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FELISTA W. MWINGIRA

Lecturer , Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education
Education:

PhD in Microbiology, University of Basel - Switzerland

Teaching:

  • Parasitology and Entomology
  • Evolution and Molecular biology

Research:

Tropical diseases, molecular epidemiology, molecular parasitology

Projects:

  • Molecular epidemiology of P. falciparum in Tanzania.   2010-2014 -  PI
  • National Malaria and Nutrition surveys in public primary schools in Tanzania 2019/2020 - National supervisor
  • Malaria knowledge, attitude and Practice among DUCE fresh entrants-2020/2021 - PI
  • Surveillance of mosquitoes abundance and speciation at DUCE –  2021/2022 - PI

Publications:

  1. Slater HC, Ross A, Felger I, Hofmann NE, Robinson L, Cook J, Gonçalves BP, Björkman A, Ouedraogo AL, Morris U, Msellem M, Koepfli C, Mueller I, Tadesse F, Gadisa E, Das S, Domingo G, Kapulu M, Midega J, OwusuAgyei S, Nabet C, Piarroux R, Doumbo O, Doumbo SN, Koram K, Lucchi N, Udhayakumar V, Mosha J, Tiono A, Chandramohan D, Gosling R, Mwingira F, Sauerwein R, Paul R, Riley EM, White NJ, Nosten F, Imwong M, Bousema T, Drakeley C, Okell LC. (2019). The temporal dynamics and infectiousness of subpatent Plasmodium falciparum infections in relation to parasite density. Nature Communication 10:1433–1433. https://doi.org/10 .1038/s41467-019-09441-1.
  2. Sumari D, Mwingira F et al. (2017). “Malaria prevalence in asymptomatic and symptomatic children in Kiwangwa, Bagamoyo district, Tanzania” Malaria Journal 16:222 DOI 10.1186/s12936-017-1870-4 May
  3. Hofmann N, Mwingira F, Shekalaghe S, Robinson LJ, Mueller I, Felger I (2015) Ultra- Sensitive Detection of Plasmodium falciparum by Amplification of Multi- Copy Subtelomeric Targets. PLoS Med 12(3): e1001788.doi:10.1371 /journal.pmed.1001788.http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001788
  4. Mwingira F et al. Comparison of submicroscopic parasitemia and gametocytemia in five Tanzanian sites of different malaria endemicity 2014 Thesis/ University of Basel/elibrary
  5. Mwingira F, Genton B, Kabanywanyi AM and Felger I (2014) Comparison of detection methods for P. falciparum prevalence and gametocyte carriage in community survey in Tanzania. Malaria Journal, 13:433; doi:10.1186/1475
  6. Mosha, D., Chilongola, J., Ndeserua, R., Mwingira, F., & Genton, B. (2014). Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy on placental malaria, maternal anaemia and birthweight in areas with high and low malaria transmission intensity in Tanzania. Trop.Med. & Int. Health: 00(00); doi:10.1111/tmi.12349
  7. Dominic Mosha D., Guidi M., Mwingira F., Abdulla S., Mercier T., Decosterd LA., Csajka C. and Genton B. (2014) Population pharmacokinetics and clinical response of artemether-lumefantrine in pregnant and non-pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Tanzania. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. AAC.02595-14; doi:10.1128 /AAC.02595-14
  8. Wampfler R*, Mwingira F*, Javati S, Robinson L, Betuela I, et al. (2013) Strategies for Detection of Plasmodium species Gametocytes. PLoS ONE 8(9): e76316. doi:10.1371 /journal.pone.0076316 (*first co-authors)
  9. Mwingira F, Nkwengulila G, Schoepflin S, Sumari D, Beck HP, Snounou G, Felger I, Olliaro P, Mugittu K.(2011) Plasmodium falciparum msp1, msp2 and glurp allele frequency and diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mal. Journal. 2011 6; 10:79. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-79.