Sibongile Walaza

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