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Microbiology

D-Index
40
Citations
8860
World Ranking
5487
National Ranking
25

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Cheryl Cohen;Jocelyn Moyes;Stefano Tempia;Michelle Groom

  • 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

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

    Unknown

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

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

    Unknown

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

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

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

    Unknown

  • 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

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

    Cheryl Cohen;Jocelyn Moyes;Stefano Tempia;Michelle Groome

  • 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

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