Alisen Ayitewala

Employment

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Education

• Makerere University PhD by Research
  2025 - Present
• Makerere University Masters of Molecular Biology
  2018 - 2020
• Makerere University Bachelor of Biomedical Laboratory Technology
  2013 - 2016

Projects & Funding

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Publications (19)

• HIV-1 drug resistance among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and its association with paediatric HIV infections in the Dolutegravir era in Uganda
  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2026 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaf411
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• Harnessing Genomics for Public Health: Use-Case Insights from Uganda
  Aloysius Ssemaganda, Alisen Ayitewala, Stephen Kanyerezi

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  • Hellen Rosette Oundo
  • Julius Sseruyange
  • Wilson Tenywa
  • Godwin Tusabe
  • Stacy Were
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  2025 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202512.1310.v1
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• Targeted Metagenomics Reveals Hidden Chickenpox Epidemic Amid Mpox Surveillance in Uganda
  2025 DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.08.25341815
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• Rapid laboratory confirmation of the 2025 Sudan Virus Disease (Svd) index case in Uganda
  BMC Infectious Diseases 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-025-11271-0
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• Performance of molecular inversion probe DR23K and Paragon MAD4HatTeR Amplicon sequencing panels for detection of Plasmodium falciparum mutations associated with antimalarial drug resistance
  Thomas Katairo, Victor Asua, Bienvenu Nsengimaana

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  • Stephen Tukwasibwe
  • Francis D Semakuba
  • Innocent Wiringilimaana
  • Brian A. Kagurusi
  • Caroline Mwubaha
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  Malaria Journal 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s12936-025-05441-3
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• HIV-1 drug resistance among people living with HIV receiving dolutegravir-based anti-retroviral regimens in Uganda: a national laboratory-based survey using remnant viral load samples, 2022
  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2025 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaf180
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• Genomic and transmission dynamics of the 2024 Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda
  Nature Medicine 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03459-9
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• Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing of Cell-Free DNA to Detect MYC -Immunoglobulin Translocation and Epstein-Barr Virus DNA in Plasma of Burkitt Lymphoma Patients in East Africa
  JCO Global Oncology 2025 DOI: 10.1200/go.24.00210
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• Multicountry genomic analysis underscores regional cholera spread in Africa
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.15.24317392
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• Genomic characterization uncovers transmission dynamics of Marburg Virus in Rwanda following a single zoonotic spillover event
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.01.24316374
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• The rise of pathogen genomics in Africa
  Gerald Mboowa, Francis Kakooza, Moses Egesa

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  • Stephen Tukwasibwe
  • Stephen Kanyerezi
  • Ivan Sserwadda
  • Benson Richard Kidenya
  • Jupiter Marina Kabahita
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  F1000Research 2024 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.147114.2
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• In-house NGS-Based HIV Genotyping protocol v.01 v1
  2024 DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.81wgbzo5ngpk/v1
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• HIV-DRIVES: HIV Drug Resistance Identification, Variant Evaluation, & Surveillance Pipeline
  2024 DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.000815.v2
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• Genomic Landscape of Epstein-Barr Virus in Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma
  Blood 2023 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2023-190165
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• Performance of a Liquid Biopsy Diagnostic Prediction Model for EBV-Positive Burkitt Lymphoma in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Blood 2023 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2023-186131
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• Recommendations on data sharing in HIV drug resistance research
  PLOS Medicine 2023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004293
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• Rapid Paediatric and Adolescent Anti-retroviral Therapy Optimization in Uganda, 2020-2021: a National Implementation Success During a Raging Covid19 Pandemic
  2022 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1744783/v1
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• Next Generation Sequencing Based In-house HIV Genotyping Method: Validation Report
  2021 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-386721/v1
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• Comparison of HIV drug resistance profiles across HIV-1 subtypes A and D for patients receiving a tenofovir-based and zidovudine-based first line regimens in Uganda
  AIDS Research and Therapy 2020 DOI: 10.1186/s12981-020-0258-7
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