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List of works by Adwoa Asante-Poku

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

scientific article

Comparative genomics of Mycobacterium africanum Lineage 5 and Lineage 6 from Ghana suggests distinct ecological niches

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

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

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

scientific article

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 [...]

scientific article

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

Mycobacterium africanum Is Associated with Patient Ethnicity in Ghana

scientific article

Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Predictors of Adverse TB Treatment Outcome among TB/HIV Patients Compared with Non-HIV Patients in the Greater Accra Regional Hospital from 2008 to 2016

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

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

scholarly 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

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

scientific article

Serological and PCR-based markers of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis transmission in northern Ghana after elimination of trachoma as a public health problem

scholarly article

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

scientific article

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

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

research work

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