Centre Staff Publications

2011

Biggs HM, Bui DM, Galloway RL, Stoddard RA, Shadomy SV, Morrissey AB, Bartlett JA, Onyango JJ, Maro VP, Kinabo GD, Saganda W, Crump JA. Leptospirosis among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2011; 85: 275-81.

Bonsignori M, Hwang KK, Chen X, Tsao CY, Morris L, GrayE, Marshall DJ, Crump JA, Kapiga SH, Sam NE, Sinangil F, Pancera M, Yongping Y, Zhang B, Zhu J, Kwong PD, O'Dell S, Mascola JR, Wu L, Nabel GJ, Phogat S, Seaman MS, Whitesides JF, Moody MA, Kelsoe G, Yang X, Sodroski J, Shaw GM, Montefiori D, Kepler TB, Tomaras GD, Alam SM, Liao HX, Haynes BF. Analysis of a clonal lineage of HIV-1 envelope V2/V3 conformational epitope-specific broadly neutralizing antibodies and their inferred unmutated common ancestors. J Virol 2011; 85: 9998-10009.

Crump JA, Gove S, Parry CM. Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource-limited areas. BMJ 2011; 343: d4847.

Crump JA, Medalla FM, Joyce KW, Krueger AL, Hoekstra RM, Whichard JM, Barzilay EJ, Emerging Infections Program NARMS Working Group. Antimicrobial resistance among invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica isolates in the United States, National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, 1996-2007. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2011; 55: 1148-54.

Crump JA, Morrissey AB, Ramadhani HO, Njau BN, Maro VP,Reller LB. Controlled comparison of BacT/ALERT MB system, manual MYCO/F LYTIC procedure, and ISOLATOR 10 system for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol 2011; 49: 3054-7.

Crump JA, Ramadhani HO, Morrissey AB, Msuya LJ, Yang L-Y, Chow S-C, Morpeth SC, Reyburn H, Njau BN, Shaw AV, Diefenthal HC, Bartlett JA, Shao JF, Schimana W, Cunningham CK, Kinabo GD. Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children and infants in northern Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health 2011; 16: 830-7.

Crump JA, Ramadhani HO, Morrissey AB, Saganda W, Mwako MS, Yang L-Y, Chow S-C, Morpeth SC, Reyburn H, Njau BN, Shaw AV, Diefenthal HC, Shao JF, Bartlett JA, Maro VP. Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected adults and adolescents in northern Tanzania. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52: 341-8.

Crump JA, Sugarman J. Guidelines for global health training. Health Affairs 2011; 30: 1215.

Crump JA, Sugarman J. Guidelines for international service learning programs. Developing World Bioethics 2011; 11: 170.

Crump JA, Sugarman J. In response to 'Global health training: one way street?' Am J Trop Med Hyg 84: 506. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2011; 84: 507.

Hill PC, Rutherford ME, Van Crevel R, Audas R, Graham SM. Closing the Policy Practice Gap in the management of child contacts of tuberculosis cases in developing countries. PLoS Med 2011; 8: e1001105.

Keddy KH, Sooka A, Letsoalo ME, Hoyland G, Chaignat C-L, Morrissey AB, Crump JA. Sensitivity and specificity of typhoid rapid antibody tests for laboratory diagnosis of typhoid fever at two sub-SaharanAfrican sites. Bull World Health Organ 2011; 89: 640-7.

Maertzdorf J, Ota M, Repsilber D, Mollenkopj HJ, Weiner J, Hill PC, Kaufmann SH. Functional correlations of pathogenesis-driven gene expression signatures in tuberculosis. PLoS One 2011; 6:26938.

Matthias KR, Matthias JMP, Hill PC. An asset-focussed Health Needs Assessment in a rural community in North India. Asia Pac J Pub Health 2011; 106: (epub before print).

McLellan JS, Pancera M, Carrico C, Gorman J, Julien J-P, Khayat R, Louder R, Pejchal R, Sastry M, Dai K, O’Dell S, Patel N, Shahzad-ul-Hussan S, Yang Y, Zhang B, Zhou T, Zhu J, Boyington JC, Chuang G-Y, Diwanji D, Georgiev I, Kwon YD, Lee D, Louder MK, Moquin S, Schmidt SD, Yang Z-Y, Bonsignori M, Crump JA, Kapiga SH, Sam NE, Haynes BF, Burton DR, Koff WC, Walker LM, Phogat S, Wyatt R, Orwenyo J, Wang L-X, Arthos J, Bewley CA, Mascola JR, Nabel GJ, Schief WR, Ward AB, Wilson IA, Kwong PD. Structure of HIV-1 gp120 V1V2 domain with broadly neutralizing antibody PG9. Nature 2011; 480: 336-45.

Morris GA, Edwards DR, Hill PC, Weijse C, Bisseye C, Olesen R, Edwards TL, Gilbert JR, Myers JL, Stryjewski ME, Abbate E, Estevan R, Hamilton CD, Tacconelli A, Novelli G, Brunetti E, Aaby P, Sodemann M, Ostergaard L, Adegbola R, Williams SM, Scott WK, Sirugo G. Interleukin 12B (IL12B) genetic variation and pulmonary tuberculosis : a study of cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina. PLoS One 2011; 6: e16656.

Ostermann J, Reddy EA, Shorter MM, Muiruri C, Mtalo A, Itemba DK, Njau B, Bartlett JA, Crump JA, Thielman NM. Who tests, who doesn't, and why? Uptake of mobile HIV counseling and testing in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. PLoS ONE 2011; 6: e16488.

Prabhu M, McHome B, Ostermann J, Itemba D, Njau B, Thielman N; KIWAKKUKI-Duke VCT Study Group. Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence among women attending HIV voluntary counseling and testing in northern Tanzania, 2005-2008. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2011; 113: 63-7.

Prabhu M, Nicholson WL, Roche AJ, Kersh GJ, FitzpatrickKA, Oliver LD, Massung RF, Morrissey AB, Bartlett JA, Onyango JJ, Maro VP, Kinabo GD, Saganda W, Crump JA. Q fever, spotted fever group and typhus group rickettsioses among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 53: e8-15.

Roca A, Hill PC, Townend J, Egere U, Antonio M, Bojang A, Akinsanya A, Litchfield T, Nsekpong D, Oluwalana C, Howie S. Greenwood B, Adegbola RA. Effects of Community Wide Vaccination with PCV-7 on Pneumococcal Nasopharyngeal Carriage in The Gambia: Village-Randomized Trial. PLoS Med 2011; 8: e1001107.

Scott LE, Crump JA, Msuya E, Morrissey AB, Venter WF, Stevens WS. Abbott RealTime HIV-1 m2000rt viral load testing: manual extraction versus the automated m2000sp extraction. J Virol Methods 2011; 172: 78-80.

Sjölund-Karlsson M, Joyce K , Blickenstaff K, Ball T, Haro J, Medalla FM, Fedorka-Cray P, Zhao S, Crump JA, Whichard JM. Antimicrobial susceptibility to azithromycin among Salmonella enterica isolated in the United States. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2011; 55: 3985-9.

Sowerby SJ, Mirams GJ, Hill PC, Paulin MG. An axisymmetric meniscus converges particles for microscopy. J Microscopy 2011; (epub before print).

Suaalii-Sauni T, Aiavao F, Faafeu-Hope E, Sopoaga T, Paul C, Righarts A, McCool J, Kirifi-Alai TN, Hill P, Fuatai FL. Strengthening health research capacity from within Samoa. Asia Pac J Pub Health 2011; 23: 100-9.

Sutherland J, Hill PC, Antonio M, Adetifa IM, de Jong BC, Jeffries DJ, Bottomly C, Donkor S, Joosten SA, Opmeer L, Haks MC, Ottenhoff TH, Adegbola RA, Ota IM. Identification of probably early-onset biomarkers for tuberculosis disease progression. PLoS One 2011; 6: e25230.

Tomaras GD, Binley JM, Gray ES, Crooks ET, Osawa K, Moore PL, Tumba N, Tong T, Shen X, Yates NL, Decker J, Wibmer CK, Gao F, Alam SM, Shaw GM, Easterbrook P, Abdool-Karim S, Kamanga G, Crump JA, Cohen M, Mascola JR, Haynes BF, Montefiori DC, Morris L. Polyclonal B cell responses to conserved neutralization epitopes in a subset of HIV-1-infected individuals. J Virol 2011; 85: 11502-19.

van Ingen J, Tortoli E, Selvarangan R, Coyle MB, Crump JA, Morrissey AB, Dekhuijzen PN, Boeree MJ, van Soolingen D. Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov.; a slow growing nonchromogenic species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011: 61: 1293-8.

Waters RC, Ostermann J, Reeves TD, Masnick MF, Thielman NM, Bartlett JA, Crump JA. A cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative HIVre-testing strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2011; 56: 443-52.

Wu X, Zhou T, Zhu J, Zhang B, Georgiev I, Wang C, Chen X, Longo NS, Louder M, McKee K, O’Dell S, Perfetto S, Schmidt SD, Shi W, Wu L, Yang Y, Yang Z-Y, Yang Z, Zhang Z, Bonsignori M, Crump JA, Kapiga SH, Sam NE, Haynes BF, Simek M, Burton DR, Koff WC, Doria-Rose N, Connors M, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Mullikin JC, Nabel GJ, Roederer M, Shapiro L, Kwong PD, Mascola JR. Focused evolution of HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies revealed by crystal structures and deep sequencing. Science 2011; 333: 1593-602.

2010

Adetifa IM, Ota MO, Walther B, Hammond AS, Lugos MD, Jeffries DJ, Donkor SA, Adegbola RA, Hill PC. Decay kinetics of an interferon Gamma Release Assay with anti-Tuberculosis therapy in newly diagnosed Tuberculosis cases. PLoS One 2010; 5: e12502.

Hill PC, Ota MO. Tuberculosis Case Contact research in Endemic Tropical settings -design, conduct and relevance to other infectious diseases. Lancet Infect Dis 2010; 10: 723-32.

Rutherford ME, Alisjahbana, Marharani W, Sampurno H, Van Crevel R. Hill PC. Sensitivity of the Quantiferon-Gold In-tube assay in sputum smear positive TB cases in Indonesia. PLoS One 2010; 5: e12020.

Mazurek M, Jereb J, Vernon A, LoBue P, Goldberg S, Castro K, IGRA Expert Committee, Ceners for Disease Control and Prevention. Updated guidelines for using Interferon Gamma release assays to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection- United States, 2010. MMWR Recomm Rep 2010; 59: 1-25.

Thye T, Vannberg FO, Wong SH, Owusu-Dabo E, Osei I, Gyapong J, Hill PC, Sisay-Joof F, Enimil A, Chinbauh MA, Floyd S, Warndorff DK, Sichali L, Malema S, Crampin AC, Ngwira B, Teo YY, Small K, Rockett K, Kwiatkowski D, Fine PE, Sirugo G, Newport M, Lienhardt C, Adegbola RA, Corrah T, Ziegler A, Morris AP, Meyer CG, Horstmann RD, Hill AV. Combined analysis of tuberculosis genome-wide associate studies reveals a novel susceptibility locus on chromosome 18q11.2. Nature Genetics 2010; 42: 739-41.

Adetifa IM, Ota MO, Jeffries DJ, Hammond A, Lugos MD, Donkor S, Owiafe P, Adegbola RA, .Hill PC.  Commercial Interferon gamma release assays compared to the tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in childhood contacts in the Gambia. Ped Infect Dis J 2010; 29: 439-43.

Samu KS, Wheeler A, Asiasiga L, Dash SM, Robinson G, Dunbar L, Suaalii-Sauni T. Towards quality Pacific services: the development of a service self-evaluation tool for Pacific addiction services in New Zealand. Jnl of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01468.x

Perry S, de Jong BC, Solnick JV, de la Luz Sanchez M, Yang S, Lin PL, Hansen LM, Talat N, Hill PC, Hussain R, Adegbola RA, Flynn J, Canfield D, Parsonnet J. PLoS One 2010; 5: e8804.

de Jong BC, Adetifa I, Walther B, Hill PC, Antonio M, Ota M, Adegbola RA. Differences between tuberculosis cases infected with Mycobacterium africanum, West African type 2, relative to Euro-American Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an update. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 2010; 58: 102-5.

Rutherford ME, Mulholland K, Hill PC. Access to Health Care in Relation to under 5 death in sub-Saharan Africa. Trop Med Int Health 2010; 15: 508-19.

Abebe M, Doherty TM, Wassie L, Aseffa A, Bobosha K, Demissie A, Zewdie M, Engers H, Andersen P, Kim L, Huggett J, Rook G, Yamuah LK, Zumla A, VACSEL study group. Expression of apoptosis-related genes in an Ethiopian cohort study correlates with tuberculosis clinical status. Eur J Immunol 2010; 40: 291-301.

Hill PC, Townend J, Antonio M, Akisanya B, Ebruke C, Lahai G, Greenwood BM, Adegbola RA. Transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in rural Gambian villages – a longitudinal study. Clin Infect Dis 2010; 50: 1468-76.

Touray K, Adetifa IM, Jallow A, Rigby J, Jeffries D, Cheung YB, Donkor S, Adegbola RA, Hill PC. Spatial analysis of tuberculosis in an urban West African setting: is there evidence of clustering? Trop Med Int Health 2010; 6: 664-72.

McKenzie G, Ceesay SJ, Hill PC, Walther M, Bojang KA, Satoguina J, Enwere G, D’Alessandro U, Saha D, Ikumapayi U, O’Dempsey T, Mabey DC, Corrah T, Conway DJ, Adegbola RA, Greenwood BM. A Decline in the Incidence of Invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella infection in the Gambia temporally associated with a decline in malaria infection. PLoS ONE 2010; 5: e10568 (7pp).

Sunny H. Wong, Sailesh Gochhait, Dheeraj Malhotra, Fredrik H. Pettersson, Yik Y. Teo, Chiea C. Khor, Anna Rautanen, Stephen J. Chapman, Tara C. Mills, Amit Srivastava,Aleksey Rudko, Maxim B. Freidi, Valery P. Puzyrev, Shafat Ali, Shweta Aggarwal, Rupali Chopra, Belum S. N. Reddy, Vijay K. Garg, Suchismita Roy, Sarah Meisner, Sunil K.Hazra, Bibhuti Saha, Sian Floyd, Brendan J. Keating, Cecilia Kim, Benjamin P. Fairfax,Julian C. Knight, Philip C. Hill, Richard A. Adegbola, Hakon Hakonarson, Paul E. M.Fine, Ramasamy M. Pitchappan, Rameshwar N. K. Bamezai, Adrian V.S. Hill, Fredrik O.Vannberg. Leprosy and the adaptation of human Toll-like receptor 1. PLoS Pathogens 2010; 6: e1000979.

2009

Rutherford ME, Dockerty JD, Jasseh M, Howie SRC, Herbison P, Jeffries DJ, Mulholland K, Adegbola RA, Hill PC. Preventive measures in infancy to reduce under 5 mortality: a case control study in The Gambia. Trop Med Int H 2009; 14: 149-55.

Pai M, Joshi R, Dogra S, Zwerling A, Gajalakshmi D, Goswami K, Reddy M, Kalantri S, Hill PC, Menzies D, Hopewell P. T-cell assay conversions and reversions: a pilot study among household contacts of TB patients in rural India. Int J Tub Lung Dis 2009; 13: 84-92.

Rutherford ME, Dockerty JD, Jasseh M, Howie SR, Herbison P, Jeffries DJ, Leach M, Stevens W, Mulholland K, Adegbola RA, Hill PC. Access to healthcare and under  5 mortality in West Africa: a case control study. Bull WHO 2009; 14: 149-55.

de Jong BC , Antonio M, Awine T, Ogungbemi K, de Jong YP, Gagneux S, DeRiemer K, Zozio T, Rastogi N, Borgdorff M, Hill PC, Adegbola RA. Use of spoligotyping and large-sequence polymorphisms to study the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a cohort study of consecutive smear positive tuberculosis cases in the Gambia. J Clin Micobiol 2009: 47: 9994-1001.

Sutherland JS, Adetifa IM, Hill PC, Adegbola RA, Ota MO. Pattern and diversity of cytokine production differentiates between Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease. Eur J Immunol 2009; 39: 723-9.

Hill SE, Njie O, Sanneh M, Jallow M, Peel D, Njie M, Weber M, Hill PC, Adegbola RA, Howie SRC. Oxygen for severe pneumonia in The Gambia, West Africa: a situational analysis. Int J Tub Lung Dis 2009; 13: 587-93.

Black GF, Thiel BA, Ota MO, Parida SK, Adegbola RA, Boom WH, Dockrell HM, Franken KL, Friggen AH, Hill PC, Klein MR, Lalor M, Mayanja H, Schoolnik G, Stanley K, Weldingh K, Kaufmann SH, Walzl G, Ottenhoff TH. Immunogenicity of novel candidate antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in three high-burden African countries. Clin Vacc Immunol 2009 (epub before print).

Sutherland JS, Jeffries DJ, Donkor S, Walter B, Adetifa IM, Hill PC, Adegbola RA, Ota IM. High granulocyte/lymphocyte ratio and paucity of NKT cells defines TB disease in a TB-endemic setting. Tuberculosis 2009 (eput before print).

Howie SRC, Hill S, Ebonyi A, Krishnan G, Njie O, Sanney M, Jallow M, Stevens W, Taylor K, Weber MW, Collier Njai P, Tapgun M, Corrah T, Mulholland K, Peel D, Njie M, Hill PC, Adegbola RA. Meeting oxygen needs in Africa: an options analysis from The Gambia. Bull WHO 2009; 87: 763-71.

Lugos M, Adetifa I, Donkor S, Hill PC, Adegbola RA, Ota MO.  Evaluation of the contribution of major T cell subsets to IFN-γ production in TB infection by ELISPOT. Immunological Investigations 2009; 38 :341-9.

Suaalii-Sauni T, Wheeler A, Saafi E, Robinson G, Agnew F, Warren H, Erick M, Hingano T. Exploration of Pacific perspectives of Pacific models of mental health service delivery in New Zealand. Pac Health Dialog. 2009 Feb;15(1): 18-27.

2008

Antonio M, Hakeem I, Awine T, Secka O, Sankareh K, Nsekpong D, Lahai G, Akisanya A, Egere U, Enwere G, Zaman SM, Hill PC, Corrah T, Cutts F, Greenwood BM, Adegbola RA. Seasonality and outbreak of a predominant Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 clone from The Gambia: Expansion of ST217 hypervirulent clonal complex in West Africa. BMC Microbiol 2008; 8: 198 (epub)

De Jong BC, Hill PC, Aiken A, Awine T, Antonio M, Adetifa IM, Jackson-Sillah DJ, Fox A, DeRiemer K, Borgdorff M, Gagneux S, McAdam KP, Corrah T, Small PM, Adegbola RA. Progression to tuberculosis, but not transmission, varies by M. tuberculosis lineage in The Gambia. J Infect Dis 2008; 198: 1037-43.

Adetifa IMO, Hill PC, Jackson-Sillah DJ, Ibanga H, Bah G, Donkor SA, Corrah T, Adegbola RA. Haematological values from a Gambian cohort -  possible reference ranges for a West African population. Int J Lab Hematology 2008; (epub before print).

Brookes RH, Hill PC, Owiafe PK, Ibanga HB, Jeffries DJ, Donkor SA, Fletcher HA, Hammond AS, Lienhardt C, Adegbola RA, McShane H, Hill AVS. Safety and immunogenicity of the candidate tuberculosis vaccine MVA85A in West Africa. PLoS ONE 2008; 3: e2921 (6pp).

Howie SR, Hill SE, Peel D, Njie M, Hill PC, Weber M, Mulholland K, Adegbola RA. Beyond good intentions: lessons on equipment donation from an African hospital.  Bull WHO 2008; 86: 52-56.

Hill PC, Jackson-Sillah DJ, Fox A, Brookes RH, de Jong BC, Jeffries DJ, Donkor SA, Lugos MD, Adetifa IM, Aiken AM, Howie SR, Corrah T, McAdam KP, Adegbola RA. Incidence of secondary disease and predictive value of initial ELISPOT and Mantoux tests in Gambian tuberculosis contacts. PLoS One 2008; 1: e1379 (7pp).

Hammond AS, McConkey S, Hill PC, Gomez M, Crozier S, Klein MR, Adegbola RA, Rowland-Jones S, Brookes RH, Whittle H, Jaye A. Mycobacterium tuberculosis –specific immune responses are maintained across a broad range of CD4 T cell counts in patients coinfected with HIV. J Infect Dis 2008; 197: 295-99.

Hill PC, Cheung YB, Akisanya A, Sankareh K, Lahai G, Greenwood BM, Adegbola RA. Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Gambian infants – a longitudinal study. Clin Infect Dis 2008; 46: 807-14.

Wassie L, Demissie A, Aseffa A, Abebe M, Yamuah L, Tilahun H, Petros B, Rook G, Zumla A, Andersen P, Doherty TM; VACSEL Study Group. Ex vivo cytokine mRNA levels correlate with changing clinical status of ethiopian TB patients and their contacts over time. PLoS ONE. 2008 Jan 30;3(1): e1522.