Stephen Obaro

Research interests

Publications

• Emergence of a multidrug-resistant and virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage mediates serotype replacement after PCV13: an international whole-genome sequencing study

  The Lancet Microbe · 2022 · 10.1016/s2666-5247(22)00158-6

• The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation

  The Lancet · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)02488-0

• Towards understanding global patterns of antimicrobial use and resistance in neonatal sepsis: insights from the NeoAMR network

  Archives of Disease in Childhood · 2019 · 10.1136/archdischild-2019-316816

• Pneumococcal lineages associated with serotype replacement and antibiotic resistance in childhood invasive pneumococcal disease in the post-PCV13 era: an international whole-genome sequencing study

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(19)30297-x

• The phylogeography and incidence of multi-drug resistant typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa

  Nature Communications · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07370-z

• Molecular Surveillance Identifies Multiple Transmissions of Typhoid in West Africa

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016 · 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004781

• An extended genotyping framework for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the cause of human typhoid

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12827

• Phylogeographical analysis of the dominant multidrug-resistant H58 clade of Salmonella Typhi identifies inter- and intracontinental transmission events

  Nature Genetics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3281

• Intracontinental spread of human invasive Salmonella Typhimurium pathovariants in sub-Saharan Africa

  Nature Genetics · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2423

• Safety of the Recombinant Cholera Toxin B Subunit, Killed Whole-Cell (rBS-WC) Oral Cholera Vaccine in Pregnancy

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2012 · 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001743

• Infection in sickle cell disease: A review

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2009.03.010

• Elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease from The Gambia after the introduction of routine immunisation with a Hib conjugate vaccine: a prospective study

  The Lancet · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66788-8

• Efficacy of nine-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease in The Gambia: randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

  The Lancet · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)71876-6

• The pneumococcus: carriage, disease and conjugate vaccines

  Journal of Medical Microbiology · 2002 · 10.1099/0022-1317-51-2-98

• Immune response to revaccination with meningococcal A and C polysaccharides in Gambian children following repeated immunisation during early childhood

  Vaccine · 1999 · 10.1016/s0264-410x(99)00139-5

• A randomized controlled trial of artemether/benflumetol, a new antimalarial and pyrimethamine/sulfadoxine in the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in African children.

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 1998 · 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.58.638

• Changes in the pattern of infant and childhood mortality in Upper River Division, The Gambia, from 1989 to 1993

  Tropical Medicine & International Health · 1997 · 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-131.x

• Serum, breast milk, and infant antibody after maternal immunisation with pneumococcal vaccine

  The Lancet · 1996 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90376-1

• Carriage of pneumococci after pneumococcal vaccination

  The Lancet · 1996 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)65585-7

• Fortnightly Review: The pneumococcal problem

  BMJ · 1996 · 10.1136/bmj.312.7045.1521

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