Mustapha Dibbasey Professional Academic Site
I'm a PhD Student working on sickle cell disease. My research investigates genetic variants such as SNPs and Haplotypes associated with the severity of SCD and SCD-related complications including cardiovascular disease and painful sickle cell crises.
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The genetic diversity between Africans and non-Africans indicates that findings from genomic studies conducted on Europeans cannot be directly applied to an African population.
In light of these facts, genomic research on SCD has taken centre stage in Africa to understand the SCD pathophysiology and genetic factors contributing to the severity of SCD in African populations
Selected Publications
2024
1. Mustapha Dibbasey, Solomon Umukoro, Abdoulie Bojang (2024) Comparative and stability study of glucose concentrations measured in both sodium fluoride and serum separator tubes, Practical Laboratory Medicine,29(e00360). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plabm.2024.e00360
2023
1. Dibbasey M and Amambua-Ngwa A (2023). Laboratory indices of hospitalized sickle cell disease patients, prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of pathogenic bacterial isolates at MRCG ward in the Gambia. BMC Infect Dis;23(1):546. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08542-z​
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2. Mustapha Dibbasey et al. Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Pathogenic Bacterial Isolates of Hospitalized Sickle Cell Disease Patients Admitted in Our Tertiary Hospital in the Gambia. Blood 2023; 142 (Supplement 1): 5297. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-173168
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3. Dibbasey M. (2023) 64262 – Sickle Cell Patients with Crisis. Available at: https://imagebank.hematology.org/image/64262/sickle-cell-crisis
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4. Dibbasey M. and Dahaba M. (2023) 64449 – Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis. Available at: https://imagebank.hematology.org/image/64449/hereditary-pyropoikilocytosis