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List of works by Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

A Sero-epidemiological Approach to Explore Transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

A molecular and epidemiological study of Vibrio cholerae isolates from cholera outbreaks in southern Ghana

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Antimycobacterial and cytotoxic activity of selected medicinal plant extracts

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Antimycobacterial ingredients from plants used in traditional medicine to treat Buruli ulcer

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Antimycobacterial potency and cytotoxicity study of three medicinal plants

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Application of a simple multiplex PCR to aid in routine work of the mycobacterium reference laboratory

scientific article published on November 2001

Assessing and managing wounds of Buruli ulcer patients at the primary and secondary health care levels in Ghana

scientific article

Burden and Historical Trend of Buruli Ulcer Prevalence in Selected Communities along the Offin River of Ghana

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Buruli Ulcer: a Review of the Current Knowledge

scientific article published on 28 September 2018

Challenges associated with management of buruli ulcer/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection in a treatment center in Ghana: A case series study

scholarly article

Challenges associated with the treatment of Buruli ulcer

scientific article published on 31 August 2018

Challenging dogma and stagnation in TB research

scientific article

Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of buruli ulcer disease: A systematic review

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Combining PCR with microscopy to reduce costs of laboratory diagnosis of buruli ulcer

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Commemorating World TB Day 2020: “IT’S TIME” — It’s time to End the Global TB Epidemic

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

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

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Current perspectives in drug discovery against tuberculosis from natural products

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Detection and characterization of drug-resistant conferring genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: A prospective study in two distant regions of Ghana

scientific article published on 03 June 2016

Development of a temperature-switch PCR-based SNP typing method for mycobacterium ulcerans

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Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Ghana: The Role of Laboratory Training

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Diagnosis of mycobacterium ulcerans infection (buruli ulcer) at a treatment centre in Ghana: A retrospective analysis of laboratory results of clinically diagnosed cases

scientific article published in February 2008

Enhancing buruli ulcer control in Ghana through social interventions: A case study from the obom sub-district

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Environmental and Behavioral Drivers of Buruli Ulcer Disease in Selected Communities Along the Densu River Basin of Ghana: A Case-Control Study

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Epidemiological aspects of non-human antibiotic usage and resistance: Implications for the control of antibiotic resistance in Ghana

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Evaluation of GenoType MTBDRplus for the rapid detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ghana

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Evaluation of customised lineage-specific sets of MIRU-VNTR loci for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in Ghana

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Evaluation of decontamination methods and growth media for primary isolation of mycobacterium ulcerans from surgical specimens

scientific article published on December 2004

Genetic diversity in mycobacterium ulcerans isolates from Ghana revealed by a newly identified locus containing a variable number of tandem repeats

scientific article

Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Genomic analysis of ST88 communityacquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana

research work

Genomic diversity and evolution of mycobacterium ulcerans revealed by next-generation sequencing

scientific article (publication date: September 2009)

Genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genotypes prevalent in West Africa

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

Genotypic diversity and drug susceptibility patterns among M. tuberculosis complex isolates from South-Western Ghana

scientific article

Host-directed therapies for infectious diseases: current status, recent progress, and future prospects

scientific article published on April 2016

Improving the laboratory diagnosis of TB in Ghana: The impact of a quality assurance system

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Improving treatment outcomes for MDR-TB - Novel host-directed therapies and personalised medicine of the future

Improving treatment outcomes for MDR-TB - Novel host-directed therapies and personalised medicine of the future

research work

Improving treatment outcomes for MDR-TB — Novel host-directed therapies and personalised medicine of the future

scholarly article by Martin Rao et al published March 2019 in International Journal of Infectious Diseases

In Vitro Activity of Selected West African Medicinal Plants against Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

In vitro antimycobacterial and cytotoxic data on medicinal plants used to treat tuberculosis

scientific article

Isolation and characterization of nontuberculous mycobacteria from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Ghana

scientific article published on January 2017

Isolation of mycobacterium ulcerans from swab and fine-needle-aspiration specimens

scientific article published on 16 March 2011

Isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria from the environment of ghanian communities where buruli ulcer is endemic

scientific article published on 06 May 2016

Laboratory confirmation of Buruli ulcer cases in Ghana, 2008-2016

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Lack of insertional-deletional polymorphism in a collection of mycobacterium ulcerans isolates from Ghanaian buruli ulcer patients

scientific article published on 02 September 2009

Late Onset of the Serological Response against the 18 kDa Small Heat Shock Protein of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Children

scientific article

Latent TB Infection (LTBI) – Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis and the dynamics of the granuloma battleground

research work

Learning from epidemiological, clinical and immunological studies on Mycobacterium africanum for improving current understanding of host-pathogen interactions, and for the development and evaluation of diagnostics, host-directed therapies and [...]

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Limited Genetic Diversity of Hepatitis B Virus in the General Population of the Offin River Valley in Ghana

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Local adaptation in populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis endemic to the Indian Ocean Rim

scientific article published in 2021

Low sensitivity of the MPT64 identification test to detect lineage 5 of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

scientific article published on 02 November 2018

Medicinal plants used to treat TB in Ghana

scientific article

Methods used in preclinical assessment of anti-Buruli ulcer agents: A global perspective

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Molecular Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated in the North Central Zone of Nigeria

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Molecular epidemiology and whole genome sequencing analysis of clinical Mycobacterium bovis from Ghana

research work

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium africanum in Ghana

scientific article

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in the Volta Region of Ghana

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Mycobacterial species causing pulmonary tuberculosis at the Korle Bu teaching hospital, Accra, Ghana

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Mycobacterium africanum Is Associated with Patient Ethnicity in Ghana

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections—A neglected and emerging problem

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

OMNIgene SPUTUM: A good transport and decontaminating reagent for tuberculosis testing

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

On the origin of mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of buruli ulcer

scientific article

Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Outcome of Streptomycin-Rifampicin treatment of Buruli Ulcer in two Ghanaian districts

scientific article published on October 2016

Possible healthcare-associated transmission as a cause of secondary infection and population structure of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from two wound treatment centres in Ghana

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in a dairy cattle farm and a research farm in Ghana

scholarly article

Primary cultivation: Factors affecting contamination and Mycobacterium ulcerans growth after long turnover time of clinical specimens

scientific article

RNA Aptamer That Specifically Binds to Mycolactone and Serves as a Diagnostic Tool for Diagnosis of Buruli Ulcer

scientific article

Rapid and sensitive detection of mycobacterium ulcerans by use of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification test

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Reduced transmission of Mycobacterium africanum compared to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in urban West Africa

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

Reference Set ofMycobacterium tuberculosisClinical Strains: A tool for research and product development

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Reference set of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains: A tool for research and product development

research work

Seasonal Pattern of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the Causative Agent of Buruli Ulcer, in the Environment in Ghana

scientific article

Seasonality and locality affect the diversity of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii midgut microbiota from Ghana

scientific article

Second-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance testing in Ghana identifies the first extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis case

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Secondary Bacterial Infections of Buruli Ulcer Lesions Before and After Chemotherapy with Streptomycin and Rifampicin

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Sero-epidemiology as a tool to screen populations for exposure to mycobacterium ulcerans

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Significant under expression of the DosR regulon in M. tuberculosis complex lineage 6 in sputum

scientific article published on 4 March 2017

Single nucleotide polymorphism typing of mycobacterium ulcerans reveals focal transmission of buruli ulcer in a highly endemic region of Ghana

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Situation analysis of TB microscopy centres in Ghana

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Spatial Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli Ulcer Lesions: Implications for Laboratory Diagnosis

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Spatio-temporal distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains in Ghana

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Spatiotemporal Co-existence of Two Mycobacterium ulcerans Clonal Complexes in the Offin River Valley of Ghana

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Street foods in Accra, Ghana: How safe are they?

scientific article published on 30 July 2002

Susceptibility to Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease (Buruli ulcer) Is Associated with IFNG and iNOS Gene Polymorphisms

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Systemic suppression of interferon-gamma responses in Buruli ulcer patients resolves after surgical excision of the lesions caused by the extracellular pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans

scientific article published on 10 March 2006

Systemic suppression of interferon-γ responses in buruli ulcer patients resolves after surgical excision of the lesions caused by the extracellular pathogen mycobacterium ulcerans

research work

TB-diabetes co-morbidity in Ghana: The importance of Mycobacterium africanum infection

research work

Taking forward the World TB Day 2016 theme 'Unite to End Tuberculosis' for the WHO Africa Region

scientific article

The Biology and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium africanum

scientific article published in January 2017

The First population structure and comparative genomics analysis of Mycobacterium africanum strains from Ghana reveals higher diversity of Lineage 5.

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

The global dynamics of diabetes and tuberculosis: the impact of migration and policy implications

scientific article

Towards host-directed therapies for tuberculosis

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Two new rapid SNP-typing methods for classifying mycobacterium tuberculosis complex into the main phylogenetic lineages

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Use of the immunodominant 18-kilodalton small heat shock protein as a serological marker for exposure to mycobacterium ulcerans

scientific article

Whole Genome Sequencing and Spatial Analysis Identifies Recent Tuberculosis Transmission Hotspots in Ghana

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Zoonotic tuberculosis—a call for an open One Health debate

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

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