Department/Unit: School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
Qualifications: Phd in Molecular Medicine Msc in Medical Microbiology Bsc in Medical Microbiology Member of American society of Microbiology
PhD Institution: Lübeck University
PhD dissertation title: Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains in Nairobi, Kenya.
Current research interests and projects: Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains • Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of pathogenic bacterial pathogens • Molecular characterization of antibiotic resistance genes • Molecular diagnostic systems for the detection of pathogenic bacterial pathogens
Selected publication 1: Gisch N, Utpatel C, Gronbach LM, Kohl TA, Schombel U, Malm S, Dobos KM, Hesser DC, Diel R, Götsch U, Gerdes S, Shuaib YA, Ntinginya NE, Khosa C, Viegas S, Kerubo G, Ali S, Al-Hajoj SA, Ndung'u PW, Rachow A, Hoelscher M, Maurer FP, Schwudke D, Niemann S, Reiling N, Homolka S. Sub-Lineage Specific Phenolic Glycolipid Patterns in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Lineage 1. Front Microbiol. 2022 Mar 8;13:832054. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.832054. PMID: 35350619; PMCID: PMC8957993
Selected publication 2: Shuaib, Yassir A., Christian Utpatel, Thomas A. Kohl, Ivan Barilar, Margo Diricks, Nadia Ashraf, Lothar H. Wieler, Glennah Kerubo, Eyob A. Mesfin, Awa Ba Diallo, Sahal Al-Hajoj, Perpetua Ndung’u, Margaret M. Fitzgibbon, Farzam Vaziri, Vitali Sintchenko, Elena Martinez, Sofia O. Viegas, Yang Zhou, Aya Azmy, Khaled Al-Amry, Sylvain Godreuil, Mandira Varma-Basil, Anshika Narang, Solomon Ali, Patrick Beckert, Viola Dreyer, Mwila Kabwe, Matthew Bates, Michael Hoelscher, Andrea Rachow, Andrea Gori, Emmanuel M. Tekwu, Larissa K. Sidze, Assam A. Jean-Paul, Veronique P. Beng, Francine Ntoumi, Matthias Frank, Aissatou Gaye Diallo, Souleymane Mboup, Belay Tessema, Dereje Beyene, Sadiq N. Khan, Roland Diel, Philip Supply, Florian P. Maurer, Harald Hoffmann, Stefan Niemann, and Matthias Merker. 2022. "Origin and Global Expansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Lineage 3" Genes 13, no. 6: 990. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13060990
Selected publication 3: Kerubo, Glennah, Perpetua Ndungu, Yassir Adam Shuaib, Evans Amukoye, Gunturu Revathi, Susanne Homolka, Samuel Kariuki, Matthias Merker, and Stefan Niemann. 2022. "Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Strains in Urban and Slum Settings of Nairobi, Kenya" Genes 13, no. 3: 475.
Selected publication 4: Yassir A. Shuaib, Eltahir A.G. Khalil, Lothar H. Wieler, Ulrich E. Schaible, Mohammed A. Bakheit, Saad E. Mohamed-Noor, Mohamed A. Abdalla, Glennah Kerubo, Sönke Andres, Doris Hillemann, Elvira Richter, Katharina Kranzer, Stefan Niemann, Matthias Merker. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Lineage 3 as Causative Agent of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Eastern Sudan. Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 26, No. 3, March 2020.
Selected publication 5: Kerubo G, Evans Amukoye, Samuel Kariuki,Stefan Niemann. Drug susceptibility profiles of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients in informal urban settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. BMC Infectious Diseases (2016) 16: 583.
Selected publication 6: Kerubo G, Khamadi S, Okoth V, Madise N, Ezeh A, Abdalla Z, et al. (2015) Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV-1 Coinfection in Two Informal Urban Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129247. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129247. pmid:26068212
Capstone assignment title: None submitted
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