Sammy M. Njenga

Best Publications

• Multi-parallel qPCR provides increased sensitivity and diagnostic breadth for gastrointestinal parasites of humans: field-based inferences on the impact of mass deworming

  Alice V. Easton;Alice V. Easton;Rita G. Oliveira;Elise M. O’Connell;Stella Kepha

  205
  Citations

• Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission.

  Maya L. Nadimpalli;Sara J. Marks;Maria Camila Montealegre;Robert H. Gilman

  193
  Citations

• Multimodal Pyrethroid Resistance in Malaria Vectors, Anopheles gambiae s.s., Anopheles arabiensis, and Anopheles funestus s.s. in Western Kenya

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  153
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• Malaria Vectors in Lake Victoria and Adjacent Habitats in Western Kenya

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  140
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• Determinants of success in national programs to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: A perspective identifying essential elements and research needs

  Dominique Kyelem;Gautam Biswas;Moses J. Bockarie;Mark H. Bradley

  121
  Citations

• Effects, equity, and cost of school-based and community-wide treatment strategies for soil-transmitted helminths in Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

  Rachel L Pullan;Katherine E Halliday;William E Oswald;Carlos Mcharo

  103
  Citations

• Monitoring and evaluating the impact of national school-based deworming in Kenya: study design and baseline results

  Charles S Mwandawiro;Birgit Nikolay;Jimmy H Kihara;Owen Ozier

  100
  Citations

• Modelling the distribution and transmission intensity of lymphatic filariasis in sub-Saharan Africa prior to scaling up interventions: integrated use of geostatistical and mathematical modelling

  Paula Moraga;Jorge Cano;Rebecca F. Baggaley;John O. Gyapong

  99
  Citations

• Push by a net, pull by a cow: can zooprophylaxis enhance the impact of insecticide treated bed nets on malaria control?

  Hanako Iwashita;Gabriel O Dida;George O Sonye;Toshihiko Sunahara

  97
  Citations

• Insecticidal and repellent activities of pyrethroids to the three major pyrethroid-resistant malaria vectors in western Kenya

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  94
  Citations

• Reconsideration of Anopheles rivulorum as a vector of Plasmodium falciparum in western Kenya: some evidence from biting time, blood preference, sporozoite positive rate, and pyrethroid resistance

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  93
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• Associations between school- and household-level water, sanitation and hygiene conditions and soil-transmitted helminth infection among Kenyan school children.

  Matthew Freeman;A. N. Chard;B. Nikolay;J. V. Garn

  90
  Citations

• Detecting and enumerating soil-transmitted helminth eggs in soil: New method development and results from field testing in Kenya and Bangladesh

  Lauren Steinbaum;Laura H. Kwong;Ayse Ercumen;Makeda S. Negash

  88
  Citations

• Results of a national school-based deworming programme on soil-transmitted helminths infections and schistosomiasis in Kenya: 2012–2017

  Charles Mwandawiro;Collins Okoyo;Jimmy Kihara;Elses Simiyu

  86
  Citations

• Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection and Nutritional Status Among Urban Slum Children in Kenya

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  85
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• Adult population as potential reservoir of NTD infections in rural villages of Kwale district, Coastal Kenya: implications for preventive chemotherapy interventions policy

  Sammy M Njenga;Charles S Mwandawiro;Erastus Muniu;Mariam T Mwanje

  84
  Citations

• A Cross-Sectional Study of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene-Related Risk Factors for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection in Urban School- and Preschool-Aged Children in Kibera, Nairobi

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  81
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• Effects of single and integrated water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on child soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Kenya.

  Amy J. Pickering;Amy J. Pickering;Sammy M. Njenga;Lauren Steinbaum;Jenna Swarthout;Jenna Swarthout

  79
  Citations

• Risk Factors and Spatial Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni Infection among Primary School Children in Mbita District, Western Kenya

  Sachiyo Nagi;Evans A. Chadeka;Toshihiko Sunahara;Faith Mutungi

  79
  Citations

• Patterns of individual non-treatment during multiple rounds of mass drug administration for control of soil-transmitted helminths in the TUMIKIA trial, Kenya: a secondary longitudinal analysis

  William E Oswald;Stella Kepha;Stella Kepha;Stella Kepha;Katherine E Halliday;Carlos Mcharo

  27
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