Iruka Okeke
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Iruka Okeke's Degrees
- PhD Microbiology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Microbiology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Iruka Okeke is a Nigerian microbiologist who studies the genetics of enteric disease-causing bacteria such as E. coli. She also researches ways to improve microbiology laboratory practices in Africa. She is a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences.
Iruka Okeke's Published Works
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- Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Part I: recent trends and current status. (2005) (842)
- Non-prescription antimicrobial use worldwide: a systematic review. (2011) (707)
- Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Part II: strategies for containment. (2005) (306)
- Growing Problem of Multidrug-Resistant Enteric Pathogens in Africa (2007) (232)
- Characterization of Escherichia coliStrains from Cases of Childhood Diarrhea in Provincial Southwestern Nigeria (2000) (194)
- Heterogeneous virulence of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains isolated from children in Southwest Nigeria. (2000) (183)
- espC Pathogenicity Island of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Encodes an Enterotoxin (2001) (143)
- Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in sub-Saharan Africa: status, uncertainties and necessities. (2010) (126)
- Antibacterial activity of aqueous extracts of selected chewing sticks. (2005) (124)
- Antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from Nigerian students, 1986 1998. (2000) (119)
- Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli. (1998) (110)
- Cholera Outbreaks in Nigeria Are Associated with Multidrug Resistant Atypical El Tor and Non-O1/Non-O139 Vibrio cholerae (2013) (107)
- Dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria across geographic borders. (2001) (105)
- Diagnostics as essential tools for containing antibacterial resistance. (2011) (101)
- The Escherichia coli Common Pilus and the Bundle-Forming Pilus Act in Concert during the Formation of Localized Adherence by Enteropathogenic E. coli (2009) (91)
- Quinolone resistance in Escherichia coli from Accra, Ghana (2011) (90)
- Multi-Locus Sequence Typing of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolates from Nigerian Children Uncovers Multiple Lineages (2010) (82)
- Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980–2016 (2019) (72)
- Enteroaggregative E. coli O104 from an outbreak of HUS in Germany 2011, could it happen again? (2011) (67)
- Molecular Epidemiology of the Iron Utilization Genes of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (2004) (60)
- Antiinflammatory and antibacterial activities of C‐methylflavonols from Piliostigma thonningii (1997) (59)
- Antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori from patients in Ile-Ife, South-west, Nigeria. (2007) (56)
- The incidence and prevalence of hospital-acquired (carbapenem-resistant) Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2019) (56)
- Quality indicators assessing antibiotic use in the outpatient setting: a systematic review followed by an international multidisciplinary consensus procedure (2018) (56)
- Vibrio cholerae O1 from Accra, Ghana carrying a class 2 integron and the SXT element (2008) (54)
- Antimicrobial spectrum of Alchornea cordifolia leaf extract (1999) (50)
- Quality and bioavailability of tetracycline capsules in a Nigerian semi-urban community. (1995) (50)
- Improving the estimation of the global burden of antimicrobial resistant infections. (2019) (49)
- Leveraging Africa's preparedness towards the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (49)
- Poverty and Root Causes of Resistance in Developing Countries (2010) (49)
- Genetic elements associated with antimicrobial resistance in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) from Brazil (2010) (47)
- Rapid evolution of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in Nigeria is temporally associated with fluoroquinolone use (2011) (46)
- Antimicrobial use and resistance in Nigeria: situation analysis and recommendations, 2017 (2018) (44)
- Antibiotic resistance in Africa - discerning the enemy and plotting a defence. (2003) (44)
- A study of the effect of the urban/rural divide on the incidence of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli (1997) (43)
- Regional Dissemination of a Trimethoprim-Resistance Gene Cassette via a Successful Transposable Element (2012) (43)
- Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present (2012) (42)
- Broadening Participation in the Sciences within and from Africa: Purpose, Challenges, and Prospects (2017) (41)
- Heat-Resistant Agglutinin 1 Is an Accessory Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Colonization Factor (2009) (40)
- Towards a global definition of responsible antibiotic use: results of an international multidisciplinary consensus procedure (2018) (39)
- Metrics to assess the quantity of antibiotic use in the outpatient setting: a systematic review followed by an international multidisciplinary consensus procedure (2018) (38)
- Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Related to Uropathogenic Clonal Group A (2007) (37)
- Diagnostic insufficiency in Africa. (2006) (36)
- Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enteric Bacteria in Sub-Saharan Africa: Clones, Implications and Research Needs (2016) (36)
- Etiology of Acute Diarrhea in Adults in Southwestern Nigeria (2003) (35)
- Carriage of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli by older children and adults in Accra, Ghana. (2010) (31)
- Comparative genomics of 274 Vibrio cholerae genomes reveals mobile functions structuring three niche dimensions (2014) (30)
- Classes 1 and 2 integrons in faecal Escherichia coli strains isolated from mother-child pairs in Nigeria (2017) (28)
- Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli in mother-child Pairs in Ile-Ife, South Western Nigeria (2015) (28)
- The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation (2022) (28)
- Antibiotic-Resistant Cell-Detaching Escherichia coli Strains from Nigerian Children (2002) (27)
- Vibrio cholerae O1 lineages driving cholera outbreaks during seventh cholera pandemic in Ghana. (2011) (27)
- Antibacterial activity in plants used as chewing sticks in Africa (2004) (26)
- A bottom-up view of antimicrobial resistance transmission in developing countries (2022) (25)
- Prevalence and risk factors of Salmonella in commercial poultry farms in Nigeria (2020) (24)
- Could Water and Sanitation Shortfalls Exacerbate SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risks? (2020) (24)
- Physical properties and antimicrobial activities of leaf essential oil of Lippia multiflora Moldenke (2004) (24)
- Rapid Genomic Characterization and Global Surveillance of Klebsiella Using Pathogenwatch (2021) (23)
- Genomic Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance and Resistance Plasmids in Salmonella Serovars from Poultry in Nigeria (2021) (22)
- Dissemination of the Transmissible Quinolone-Resistance Gene qnrS1 by IncX Plasmids in Nigeria (2014) (22)
- Diagnostic schemes for reducing epidemic size of African viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. (2014) (22)
- The Heat-Resistant Agglutinin Family Includes a Novel Adhesin from Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Strain 60A (2011) (21)
- Helicobacter pylori in the dental plaque and gastric mucosa of dyspeptic Nigerian patients. (2002) (21)
- African biomedical scientists and the promises of “big science” (2016) (20)
- Leapfrogging laboratories: the promise and pitfalls of high-tech solutions for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in low-income settings (2020) (20)
- Divining without Seeds: The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa (2011) (19)
- Quality and bioavailability of ampicillin capsules dispensed in a Nigerian semi-urban community. (2001) (19)
- Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Have Evolved Independently as Distinct Complexes within the E. coli Population with Varying Ability to Cause Disease (2014) (19)
- Error-Prone DNA Repair System in Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Identified by Subtractive Hybridization (2007) (19)
- Export of antimicrobial drugs by West African travelers. (2006) (19)
- Association between antimicrobial usage and resistance in Salmonella from poultry farms in Nigeria (2021) (18)
- A Pathoadaptive Deletion in an Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Outbreak Strain Enhances Virulence in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model (2010) (17)
- Bacteremia Among Febrile Patients Attending Selected Healthcare Facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria (2019) (17)
- Clones and Clusters of Antimicrobial-Resistant Klebsiella From Southwestern Nigeria (2021) (16)
- Antimicrobial resistance of Vibrio cholerae from sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review (2018) (16)
- The commonly-used DNA probe for diffusely-adherent Escherichia coli cross-reacts with a subset of enteroaggregative E. coli (2009) (16)
- Comparative Sequence Analysis of the Plasmid-Encoded Regulator of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coliStrains (2001) (16)
- Harnessing alternative sources of antimicrobial resistance data to support surveillance in low-resource settings (2018) (16)
- Bacteria autoaggregation: how and why bacteria stick together (2021) (15)
- Helicobacter pylori in gastroduodenal diseases. (2007) (15)
- The Plasmid-Encoded Regulator Activates Factors Conferring Lysozyme Resistance on Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains (2008) (15)
- Post-genomic challenges for collaborative research in infectious diseases (2008) (15)
- Complexity of Genomic Epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates in Colombia Urges the Reinforcement of Whole Genome Sequencing-Based Surveillance Programs (2021) (15)
- A Second Large Plasmid Encodes Conjugative Transfer and Antimicrobial Resistance in O119:H2 and Some Typical O111 Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains (2007) (15)
- Biomedical loopholes, distrusted state, and the politics of HIV/AIDS "cure" in Nigeria. (2011) (14)
- When medicines fail: recommendations for curbing antibiotic resistance. (2010) (14)
- Characterization of a Large Antibiotic Resistance Plasmid Found in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strain B171 and Its Relatedness to Plasmids of Diverse E. coli and Shigella Strains (2017) (13)
- Comprar Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries | Sosa, Anibal | 9780387893693 | Springer (2009) (13)
- The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program: Study Design and Methodology to Assess Disease Severity, Host Immunity, and Carriage Associated With Invasive Salmonellosis (2019) (13)
- ANTIBACTERIAL CONSTITUENTS OF CALLIANDRA HAEMATOCEPHALA (1999) (12)
- African researchers underrepresented. (2010) (12)
- Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Africa: Successes, gaps and a roadmap for the future (2018) (12)
- The importance of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in low-resource settings (2021) (10)
- Self-association motifs in the enteroaggregative Escherichia coli heat-resistant agglutinin 1. (2016) (10)
- The tragedy of antimicrobial resistance: achieving a recognition of necessity (2009) (10)
- Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Africa (2010) (10)
- IS3 profiling identifies the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O-island 62 in a distinct enteroaggregative E. coli lineage (2011) (10)
- The Not so Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Differential Bacterial Adhesion and Invasion Mediated by Salmonella PagN Allelic Variants (2020) (9)
- Surveillance strategies using routine microbiology for antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries (2021) (9)
- The HPAfrica protocol: Assessment of health behaviour and population-based socioeconomic, hygiene behavioural factors - a standardised repeated cross-sectional study in multiple cohorts in sub-Saharan Africa (2018) (9)
- Bacterial capsules: a simple method for demonstration under the light microscope. (1995) (9)
- Quinoline Antimalarials Increase the Antibacterial Activity of Ampicillin (2021) (8)
- Cholera vaccine will reduce antibiotic use. (2009) (8)
- Aggregative Adherence and Intestinal Colonization by Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Are Produced by Interactions among Multiple Surface Factors (2018) (8)
- Laboratory systems as an antibacterial resistance containment tool in Africa (2016) (7)
- Bacteriology And Antimicrobial Suceptibility Profile Of Agents Of Orofacial Infections In Nigerians (2004) (7)
- A large self-transmissible resistance plasmid from Nigeria contains genes that ameliorate a carrying cost (2019) (6)
- Overcoming Data Bottlenecks in Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (2021) (6)
- Prolonged febrile illness due to CTX-M-15 extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in Nigeria (2011) (6)
- How Can the Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa and the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Programs Contribute to the Introduction of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines? (2019) (6)
- Population health outcomes in Nigeria compared with other west African countries, 1998–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study (2022) (5)
- Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria's experience. (2022) (5)
- Implementing Whole-Genome Sequencing for Ongoing Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance: Exemplifying Insights Into Klebsiella pneumoniae (2021) (5)
- Rectal Colonization and Nosocomial Transmission of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an Intensive Care Unit, Southwest Nigeria (2022) (5)
- Partnerships for now (2018) (5)
- Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli May Account for Uncultured Shigella (2016) (5)
- Novel multiplex real-time PCR assays reveal a high prevalence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes in healthy and diarrhoeal children in the south of Vietnam (2020) (5)
- Integrating Scalable Genome Sequencing Into Microbiology Laboratories for Routine Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (2021) (4)
- COVID-19 and beyond: a call for action and audacious solidarity to all the citizens and nations, it is humanity’s fight (2020) (4)
- Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC): Supporting the transition from strategy to action (2018) (4)
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries (Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century) (2009) (3)
- Dreams and dream spaces of West African molecular microbiology (2020) (3)
- Building resources to meet evolving laboratory medicine challenges in Africa (2018) (3)
- Big data, biomarkers and proteomics: informing childhood diarrhoeal disease management in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. (2021) (3)
- Genetics: Genes, genomes, and evolution (2017) (2)
- Good Financial Grant Practice: A Tool for Developing and Demonstrating Institutional Financial and Grant Management Capacity in Global Health (2021) (2)
- Stopping the Spread of Drug-Resistant Malaria (2004) (2)
- Transforming access to diagnostics: how to turn good intentions into action? (2021) (2)
- A snapshot survey of antimicrobial resistance in food-animals in low and middle-income countries (2023) (1)
- Insufficiency of PCR diagnostics for Detection of Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli in Ibadan, Nigeria (2023) (1)
- Divining without Seeds (2011) (1)
- Cholera control and AMR in Nigeria (2014) (1)
- The Monitoring and Evaluation of a Multicountry Surveillance Study, the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program (2019) (1)
- Genomic characterization of invasive typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella in southwestern Nigeria (2022) (1)
- Emergence and clonal expansion of intestinal quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in southwestern Nigeria (2007) (1)
- Using big data and mobile health to manage diarrhoeal disease in children in low-income and middle-income countries: societal barriers and ethical implications. (2021) (1)
- Stopping the spread of drug-resistant malaria [2] (multiple letters) (2004) (1)
- Towards a fiercely urgent expansion of laboratory medicine in Africa (2021) (1)
- Comparative genomics of 274 Vibrio cholerae genomes reveals mobile functions structuring three niche dimensions (2014) (1)
- The Severe Typhoid in Africa Program: Incidences Of Typhoid Fever in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, And Nigeria (2022) (1)
- An ST131 clade and a phylogroup A clade bearing an O101-like O-antigen cluster predominate among bloodstream Escherichia coli isolates from South-West Nigeria hospitals (2022) (1)
- Measures to ensure better use of antibiotics (2012) (1)
- A large self-transmissible plasmid from Nigeria confers resistance to multiple antibacterials without a carrying cost (2019) (1)
- Epidemiology and risk factors for diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli carriage among children in northern Ibadan, Nigeria (2022) (1)
- A plasmid-encoded papB paralogue modulates autoaggregation of Escherichia coli transconjugants (2020) (1)
- Making microbial genomics work for clinical and public health microbiology (2022) (0)
- An ST131 clade and a Phylogroup A clade bearing a novel Escherichia coli O-antigen cluster predominate among bloodstream E. coli isolates from southwest Nigeria hospitals (2021) (0)
- How can research funders advance racial equity? (2022) (0)
- Wendland, Claire L. A Heart for the Work: Journeys Through an African Medical School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 330pp. (2015) (0)
- Twenty steps to ingrain power asymmetry in global health biomedical research (2021) (0)
- HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being edited by Toyin Falola (2007) (0)
- Poverty and Root Causes of Antimicrobial Resistance (2010) (0)
- 4. Drug Resistance (2017) (0)
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (2011) (0)
- Correction: Classes 1 and 2 integrons in faecal Escherichia coli strains isolated from mother-child pairs in Nigeria (2018) (0)
- 5. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (2017) (0)
- COVID-19 and beyond: a call for action and audacious solidarity to all the citizens and nations, it is humanity’s fight [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] (2020) (0)
- Sending CMAJ abroad (1999) (0)
- 6. Detecting Covert Infection ahead of the Final Diagnosis (2011) (0)
- Escherichia coli strain B 171 and its relatedness to plasmids of diverse E . coli and 2 Shigella 3 4 5 (2017) (0)
- Connecting loose ends: a unique linear plasmid or a new model system? (2008) (0)
- 7. Diagnostic Certainty and Disease Control (2011) (0)
- Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP): A Tool for Developing & Demonstrating Institutional Financial & Grant Management Capacity in Global Health (2021) (0)
- 8. Origins and Outlook of Diagnostic Insufficiency in Africa (2011) (0)
- Prevalence and whole genome phylogenetic analysis reveal genetic relatedness between antibiotic resistance Salmonella in hatchlings and older chickens from farms in Nigeria (2022) (0)
- High Genetic Diversity of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates Recovered in Nigerian Hospitals in 2016 to 2020 (2023) (0)
- A plasmid-encoded papB paralogue modulates autoaggregation of Escherichia coli transconjugants (2020) (0)
- COVID-19 and beyond: a call for action and audacious solidarity to all the citizens and nations, it is humanity’s fight [version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations] (2021) (0)
- APUA One on One Special Challenges to the Study of AMR in Africa Interview with (2002) (0)
- The effect of Enteroaggregative escherichia coli (eaec) on 5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), carbachol and electrical field stimulation (EFS)-induced contraction in the rat ileum (2012) (0)
- 1. The Power of Sight (2011) (0)
- Diarrhoeal pathogens in the stools of children living with HIV in Ibadan, Nigeria (2023) (0)
- Extending the breadth of African laboratory medicine (2019) (0)
- Antibiofilm agents with therapeutic potential against enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (2021) (0)
- 3. Fever: Beyond Malaria (2011) (0)
- Drug-resistant Bacteria and Childhood Diarrhea in Africa (2011) (0)
- Correction: Novel multiplex real-time PCR assays reveal a high prevalence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes in healthy and diarrhoeal children in the south of Vietnam (2022) (0)
- A new journal with a new approach to research in developing countries (2007) (0)
- African laboratory medicine in the time of COVID-19 (2020) (0)
- Overcoming data bottlenecks in pathogen genomic surveillance (2020) (0)
- High genetic diversity and blaNDM-1 prevalence among Acinetobacter baumannii in Nigerian hospitals (2023) (0)
- Restoring non-COVID-19 clinical research and surveillance in Oyo state, Nigeria during the SARS-CoV-2pandemic (2022) (0)
- Evaluation of Fecal Occult Blood Testing Kits for Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Invasive Diarrhea in Young Children (2023) (0)
- Antibiotics for uncomplicated severe malnutrition. (2013) (0)
- 2. Fever: Is It Malaria? (2011) (0)
- Honing in on disease etiology (2017) (0)
- Editorial overview: Paths of least resistance: surveillance, discovery, and innovation to address the other (antimicrobial resistance) pandemic. (2020) (0)
- Potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli from household water in peri-urban Ibadan, Nigeria. (2022) (0)
- Conclusion: The Feasibility of Laboratory Diagnosis in African Settings (2017) (0)
- EVALUATION OF PRESERVATIVE EFFICIACY OF CAMPHORA IN "OOGUN INU IGBALODE", A HERBAL PREPARATION (1999) (0)
- Introduction: The evolution of disease in Africa (2007) (0)
- The Heat-Resistant Agglutinin Family Includes a Novel Adhesin from Enteroaggregative <named-content content-type='genus-species' xlink:type='simple'>Escherichia coli</named-content> Strain 60A (2011) (0)
- Infectious disease research in developing countries: positioning science to address poverty and stimulate human development. (2007) (0)
- Correction: Novel multiplex real-time PCR assays reveal a high prevalence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes in healthy and diarrhoeal children in the south of Vietnam (2020) (0)
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