Danny Asogun
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
4 Papers
8 Citations
Danny Asogun is an academic researcher from Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sierra leone & Lassa virus. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications.
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Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014–2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa
Miles W. Carroll,David A. Matthews,Julian A. Hiscox,Michael J. Elmore,Georgios Pollakis,Andrew Rambaut,Roger Hewson,Isabel García-Dorival,Joseph Akoi Bore,Raymond Koundouno,Saïd Abdellati,Babak Afrough,John Aiyepada,Patience Akhilomen,Danny Asogun,Barry Atkinson,Marlis Badusche,Amadou Bah,Simon R. Bate,Jan Baumann,Dirk Becker,Beate Becker-Ziaja,Anne Bocquin,Benny Borremans,Andrew Bosworth,Jan Peter Boettcher,Angela Cannas,Fabrizio Carletti,Concetta Castilletti,Simon Clark,Francesca Colavita,Sandra Diederich,Adomeh Donatus,Sophie Duraffour,Deborah U. Ehichioya,Heinz Ellerbrok,Maria Dolores Fernandez-Garcia,Alexandra Fizet,Erna Fleischmann,Sophie Gryseels,Antje Hermelink,Julia Hinzmann,Ute Hopf-Guevara,Yemisi Ighodalo,Lisa J. Jameson,Anne Kelterbaum,Zoltán Kis,Stefan Kloth,Claudia Kohl,Miša Korva,Annette Kraus,Eeva Kuisma,Andreas Kurth,Britta Liedigk,Christopher H. Logue,Anja Lüdtke,Piet Maes,James McCowen,Stéphane Mély,Marc Mertens,Silvia Meschi,Benjamin Meyer,Janine Michel,Peter Molkenthin,César Muñoz-Fontela,Doreen Muth,Edmund N. C. Newman,Didier Ngabo,Lisa Oestereich,Jennifer Okosun,Thomas Olokor,Racheal Omiunu,Emmanuel Omomoh,Elisa Pallasch,Bernadett Pályi,Jasmine Portmann,Thomas Pottage,Catherine Pratt,Simone Priesnitz,Serena Quartu,Julie C. F. Rappe,Johanna Repits,Martin Richter,Martin Rudolf,Andreas Sachse,Kristina Maria Schmidt,Gordian Schudt,Thomas Strecker,Ruth Thom,Stephen Thomas,Ekaete Alice Tobin,Howard Tolley,Jochen Trautner,Tine Vermoesen,Inês Vitoriano,Matthias Wagner,Svenja Wolff,Constanze Yue,Maria Rosaria Capobianchi,Birte Kretschmer,Yper Hall,John Kenny,Natasha Y. Rickett,Gytis Dudas,Cordelia E. M. Coltart,Romy Kerber,Damien Steer,Callum Wright,Francis Senyah,Sakoba Keita,Patrick Drury,Boubacar Diallo,Hilde De Clerck,Michel Van Herp,Armand Sprecher,Alexis Traoré,Mandiou Diakite,Mandy Kader Kondé,Lamine Koivogui,N’Faly Magassouba,Tatjana Avšič-Županc,Andreas Nitsche,Marc Strasser,Giuseppe Ippolito,Stephan Becker,Kilian Stoecker,Martin Gabriel,Hervé Raoul,Antonino Di Caro,Roman Wölfel,Pierre Formenty,Stephan Günther +131 more
TL;DR: Deep sequencing of 179 patient samples processed by the European Mobile Laboratory, the first diagnostics unit to be deployed to the epicentre of the outbreak in Guinea, reveals an epidemiological and evolutionary history of the epidemic from March 2014 to January 2015, providing an unprecedented window into the evolution of an ongoing viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak.
Rapid outbreak sequencing of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone identifies transmission chains linked to sporadic cases
Armando Arias,Simon J. Watson,Danny Asogun,Ekaete Alice Tobin,Jia Lu,My V. T. Phan,Umaru Jah,Raoul Emeric Guetiya Wadoum,Luke Meredith,Lucy Thorne,Sarah Sl Caddy,Alimamy Tarawalie,Pinky Langat,Gytis Dudas,Nuno R. Faria,Simon Dellicour,Abdul Kamara,Brima Kargbo,Brima Osaio Kamara,Sahr Sm Gevao,Daniel Cooper,Matthew Newport,Peter Horby,Jake Dunning,Foday Sahr,Tim Brooks,Andrew J. H. Simpson,Elisabetta Groppelli,Guoying Liu,Nisha Mulakken,Kate Rhodes,James Akpablie,Zabulon Yoti,Margaret Lamunu,Esther Vitto,Patrick Otim,Collins Owilli,Isaac Boateng,Lawrence Okoror,Emmanuel Omomoh,Jennifer Oyakhilome,Racheal Omiunu,Ighodalo Yemisis,Donatus I Adomeh,Solomon Ehikhiametalor,Patience Akhilomen,Chris Aire,Andreas Kurth,Andreas Kurth,Nicola Cook,Nicola Cook,Jan Baumann,Martin Gabriel,Roman Wölfel,Roman Wölfel,Antonino Di Caro,Miles W. Carroll,Miles W. Carroll,Stephan Günther,John T. Redd,Dhamari Naidoo,Oliver G. Pybus,Andrew Rambaut,Paul Kellam,Paul Kellam,Ian Goodfellow,Ian Goodfellow,Matthew Cotten +67 more
TL;DR: It is shown that linked genomic and epidemiological data can not only support contact tracing but also identify unconventional transmission chains involving body fluids, including semen, as part of public health epidemic control efforts.
Antibodies from Sierra Leonean and Nigerian Lassa fever survivors cross-react with recombinant proteins representing Lassa viruses of divergent lineages.
Megan L. Heinrich,Matthew L. Boisen,Diana K. S. Nelson,Duane J. Bush,Robert W. Cross,Anatoliy P. Koval,Andrew R. Hoffmann,Brandon J. Beddingfield,Kathryn M. Hastie,Megan M. Rowland,Irina Aimukanova,Sophia A. Koval,Raju Lathigra,Viktoriya Borisevich,Mambu Momoh,John Demby Sandi,Augustine Goba,lkponmwosa Odia,Francis Baimba,John Aiyepada,Benevolence Ebo,Philomena Eromon,Philomena Eromon,Chinedu A Ugwu,Chinedu A Ugwu,Onikepe A. Folarin,Onikepe A. Folarin,Testimony J. Olumade,Testimony J. Olumade,Macdonald Nonso Onyechi,Johnson Etafo,Rashidat Adeyemi,E. E. Ella,M. Aminu,Simji S. Gomerep,Matthew Afam Eke,Olusola A Ogunsanya,George O. Akpede,Danny Asogun,Sylvanus Okogbenin,Peter O. Okokhere,Johan Holst,Jeffrey G. Shaffer,John S. Schieffelin,Thomas W. Geisbert,Erica Ollmann Saphire,Christian T. Happi,Christian T. Happi,Donald S. Grant,Robert F. Garry,Luis M. Branco +50 more
TL;DR: Assessment of the potential of the human immune system to mount cross-reactive and cross-protective humoral immune responses to antigens from the most prevalent LASV lineages, which are lineages II and III in Nigeria and lineage IV in Sierra Leone is assessed.
Virus persistence after recovery from acute Lassa fever in Nigeria: a 2-year interim analysis of a prospective longitudinal cohort study
Anke Thielebein,Yemisi Ighodalo,Abubakar Taju,Thomas Olokor,Racheal Omiunu,Rita Esumeh,Paulson Ebhodaghe,Anieno Ekanem,Ganiyu Igenegbale,Rosemary Giwa,Annick Renevey,Julia Hinzmann,Jonas Müller,Elisa Pallasch,Meike Pahlmann,Jeremie Guedj,Joy Nwatuzor,Oluwasola Femi Babatunde,Donatus I Adomeh,Danny Asogun,Nosa Akpede,Sylvanus Okogbenin,Stephan Günther,Lisa Oestereich,Sophie Duraffour,Ephraim Ogbaini-Emovon +25 more
- 08 Nov 2021
TL;DR: In this article, the dynamics of Lassa virus RNA load in seminal fluid, and assess the infectivity of seminal fluid were quantitatively described and clearance and assessing the infection persistence in body fluids.
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