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Florence A. Akello · SciRah

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Florence A. Akello

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Florence A. Akello — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 12
Works: 23
Citations: 464

Most-cited papers

BCG-induced non-specific effects on heterologous infectious disease in Ugandan neonates: an investigator-blind randomised controlled trial
S. Prentice, Beatrice Nassanga, Emily L. Webb, Florence A. Akello +7 more
2021Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print)134 citations Open access
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Impact of Anthelminthic Treatment in Pregnancy and Childhood on Immunisations, Infections and Eczema in Childhood: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Juliet Ndibazza, H. Mpairwe, Emily L. Webb, P. A. Mawa +17 more
2012PLoS ONE75 citations Open access
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Are birthweight and postnatal weight gain in childhood associated with blood pressure in early adolescence? Results from a Ugandan birth cohort
S. Lule, B. Namara, H. Akurut, L. Muhangi +9 more
2018International Journal of Epidemiology30 citations Open access
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Life‐course of atopy and allergy‐related disease events in tropical sub‐Saharan Africa: A birth cohort study
S. Lule, H. Mpairwe, M. Nampijja, Florence A. Akello +10 more
2017Pediatric Allergy and Immunology27 citations Open access
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Factors associated with tuberculosis infection, and with anti-mycobacterial immune responses, among five year olds BCG-immunised at birth in Entebbe, Uganda
S. Lule, P. A. Mawa, G. Nkurunungi, M. Nampijja +5 more
2015Vaccine27 citations Open access
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Maternal recall of birthweight and birth size in Entebbe, Uganda
S. Lule, E. Webb, Juliet Ndibazza, M. Nampijja +5 more
2012Tropical medicine & international health27 citations Open access
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Effects of treating helminths during pregnancy and early childhood on risk of allergy‐related outcomes: Follow‐up of a randomized controlled trial
B. Namara, S. Nash, S. Lule, Hellen Akurut +10 more
2017Pediatric Allergy and Immunology20 citations Open access
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Safety and immunogenicity of ChAdOx1 85A prime followed by MVA85A boost compared with BCG revaccination among Ugandan adolescents who received BCG at birth: a randomised, open-label trial
A. Wajja, B. Nassanga, Agnes Natukunda, Joel Serubanja +32 more
2023Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print)17 citations Open access
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Population differences in vaccine responses (POPVAC): scientific rationale and cross-cutting analyses for three linked, randomised controlled trials assessing the role, reversibility and mediators of immunomodulation by chronic infections in the tropics
G. Nkurunungi, Ludoviko Zirimenya, Agnes Natukunda, J. Nassuuna +12 more
2020BMJ Open17 citations Open access
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A genome‐wide association and replication study of blood pressure in Ugandan early adolescents
S. Lule, A. Mentzer, B. Namara, Allan G Muwenzi +12 more
2019Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine17 citations Open access
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Effect of intensive treatment for schistosomiasis on immune responses to vaccines among rural Ugandan island adolescents: randomised controlled trial protocol A for the ‘POPulation differences in VACcine responses’ (POPVAC) programme
G. Nkurunungi, Ludoviko Zirimenya, J. Nassuuna, Agnes Natukunda +19 more
2021BMJ Open15 citations Open access
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The effect of intensive praziquantel administration on vaccine-specific responses among schoolchildren in Ugandan schistosomiasis-endemic islands (POPVAC A): an open-label, randomised controlled trial
G. Nkurunungi, J. Nassuuna, Agnes Natukunda, Ludoviko Zirimenya +45 more
2024Lancet Global Health13 citations Open access
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Schistosome and malaria exposure and urban–rural differences in vaccine responses in Uganda: a causal mediation analysis using data from three linked randomised controlled trials
Agnes Natukunda, G. Nkurunungi, Ludoviko Zirimenya, J. Nassuuna +45 more
2024Lancet Global Health12 citations Open access
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Impact of BCG revaccination on the response to unrelated vaccines in a Ugandan adolescent birth cohort: randomised controlled trial protocol C for the ‘POPulation differences in VACcine responses’ (POPVAC) programme
Ludoviko Zirimenya, G. Nkurunungi, J. Nassuuna, Agnes Natukunda +20 more
2020BMJ Open8 citations Open access
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Blood pressure risk factors in early adolescents: results from a Ugandan birth cohort
S. Lule, B. Namara, H. Akurut, Lawrence Lubyayi +9 more
2019Journal of Human Hypertension8 citations Open access
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Effect of birth weight, exclusive breastfeeding and growth in infancy on fat mass and fat free mass indices in early adolescence: an analysis of the Entebbe Mother and Baby Study (EMaBs) cohort
J. Nsamba, S. Lule, B. Namara, Christopher Zziwa +6 more
2019AAS Open Research7 citations Open access
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The effect of BCG revaccination on the response to unrelated vaccines in urban Ugandan adolescents (POPVAC C): an open-label, randomised controlled trial
J. Nassuuna, Ludoviko Zirimenya, G. Nkurunungi, Agnes Natukunda +45 more
2024Lancet Global Health4 citations Open access
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Effect of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine on immune responses to vaccines among rural Ugandan adolescents: randomised controlled trial protocol B for the ‘POPulation differences in VACcine responses’ (POPVAC) programme
Agnes Natukunda, G. Nkurunungi, Ludoviko Zirimenya, J. Nassuuna +17 more
2020BMJ Open4 citations Open access
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The determinants of lipid profiles in early adolescence in a Ugandan birth cohort
J. P. Koopman, S. Lule, Christopher Zziwa, Hellen Akurut +9 more
2021Scientific Reports3 citations Open access
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Early-life infectious and nutritional exposures and cardiovascular risk in early adulthood in Uganda: protocol for a new round of data collection in the Entebbe Mother and Baby Study birth cohort at 21 years (EMaBS@21)
I. Sekitoleko, Ronald Komata, Ivan Ssali, Ronald Kyasanku +18 more
2026BMJ Open0 citations Open access
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Life Course Malaria Exposure and SARS‐CoV‐2 Seroepidemiology in Ugandan Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study Nested in a Birth Cohort
Ludoviko Zirimenya, Doreen Nayebare, Claire Baine, J. Nassuuna +19 more
2026Tropical medicine & international health0 citations Open access
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Temporal trends of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in adolescents: a longitudinal pilot study nested in a Uganda birth cohort.
Ludoviko Zirimenya, J. Nassuuna, M. Namutebi, Christopher Zziwa +17 more
2025NIHR Open Research0 citations Open access
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A5593 Are birth weight and postnatal weight gain in childhood associated with blood pressure in early adolescents? Results from a Ugandan birth cohort
A. S. Lule, B. Namara, H. Akurut, L. Muhangi +7 more
2018Journal of Hypertension0 citations
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