Parasite genetic diversity reflects continued residual malaria transmission in Vhembe District, a hotspot in the Limpopo Province of South Africa

by Hazel B. Gwarinda, Sofonias K. Tessema, Jaishree Raman, Bryan Greenhouse, Lyn-Marié Birkholtz
Published 2021-02-01

Applying next-generation sequencing to track falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

by Sofonias K. Tessema, Jaishree Raman, Craig W. Duffy, Deus S. Ishengoma, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Bryan Greenhouse
Published 2019-09-01

Optimization of whole-genome sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum from low-density dried blood spot samples

by Noam B. Teyssier, Anna Chen, Elias M. Duarte, Rene Sit, Bryan Greenhouse, Sofonias K. Tessema
Published 2021-02-01

Declining trend of Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) mutant alleles after the withdrawal of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine in Nort...

by Sofonias K Tessema, Moges Kassa, Amha Kebede, Hussein Mohammed, Gemechu Tadesse Leta, Adugna Woyessa, Geremew Tasew Guma, Beyene Petros
Published 2015-01-01

Accelerating genomics-based surveillance for COVID-19 response in Africa

by Sofonias K Tessema, Seth C Inzaule, Alan Christoffels, Yenew Kebede, Tulio de Oliveira, Ahmed E Ogwell Ouma, Christian T Happi, John N Nkengasong
Published 2020-10-01

Confirmation of the absence of local transmission and geographic assignment of imported falciparum malaria cases to China using microsatellite panel

by Yaobao Liu, Sofonias K. Tessema, Maxwell Murphy, Sui Xu, Alanna Schwartz, Weiming Wang, Yuanyuan Cao, Feng Lu, Jianxia Tang, Yaping Gu, Guoding Zhu, Huayun Zhou, Qi Gao, Rui Huang, Jun Cao, Bryan Greenhouse
Published 2020-07-01

A review of the frequencies of Plasmodium falciparum Kelch 13 artemisinin resistance mutations in Africa

by Leonard Ndwiga, Kelvin M. Kimenyi, Kevin Wamae, Victor Osoti, Mercy Akinyi, Irene Omedo, Deus S. Ishengoma, Nancy Duah-Quashie, Ben Andagalu, Anita Ghansah, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Stephen Tukwasibwe, Sofonias K. Tessema, Corine Karema, Abdoulaye A. Djimde, Arjen M. Dondorp, Jaishree Raman, Robert W. Snow, Philip Bejon, Lynette Isabella Ochola-Oyier
Published 2021-08-01