List of works by Alison M Elliott

A KIR B centromeric region present in Africans but not Europeans protects pregnant women from pre-eclampsia

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A description of congenital anomalies among infants in Entebbe, Uganda

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

A life without worms

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A randomised controlled trial of the effects of albendazole in pregnancy on maternal responses to mycobacterial antigens and infant responses to Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunisation [ISRCTN32849447]

scientific article published on 21 December 2005

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the use of prednisolone as an adjunct to treatment in HIV-1-associated pleural tuberculosis

scientific article published on 29 July 2004

Adaptation of Western measures of cognition for assessing 5-year-old semi-urban Ugandan children.

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Age of Infection with Kaposi Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus and Subsequent Antibody Values Among Children in Uganda

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

An approach to the management of tuberculosis in HIV endemic areas

scientific article published on October 1, 1992

Anthelminthic treatment during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of infantile eczema: randomised-controlled trial results

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Are birthweight and postnatal weight gain in childhood associated with blood pressure in early adolescence? Results from a Ugandan birth cohort

scholarly article by Swaib A Lule et al published 3 July 2018 in International Journal of Epidemiology

Assessing the external validity of a randomized controlled trial of anthelminthics in mothers and their children in Entebbe, Uganda

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Association between malaria exposure and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus seropositivity in Uganda

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Associations between helminth infection and CD4+ T cell count, viral load and cytokine responses in HIV-1-infected Ugandan adults

scientific article published on January 2003

Associations between maternal helminth and malaria infections in pregnancy and clinical malaria in the offspring: a birth cohort in entebbe, Uganda

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

Associations between mild-to-moderate anaemia in pregnancy and helminth, malaria and HIV infection in Entebbe, Uganda

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Asthma control and management among schoolchildren in urban Uganda: results from a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Atorvastatin reduces T-cell activation and exhaustion among HIV-infected cART-treated suboptimal immune responders in Uganda: a randomised crossover placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Blood pressure in primary school children in Uganda: a cross-sectional survey

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Blood pressure risk factors in early adolescents: results from a Ugandan birth cohort

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Can improved diagnostics reduce mortality from Tuberculous meningitis? Findings from a 6.5-year cohort in Uganda

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Capacity for science in sub-Saharan Africa

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Career development for infection and immunity research in Uganda: a decade of experience from the Makerere University - Uganda Virus Research Institute research and training programme

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Circulating B-lymphocytes as potential biomarkers of tuberculosis infection activity

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Clinical manifestations of Rift Valley fever in humans: Systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 25 March 2022

Contrasting impact of rural, versus urban, living on glucose metabolism and blood pressure in Uganda

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Cytokine responses and progression to active tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected Ugandans: a prospective study

scientific article published on November 2004

Determinants of γ-herpesvirus shedding in saliva among Ugandan children and their mothers.

scientific article published on 12 May 2018

Determining Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among BCG-immunised Ugandan children by T-SPOT.TB and tuberculin skin testing

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

Do helminth infections underpin urban-rural differences in risk factors for allergy-related outcomes?

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome (DONS); the study protocol of a phase II randomised controlled trial

Early Childhood Outcomes After Neonatal Encephalopathy in Uganda: A Cohort Study

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Early cranial ultrasound findings among infants with neonatal encephalopathy in Uganda: an observational study.

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Effect of Schistosoma mansoni infection and its treatment on antibody responses to measles catch-up immunisation in pre-school children: A randomised trial

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Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on immune responses to mycobacterium tuberculosis: an open label randomised, controlled, exploratory study.

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Effect of maternal Schistosoma mansoni infection and praziquantel treatment during pregnancy on Schistosoma mansoni infection and immune responsiveness among offspring at age five years

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Effect of praziquantel treatment during pregnancy on cytokine responses to schistosome antigens: results of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published in December 2008

Effect of praziquantel treatment of Schistosoma mansoni during pregnancy on immune responses to schistosome antigens among the offspring: results of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

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Effect of praziquantel treatment of Schistosoma mansoni during pregnancy on intensity of infection and antibody responses to schistosome antigens: results of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial

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Effect of single-dose anthelmintic treatment during pregnancy on an infant's response to immunisation and on susceptibility to infectious diseases in infancy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

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Effectiveness of the standard WHO recommended retreatment regimen (category II) for tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda: a prospective cohort study

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Effects of deworming during pregnancy on maternal and perinatal outcomes in Entebbe, Uganda: a randomized controlled trial

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Effects of maternal and infant co-infections, and of maternal immunisation, on the infant response to BCG and tetanus immunisation

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Effects of maternal worm infections and anthelminthic treatment during pregnancy on infant motor and neurocognitive functioning

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Effects of treating helminths during pregnancy and early childhood on risk of allergy-related outcomes: follow up of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Effects of vitamin D deficiency on neurobehavioural outcomes in children: a systematic review

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Eosinophilia and progression to active tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected Ugandans

scientific article published on July 2003

Ethical and scientific considerations on the establishment of a controlled human infection model for schistosomiasis in Uganda: report of a stakeholders’ meeting held in Entebbe, Uganda

scholarly article published 6 August 2018

Ethical and scientific considerations on the establishment of a controlled human infection model for schistosomiasis in Uganda: report of a stakeholders’ meeting held in Entebbe, Uganda

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Factors affecting the infant antibody response to measles immunisation in Entebbe-Uganda

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Factors associated with tuberculosis infection, and with anti-mycobacterial immune responses, among five year olds BCG-immunised at birth in Entebbe, Uganda

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Failure of drug penetration and acquisition of drug resistance in chronic tuberculous empyema

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Furazolidone-induced mood disorder during the treatment of refractory giardiasis in a patient with AIDS.

scientific article published on April 1998

HIV and Helminths - Not All Worms Created Equal?

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

HIV risk perception and prevalence in a program for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission: comparison of women who accept voluntary counseling and testing and those tested anonymously

scientific article published on July 2005

Helminth infection during pregnancy and development of infantile eczema

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Helminth infection is not associated with faster progression of HIV disease in coinfected adults in Uganda

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Helminth therapy or elimination: epidemiological, immunological, and clinical considerations

scientific article published on 26 June 2014

Helminths are positively associated with atopy and wheeze in Ugandan fishing communities: results from a cross-sectional survey.

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

High dose oral and intravenous rifampicin for improved survival from adult tuberculous meningitis: a phase II open-label randomised controlled trial (the RifT study)

Human eosinophils modulate peripheral blood mononuclear cell response to Schistosoma mansoni adult worm antigen in vitro

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Humoral Responses to Rv1733c, Rv0081, Rv1735c, and Rv1737c DosR Regulon-Encoded Proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Individuals with Latent Tuberculosis Infection.

scientific article published on February 2017

Hypertension persisting after pre-eclampsia: a prospective cohort study at Mulago Hospital, Uganda

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Immunology in Africa

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Impact of anthelminthic treatment in pregnancy and childhood on immunisations, infections and eczema in childhood: a randomised controlled trial

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Impact of co-infections and BCG immunisation on immune responses among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in a Ugandan cohort.

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Impairment of the Schistosoma mansoni-specific immune responses elicited by treatment with praziquantel in Ugandans with HIV-1 coinfection.

scientific article published on July 2004

Inverse association between BCG immunisation and intestinal nematode infestation among HIV-1-positive individuals in Uganda.

scientific article published in September 1999

Investigating the non-specific effects of BCG vaccination on the innate immune system in Ugandan neonates: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 11 April 2015

Iron Status and Associated Malaria Risk Among African Children

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Is birth weight associated with blood pressure among African children and adolescents? A systematic review.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes and their HLA-C ligands in a Ugandan population

scientific article published on 24 August 2013

Lessons from the first clinical trial of a non-licensed vaccine among Ugandan adolescents: a phase II field trial of the tuberculosis candidate vaccine, MVA85A

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Life-course of atopy and allergy-related disease events in tropical sub-Saharan Africa: A birth cohort study

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Limitations of the WHO/CDC clinical case definition for AIDS in Africa

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Long-lived memory B-cell responses following BCG vaccination

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Management of tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Maternal BCG scar is associated with increased infant proinflammatory immune responses

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Maternal HIV infection and other factors associated with growth outcomes of HIV-uninfected infants in Entebbe, Uganda

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Maternal hookworm modifies risk factors for childhood eczema: results from a birth cohort in Uganda

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Maternal recall of birthweight and birth size in Entebbe, Uganda

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

Microarray assessment of N-glycan-specific IgE and IgG profiles associated with Schistosoma mansoni infection in rural and urban Uganda

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Parasite infection is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) in Ugandan women

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Perceptions about interventions to control schistosomiasis among the Lake Victoria island communities of Koome, Uganda

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Perinatal risk factors for neonatal encephalopathy: an unmatched case-control study.

scientific article published on 05 August 2017

Plasmodium falciparum and helminth coinfection in a semi urban population of pregnant women in Uganda

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Post-immunization leucocytosis and its implications for the management of febrile infants.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Praziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis during human pregnancy

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Pregnancy and helminth infections

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Pregnancy, parturition and preeclampsia in women of African ancestry

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Prevalence of bloodstream pathogens is higher in neonatal encephalopathy cases vs. controls using a novel panel of real-time PCR assays

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Rate and amplification of drug resistance among previously-treated patients with tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda

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Risk assessment for the implementation of controlled human Schistosoma mansoni infection trials in Uganda

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Risk assessment for the implementation of controlled human Schistosoma mansoni infection trials in Uganda

scientific article published in 2019

Risk factors for helminth, malaria, and HIV infection in pregnancy in Entebbe, Uganda

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Risk factors for seropositivity to Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus among children in Uganda

scientific article published on June 2013

Schistosoma mansoni and HIV acquisition in fishing communities of Lake Victoria, Uganda: a nested case-control study

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Schistosoma mansoni and HIV infection in a Ugandan population with high HIV and helminth prevalence

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Schistosoma mansoni, nematode infections, and progression to active tuberculosis among HIV-1-infected Ugandans.

scientific article published on May 2006

Screening for intestinal helminth infestation in a semi-urban cohort of HIV-infected people in Uganda: a combination of techniques may enhance diagnostic yield in the absence of multiple stool samples.

scientific article published on April 2003

Skin prick test reactivity to common allergens among women in Entebbe, Uganda

scientific article published on 05 March 2008

Tackling neglect: treating schistosomiasis in pregnancy

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

The First Norovirus Longitudinal Seroepidemiological Study From Sub-Saharan Africa Reveals High Seroprevalence of Diverse Genotypes Associated With Host Susceptibility Factors

scholarly article by Lucy Thorne et al published 24 July 2018 in Journal of Infectious Diseases

The Lake Victoria Island Intervention Study on Worms and Allergy-related diseases (LaVIISWA): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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The Medical Research Council (UK)/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS--'25 years of research through partnerships'.

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

The Use of Interferon Gamma Inducible Protein 10 as a Potential Biomarker in the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Uganda

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

The effect of anthelmintic treatment during pregnancy on HIV plasma viral load: results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Uganda

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The effect of current Schistosoma mansoni infection on the immunogenicity of a candidate TB vaccine, MVA85A, in BCG-vaccinated adolescents: An open-label trial

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

The effect of tuberculin skin testing on viral load and anti-mycobacterial immune responses in HIV-1-infected Ugandan adults.

scientific article published on May 2004

The ferroportin Q248H mutation protects from anemia, but not malaria or bacteremia

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

The impact of HIV on infectiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis: a community study in Zambia.

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The impact of helminths on the response to immunization and on the incidence of infection and disease in childhood in Uganda: design of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, factorial trial of deworming interventions delivered in pregnancy

scientific article published on January 2007

The impact of intensive versus standard anthelminthic treatment on allergy-related outcomes, helminth infection intensity and helminth-related morbidity in Lake Victoria fishing communities, Uganda: results from the LaVIISWA cluster randomised trial

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The impact of maternal infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis on the infant response to bacille Calmette-Guérin immunization

scientific article published in June 2015

The impact of prenatal exposure to parasitic infections and to anthelminthic treatment on antibody responses to routine immunisations given in infancy: Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.

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The influence of BCG vaccine strain on mycobacteria-specific and non-specific immune responses in a prospective cohort of infants in Uganda

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

The role of the home environment in neurocognitive development of children living in extreme poverty and with frequent illnesses: a cross-sectional study

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The value of wide-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis in Africa.

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Thiacetazone: time to call a halt? Considerations on the use of thiacetazone in African populations with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection.

scientific article published in February 1996

Treatment of Schistosoma mansoni infection increases helminth-specific type 2 cytokine responses and HIV-1 loads in coinfected Ugandan adults.

scientific article published on 5 April 2005

Treatment of tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in Zaire.

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Treatment of tuberculosis in developing countries

scientific article published in The Lancet

Treatment outcomes of new tuberculosis patients hospitalized in Kampala, Uganda: a prospective cohort study

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Treatment with anthelminthics during pregnancy: what gains and what risks for the mother and child?

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Trends in Kaposi's sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus antibodies prior to the development of HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma: a nested case-control study

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Tropical respiratory medicine. 2. Impact of human immunodeficiency virus on tuberculosis in developing countries

scientific article published on May 1994

Troubles never come alone

scientific article published in May 2012

Tuberculosis and HIV infection

scientific article published in April 1990

Tuberculosis and immunodeficiency in HIV-1-infected patients in Africa.

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Uganda Schistosomiasis Symposium 2023: understanding morbidity drivers and developing controlled human infection models for vaccine research

scientific article published in 2023

Understanding asthma phenotypes: the World Asthma Phenotypes (WASP) international collaboration

Uptake of HIV and syphilis testing of pregnant women and their male partners in a programme for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Uganda

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

Uptake of mass drug administration programme for schistosomiasis control in Koome Islands, Central Uganda

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Use of QuantiFERON®-TB Gold in-tube culture supernatants for measurement of antibody responses

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Use of antenatal services and delivery care in Entebbe, Uganda: a community survey

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Use of prednisolone in the treatment of HIV-positive tuberculosis patients.

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Variability of infectious aerosols produced during coughing by patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

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Why Does HIV Infection Not Lead to Disseminated Strongyloidiasis?

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