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List of works by Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

"But the moment they find out that you are MSM…": a qualitative investigation of HIV prevention experiences among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghana's health care system

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

"It's all about making a life": poverty, HIV, violence, and other vulnerabilities faced by young female sex workers in Kumasi, Ghana

scientific article published on March 2015

"Too Much Sex and Alcohol": Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Male Adolescents and Young Men Who have Sex with Men in Ghana

scholarly article by Lora L Sabin published in January 2018

16S rRNA Gene Sequence-Based Identification of Bacteria in Automatically Incubated Blood Culture Materials from Tropical Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

A Single Dose Oral Azithromycin versus Intramuscular Benzathine Penicillin for the Treatment of Yaws-A Randomized Non Inferiority Trial in Ghana

scientific article

A cross-sectional study of 'yaws' in districts of Ghana which have previously undertaken azithromycin mass drug administration for trachoma control

scientific article

A novel rhabdovirus isolated from the straw-colored fruit bat Eidolon helvum, with signs of antibodies in swine and humans

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Aetiological agents of cerebrospinal meningitis: a retrospective study from a teaching hospital in Ghana

scientific article

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

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Antibiotic resistance and clonal diversity of invasive Staphylococcus aureus in the rural Ashanti Region, Ghana ⬇️

scientific article

Application of a multiplex PCR assay for the detection of gastrointestinal pathogens in a rural African setting

scientific article

Association Between Malaria and Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infection in a Hospital Study: Accounting for Berkson's Bias

scientific article published on March 2016

Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Bats worldwide carry hepatitis E virus-related viruses that form a putative novel genus within the family Hepeviridae

scientific article (publication date: September 2012)

Burden of influenza among hospitalized febrile children in Ghana

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

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

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Clinical indicators for bacterial co-infection in Ghanaian children with P. falciparum infection

scientific article

Community-based mass treatment with azithromycin for the elimination of yaws in Ghana-Results of a pilot study

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Comparative efficacy of low-dose versus standard-dose azithromycin for patients with yaws: a randomised non-inferiority trial in Ghana and Papua New Guinea

scientific article

Comparative evaluation of two rapid field tests for malaria diagnosis: Partec Rapid Malaria Test® and Binax Now® Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test ⬇️

scientific article published on May 23, 2011

Comparison of the novel Partec rapid malaria test to the conventional Giemsa stain and the gold standard real-time PCR.

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Correction: Gastrointestinal infections and diarrheal disease in ghanaian infants and children: an outpatient case-control study

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Costs of cervical cancer screening and treatment using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and cryotherapy in Ghana: the importance of scale

scientific article

Detection of a Novel gyrB Mutation Associated With Fluoroquinolone-Nonsusceptible Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Isolated From a Bloodstream Infection in Ghana

scientific article published on March 2016

Diagnostic performance of the Luminex xTAG gastrointestinal pathogens panel to detect rotavirus in Ghanaian children with and without diarrhoea

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

Distant relatives of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and close relatives of human coronavirus 229E in bats, Ghana

scientific article

Drinking water from dug wells in rural ghana--salmonella contamination, environmental factors, and genotypes

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Drug use and sexual behavior: the multiple HIV vulnerabilities of men and women who inject drugs in Kumasi, Ghana

scientific article published on March 2015

Emergence of a Novel Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producing, Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Clone of Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli in Kumasi, Ghana ⬇️

scientific article published on December 12, 2012

Epidemiology of cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) among a cohort of HIV-infected and uninfected Ghanaian women

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Erratum to: Options in human papillomavirus (HPV) detection for cervical cancer screening: comparison between full genotyping and a rapid qualitative HPV-DNA assay in Ghana

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Estimating the uptake of maternal syphilis screening and other antenatal interventions before and after national rollout of syphilis point-of-care testing in Ghana

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Etiology of bacteremia in young infants in six countries

scientific article

Evidence for an Ancestral Association of Human Coronavirus 229E with Bats

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents

scientific article published in 2013

Extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae causing bloodstream infections in rural Ghana, 2007-2012.

scientific article

Factors associated with failure to screen for syphilis during antenatal care in Ghana: a case control study

scientific article

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for rapid identification of Salmonella spp. from agar and blood culture broth--an option for the tropics?

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

Gastrointestinal infections and diarrheal disease in Ghanaian infants and children: an outpatient case-control study

scientific article

Global control of sexually transmitted infections

scientific article published on December 2006

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

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Health care utilization and symptom severity in Ghanaian children--a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Hemoglobin estimation by the HemoCue® portable hemoglobin photometer in a resource poor setting ⬇️

scientific article published on April 21, 2011

Henipavirus RNA in African bats

scientific article published in 2009

High diversity of human parechovirus including novel types in stool samples from Ghanaian children

scientific article

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

Highly divergent hepaciviruses from African cattle

scientific article

Human coronaviruses associated with upper respiratory tract infections in three rural areas of Ghana

scientific article

Human parvovirus 4 in nasal and fecal specimens from children, Ghana

scientific article

Human-Bat Interactions in Rural West Africa

scientific article published in August 2015

Incidence and characteristics of bacteremia among children in rural Ghana

scientific article

Incidence of invasive salmonella disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre population-based surveillance study

scientific article published on March 2017

Increased detection of invasive enteropathogenic bacteria in pre-incubated blood culture materials by real-time PCR in comparison with automated incubation in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards yaws and yaws-like skin disease in Ghana

scientific article

Lagos bat virus transmission in an Eidolon helvum bat colony, Ghana

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

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

Modeling the relationship between precipitation and malaria incidence in children from a holoendemic area in Ghana

scientific article

Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. among children in rural Ghana

scientific article

Multisite Laboratory Evaluation of a Dual Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Syphilis Point-of-Care Rapid Test for Simultaneous Detection of HIV and Syphilis Infection

scientific article

Options in human papillomavirus (HPV) detection for cervical cancer screening: comparison between full genotyping and a rapid qualitative HPV-DNA assay in Ghana

scientific article published on 03 March 2017

Performance of Syphilis Sentinel Surveillance in the context of endemic Treponematoses: experience from Ghana

scientific article

Predictive value of fever and palmar pallor for P. falciparum parasitaemia in children from an endemic area

scientific article

Predictors of condom use among peer social networks of men who have sex with men in Ghana, West Africa

scientific article

Principal component analysis of socioeconomic factors and their association with malaria in children from the Ashanti Region, Ghana

scientific article

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

scientific article

Rollout of rapid point of care tests for antenatal syphilis screening in Ghana: healthcare provider perspectives and experiences

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Self-collected vaginal sampling for the detection of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) using careHPV among Ghanaian women

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Serological evidence of influenza A viruses in frugivorous bats from Africa

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Spatial analysis of land cover determinants of malaria incidence in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

scientific article

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

Systemic bacteraemia in children presenting with clinical pneumonia and the impact of non-typhoid salmonella (NTS).

scientific article

The Association of HIV Stigma and HIV/STD Knowledge With Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Adolescent and Adult Men Who Have Sex With Men in Ghana, West Africa

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

The Emergence of Reduced Ciprofloxacin Susceptibility in Salmonella enterica Causing Bloodstream Infections in Rural Ghana

scientific article

The Relationship Between Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella Disease, Other Bacterial Bloodstream Infections, and Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on March 2016

The Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa Program (TSAP): Clinical, Diagnostic, and Epidemiological Methodologies

scientific article published on March 2016

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

scientific article published in Nature Communications

The usefulness of C-reactive protein in predicting malaria parasitemia in a sub-Saharan African region

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Typhoid fever among children, Ghana

scientific article published on November 2010

Using research to influence sexual and reproductive health practice and implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case-study analysis

scientific article

Utilization of Healthcare in the Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa Program

scientific article published on March 2016

Validation and Identification of Invasive Salmonella Serotypes in Sub-Saharan Africa by Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction

scientific article published on March 2016

Variations of Invasive Salmonella Infections by Population Size in Asante Akim North Municipal, Ghana

scientific article

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