selected publications
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- Prevalence of tick-transmitted pathogens in cattle reveals that Theileria parva, Babesia bigemina and Anaplasma marginale are endemic in Burundi. Parasites & Vectors. 14. 2021
- Molecular evidence confirms occurrence of Rhipicephalus microplus Clade A in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa.. Parasites & Vectors. 13:1-15. 2020
- Mitochondrial and nuclear multilocus phylogeny of Rhipicephalus ticks from Kenya. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 140:106579. 2019
- Transcriptomics reveal potential vaccine antigens and a drastic increase of upregulated genes during Theileria parva development from arthropod to bovine infective stages.. PLOS ONE. 13. 2018
- Mitochondrial phylogeography and population structure of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus in the African Great Lakes region. Parasites & Vectors. 11:329. 2018
- Analyses of mitochondrial genes reveal two sympatric but genetically divergent lineages of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus in Kenya. Parasites & Vectors. 9:353-353. 2016
- Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry for comprehensive indexing of East African ixodid tick species.. Parasites & Vectors. 9:151-151. 2016
- Multi-locus genotyping reveals absence of genetic structure in field populations of the brown ear tick (Rhipicephalus appendiculatus) in Kenya.. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 7:26-35. 2016
- Genotypic variations in field isolates of Theileria species infecting giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi and Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) in Kenya. Parasitology International. 62:448-453. 2013
- Micro- and minisatellite-expressed sequence tag (EST) markers discriminate between populations of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ☆. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 3:128-136. 2012
- Molecular detection and characterization of potentially new Babesia and Theileria species/variants in wild felids from Kenya. Acta Tropica. 124:71-78. 2012
- Phylogeography and Demographic History of Amblyomma variegatum (Fabricius) (Acari: Ixodidae), the Tropical Bont Tick. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 12:514-525. 2012
- Differential transcription of two highly divergent gut-expressed Bm86 antigen gene homologues in the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acari: Ixodida). Insect Molecular Biology. 20:105-114. 2011