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Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré
Researcher at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Publications - 29
Citations - 995
Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré is an academic researcher from Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasmodium falciparum & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 25 publications receiving 656 citations. Previous affiliations of Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré include Institut de recherche pour le développement & University of the Sciences.
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K13-Propeller Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum Parasites From Sub-Saharan Africa
Edwin Kamau,Susana Campino,Lucas Amenga-Etego,Eleanor Drury,Deus S. Ishengoma,Kimberly R. Johnson,Dieudonné Mumba,Mihir Kekre,William Yavo,Daniel Mead,Marielle K. Bouyou-Akotet,Tobias O. Apinjoh,Lemu Golassa,Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia,Ben Andagalu,Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré,Alfred Amambua-Ngwa,Paulina Tindana,Anita Ghansah,Bronwyn MacInnis,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Abdoulaye A. Djimde +21 more
TL;DR: This study provides the baseline prevalence of K13-propeller mutations in sub-Saharan Africa and detects 22 unique mutations, of which 7 were nonsynonymous.
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Plasmodium malariae and P . ovale genomes provide insights into malaria parasite evolution
Gavin G. Rutledge,Ulrike Böhme,Mathijs A. Sanders,Adam J. Reid,James Cotton,Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré,Abdoulaye A. Djimde,Tobias O. Apinjoh,Lucas Amenga-Etego,Magnus Manske,John W. Barnwell,François Renaud,Benjamin Ollomo,Franck Prugnolle,Nicholas M. Anstey,Sarah Auburn,Ric N. Price,Ric N. Price,James S. McCarthy,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Chris I. Newbold,Chris I. Newbold,Matthew Berriman,Thomas D. Otto +24 more
TL;DR: The genome suggests that P. malariae expresses a family of heterodimeric proteins on its surface that have structural similarities to a protein crucial for invasion of red blood cells, which provides insight into the evolution of the Plasmodium genus as a whole.
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An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples
MalariaGEN,Ambroise D. Ahouidi,Mozam Ali,Jacob Almagro-Garcia,Jacob Almagro-Garcia,Alfred Amambua-Ngwa,Alfred Amambua-Ngwa,Chanaki Amaratunga,Roberto Amato,Roberto Amato,Lucas Amenga-Etego,Ben Andagalu,Tim J. Anderson,Voahangy Andrianaranjaka,Tobias O. Apinjoh,Cristina V. Ariani,Elizabeth A. Ashley,Sarah Auburn,Gordon A. Awandare,Hampate Ba,Vito Baraka,Vito Baraka,Alyssa E. Barry,Alyssa E. Barry,Alyssa E. Barry,Philip Bejon,Gwladys I. Bertin,Maciej F. Boni,Steffen Borrmann,Teun Bousema,Teun Bousema,OraLee H. Branch,Peter C. Bull,Peter C. Bull,George B.J. Busby,Thanat Chookajorn,Kesinee Chotivanich,Antoine Claessens,Antoine Claessens,David J. Conway,Alister Craig,Alister Craig,Umberto D'Alessandro,Souleymane Dama,Nicholas P. J. Day,Brigitte Denis,Mahamadou Diakite,Abdoulaye Djimde,Christiane Dolecek,Arjen M. Dondorp,Chris Drakeley,Eleanor Drury,Patrick E. Duffy,Diego F. Echeverry,Thomas G. Egwang,Berhanu Erko,Rick M. Fairhurst,Abdul Faiz,Caterina A. Fanello,Mark M. Fukuda,Dionicia Gamboa,Anita Ghansah,Lemu Golassa,Sónia Gonçalves,William L Hamilton,William L Hamilton,G. L. Abby Harrison,Lee Hart,Christa Henrichs,Tran Tinh Hien,Catherine A. Hill,Abraham Hodgson,Christina Hubbart,Mallika Imwong,Deus S. Ishengoma,Scott A. Jackson,Christopher G Jacob,Ben Jeffery,Anna E. Jeffreys,Kimberly J. Johnson,Dushyanth Jyothi,Claire Kamaliddin,Edwin Kamau,Mihir Kekre,Krzysztof Kluczynski,Theerarat Kochakarn,Theerarat Kochakarn,Abibatou Konaté,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Myat Phone Kyaw,Pharath Lim,Chanthap Lon,Kovana M. Loua,Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré,Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré,Cinzia Malangone,Magnus Manske,Jutta Marfurt,Kevin Marsh,Kevin Marsh,Mayfong Mayxay,Mayfong Mayxay,Alistair Miles,Alistair Miles,Olivo Miotto,Olivo Miotto,Olivo Miotto,Victor A. Mobegi,Olugbenga A. Mokuolu,Jacqui Montgomery,Ivo Mueller,Paul N. Newton,Thuy Nguyen,Thuy-Nhien Nguyen,Harald Noedl,François Nosten,Rintis Noviyanti,Alexis Nzila,Lynette Isabella Ochola-Oyier,Harold Ocholla,Harold Ocholla,Abraham Oduro,Irene Omedo,Marie A. Onyamboko,Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo,Kolapo Oyebola,Kolapo Oyebola,Richard D. Pearson,Richard D. Pearson,Norbert Peshu,Aung Pyae Phyo,Christopher V. Plowe,Ric N. Price,Ric N. Price,Sasithon Pukrittayakamee,Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia,Julian C. Rayner,Pascal Ringwald,Kirk A. Rockett,Kirk A. Rockett,Katherine Rowlands,Lastenia Ruiz,David L. Saunders,Alex Shayo,Peter Siba,Victoria Simpson,Jim Stalker,Xin-zhuan Su,Colin J. Sutherland,Shannon Takala-Harrison,Livingstone Tavul,Vandana Thathy,Vandana Thathy,Antoinette Tshefu,Federica Verra,Joseph M. Vinetz,Joseph M. Vinetz,Thomas E. Wellems,Jason P. Wendler,Nicholas J. White,Ian J. Wright,William Yavo,Htut Ye +163 more
TL;DR: A new release of curated genome variation data on 7,000 Plasmodium falciparum samples from MalariaGEN partner studies in 28 malaria-endemic countries aims to facilitate research into the evolutionary processes affecting malaria control and to accelerate development of the surveillance toolkit required for malaria elimination.
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Major subpopulations of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa
Alfred Amambua-Ngwa,Lucas Amenga-Etego,Edwin Kamau,Edwin Kamau,Roberto Amato,Roberto Amato,Anita Ghansah,Lemu Golassa,Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia,Deus S. Ishengoma,Tobias O. Apinjoh,Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré,Ben Andagalu,William Yavo,Marielle K. Bouyou-Akotet,Oyebola Kolapo,Oyebola Kolapo,Karim Mane,Archibald Worwui,David Jeffries,Vikki Simpson,Vikki Simpson,Umberto D'Alessandro,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Abdoulaye A. Djimde +25 more
TL;DR: W whole-genome sequencing showed that there is extensive gene flow among the different regions and that Ethiopia has a distinctive population of P. falciparum, which may be indicative of coexistence with another malaria parasite, P. vivax.
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Limited specificity of commercially available SARS-CoV-2 IgG ELISAs in serum samples of African origin.
Petra Emmerich,Petra Emmerich,Carolin Murawski,Christa Ehmen,Ronald von Possel,Neele Pekarek,Lisa Oestereich,Sophie Duraffour,Meike Pahlmann,Nicole S. Struck,Daniel Eibach,Ralf Krumkamp,John H Amuasi,Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré,Raphaël Rakotozandrindrainy,Danny Asogun,Yemisi Ighodalo,Simone Kann,Jürgen May,Egbert Tannich,Christina Deschermeier +20 more
TL;DR: In this article, the specificities of four commercially available SARS-CoV-2 IgG ELISAs in serum/plasma panels originating from Africa, South America, and Europe were assessed.