Ong, Corinne
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests
Molecular epidemiology is used to characterize parasite isolates from patients. By matching the fingerprints of patients and environmental isolates we can track the source of the disease. This method is useful for cryptosporidiosis outbreak investigations.
Selected Publications
Ong C, Moorehead W, Ross A and Isaac-Renton J. 1996. Giardia spp. & Cryptosporidium spp. in two adjacent watersheds. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 62:2798-2805
Baker DA, Drakeley CJ, Ong CSL, Lulat AGM, Greenwood BM and Targett GAT. 1996. Humoral immune responses in Gambians to Pfs16, an immunodominant, Plasmodium falciparum integral membrane protein. Parasite Immunology 18:527-533
Peng MM, Xiao L, Freeman AR, Arrowood MJ, Escalante AA, Weltman AC, Ong CSL, Mackenzie WR, Lal AA and Beard CB. 1997. Genetic polymorphism among Cryptosporidium parvum isolates: Evidence of two distinct human transmission cycles. Emerging Infectious Diseases 3(4):567-573
Isaac-Renton J, Bowie WR, King A, Irwin GS, Ong CS, Fung CP, Shokeir O and Dubey JP. 1998. Detection of Toxoplasma oocysts in Drinking Water. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64(6):2278-2280
Gibbons CL, Gazzard BG, Ibrahim M, Morris-Jones S, Ong CSL and Awad-El-Kariem FM. 1998. Correlation between markers of strain variation in Cryptosporidium parvum: evidence of clonality. Parasitology International 4:139-147
Isaac-Renton J, Blatherwick J, Bowie WR, Fyfe M, Khan M, Li A, King A, Mclean M, Medd L, Moorehead W, Ong CS and Robertson W. 1999. Epidemic and endemic seroprevalence of antibodies to Cryptosporidium and Giardia in residents of three communities with different drinking water supplies. Am J Trop Med Hyg 60(4):578-583