Dr Etienne de Villiers
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Research groups
Etienne de Villiers
Group leader
Bioinformatics
I am the Bioinformatics group leader at the Wellcome – KEMRI – Oxford collaborative research programme in Kilifi, Kenya where I established a Bioinformatics and Genomics platform to support the application of bioinformatics and genomics in research projects at the programme.
Key publications
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Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of Kenyan African swine fever virus isolates within p72 genotypes IX and X
Bishop RP. et al, (2015), Virus Genes, 50, 303 - 309
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TparvaDB: a database to support Theileria parva vaccine development
Visendi P. et al, (2011), Database, 2011, bar015 - bar015
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Phylogenomic analysis of 11 complete African swine fever virus genome sequences
de Villiers EP. et al, (2010), Virology, 400, 128 - 136
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Comparative genomics of the Rab protein family in Apicomplexan parasites
Langsley G. et al, (2008), Microbes and Infection, 10, 462 - 470
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Theileria parva candidate vaccine antigens recognized by immune bovine cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Graham SP. et al, (2006), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 3286 - 3291
Recent publications
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Peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptomes reveal an over-representation of down-regulated genes associated with immunity in HIV-exposed uninfected infants.
Musimbi ZD. et al, (2019), Scientific reports, 9
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A peek into Western Indian Ocean microbial richness: a pilot for a coral microbiome study
Wambua S. et al, (2019)
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Repeated clinical malaria episodes are associated with modification of the immune system in children.
Bediako Y. et al, (2019), BMC medicine, 17
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Comparative analysis of the vaginal microbiome of pregnant women with either Trichomonas vaginalis or Chlamydia trachomatis.
Masha SC. et al, (2019), PloS one, 14
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Infestation mechanisms of two woodborer species in the mangrove Sonneratia alba J. Smith in Kenya and co-occurring endophytic fungi.
Jenoh EM. et al, (2019), PloS one, 14