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Sofonias Kifle Tessema
Sofonias Kifle Tessema
Program Lead - Pathogen Genomics, Africa CDC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Verified email at africa-union.org
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Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus
C Happi, I Adetifa, P Mbala, R Njouom, E Nakoune, A Happi, N Ndodo, ...
PLoS biology 20 (8), e3001769, 2022
1952022
A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa
E Wilkinson, M Giovanetti, H Tegally, JE San, R Lessells, D Cuadros, ...
Science 374 (6566), 423-431, 2021
1842021
Genomic-informed pathogen surveillance in Africa: opportunities and challenges
SC Inzaule, SK Tessema, Y Kebede, AEO Ouma, JN Nkengasong
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 21 (9), e281-e289, 2021
1362021
Using parasite genetic and human mobility data to infer local and cross-border malaria connectivity in Southern Africa
S Tessema, A Wesolowski, A Chen, M Murphy, J Wilheim, AR Mupiri, ...
Elife 8, e43510, 2019
942019
Drug-Resistance and Population Structure of Plasmodium falciparum Across the Democratic Republic of Congo Using High-Throughput Molecular Inversion Probes
O Aydemir, M Janko, NJ Hathaway, R Verity, MK Mwandagalirwa, ...
The Journal of infectious diseases 218 (6), 946-955, 2018
842018
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
H Tegally, JE San, M Cotten, M Moir, B Tegomoh, G Mboowa, DP Martin, ...
Science 378 (6615), eabq5358, 2022
832022
Mapping malaria by combining parasite genomic and epidemiologic data
A Wesolowski, AR Taylor, HH Chang, R Verity, S Tessema, JA Bailey, ...
BMC medicine 16, 1-8, 2018
832018
COVID-19 testing in Africa: lessons learnt
P Ondoa, Y Kebede, MM Loembe, JN Bhiman, SK Tessema, A Sow, ...
The Lancet Microbe 1 (3), e103-e104, 2020
782020
Africa needs a new public health order to tackle infectious disease threats
JN Nkengasong, SK Tessema
Cell 183 (2), 296-300, 2020
742020
Understanding COVID-19 in Africa
SK Tessema, JN Nkengasong
Nature Reviews Immunology 21 (8), 469-470, 2021
712021
Effectiveness of reactive focal mass drug administration and reactive focal vector control to reduce malaria transmission in the low malaria-endemic setting of Namibia: a …
MS Hsiang, H Ntuku, KW Roberts, MSK Dufour, B Whittemore, M Tambo, ...
The Lancet 395 (10233), 1361-1373, 2020
612020
An early warning system for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants
L Subissi, A von Gottberg, L Thukral, N Worp, BB Oude Munnink, ...
Nature medicine 28 (6), 1110-1115, 2022
602022
Applying next-generation sequencing to track falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
SK Tessema, J Raman, CW Duffy, DS Ishengoma, A Amambua-Ngwa, ...
Malaria journal 18, 1-9, 2019
552019
A review of the frequencies of Plasmodium falciparum Kelch 13 artemisinin resistance mutations in Africa
L Ndwiga, KM Kimenyi, K Wamae, V Osoti, M Akinyi, I Omedo, ...
International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance 16, 155-161, 2021
542021
High Genetic Diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in the Low-Transmission Setting of the Kingdom of Eswatini
ME Roh, SK Tessema, M Murphy, N Nhlabathi, N Mkhonta, S Vilakati, ...
The Journal of infectious diseases 220 (8), 1346-1354, 2019
502019
Sensitive, Highly Multiplexed Sequencing of Microhaplotypes From the Plasmodium falciparum Heterozygome
SK Tessema, NJ Hathaway, NB Teyssier, M Murphy, A Chen, O Aydemir, ...
The Journal of infectious diseases 225 (7), 1227-1237, 2022
472022
Protective immunity against severe malaria in children is associated with a limited repertoire of antibodies to conserved PfEMP1 variants
SK Tessema, R Nakajima, A Jasinskas, SL Monk, L Lekieffre, E Lin, ...
Cell host & microbe 26 (5), 579-590. e5, 2019
422019
Phylogeography of var gene repertoires reveals fine‐scale geospatial clustering of Plasmodium falciparum populations in a highly endemic area
SK Tessema, SL Monk, MB Schultz, L Tavul, JC Reeder, PM Siba, ...
Molecular Ecology 24 (2), 484-497, 2015
412015
High levels of imported asymptomatic malaria but limited local transmission in KwaZulu-Natal, a South African malaria-endemic province nearing malaria elimination
J Raman, L Gast, R Balawanth, S Tessema, B Brooke, R Maharaj, ...
Malaria Journal 19, 1-13, 2020
332020
Accelerating genomics-based surveillance for COVID-19 response in Africa
SK Tessema, SC Inzaule, A Christoffels, Y Kebede, T de Oliveira, ...
The Lancet Microbe 1 (6), e227-e228, 2020
332020
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