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John Kiiru
Affiliation : Kenya Medical Research Institute · Ministry of Health
- 41Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
John Kiiru has 41 indexed publications (2006–2025). Their work appears mainly in “BMC Microbiology”, “Nature Communications” and “Advances in Microbiology”. Their most cited article, “Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission” (2020), has been cited 223 times. 10 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United Kingdom, Tanzania, Uganda, Italy.
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- A capacity strengthening model toward self-reliant and sustainable one-health workforce in six East African Community Partner States
- Intersecting social and environmental determinants of multidrug-resistant urinary tract infections in East Africa beyond antibiotic use
- Treatment seeking behaviours, antibiotic use and relationships to multi-drug resistance: A study of urinary tract infection patients in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- Rapid regional mobile laboratory response and genomic monkeypox virus (MPXV) surveillance in seven East African Community partner states, August 2024: preparedness activities for the ongoing outbreak
- Epidemiological connectivity between humans and animals across an urban landscape
- Predominance of multidrug-resistant bacteria causing urinary tract infections among symptomatic patients in East Africa: a call for action
- Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of the urine dipstick test for the detection of urinary tract infections in patients treated in Kenyan hospitals
- Unravelling patient pathways in the context of antibacterial resistance in East Africa
- Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens Detected in Raw Pork and Poultry Meat in Retailing Outlets in Kenya
- The East African Community mobile laboratory network prepares for monkeypox outbreaks
- Population genomics of Escherichia coli in livestock-keeping households across a rapidly developing urban landscape
- The role of multidimensional poverty in antibiotic misuse: a mixed-methods study of self-medication and non-adherence in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
- Genomic epidemiology of Escherichia coli: antimicrobial resistance through a One Health lens in sympatric humans, livestock and peri-domestic wildlife in Nairobi, Kenya
- Transmission networks of SARS-CoV-2 in Coastal Kenya during the first two waves: A retrospective genomic study
- Systemic and Mucosal Concentrations of Nine Cytokines Among Individuals with Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in Nairobi Kenya
- Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterisation of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., and Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Raw Meat Sold in Nairobi
- Protocol for an interdisciplinary cross-sectional study investigating the social, biological and community-level drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Holistic Approach to Unravel Antibacterial Resistance in East Africa (HATUA)
- Tracking the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in coastal Kenya
- HIV-1 Recent Infection Testing Algorithm With Antiretroviral Drug Detection to Improve Accuracy of Incidence Estimates
- Urinary Tract Infection among Adults Seeking Medicare at Kiambu Level 5 Hospital, Kenya: Prevalence, Diversity, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles and Possible Risk Factors
- Antimicrobial resistance profiles and genetic basis of resistance among non-fastidious Gram-negative bacteria recovered from ready-to-eat foods in Kibera informal housing in Nairobi, Kenya
- Pan-Resistome Characterization of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Circulating in Uganda and Kenya, Isolated from 2017–2018
- Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission
- Clinically relevant antimicrobial resistance at the wildlife–livestock–human interface in Nairobi: an epidemiological study
- Antimicrobial resistance genes in Salmonella and Escherichia coli isolates from chicken droppings in Nairobi, Kenya
- Epidemiology of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli carriage in sympatric humans and livestock in a rapidly urbanizing city
- Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape
- Prevalence of mutations in Plasmodium falciparum genes associated with resistance to different antimalarial drugs in Nyando, Kisumu County in Kenya
- Genomic insights into the 2016–2017 cholera epidemic in Yemen
- Campylobacter, a zoonotic pathogen of global importance: Prevalence and risk factors in the fast-evolving chicken meat system of Nairobi, Kenya
- Urinary Tract Infection among Pregnant Women at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya: Bacterial Etiologic Agents, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles and Associated Risk Factors
- Ceftriaxone-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium Sequence Type 313 from Kenyan Patients Is Associated with the bla CTX-M-15 Gene on a Novel IncHI2 Plasmid
- Analysis for prevalence and physical linkages amongst integrons, ISEcp1, ISCR1, Tn21 and Tn7 encountered in Escherichia coli strains from hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients in Kenya during a 19-year period (1992–2011)
- A Study on the Geophylogeny of Clinical and Environmental Vibrio cholerae in Kenya
- Analysis of β-lactamase phenotypes and carriage of selected β-lactamase genes among Escherichia coli strains obtained from Kenyan patients during an 18-year period
- Typhoid in Kenya Is Associated with a Dominant Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Haplotype That Is Also Widespread in Southeast Asia
- Molecular characterisation of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains carrying an SXT/R391-like element from cholera outbreaks in Kenya: 1994-2007
- Escherichia coli from community-acquired urinary tract infections resistant to fluoroquinolones and extended-spectrum beta-lactams
- Invasive multidrug-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in Africa: zoonotic or anthroponotic transmission?
- Characterisation of community acquired non-typhoidal Salmonella from bacteraemia and diarrhoeal infections in children admitted to hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Decreasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in non-typhoidal Salmonella isolated from children with bacteraemia in a rural district hospital, Kenya
Publication venues
- BMC Microbiology × 4
- Nature Communications × 3
- Advances in Microbiology × 3
- Access Microbiology × 2
- Antibiotics × 2
- Nature Microbiology × 2
Publications per year
- 20251
- 20243
- 20236
- 20226
- 20216
- 20201
- 20195
- 20183
- 20151
- 20132
Collaborations
Partner institutions : International Livestock Research Institute · KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme · University of Liverpool · Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology · University of Nairobi
Co-authors’ countries : United Kingdom · Tanzania · Uganda · Italy
Co-authors
- Samuel Kariuki
- Gunturu Revathi
- Eric Maurice Fèvre
- Erastus K. Kang’ethe
- Dishon M. Muloi
- Judy Bettridge
- Allan Ogendo
- John Maina
- James M. Hassell
- Titus S. Imboma
- Joyce Mwituria
- Samuel M. Njoroge
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