Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko

The paper develops a rules-based classifier to predict ciprofloxacin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae from genotype data and demonstrates its global distribution association with quinolone consumption.

This study surveys genomic surveillance practices in African labs, finding sufficient capacity but highlighting needs for improved infrastructure and standardization.

This paper develops a method to link plasmid-encoded AMR genes to their bacterial hosts using nanopore sequencing methylation data, achieving high accuracy in clinical samples.

This study verifies nanopore sequencing for CRE surveillance by comparing it to routine diagnostics and determining required sequencing depths for various clinical tasks.

AMRgen is an R package that links antimicrobial resistance genotypes to phenotypes through data harmonization, analysis, and visualization, using surveillance data from priority pathogens.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing to characterize a multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak in a Gambian hospital, identifying the outbreak strain and its environmental sources.

This study uses long-read nanopore sequencing to analyze carbapenem resistance dynamics in a hospital setting, revealing plasmid spread and environmental reservoirs.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing of Vibrio cholerae isolates from Africa to assess genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance, highlighting the utility of WGS for enhanced surveillance.

The paper analyzes whole genome sequencing data from a multidrug-resistant Shigella sonnei outbreak in Tunisia, identifying resistance genes and genetic relationships with European strains.

This study analyzes the genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from Gambian children with diarrhoea and healthy controls, finding high genotypic diversity and low-level antibiotic resistance.

This study sequenced K. pneumoniae isolates from Southern Ghana, identifying genetic diversity, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence traits, highlighting the need for genomic surveillance.

This study evaluates ONT-only assemblies for genomic surveillance of Klebsiella pneumoniae, showing reliable MLST, K type, and AMR detection but challenges in cluster detection.

This study uses genomic data from 8746 SARS-CoV-2 genomes across 33 African countries to show that most epidemics were initiated by European importations and later driven by local transmission and mobility, leading to the spread of variants of concern.

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary histories of antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9, showing how interspecies recombination contributes to antibiotic resistance and serotype switching.

This study characterizes the genomic diversity of Escherichia coli isolates from backyard chickens and guinea fowl in rural Gambia, identifying novel sequence types and antimicrobial resistance genes.

This study analyzes genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolates from non-human primates in the Gambia, identifying novel sequence types and potential human pathogen exchange.