Samuel Kariuki

Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya

Principal Research Scientist, Centre for Microbiology Research, KEMRI.

DVM 1989 University of Nairobi, MSc Pharmacology and Toxicology 1991, University of Nairobi, PhD Medical Microbiology 1997, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

External Examiner, Department of Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi (2000 - to present), Reviewer for the East African Medical Journal (1999 - to present), Co-ordinator, Medical Microbiology course, Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kenya (2002 - to present), Co-ordinator for the World Health Organisation Network (WHO-NET) on Antimicrobial Drug Susceptibility Testing and Monitoring (1997 - to present).

Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases with special interest in both typhoid and non-typhoidal salmonellosis, and Escherichia coli. Epidemiology and molecular characterisation of antimicrobial drug resistance in Enterobacteriaceae.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Infectious Diseases > Antimicrobials & Drug Resistance (since 06 December 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Piggery manure used for soil fertilization is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance plasmids.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Key role of Mfd in the development of fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter jejuni.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 4.8
  Emergence of levofloxacin-non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae and treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children in South Africa: a cohort observational surveillance study.
  Recommended by David Murdoch, Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Bacteria subsisting on antibiotics.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  Dissent by Paul Tambyah
• 3.0
  The rate of horizontal transmission of antibiotic resistance plasmids is increased in food preservation-stressed bacteria.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Diagnostic accuracy of class 1 integron PCR method in detection of antibiotic resistance in Salmonella isolates from swine production systems.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Commonly used farm disinfectants can select for mutant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with decreased susceptibility to biocides and antibiotics without compromising virulence.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  A multiplex polymerase chain reaction method for rapid identification of Citrobacter freundii and Salmonella species, including Salmonella Typhi.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Clonal reconquest of antibiotic-susceptible Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi in Son La Province, Vietnam.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Detection of low-level oxacillin resistance in mecA-positive Staphylococcus aureus.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Conjugative transfer of chromosomally encoded antibiotic resistance from Helicobacter pylori to Campylobacter jejuni.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Environmental stress and antibiotic resistance in food-related pathogens.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Pheromone-responsive conjugative vancomycin resistance plasmids in Enterococcus faecalis isolates from humans and chicken feces.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance in non-Typhi serotypes of Salmonella enterica.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Clonal emergence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (CTX-M-2)-producing Salmonella enterica serovar Virchow isolates with reduced susceptibilities to ciprofloxacin among poultry and humans in Belgium and France (2000 to 2003).
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Ecology of antibiotic resistance genes: characterization of enterococci from houseflies collected in food settings.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  An improved technique for isolation of environmental Vibrio cholerae with epidemic potential: monitoring the emergence of a multiple-antibiotic-resistant epidemic strain in Bangladesh.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Drug resistance of Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates and the conjugative transfer of gentamicin and erythromycin resistance traits.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Klebsiella to Salmonella gene transfer within rumen protozoa: implications for antibiotic resistance and rumen defaunation.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  Analysis of the contribution of Salmonella pathogenicity islands 1 and 2 to enteric disease progression using a novel bovine ileal loop model and a murine model of infectious enterocolitis.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 6.0
  Epidemiologic relationship between fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Choleraesuis strains isolated from humans and pigs in Taiwan (1997 to 2002).
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki
  
• 3.0
  The selection of resistance to and the mutagenicity of different fluoroquinolones in Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  Recommended by Samuel Kariuki