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infectious diseases

Professor Kathryn Maitland

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Email: 
kathryn [dot] maitlandatgmail [dot] com
Group: 
Clinical Group

Susan Morpeth

Susan Morpeth
Email: 
smorpethatkilifi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Epidemiological and Demographic Surveillance System (EPI-DSS)

Dr Susan Morpeth is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician, who joined the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in January 2009.

Charles Newton

Charles Newton
Email: 
cnewtonatkilifi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Sickle Cell Disease (Dar es Salaam)

Charles Newton was born in Kenya, qualified in Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom.

Sharon Cox

Email: 
Sharon [dot] Coxatlshtm [dot] ac [dot] uk
Group: 
Sickle Cell Disease (Dar es Salaam)

Qualifications:
1996 - BSc in Biochemistry - University College London - 1996
1997 - Post graduate teaching qualification - 1997

Brett Lowe

Brett Lowe
Email: 
blowe124atgmail [dot] com
Group: 
Sickle Cell Disease (Dar es Salaam)

Brett joined the Kilifi KEMRI-Wellcome programme in April 1992 and has been instrumental in the development of the programme's laboratory based research to its current status.

Francis Ndungu

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Email: 
fndunguatkilifi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Molecular Parasitology and Immunology

Immunity to malaria is slow to develop, is non-sterilising and wanes rapidly when immune adults migrate to non-endemic regions, suggesting that specific problems exist in the establishment and main

Charles Sande

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Email: 
csandeatkilifi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Epidemiological and Demographic Surveillance System (EPI-DSS)

Repiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Principal Investigator(s): 
D James Nokes

A main focus of our current research is the transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus, the major viral cause of infant and childhood severe pneumonia worldwide. RSV, as it is known, exhibits considerable genetic diversity (Groups A and B and within each a set of variants) which is apparently under immune selection. Occurrence of the virus is structured at the population level exhibiting sequential dominance of these variants; presumably resulting from (localised) strain specific herd immunity that provides competitive fitness to the least prevalent strains.

Aetiology and disease burden of respiratory and enteric viral pathogens

Principal Investigator(s): 
D James Nokes

• Viral aetiology, epidemiology and disease burden of paediatric pneumonia hospitalisations in the coastal Kenyan setting.

• Disease burden and genetic diversity of rotavirus in hospitalized rural Kenyan children

• Investigating the aetiology and spatial-temporal risk factors of diarrhoeal pathogens using a broad spectrum real-time PCR detection assay

Transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses

Principal Investigator(s): 
D James Nokes

• Household transmission of respiratory viruses: who acquires infection from whom (Patrick Munywoki - PhD student)

• Mathematical modelling of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) transmission dynamics and the impact of different vaccination strategies for its control (Timothy Kinyanjui, PhD Student)

• Quantifying RSV re-infection in the community - transmission in the school setting (Dorothy Koech)

• Characterising contact patterns relevant to respiratory virus transmission (Moses Kiti)

• Oral-fluid sampling for the determination of RSV infection and immunity