Name: Dr Francis Samuel Codjoe

Department: Medical Laboratory. Sciences (Medical Microbiology Division)

Designation/Rank: Senior Lecturer

Office (location and hours): Korle Bu Campus, Close to L200 SBAHS Lecture Hall, available from 8.00a.m – 5.00p.m

Tel (office and mobile) Mobile number: 00233243510021

Email addresses: fscodjoe@ug.edu.gh or fscodjoe@chs.edu.gh 

Educational Qualification: Ph.D., MPhil, MSc, CSci FIBMS (UK), FWAPCMLS, MBac (W. Africa).

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

 

Antibacterial resistance analysis in hospitals, Carbapenem-resistant in Gram-negative bacilli, Plasmid analysis including outer membrane proteins’ resistance in Gram-negative bacilli, Effectiveness of disinfectants, Outbreaks of hospital infections, and in all trying to investigate and characterise the connections between drugs and their targets at a molecular level as well as the Effectiveness of disinfectants in hospitals.

 

Selected Publications 

 

Forson, A. O, Menkah, D. A., Quarchie, M. N., Dhikrullahi, S. B., Olu-Taiwo, M. and Codjoe, F. S. (2021). Bacterial drug-resistance patterns and genetic diversity of bacteria-associated bacteriuria in diabetic patients in Ghana. IJID Regions, 1:142-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2021.10.007. 

Olu-Taiwo, M. A., Opintan, J. A., Codjoe, F. S. and Obeng Forson, A. (2020). Metallo-Beta-Lactamase-Producing Acinetobacter spp. From Clinical Isolates at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Ghana. BioMed Research International, (2020):1-8. Article ID 3852419.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3852419.

Codjoe FS, Brown CA, Smith TJ, Miller K, Donkor ES (2019). Genetic relatedness in carbapenem-resistant isolates from clinical specimens in Ghana using ERIC-PCR technique. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0222168. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222168. PMID: 31513633.

Codjoe FS, Donkor ES, Smith TJ, Miller K. (2019). Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli Pathogens from Hospitals in Ghana. Microbial Drug Resistance, 25 (10):1449-1457. Online: http://login.research4life.org/tacsgr1doi_org/10.1089/mdr.2018.0278. doi: 10.1089/mdr.2018.0278. PMID: 31237486.

Donkor ES and Codjoe FS. (2019) Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing enterobacteriaceae: a therapeutic challenge in the 21st century. The Open Journal of Microbiology, 13: 94-100. doi: 10.2174/1874285801913010094.

Francis S. Codjoe and Eric S. Donkor. (2017) Carbapenem Resistance: A Review. Medical Sciences (Basel) 6 (1), 1-28. doi:10.3390/medsci6010001. PMID: 29267233.