Area of research
Epidemiology · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Research interest
Research interests include Respiratory viral infections research, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Viral Infections and Vectors, and Influenza Virus Research Studies.
Tracing the spatial origins and spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages in South Africa.
A WHO global framework to guide investigations into origins of potentially epidemic and pandemic pathogens
Changes in Prevalence and Seasonality of Pathogens Identified in Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Hospitalised Individuals in Rural and Urban Settings in South Africa; 2018-2022.
The unified proposal for classification of human respiratory syncytial virus below the subgroup level
The Southern African Society for Virology.
Defining a research agenda for environmental wastewater surveillance of pathogens
Transmission Dynamics of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV): Evidence of Circulation in Humans, Livestock, and Rodents in Diverse Ecologies in Kenya.
Developing African arbovirus networks and capacity strengthening in arbovirus surveillance and response: findings from a virtual workshop
West Nile Virus, an Underdiagnosed Cause of Acute Fever of Unknown Origin and Neurological Disease among Hospitalized Patients in South Africa.
Identification and Molecular Characterization of Shamonda Virus in an Aborted Goat Fetus in South Africa
Characterization of a Novel Orbivirus from Cattle Reveals Active Circulation of a Previously Unknown and Pathogenic Orbivirus in Ruminants in Kenya.
Identification and Molecular Characterization of Shamonda Virus in an Aborted Goat Fetus in South Africa.
Divergent Hantavirus in Somali Shrews (<i>Crocidura somalica</i>) in the Semi-Arid North Rift, Kenya.
Alphaviruses Detected in Mosquitoes in the North-Eastern Regions of South Africa, 2014 to 2018.
Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa
Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa.
Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa
T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike cross-recognize Omicron
Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa.
T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike cross-recognize Omicron.
Paediatric hospitalisations due to COVID-19 during the first SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) variant wave in South Africa: a multicentre observational study.
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance.
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron triggers cross-reactive neutralization and Fc effector functions in previously vaccinated, but not unvaccinated, individuals.
SARS-CoV-2 Reverse Zoonoses to Pumas and Lions, South Africa.
Emergence and phenotypic characterization of the global SARS-CoV-2 C.1.2 lineage.
Human respiratory syncytial virus diversity and epidemiology among patients hospitalized with severe respiratory illness in South Africa, 2012-2015.
Continued Emergence and Evolution of Omicron in South Africa: New BA.4 and BA.5 lineages
Author Correction: T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike cross-recognize Omicron.
Circulation of Ngari Virus in Livestock, Kenya.
Detection and genome characterization of Middelburg virus strains isolated from CSF and whole blood samples of humans with neurological manifestations in South Africa.