• Burden, antibiotic resistance, and clonality of shigella spp. Implicated in community-acquired acute diarrhoea in Lilongwe, Malawi 

      Phiri, Abel F.N.D.; Abia, Akebe Luther King; Amoako, Daniel Gyamfi; Mkakosya, Rajab; Sundsfjord, Arnfinn; Essack, Sabiha; Simonsen, Gunnar Skov (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-28)
      Although numerous studies have investigated diarrhoea aetiology in many sub-Saharan African countries, recent data on <i>Shigella</i> species’ involvement in community-acquired acute diarrhoea (CA-AD) in Malawi are scarce. This study investigated the incidence, antibiotic susceptibility profile, genotypic characteristics, and clonal relationships of <i>Shigella flexneri</i> among 243 patients ...
    • Genomic characterization of multidrug-resistant ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from a Ghanaian teaching hospital 

      Agyepong, Nicholas; Govinden, Usha; Owusu-Ofori, Alex; Amoako, Daniel Gyamfi; Allam, Mushal; Janice, Jessin; Pedersen, Torunn Annie; Sundsfjord, Arnfinn; Essack, Sabiha (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-23)
      <p><i>Objectives - </i>This study delineated the clonal lineages, antibiotic resistome and plasmid replicon types in multidrug-resistant <i>K. pneumoniae</i> isolates from a teaching hospital in Ghana. <p><i>Methods - </i>Identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing were done using the MALDI-TOF MS and Vitek-2 automated system. Genomic DNA extraction was carried out using the NucliSens ...