Sibongile Walaza

Sibongile Walaza publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sibongile Walaza sits on this spectrum.

Sibongile Walaza D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sibongile Walaza sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa.

  Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  1635
  Citations

• Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa

  Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  1043
  Citations

• Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.

  Xin Wang;You Li;Katherine L. O'Brien;Shabir A. Madhi

  452
  Citations

• Sixteen novel lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa.

  Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Richard J. Lessells;Jennifer Giandhari

  355
  Citations

• High Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Density, Increased by Viral Coinfection, Is Associated With Invasive Pneumococcal Pneumonia

  Nicole Wolter;Stefano Tempia;Cheryl Cohen;Shabir A. Madhi

  219
  Citations

• Respiratory Viral Coinfections Identified by a 10-Plex Real-Time Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay in Patients Hospitalized With Severe Acute Respiratory Illness—South Africa, 2009–2010

  Marthi A Pretorius;Shabir A. Madhi;Shabir A. Madhi;Cheryl Cohen;Dhamari Naidoo

  206
  Citations

• Global burden of acute lower respiratory infection associated with human metapneumovirus in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.

  Xin Wang;You Li;Maria Deloria-Knoll;Shabir A Madhi

  204
  Citations

• Severe influenza-associated respiratory infection in high HIV prevalence setting, South Africa, 2009-2011

  Cheryl Cohen;Jocelyn Moyes;Stefano Tempia;Michelle Groom

  183
  Citations

• Difference in mortality among individuals admitted to hospital with COVID-19 during the first and second waves in South Africa: a cohort study.

  Waasila Jassat;Caroline Mudara;Lovelyn Ozougwu;Stefano Tempia;Stefano Tempia

  168
  Citations

• Clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 lineages compared to BA.1 and Delta in South Africa

  Unknown

  153
  Citations

• Decline of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus detection in facility-based surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Africa, January to October 2020.

  Stefano Tempia;Sibongile Walaza;Sibongile Walaza;Jinal N Bhiman;Meredith L McMorrow

  152
  Citations

• Effectiveness of monovalent human rotavirus vaccine against admission to hospital for acute rotavirus diarrhoea in South African children: a case-control study.

  Michelle J Groome;Nicola Page;Margaret M Cortese;Jocelyn Moyes;Jocelyn Moyes

  147
  Citations

• Epidemiology of Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants.

  Cheryl Cohen;Jocelyn Moyes;Stefano Tempia;Michelle Groome;Michelle Groome

  131
  Citations

• Epidemiology of Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Associated Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Hospitalizations Among HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected South African Children, 2010–2011

  Jocelyn Moyes;Cheryl Cohen;Marthi Pretorius;Michelle Groome

  130
  Citations

• Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in South Africa

  Unknown

  129
  Citations

• HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2: Patterns in the evolution of two pandemic pathogens.

  Will Fischer;Elena E Giorgi;Srirupa Chakraborty;Kien Nguyen

  109
  Citations

• Changes in the global hospitalisation burden of respiratory syncytial virus in young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis

  Unknown

  99
  Citations

• Epidemiology of Viral-associated Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Among Children <5 Years of Age in a High HIV Prevalence Setting, South Africa, 2009–2012

  Cheryl Cohen;Sibongile Walaza;Jocelyn Moyes;Michelle Groome

  99
  Citations

• Mortality amongst patients with influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness, South Africa, 2009-2013.

  Cheryl Cohen;Jocelyn Moyes;Stefano Tempia;Michelle Groome

  98
  Citations

• In- and Out-of-hospital Mortality Associated with Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in South Africa, 2009–2013

  Cheryl Cohen;Cheryl Cohen;Sibongile Walaza;Sibongile Walaza;Florette K Treurnicht;Florette K Treurnicht;Meredith McMorrow;Meredith McMorrow

  95
  Citations