 3(2), 58
  • 2017-10-01

• Neglected tropical diseases – the present and the future

  • Winkler AS, Klohe K, Schmidt V, Haavardsson I, Abraham A, Prodjinotho UF, Ngowi B, Sikasunge C, Noormahomed E, Amuasi J, Kaducu J, Ngowi H, Abele-Ridder B, Harrison WE, Prazeres da Costa C
  • Tidsskrift for Den Norske Legeforening. 2018 Jan 2;138(3):10.4045/tidsskr.17.0678. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0678
  • 2018-01-02

• Post-licensure safety evaluation of dihydroartemisinin piperaquine in the three major ecological zones across Ghana

  • Oduro AR, Owusu-Agyei S, Gyapong M, Osei I, Adjei A, Yawson A, Sobe E, Baiden R, Adjuik M, Binka F
  • PLoS One. 2017 Mar 30;12(3):e0174503. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174503
  • 2017-03-30

• Powering up Sub-Sahara Africa’s renewable energy revolution through diffusion

  • Aglanu LM
  • International Journal of Development and Sustainability 7(2): 685-700
  • 2018-01-01

• Pseudomonas oryzihabitans sepsis in a 1-year-old child with multiple skin rashes: a case report

  • Owusu M, Owusu-Dabo E, Acheampong G, Osei I, Amuasi J, Sarpong N, Annan A, Chiang HY, Kuo CH, Park SE, Marks F, Adu-Sarkodie Y
  • Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2017 Mar 23;11(1):77. doi: 10.1186/s13256-017-1230-6.
  • 2017-03-23

• Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and model for end-stage liver disease score accurately predict the in-hospital mortality of black African patients with decompensated cirrhosis at initial hospitalization: a retrospective cohort study

  • Mahassadi AK, Nguieguia JLK, Kissi HY, Awuah AA, Bangoura AD, Doffou SA, Attia AK
  • Clinical and experimental gastroenterology. 2018 Apr 9:11:143-152. doi: 10.2147/CEG.S140655
  • 2017-04-28