Institut Pasteur de Dakar
(Pasteur Institute, Dakar)
Laboratory of Experimental Bacteriology,
BP 220,
Dakar,
Senegal

http://www.pasteur.sn/

Phone : +221 839 92 35
Fax : +221 839 92 36
e-mail : gassama@pasteur.sn

A summary of Dr. Gassama Sow's and the LBE's current research projects and activities is here

Please note that Dr. Gassama Sow is very much open to the idea of collaborating with researchers and research groups worldwide - should you be interested in establishing a cooperative effort please either contact Dr. Gassama Sow directly or inform Mangosteen of your interest

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Microbiology, Université de Limoges, France, (2004)

Master in Sciences : « Chemistry and Biochemistry of natural products » Faculty of Sciences Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal (1999)

Certificate in Bacteriology and Virology, Université C. A Diop, Dakar, Senegal (1996)

Certificate in Parasitology, University  C. A Diop , Dakar, Senegal (1995)
Pharmacy Biology Diploma, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medecine Université C. A. Diop, Dakar, Senegal (1994)

"Baccalauréat" Sciences, Dakar, SENEGAL (1986)

RESEARCH
Institut Pasteur de Dakar (Pasteur Institute):

Researcher at part time since 1999 in the Laboratory of Bacteriology, full-time since September 2002 in:

Clinical Microbiology

Aetiologies and pathogenesis of bacterial gastroenteritis; laboratory evaluation of bacterial diarrhea: identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing:

 Phenotypic (serotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility) and genotypic (Ribotyping, PCR, PFGE) characterization of enteric pathogens (Salmonella, Shigella, E.coli, Campylobacter, Vibrio) isolated from food and patients.

Research on aetiologies of diarrheas in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients (identification of a new serotype of Shigella in senegalese patients infected with HIV) .

Identification of a new ribotype of Vibrio cholerae during the last Senegalese cholera outbreak in 1994.

 Food Microbiology

Bacteriological and clinical analysis of food and drinking water

Participation in the surveillance of human salmonellosis (detection of a new multiresistant Salmonella serotype in food and human).

 Characterization of Salmonella spp  and Campylobacter spp  isolated from poultry products in Senegal :  Impact on public health

 TEACHING

 Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Engineering, Ecole Supérieure de Polytechnique, Université C. A. DIOP, Dakar, Senegal: Since October`1998, Assistant Professor

 Full-time pratical and theoretical Teaching in Medical Parasitology and Microbiology

PUBLICATIONS

Amy Gassama Sow, Awa Aïdara-Kane, Nabil Raked, François Denis, and  Marie-Cécile Ploy. 2004. Integrons in Salmonella Keurmassar, Senegal. Emerg. Infect. Dis., 10 (7); 1339-40

Amy Gassama, Awa Aïdara-Kane, Delphine Chainier,  François Denis, and Marie-Cécile  Ploy. 2004. Integrons-associated antibiotic-resistance in enteroaggregative and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli, Microb. Drug Resist. Spring; 10 (1):27-30

A. Gassama Sow, PS. Sow, A. Guèye-N’diaye, M. Guèye, JL. Perret, S. M’boup, A. Aïdara-Kane. 2004. Characterization of pathogenic Escherichia coli in HIV-related diarrheas in Senegal, J. Infect. Dis.189 (1):75-78

Gassama A., Sow PS., Fall F., Camara P., Guèye-N'diaye A., Seng R., Samb B., M'boup S., Aïdara-Kane A. 2001. Ordinary and opportunistic enteropathogens associated with diarrhea in senegalese adults in relation to human immunodeficiency virus serostatus. Int. J. Infect. Dis. 5 (4):192-8.

Cardinale E., Colbachini P., Perrier-Gros-Claude JD., Gassama A., Aïdara-Kane A. 2001.  Dual emergence in food and humans of a novel multiresistant serotype of Salmonella in Senegal: Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype 35:c:1, 2. J. Clin Microbiol. 39 (6): 2373-4.

Gassama A., Thiaw B., Dia NM. Sow PS., Fall F, Camara P., Hovette P., Perret JL.,   Guèye-N'diaye A., M'boup S., Sow PS., Aïdara-Kane A. 2001. Etiologies infectieuses des diarrhées de l’adulte au cours de l’infection à VIH à Dakar: étude cas / témoins sur 594 malades. Dakar Médical, 46 (1) 46-50

Sy MH., Konate I, Gassama A., Kane A., Seye SI. 2000. Monoarticular sterno-clavicular arthritic tuberculosis: a proposal and an observation. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 4 (5): 486-7.

Gassama A., Boye CS., Ndao S. K., Kaïré O., Coly I., Macondo EA., Sow AI., Diaw L., Diop-Diop M., M’boup S. 1999. Microméthodes d’identification des streptocoques, entérocoques and staphylocoques . Dakar Med. 44 (1): 76-83.

Gassama A., Boye CS, Ndir I., Kaïré O., Coly I., Sow AI., Macondo E., Diop-Diop M., M’boup S. 1999. Microméthodes d’identification of entérobactéries. Dakar Med. 44 (1): 69-75.

Aïdara A, Koblavi S, Boye CS., Raphenon G., Gassama A., Grimont F., Grimont PA. 1998

Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Vibrio cholerae isolates from a recent cholera outbreak in Senegal: comparison with isolates from Guinea-Bissau. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 58 (2):163-7.

A. Gassama , CS. Boye, A. Aïdara-Kane, G. Raphenon, A. Samb, S. M’boup. 1997. Shigella  au Sénégal: Distribution par sérovar; sensibilité aux antibiotiques; virulence, Méd. Mal. Infect. 27 (3 ): 267-270.

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS - PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS

N. Raked, A. Gassama, F. Denis , MC. Ploy. 2003
Characterization of a novel complex class 1 integrons in Salmonella Keurmassar: 43rd ICAAC, September 14-17th, Chicago

A. Gassama, A. Kane-Aïdara, D. Chainier, F. Denis , MC. Ploy. 2003
Detection and characterization of class1 and 2 integrons in Shigella strains isolated in Senegal (sub-Saharan Africa): 13rd ECCMID, May 10-13, Glasgow, Poster: n°: 586

A. Gassama, A. Kane-Aïdara, F. Denis, MC. Ploy. 2002
Molecular characterization of integrons in a newly described Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype 35: c: 1,2: 42nd ICAAC, September 27-30, San Diego, California, Poster: C1-963

A. Gassama, A. Kane-Aïdara, D. Chainier, F. Denis, MC. Ploy. 2001
Molecular characterization of integrons in enteroaggregative and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli responsible for diarrhea in Senegal (sub-Saharan Africa): 41st ICAAC, December 16-19, Chicago, Poster: C1-152

Aïdara-Kane A, Gassama A., Perrier-Gros-Claude JD., Cardinale E., Colbachini P.2001.
Dual emergence in food and humans of a novel multiresistant serotype of Salmonella producing SHV-12 betalactamase in Senegal. 9th ECCMID, Istambul, Turkey . Poster : P956

A. Gassama, MC. Ploy, Aïdara- Kane A., JD. Perrier, F. Denis. 2000
Caractérisation moléculaire d’intégrons chez des souches responsables de diarrhées isolées au Sénégal (poster), 20e Réunion de Chimiothérapie anti-infectieuse (RICAI), December 7-8, Paris

CS. Boye, A. Aïdara-Kane, A. Gassama ,  G. Raphenon, AM. Sow, S. M’boup. 1997.
Shigella  in Senegal: Serotype distribution, antibiotic profiles, virulence factors and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) heterogeneity. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 3, suppl.2: p.73

A. Aïdara, S. Koblavi, CS. Boye, G. Raphenon, A. Gassama, F. Grimont. 1997
Typage moléculaire des souches de Vibrio cholerae isolées lors de la récente épidémie de choléra au Sénégal: Abstract n° 18, XVèmes Journées Médicales et Pharmaceutiques de Dakar, 1997

DIDACTIC ARTICLE

Place des intégrons dans la dissémination de la résistance aux antibiotiques: M. C. PLOY, T. LAMBERT, A. GASSAMA, F. DENIS 2000

Annales de Biol. Clin; 58 (4); 439-44

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

WHO TEMPORARY ADVISER at WHO International Training Course: “surveillance of Salmonella and antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens”, Pasteur Institute, Yaoundé 25-30 November 2002