Chikwe Ihekweazu

Research interests

Publications

• APOBEC3 deaminase editing in mpox virus as evidence for sustained human transmission since at least 2016

  Science · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg8116

• 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

• The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

  Science · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq5358

• The first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a cross-sectional study

  The Lancet · 2021 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00632-2

• Clinical Course and Outcome of Human Monkeypox in Nigeria

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa143

• COVID-19: towards controlling of a pandemic

  The Lancet · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30673-5

• Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.049

• Exportation of Monkeypox Virus From the African Continent

  The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2020 · 10.1093/infdis/jiaa559

• Human monkeypox – After 40 years, an unintended consequence of smallpox eradication

  Vaccine · 2020 · 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.04.062

• Human Monkeypox

  Infectious Disease Clinics of North America · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2019.03.001

• Outbreak of human monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017–18: a clinical and epidemiological report

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(19)30294-4

• The 2017 human monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria—Report of outbreak experience and response in the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

  PLoS ONE · 2019 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0214229

• A new twenty-first century science for effective epidemic response

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1717-y

• Metagenomic sequencing at the epicenter of the Nigeria 2018 Lassa fever outbreak

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau9343

• Genomic Analysis of Lassa Virus during an Increase in Cases in Nigeria in 2018

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1804498

• Monkeypox — Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.11.008

• Reemergence of Human Monkeypox in Nigeria, 2017

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2406.180017

• Two cases of monkeypox imported to the United Kingdom, September 2018

  Eurosurveillance · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.38.1800509

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