Dr Etienne de Villiers
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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.
Recent publications
The utility of Escherichia coli as a contamination indicator for rural drinking water: Evidence from whole genome sequencing
Journal article
Nowicki S. et al, (2021), PLOS ONE, 16, e0245910 - e0245910
Whole genome sequences of multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli isolated in a Pastoralist Community of Western Uganda: Phylogenomic changes, virulence and resistant genes.
Journal article
Iramiot JS. et al, (2020), PloS one, 15
Peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptomes reveal an over-representation of down-regulated genes associated with immunity in HIV-exposed uninfected infants.
Journal article
Musimbi ZD. et al, (2019), Scientific reports, 9
Repeated clinical malaria episodes are associated with modification of the immune system in children.
Journal article
Bediako Y. et al, (2019), BMC medicine, 17
peek into Western Indian Ocean microbial richness: a pilot for a coral microbiome study
Journal article
Wambua S. et al, (2019)