Recent Publications
- Koka, E., Yeboah-Manu, D., Okyere, D., Adongo, P. B., & Ahorlu, C. K. (2016). Cultural Understanding of Wounds, Buruli Ulcers and Their Management at the Obom Sub-district of the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(7), e0004825. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004825.
- Lamelas A, Ampah KA, Aboagye S, Kerber S, Danso E, Asante-Poku A, …. Yeboah-Manu, D., Roltgen, K. (2016). Spatiotemporal Co-existence of Two Mycobacterium ulcerans Clonal Complexes in the Offin River Valley of Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(7):e0004856. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004856.
- Kpeli G, Otchere ID, Lamelas A, Buultjens AL, Bulach D, Baines SL,…. Yeboah-Manu, D. (2016). Possible health-care associated transmission as a cause of secondary infection and population structure of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from two wound treatment centers in Ghana. New Microbes and New Infections. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.07.001
- Akorli, J., Gendrin, M., Pels, N. A., Yeboah-Manu, D., Christophides, G. K., & Wilson, M. D. (2016). Seasonality and Locality Affect the Diversity of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii Midgut Microbiota from Ghana. PloS One, 11(6), e0157529. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157529.
- Ampah, K. A., Pinho-Nascimento, C. A., Kerber, S., Asare, P., De-Graft D., Adu-Nti, F. . . . Yeboah-Manu, D., Pluschke, G.,Roltgen, K. (2016). Limited Genetic Diversity of Hepatitis B Virus in the General Population of the Offin River Valley in Ghana. PloS One, 11(6), e0156864. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156864.
- Otchere, I. D., Asante-Poku, A., Osei-Wusu, S., Baddoo, A., Sarpong, E., Ganiyu, A. H. . . . Yeboah-Manu, D. (2016). Detection and characterization of drug-resistant conferring genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: A prospective study in two distant regions of Ghana. Tuberculosis. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2016.05.014.
- Ruf, M. T., Bolz, M., Vogel, M., Bayi, P. F., Bratschi, M. W., Sopho, G. E., Yeboah-Manu, D. . . . Pluschke, G. (2016). Spatial Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli Ulcer Lesions: Implications for Laboratory Diagnosis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(6), e0004767. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004767.
- Aboagye, S. Y., Danso, E., Ampah, K. A., Nakobu, Z., Asare, P., Otchere, I. D. . . . Yeboah-Manu, D. (2016). Isolation of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria from the Environment of Buruli Ulcer Endemic Communities in Ghana. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1128/aem.01002-16.
- Sakyi, S. A., Aboagye, S. Y., Darko Otchere, I., & Yeboah-Manu, D. (2016). Clinical and Laboratory Diagnosis of Buruli Ulcer Disease: A Systematic Review. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2016, 10. doi:10.1155/2016/5310718.
- Nguta, J. M., Appiah-Opong, R., Nyarko, A. K., Yeboah-Manu, D., Addo, P. G., Otchere, I. D., & Kissi-Twum, A. (2016b). In vitro antimycobacterial and cytotoxic data on medicinal plants used to treat tuberculosis. Data Brief, 7, 1124-1130. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.088.
- Tsouh Fokou, P. V., Kissi-Twum, A. A., Yeboah-Manu, D., Appiah-Opong, R., Addo, P., Tchokouaha Yamthe, L. R., . . . Nyarko, A. K. (2016). In Vitro Activity of Selected West African Medicinal Plants against Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease. Molecules, 21(4). doi: 10.3390/molecules21040445.
- Ampah, K. A., Asare, P., Binnah, D. D., Maccaulley, S., Opare, W., Roltgen, K. . . . Yeboah-Manu, D. (2016). Burden and Historical Trend of Buruli Ulcer Prevalence in Selected Communities along the Offin River of Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(4), e0004603. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004603.
- Zumla, A., Rao, M., Wallis, R. S., Kaufmann, S. H., Rustomjee, R., Mwaba, P., Vilaplana, C., Yeboah-Manu, D., et al.. . . Host-Directed Therapies Network, C. (2016). Host-directed therapies for infectious diseases: current status, recent progress, and future prospects. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16(4), e47-63. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00078-5
- Ampah, K. A., Nickel, B., Asare, P., Ross, A., De-Graft, D., Kerber, S. . . Yeboah-Manu, D., Roltgen, K. (2016). A Sero-epidemiological Approach to Explore Transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(1), e0004387. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004387
- Nguta, J. M., Appiah-Opong, R., Nyarko, A. K., Yeboah-Manu, D., Addo, P. G., Otchere, I., & Kissi-Twum, A. (2016a). Antimycobacterial and cytotoxic activity of selected medicinal plant extracts. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 182, 10-15. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2016.02.010
- Ntoumi, F., Kaleebu, P., Macete, E., Mfinanga, S., Chakaya, J., Yeboah-Manu, D. . . . Zumla, A. (2016). Taking forward the World TB Day 2016 theme 'Unite to End Tuberculosis' for the WHO Africa Region. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 46, 34-37. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.03.003
- Zumla, A., Chakaya, J., Hoelscher, M., Ntoumi, F., Rustomjee, R., Vilaplana, C., Yeboah-Manu, D., et al. (2015). Towards host-directed therapies for tuberculosis. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 14(8):511–2.
- Asante-Poku, A., Otchere, I. D., Danso, E., Mensah, D. D., Bonsu, F., Gagneux, S., & Yeboah-Manu, D. (2015). Evaluation of GenoType® MTBDRplus for rapid detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ghana. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 19(8), 954–9.
- Nguta, J. M., Appiah-Opong, R., Nyarko, A. K., Yeboah-Manu, D., & Addo, P. G. A. (2015b). Current perspectives in drug discovery against tuberculosis from natural products. International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 4(3), 165-183.
- Zumla, A., Maeurer, M., & Host-Directed Therapies Network (HDT-NET) Consortium (2015). Host-Directed Therapies for tackling Multi-Drug Resistant TB – learning from the Pasteur-Bechamp debates. Clinical Infectious Diseases. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ631.
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