• Seroprevalence and effect of HBV and HCV co-infections on the immuno-virologic responses of adult HIV-infected persons on anti-retroviral therapy. 

  Annison, L.; Hackman, H.; Eshun, P. F.; Annison, S.; Forson, P.; Antwi-Baffour, S. (Plos One, 2022)

  Chronic hepatitis negatively affects persons living with HIV. While varying in their transmission efficiency, HIV, HBV, and HCV have shared routes of transmission. Available data suggest widely variable rates of HBV and ...
• Joint COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Malaria Reactive Case Detection as Efficient Strategies for Disease Control. 

  Aidoo, E. K.; Squire, D. S.; Atuahene, O. O. D.; Badu, K.; Botchway, F. A.; Osei-Adjei, G.; Krogfelt, K. A. (MDPI, 2022)

  Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contact tracing and malaria reactive case detection (RACD) are effective strategies for disease control. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global attention COVID-19 has ...
• Prevalence and Risk Factors of Preterm Birth Among Pregnant Women Admitted at the Labor Ward of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana. 

  Anto, E. O.; Ofori Boadu, W. I.; Opoku, S.; Senu, E.; Tamakloe, V. C. K. T.; Tawiah, A.; Appiah, M.; Addai-Mensah, O. (Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022)

  Preterm birth is a global epidemic and a leading cause of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated the prevalence and risk factors of preterm birth among women attending the labor ward for delivery at a ...
• CoVID-19 rRT-PCR Testing Capacity in Ghana; Indications of Preparedness for Marburg virus Outbreak?. 

  Nyarko, E. N.; Kumi, J.; Ofori, E. K.; Ateko, R. O.; Appiah, M.; Bontu, A. B.; Asare-Anane, H. (medRxiv., 2022)

  Introduction Ghana, as of July 2022, has had 168,350 Real-Time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR)-confirmed cases of CoViD-19 infections and 1,458 deaths. Besides, 2 cases of Marburg virus diseases ...
• Impact of whey derived bio-active components on resolving human health issues: As Nutraceuticals. 

  Morya, S.; Danquah-Amoah, A. (Research Trends in Food Technology and Nutrition, 2017)

  Milk is one of the nutritious source and extensively used for human consumption. India is biggest producer of milk and per day million of tonne of milk is produce and processed. Per day huge amount of whey generated from ...
• Neonatal neurological examination in a resource-limited setting: What defines normal? 

  Lawford, H. L.; Nuamah, M. A.; Liley, H. G.; Lee, A. C.; Kumar, S.; Adjei, A. A.; Botchway, F.; Oppong, S. A. (European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 2020)

  Objective: To describe the results of the Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological Examination (HNNE) in a low-risk, term-born, contemporary sample in Ghana. Of particular interest was to compare these findings with the original ...
• Portable designed device with flexor sensor for scoliosis rehabilitation among young male and female athletics 

  Danquah-Amoah, A. Charan, A. A.; ; (The Pharma Innovation, 2017)

  The spine is made up of three slight curves one is found in the neck, one in the upper back, and the last one situated in the lower back. These curves are normal and can be seen from a side view. Seeing from a back view, ...
• Application of nanotechnology in bioengineering industry and its potential hazards to human health and the environment 

  Danquah-Amoah, A.; Morya, S. (The Pharma Innovation, 2017)

  Nanotechnology is regarded as one of the most transformative technology of 21st century, which has potential to upgrade scientific innovation while tremendously giving advantage to the society. Bioengineering is the ...
• Effects of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in preeclampsia. 

  Ababio, G. K.; Adu-Bonsaffoh, K.; Narh, G.; Morvey, D.; Botchway, F.; Abindau, E.; Botchway, F.; Quaye, I. K. (ClinMed, 2017)

  Background Lactate dehydrogenase has had an exciting journey as a utility marker in different illnesses, but currently, its clinical utility has been relegated to confirm hemolysis, as a tumor marker, and as a diagnostic ...
• Neuregulin in health and disease 

  Cespedes, J. C.; Liu, M.; Harbuzariu, A.; Nti, A.; Onyekaba, J.; Cespedes, H. W; Botchway, F.; Stiles, J. K. (Frontiers, 2018)

  Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), are typically characterized by progressive neuronal loss and neurological dysfunctions in ...
• The incidence of malaria parasites in screened donor blood for transfusion. 

  Antwi-Baffour, S.; Kyeremeh, R.; Amoako, A. P.; Annison, L.; Tetteh, J. O. M.; Seidu, M. A. (National Library of Medicine, 2019)

  Malaria is a protozoan parasitic infection of humans resulting from one or more of the five species of the genus Plasmodium and its burden across the world particularly in the tropics is well known. Blood transfusion on ...
• Transcription of exsD is repressed directly by H-NS in Vibrio parahaemolyticus 

  Zhang, Y.; Osei-Adjei, G.; Ni, B.; Fang, H.; Zhang, L.; Zhao, X.; Sun, F. (Elsevier Ltd, 2016)

  Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a leading cause of seafood-associated diarrhea and gastroenteritis. This bacteria expresses a major virulence determinant called T3SS1. Expression of T3SS1 is tightly regulated by the ExsA-ExsC-ExsD ...
• Hematological differences among malaria patients in rural and Urban Ghana. 

  Iqbal, S. A.; Botchway, F.; Badu, K.; Wilson, N. O.; Dei-Adomakoh, Y.; Dickinson-Copeland, C. M.; Driss, A. (Oxford, 2016)

  Background: Scarce studies have addressed hematological differences of malaria in urban and rural regions. Methods: Full or complete blood cell counts from 46 and 75 individuals (age range from < 1 to 92 years) with ...
• Transcriptional regulation of cpsQ‐mfp ABC and mfp ABC by CalR in vibrio parahaemolyticus 

  Gao, H.; Zhang, L.; Osei‐Adjei, G.; Yang, W.; Zhou, D.; Huang, X.; Zhang, Y. (Wiley, 2017)

  The cpsQ-mfpABC locus is transcribed as two operons, i.e., cpsQ-mfpABC and mfpABC, in Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and both of them are all required for biofilm formation. CalR belongs to the LysR-type transcriptional regulator ...
• CalR is required for the expression of T6SS2 and the adhesion of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to HeLa cells 

  Zhang, L.; Osei-Adjei, G.; Zhang, Y.; Gao, H.; Yang, W.; Zhou, D.; Zhang, Y. (Springer Link, 2017)

  Vibrio parahaemolyticus expresses one major virulence determinant T6SS2, which is constituted into three putative operons, i.e., VPA1027-1024, VPA1043-1028, and VPA1044-1046. CalR, a LysR-type transcriptional regulator, ...
• CXCL10 gene promoter polymorphism–1447A> G Is associated with malaria in Ghanaian children 

  Botchway, F.; Wilson, N.; Dickinson-Copeland, C. M.; Adjei, A. A.; Wilson, M. D.; Stiles, J. K. (BMJ, 2017)

  Background Recent studies indicate that interferon gamma inducible chemokine, CXCL10, is a strong predictor of both human and experimental cerebral malaria. We hypothesised malaria infection is associated with variation ...
• Regulatory actions of ToxR and CalR on their own genes and type III secretion system 1 in Vibrio parahaemolyticus 

  Osei-Adjei, G.; Gao, H.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, L.; Yang, W.; Yang, H.; Zhou, D. (Oncotarget, 2017)

  Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading cause of seafood-associated gastroenteritis. Type III secretion system 1 (T3SS1) is one of the virulence determinants of this bacteria. T3SS1 expression is regulated by ToxR and CalR. ...
• Transcriptional regulation of the type VI secretion system 1 genes by quorum sensing and ToxR in Vibrio parahaemolyticus 

  Zhang, Y.; Gao, H.; Osei-Adjei, G.; Zhang, Y.; Yang, W.; Yang, H.; Zhou, D. (Frontier, 2017)

  Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the leading cause of seafood-associated gastroenteritis, harbors two separate T6SSs on chromosomes 1 and 2, i.e., T6SS1 (VP1386-1420) and T6SS2 (VPA1025-1046). T6SS1 contains at least 7 putative ...
• The malS-5′ UTR regulates hisG, a key gene in the histidine biosynthetic pathway in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. 

  Zhang, Y.; Yan, D; Xia, L.; Zhao, X.; Osei-Adjei, G.; Xu, S.; Huang, X. (PubMed, 2017)

  Bacterial noncoding RNAs (ncRNA) regulate diverse cellular processes, including virulence and environmental fitness. The malS 5' untranslated region (named malS-5'UTR) was identified as a regulatory ncRNA that increases ...
• Haematological parameters and lipid profile abnormalities among patients with Type-2 diabetes mellitus in Ghana 

  Antwi-Baffour, S.; Kyeremeh, R.; Boateng, S. O.; Annison, L.; Seidu, M. A. (PMC, 2018)

  Background: Diabetes mellitus is a non-infectious disease that has a high prevalence worldwide. Altered level of many haematological parameters have been observed in patients with diabetes. The levels of lipids are ...

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