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Dr Alfred Ngwa

BSc MSc PhD

Associate Professor
Genetic Epidemiology

Room
MLB-S-019

Medical Research Council Laboratories
Atlantic Road, Fajara
Banjul
United Kingdom

Tel.
+2207817428

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Centres

Malaria Centre
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre

Research

Research Area
Drug discovery and development
Drug resistance
Human genetics
Parasites
Surveillance
Disease control
Outbreaks
Protozoa
Spatial analysis
Vector control
Discipline
Genetic epidemiology
Genomics
Molecular epidemiology
Biochemistry
Cell biology
Epidemiology
Genetics
Molecular biology
Parasitology
Bioinformatics
Entomology
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious disease
Malaria
Emerging Infectious Disease
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Vector borne disease
Coronavirus
Country
Cameroon
Ghana
Gambia
Mali
Nigeria
Senegal
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Major subpopulations of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa.
Amambua-Ngwa A; Amenga-Etego L; Kamau E; Amato R; Ghansah A; Golassa L; Randrianarivelojosia M; Ishengoma D; Apinjoh T; Maïga-Ascofaré O
2019
SCIENCE
Long-distance transmission patterns modelled from SNP barcodes of Plasmodium falciparum infections in The Gambia.
Amambua-Ngwa A; Jeffries D; Mwesigwa J; Seedy-Jawara A; Okebe J; Achan J; Drakeley C; Volkman S; D'Alessandro U
2019
Scientific reports
Consistent signatures of selection from genomic analysis of pairs of temporal and spatial Plasmodium falciparum populations from The Gambia.
Amambua-Ngwa A; Jeffries D; Amato R; Worwui A; Karim M; Ceesay S; Nyang H; Nwakanma D; Okebe J; Kwiatkowski D
2018
Scientific reports
Sustained Ex Vivo Susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to Artemisinin Derivatives but Increasing Tolerance to Artemisinin Combination Therapy Partner Quinolines in The Gambia.
Amambua-Ngwa A; Okebe J; Mbye H; Ceesay S; El-Fatouri F; Joof F; Nyang H; Janha R; Affara M; Ahmad A
2017
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Exceptionally long-range haplotypes in Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 6 maintained in an endemic African population.
Amambua-Ngwa A; Danso B; Worwui A; Ceesay S; Davies N; Jeffries D; D'Alessandro U; Conway D
2016
Malaria journal
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