@KeringKev

Research Scientist-KEMRI || PhD Student- UoN || Enteric pathogens, AMR, Phages, Bacterial Vaccines.

 Nairobi, Kenya
Joined July 2012
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Kelvin Kering retweeted
Daily Nation
@NationAfricaFeb 13
Prof Faith Osier: The Kenyan scientist bringing vaccine manufacturing closer home #HealthyNation zurl.co/2Ay0e

Prof Faith Osier: The Kenyan scientist bringing vaccine manufacturing closer home

From a seven-minute TED talk to an Africa-led vaccine revolution, Prof Faith Osier is making malaria history, again

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Antibiotic resistance means one day a simple cut could kill like it did 100 years ago.
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi
@DocPriyamMDFeb 9
Hit me with the harshest truth in medicine
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Kelvin Kering retweeted
Take on Typhoid
@PreventTyphoidJan 27
A new study found that #typhoid continues to affect millions in #India, with rising #DrugResistance making the disease more dangerous and harder to treat. Read more in @TheLancet Regional Health: thelancet.com/journals/lanse… #TakeOnTyphoid #AMR

Burden of typhoid fever and antimicrobial resistance in India (2023): a modelling study

Fluoroquinolone-resistance drives a large share of typhoid-related hospitalisations and deaths, especially in children under five and in high-burden states of India. Targeted TCV introduction, with...

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Kelvin Kering retweeted
IDeAL, Africa@IDeAL_KEMRI_WTJan 8
A fully funded PhD studentship is now open. Join a global research team to tackle neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Kenyan maternity wards using genomics, microbiome science, and machine learning. Deadline: January 15, 2026 Apply now: shorturl.at/8qNja
https://jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/article/role-maternal-microbiome-spread-antimicrobial-resistance-kenyan-hospitals

ALT https://jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/article/role-maternal-microbiome-spread-antimicrobial-resistance-kenyan-hospitals

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Kelvin Kering retweeted
Ruth Nanjala@Ruthnanje3 Sep 2025
Join us @UniofOxford! Shoot your shot! Projects link: ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/kenned… To be a bit biased, my brilliant supervisor @yluo86 has an amazing project listed. What are you waiting for?
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📢 #Kenya is introducing #typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs), launching a milestone campaign to protect 21M children from typhoid. Congratulations to the leaders in Kenya and the partners who made it happen! @WHOAFRO @Gavi @PATHtweets @UNICEFKenya @MOH_Kenya
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🌍A new study, led by the #MAAP research consortium, covering 14 African countries from 2016-2019, published @PLOSMedicine, finds resistance to critical antibiotics used to treat severe bacterial infections is widespread and has significant variations. flemingfund.org/publications…
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🆕 Researchers at @Cornell identified an antibiotic, rifampin, that is 99.9% effective against Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes #typhoid. The likelihood of encountering rifampin-resistant typhoid cases is less than 1 in every 1,000 cases, according to the findings. Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/202… #TakeOnTyphoid

Common antibiotic is 99.9% effective against typhoid | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have identified an antibiotic, rifampin, that is 99.9% effective against Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever.

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🚨 This is Big! New GARDP research shows that people with multidrug-resistant infections in LMICs are not receiving the appropriate antibiotics because of large gaps in access. Improving access and developing new antibiotics must be a priority, 📖 Read the study 👇 thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
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Are you interested in a MSc in Bioinformatics of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Genomics? This opportunity at Stellenbosch University is highly recommended— apply now if you’re interested. Deadline: 26 June 2025 More details below ⬇️
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Kelvin Kering retweeted
AfredacUbuntu@afredac8 Apr 2025
This opportunity is for early-career researchers eager to develop their own groundbreaking contributions to human life, health, and wellbeing. It was shared on the Afredac Ubuntu Platform 4 days ago! Visit afredac.net to read more and check other opportunities!
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The #GlobalAISummit2025 in Kigali was eye-opening! Powerful insights on AI’s role across sectors, need for infrastructure & access, and ethical use to prevent widening inequalities. Loved the idea: AI = African Intelligence As H.E. @PaulKagame said, Africa must lead, not follow!
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A new Gram-negative antibiotic from a novel chemical class! Gepotidacin is a triazaacenaphthylene antibiotic that inhibits bacterial DNA replication by interaction with DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV (similar target as quinolones, but different site). fiercepharma.com/pharma/gsk-…

GSK ushers in new UTI antibiotic with FDA nod for first-in-class Blujepa

GSK is opening the door to a new era in urinary tract infection (UTI) treatment with its Blujepa, the first in a new class of oral antibiotics for the condition in nearly 30 years. | The company's...

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Kelvin Kering retweeted
Tulio de Oliveira
@Tuliodna2 Mar 2025
OPEN for Applications! African STARS Fellowship program - Spend 4 months with us at CERI or IPD to receive advanced training in genomics, diagnostics, and/or vaccine development. Unique opportunity to early-career scientist born in or based in Africa - starsfellows.africa
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Happy to join colleagues from East Africa during the second workshop of the 2nd COHORT of Young East Africa Research Scientists (YEARS) Forum.
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Pls share: Postdoc position in microbiology with a focus on antibiotic heteroresistance
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Kelvin Kering retweeted
WACCBIP
@WACCBIP_UG18 Dec 2024
We're inviting applications from researchers across Africa working in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), surveillance, or epidemiology and Individuals with basic knowledge in Molecular Biology for our upcoming hands-on training on AMR, Bacterial Genomics & Bioinformatics scheduled for January 2025. Learn more and apply at bit.ly/4iFe9zf #AMR #Bioinformatics #Training #Research #Africa
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Kelvin Kering retweeted
NEJM
@NEJM11 Dec 2024
Investigators report broad dissemination of a highly drug-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strain across Africa. Read the full correspondence: nej.md/3Zxfwaf
Figure 1. Maximum-Likelihood Phylogeny of Seventh-Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Isolates. A maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree for 1523 V. cholerae isolates, including 17 recently obtained highly drug-resistant isolates.

ALT Figure 1. Maximum-Likelihood Phylogeny of Seventh-Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Isolates. A maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree for 1523 V. cholerae isolates, including 17 recently obtained highly drug-resistant isolates.

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Kelvin Kering retweeted
Didier Mazel@amazeld8 Dec 2024
We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @institutpasteur All details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/…

Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research

The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe,...

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Glad to have taken part in the WAAW National Scientific Symposium held on 18 & 19 November in Nairobi. I got to hear and see someone whose life was affected by AMR.
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