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Irene Kyomuhangi

Postdoc Fellow
Verified email at lancaster.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] The global prevalence of hepatitis D virus infection: systematic review and meta-analysis

AJ Stockdale, B Kreuels, MYR Henrion, E Giorgi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and Aims There are uncertainties about the epidemic patterns of HDV infection
and its contribution to the burden of liver disease. We estimated the global prevalence of …

Hepatitis D prevalence: problems with extrapolation to global population estimates

AJ Stockdale, B Kreuels, MRY Henrion, E Giorgi… - Gut, 2020 - gut.bmj.com
We read the meta-analysis of global hepatitis D prevalence by Chen et al and have some
serious concerns relating to the proposed epidemiological estimates. 1 Seroprevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] A threshold-free approach with age-dependency for estimating malaria seroprevalence

I Kyomuhangi, E Giorgi - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Background In malaria serology analysis, the standard approach to obtain seroprevalence,
ie the proportion of seropositive individuals in a population, is based on a threshold which is …

A unified and flexible modelling framework for the analysis of malaria serology data

I Kyomuhangi, E Giorgi - Epidemiology & Infection, 2021 - cambridge.org
Serology data are an increasingly important tool in malaria surveillance, especially in low
transmission settings where the estimation of parasite-based indicators is often problematic …

[HTML][HTML] Insecticide resistance patterns in Uganda and the effect of indoor residual spraying with bendiocarb on kdr L1014S frequencies in Anopheles gambiae ss

TA Abeku, MEH Helinski, MJ Kirby, J Ssekitooleko… - Malaria Journal, 2017 - Springer
Background Resistance of malaria vectors to pyrethroid insecticides has been attributed to
selection pressure from long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), indoor residual spraying (IRS) …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing national vector control micro-planning in Zambia using the 2021 malaria indicator survey

I Kyomuhangi, A Andrada, Z Mao, D Pollard, C Riley… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background In 2020, the Zambia National Malaria Elimination Centre targeted the
distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor-residual spraying (IRS) …

Understanding the effects of dichotomization of continuous outcomes on geostatistical inference

I Kyomuhangi, TA Abeku, MJ Kirby, G Tesfaye, E Giorgi - Spatial Statistics, 2021 - Elsevier
Diagnosis is often based on the exceedance or not of continuous health indicators of a
predefined cut-off value, so as to classify patients into positives and negatives for the …

[BOOK][B] Threshold-free statistical methods for the analysis of continuous health outcomes, with applications to malaria serology

I Kyomuhangi - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Continuous measurements of health outcome data are often dichotomized into binary (ie
positive/negative) data for diagnosis and subsequent statistical analysis. The disadvantages …

Attractive Targeted Sugar Bait Phase III Trials in Kenya, Mali, and Zambia (preprint)

TP Eisele, I Kleinschmidt, S Sarrassat, JM Miller… - 2022 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
BackgroundLong-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) target
night-time indoor biting mosquitoes and effectively reduce malaria transmission in rural …

Correction to: Monitoring changes in malaria epidemiology and effectiveness of interventions in Ethiopia and Uganda: Beyond Garki Project baseline survey

TA Abeku, MEH Helinski, MJ Kirby, T Kefyalew… - Malaria Journal, 2019 - Springer
Correction to: Monitoring changes in malaria epidemiology and effectiveness of interventions in
Ethiopia and Uganda: Beyond Garki Project baseline survey | SpringerLink Skip to main content …