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List of works by Ellis Owusu-Dabo

"Pictures don't lie, seeing is believing": exploring attitudes to the introduction of pictorial warnings on cigarette packs in Ghana

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

A Mutation in IL4RA Is Associated with the Degree of Pathology in Human TB Patients

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

A mobile phone based tool to identify symptoms of common childhood diseases in Ghana: Development and evaluation of the integrated clinical algorithm in a cross-sectional study

scholarly article

ALOX5 variants associated with susceptibility to human pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 3 January 2008

Acquired immune responses to three malaria vaccine candidates and their relationship to invasion inhibition in two populations naturally exposed to malaria

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Aetiology of viral hepatitis among jaundiced patients presenting to a tertiary hospital in Ghana

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

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

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

An IL7RA exon 5 polymorphism is associated with impaired IL-7Rα splicing and protection against tuberculosis in Ghana

scholarly article by Christian Lundtoft et al published 31 October 2018 in Genes and Immunity

An epigenome-wide association study in whole blood of measures of adiposity among Ghanaians: the RODAM study

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Analysis of Atherogenic and Anthropometric Profiles of Normotensive and Hypertensive Ghanaians in the Kumasi Metropolis

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Artesunate-Amodiaquine and Artemether-Lumefantrine Therapies and Selection of Pfcrt and Pfmdr1 Alleles in Nanoro, Burkina Faso

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Assessment of prison life of persons with disability in Ghana

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Association between socioeconomic position and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Ghanaians in different geographic locations: the RODAM study.

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Author Correction: Differential expression pattern of co-inhibitory molecules on CD4 T cells in uncomplicated versus complicated malaria

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Autophagy gene variant IRGM -261T contributes to protection from tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis but not by M. africanum strains

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Bacterial etiology of sexually transmitted infections at a STI clinic in Ghana; use of multiplex real time PCR.

scientific article published on September 2016

Blood pressure patterns in rural, semi-urban and urban children in the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa

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Burden of influenza among hospitalized febrile children in Ghana

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

CTLA4 Autoimmunity-Associated Genotype Contributes to Severe Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an African Population

scientific article published on 17 July 2009

Cardiovascular disease risk prediction in sub-Saharan African populations — Comparative analysis of risk algorithms in the RODAM study

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Characterization of Salmonella enterica from invasive bloodstream infections and water sources in rural Ghana ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Chromosomal and plasmid-mediated fluoroquinolone resistance in human Salmonella enterica infection in Ghana

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Common variants at 11p13 are associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis

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Contraceptive Characteristics of Women Living with HIV in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

scientific article published on January 2013

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

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Dietary patterns and type 2 diabetes among Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots in Ghana: The RODAM study

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Differential expression pattern of co-inhibitory molecules on CD4+ T cells in uncomplicated versus complicated malaria

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Effectiveness and safety of artemether-lumefantrine versus artesunate-amodiaquine for unsupervised treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in patients of all age groups in Nanoro, Burkina Faso: a randomized open label trial

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Epigenome-wide association study in whole blood on type 2 diabetes among sub-Saharan African individuals: findings from the RODAM study

Erratum: Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Evaluation of onchocerciasis control in the Upper Denkyira East municipal in the forest area of Ghana: Responses of participants and distributors to the CDTI programme

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Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in local and imported poultry meat in Ghana

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Feasibility of Electronic Health Information and Surveillance System (eHISS) for disease symptom monitoring: A case of rural Ghana.

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Fertility Preferences of Women Living with HIV in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

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Food consumption, nutrient intake, and dietary patterns in Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots in Ghana

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Gender Specific Predictive Performance and Optimal Threshold of Anthropometric Indices for the Prediction of Hypertension among a Ghanaian Population in Kumasi

Gender disparities of chronic musculoskeletal disorder burden in the elderly Ghanaian population: study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE WAVE 1)

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2.

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Genotypic characterisation of human papillomavirus infections among persons living with HIV infection; a case-control study in Kumasi, Ghana

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Genotyping of IRGM tetranucleotide promoter oligorepeats by fluorescence resonance energy transfer

scientific article published on January 2009

Gonococcal sepsis in a 32-year-old female: a case report

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Health care workers indicate ill preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Ashanti Region of Ghana

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High prevalence of common respiratory viruses and no evidence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Hajj pilgrims returning to Ghana, 2013.

scientific article published on 3 March 2015

Home birth without skilled attendants despite millennium villages project intervention in Ghana: insight from a survey of women's perceptions of skilled obstetric care

scientific article

IL10 Haplotype Associated with Tuberculin Skin Test Response but Not with Pulmonary TB

scientific article

Ideal cardiovascular health among Ghanaian populations in three European countries and rural and urban Ghana: the RODAM study

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Insecticide resistance in malaria vectors in Kumasi, Ghana

scientific article published on 07 December 2016

MCP-1 promoter variant -362C associated with protection from pulmonary tuberculosis in Ghana, West Africa

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

MCP1 haplotypes associated with protection from pulmonary tuberculosis ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2011

Malaria Coinfections in Febrile Pediatric Inpatients: A Hospital-Based Study From Ghana

scholarly article by Benedikt Hogan et al published 1 June 2018 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Malaria case detection using rapid diagnostic test at the community level in Ghana: consumer perception and practitioners' experiences

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Melioidosis in Africa: Time to Uncover the True Disease Load

scientific article published on 10 June 2018

Migration and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Ghanaian Populations in Europe: The RODAM Study (Research on Obesity and Diabetes Among African Migrants).

scientific article published in November 2017

MtDNA diversity of Ghana: a forensic and phylogeographic view

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance, Ghana

scientific article published on July 2006

No significant impact of IFN-γ pathway gene variants on tuberculosis susceptibility in a West African population

scientific article published on 05 August 2015

Obesity and type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africans - Is the burden in today's Africa similar to African migrants in Europe? The RODAM study.

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Organ damage in sickle cell disease study (ORDISS): protocol for a longitudinal cohort study based in Ghana

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Overweight and obesity among Ghanaian residents in The Netherlands: how do they weigh against their urban and rural counterparts in Ghana?

scientific article published on 2 September 2008

Peripheral insulin resistance rather than beta cell dysfunction accounts for geographical differences in impaired fasting blood glucose among sub-Saharan African individuals: findings from the RODAM study

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

Physical violence during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in Ghana

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Prehypertension in the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa: an opportunity for early prevention of clinical hypertension

scientific article published on 6 September 2007

Prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in school children from two districts of Ghana earmarked for indoor residual spraying: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

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

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Pulmonary tuberculosis: virulence of Mycobacterium africanum and relevance in HIV co-infection

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Rationale and cross-sectional study design of the research on obesity and type 2 diabetes among African migrants: The RODAM study

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Recall of symptoms and treatment of syphilis and yaws by healthy blood donors screening positive for syphilis in Kumasi, Ghana

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Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

scientific article published in June 2014

Rickettsia felis Infection in Febrile Children, Ghana

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

SERO-prevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 among women attending routine Cervicare clinics in Ghana

scholarly article

Serological evidence of vector and parasite exposure in Southern Ghana: the dynamics of malaria transmission intensity

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Sleep duration is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular outcomes: a pilot study in a sample of community dwelling adults in Ghana.

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Smoking prevalence differs by location of residence among Ghanaians in Africa and Europe: The RODAM study

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Source of medicines and medicine information by self-reported persons living with hypertension and diabetes in rural and urban Ghana

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Spatial heterogeneity of malaria in Ghana: a cross-sectional study on the association between urbanicity and the acquisition of immunity

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Status of implementation of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Ghana: a qualitative study

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Support for smoke-free policy, and awareness of tobacco health effects and use of smoking cessation therapy in a developing country

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Syphilis screening practices in blood transfusion facilities in Ghana

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TLR1 Variant H305L Associated with Protection from Pulmonary Tuberculosis

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The phylogeography and incidence of multi-drug resistant typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Type 2 diabetes in a rapidly urbanizing region of Ghana, West Africa: a qualitative study of dietary preferences, knowledge and practices

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Type 2 diabetes mellitus management among Ghanaian migrants resident in three European countries and their compatriots in rural and urban Ghana – The RODAM study

scientific article published in December 2017

Unequal distribution of resistance-conferring mutations among Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum strains from Ghana

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Urbanicity and paediatric bacteraemia in Ghana - A case-control study within a rural-urban transition zone

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Use of Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis as a viable option in an Integrated Malaria Vector Control Programme in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Use of social media in a national Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey: lessons from the first anti-tuberculosis drug resistance survey in Ghana

scholarly article published 17 January 2019

Variant G57E of Mannose Binding Lectin Associated with Protection against Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium africanum but not by M. tuberculosis

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Variations in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among Ghanaian migrants living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and nonmigrant Ghanaians living in rural and urban Ghana-the RODAM study

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Variations in levels of IL-6 and TNF-α in type 2 diabetes mellitus between rural and urban Ashanti Region of Ghana

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

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