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Biology and Biochemistry
South Africa
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
17235
World Ranking
6679
National Ranking
9

Medicine

D-Index
76
Citations
19285
World Ranking
18858
National Ranking
43

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Helen Cox is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on infectious diseases. Their work spans multiple subfields, including infectious diseases, epidemiology, surgery, molecular biology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The main field of study is medicine, with significant contributions in tuberculosis research and epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and pneumonia and respiratory infections.

The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Helen Cox has been frequently published in

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • The Lancet Microbe
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • The Lancet Global Health

Among their recent papers are:

  • The 2021 WHO catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mutations associated with drug resistance: a genotypic analysis (2022, The Lancet Microbe)
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a persistent global health concern (2024, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • Bedaquiline resistance in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study (2023, The Lancet Microbe)
  • Evaluation of Nanopore sequencing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing and outbreak investigation: a genomic analysis (2022, The Lancet Microbe)
  • Scientific advances and the end of tuberculosis: a report from the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis (2023, The Lancet)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Sébastien Gagneux
  • Sònia Borrell
  • Robin M. Warren
  • Jennifer Furin
  • Mark P. Nicol

Best Publications

  • Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study

    Catharina C. Boehme;Mark P. Nicol;Mark P. Nicol;Pamela Nabeta;Joy S. Michael

  • Multidrug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens and Patient Outcomes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 9,153 Patients

    Shama D. Ahuja;David Ashkin;Monika Avendano;Rita Banerjee

  • Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

    Matthias Merker;Camille Blin;Stefano Mona;Nicolas Duforet-Frebourg

  • Regional Sympathetic Nervous Activity and Oxygen Consumption in Obese Normotensive Human Subjects

    Mario Vaz;Garry Jennings;Andrea Turner;Helen Cox

  • Resistance to fluoroquinolones and second-line injectable drugs: impact on multidrug-resistant TB outcomes

    Dennis Falzon;Neel Gandhi;Giovanni B. Migliori;Giovanni Sotgiu

  • Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing

    Alejandro Sifrim;Marc-Phillip Hitz;Anna Wilsdon;Jeroen Breckpot

  • Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Trial

    Helen E. Tilbrook;Helen Cox;Catherine E. Hewitt;Arthur Ricky Kang'ombe

  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis: time for visionary political leadership

    Ibrahim Abubakar;Ibrahim Abubakar;Matteo Zignol;Dennis Falzon;Mario Raviglione

  • Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

    Michael J A Reid;Nimalan Arinaminpathy;Amy Bloom;Barry R Bloom

  • Co-infections, secondary infections, and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study: a multicentre, prospective cohort study.

    Clark D Russell;Cameron J Fairfield;Thomas M Drake;Lance Turtle

  • The genomic landscape of balanced cytogenetic abnormalities associated with human congenital anomalies

    Claire Redin;Claire Redin;Harrison Brand;Harrison Brand;Ryan L Collins;Ryan L Collins;Tammy Kammin

  • Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Biomarkers: Needs, Challenges, Recent Advances, and Opportunities

    Ruth McNerney;Markus Maeurer;Ibrahim Abubakar;Ibrahim Abubakar;Ben Marais

  • Xpert MTB/RIF versus sputum microscopy as the initial diagnostic test for tuberculosis: a cluster-randomised trial embedded in South African roll-out of Xpert MTB/RIF

    Gavin J Churchyard;Gavin J Churchyard;Wendy S Stevens;Wendy S Stevens;Lerole D Mametja;Kerrigan M McCarthy

  • Effects of Aging on the Responsiveness of the Human Cardiac Sympathetic Nerves to Stressors

    Murray D. Esler;Jane M. Thompson;David M. Kaye;Andrea G. Turner

  • Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis—Current Dilemmas, Unanswered Questions, Challenges, and Priority Needs

    Alimuddin Zumla;Ibrahim Abubakar;Mario Raviglione;Michael Hoelscher

  • Linezolid for the treatment of complicated drug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    H. Cox;N. Ford

  • Aging effects on human sympathetic neuronal function

    M. D. Esler;A. G. Turner;D. M. Kaye;J. M. Thompson

  • Tuberculosis Recurrence and Mortality after Successful Treatment: Impact of Drug Resistance

    Helen Cox;Yared Kebede;Sholpan Allamuratova;Gabit Ismailov

  • Long term efficacy of DOTS regimens for tuberculosis: systematic review

    Helen S Cox;Martha Morrow;Peter W Deutschmann

  • Genomic diversity among drug sensitive and multidrug resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with identical DNA fingerprints.

    Stefan Niemann;Claudio U. Köser;Sebastien Gagneux;Claudia Plinke

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray D. Esler
Murray D. Esler Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Garry L. Jennings
Garry L. Jennings University of Sydney
Sonia Borrell
Sonia Borrell Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Sebastien Gagneux
Sebastien Gagneux University of Basel
Nathan Ford
Nathan Ford World Health Organization
Mark P. Nicol
Mark P. Nicol University of Western Australia
Robert J. Wilkinson
Robert J. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
Stefan Niemann
Stefan Niemann Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
David J. Torgerson
David J. Torgerson University of York

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