Staff Profiles

Mr. Peter Kuloba Nyongesa

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Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology
School of Medicine (MMUST)
P.O. Box 190-50100
Kakamega, KENYA
Office no. MED 203
Kakamega-Webuye Road
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6104-2453.

ResearcherID: ACI-3361-2022

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Mr. Peter Kuloba Nyongesa

Mr. Nyongesa holds a masters degree in Medical Biotechnology specializing in natural products bioprospecting of medicinal plants. He also holds a bachelors degree in Medical Biotechnology, an advanced diploma in Public Health, Higher National Diploma and Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences respectively. Additionally he is in possession of certificates of Quality Management and Automated Solutions for Standardized Laboratory Workflow(Qiagen). Mr. Nyongesa is currently a Ph.D student in Biomedical Sciences specialising in ethnomedicine. His areas of academic and research interest are in the fields of medicinal plants (Endophytology), complimentary medicine and microbiology especially in antibiotic resistance. He is currently an assistant lecturer in the department of Laboratory Medicine and Human Pathology teaching Microbiology (Medical bacteriology and Virology). Mr. Nyongesa’s role in research is to look for natural products from medicinal plants that are alternative solutions to the microbial infectious diseases that affect man and animals using the available molecular methods.


Some of his key published works include: -

  1. Nyabera Nicholas Mogoi, Anthony Wawire Sifuna, Patrick Kirsteen Okoth, Oleg Reva, Rose Malaba, Ruth Negesa​, Kuloba Peter Nyongesa, Kombo Ezra Osoro and Martin Welch. Staphylococcus aureus associated with surgical site infections in Western Kenya reveals genomic hotspots for pathogen evolution. Published on 27 July 2024 in Microbiology Society. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000734.v4
  2. Nathan Langat, Christine Inguyesi, Moses Olum, Peter Ndirangu, Ednah Masila, Ruth Onywera, Ascah Jesang, Esther Wachuka, Janet Koros, Peter Nyongesa, Edwin Kimathi and Monicah Maichomo. The Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococcus and Its Implications for One-health Approaches in Africa.Published on 27the March 2024 in Intechopen. DOI: DOI:https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.114340
  3. Wavinya, F., Omolo, M., Malebo, H., Sifuna, A., Nyongesa, P., & Nonoh, J. (2021). Antibacterial Activity of Honey from Wild Species of Stingless Bees;Plebenia hylderbrandii and Meliponula bocandei. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 9(7), 67-84.DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/jbm.2021.97009.
  4. Baraza, D. L., Ooko, S., Nyongesa, P. K., & Sande, E. (2021). Phytochemical Analysis, Isolated Ergosta-5, 7, 22-triene-3?, 14?-diol (22Z) and Antimicrobial Activity of Kenyan Ganoderma lucidum. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cpcs/v7/2178E
  5. Boge, E. A., Nyongesa, P., Okoth, P., & Sifuna, A. W. (2021). Biofilms and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles of Escherichia coli Recovered from Wastewater Treatment Plants in Kakamega Municipality, Kenya. Egyptian Journal of Microbiology, 56(1), 25-34.
  6. Sande, E., Baraza, D. L., Ooko, S., & Nyongesa, P. K. (2020). Isolation, Characterization and Antibacterial Activity of Ergosta-5, 7, 22-triene-3β, 14α– diol (22Z) from Kenyan Ganoderma lucidum. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21608/ejm.2021.41683.1171
  7. Ondeko, D. A., Juma, B. F., Baraza, L. D., & Nyongesa, P. K. (2020). LC- ESI/MS and GC-MS Methanol Extract Analysis, Phytochemical and Antimicrobial Activity Studies of Centella asiatica. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/AJOCS/2020/v8i319046
  8. Ndirangu P.N, Siamba D.N, Wesonga H, Nyongesa P, Mugambi J.M. 2015. Prevalence of Bovine Mastitis and its Bacterial Causes with their Antibiotic Sensitivity in a Research Centre Farm in Kenya. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/bahpa/article/view/167681.
  9. Ndirangu, P. N., Mungube, E. O., Maichomo, M. W., Nyongesa, P. K., Wamae, D., On’gala, J. O., ... & Siamba, D. (2019). A novel pH-based pen-side test for detection of sub-clinical mastitis: validation in cattle and camels, Kenya. Livestock Research for Rural Development, 31(1). http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd31/1/erick31007.html
  10. Nyongesa, P. K. (2016). Antimicrobial Activities of Secondary Metabolites From Vernonia Adoensis and Ocimum Kilimandscharicum Medicinal Plants and Associated Endophytes From Kakamega Forest in Kenya (Masters dissertation, Maseno University).

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