PUBLICATIONS
2023
Identification of HIV-1 subtype CRF18_cpx in a patient with multidrug resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: An epidemiological worry?
Aabida Khan a , ∗ , Melendhran Pillay a , Benjamin Chimukangara a , b , c , Lilishia Gounder a , Sontaga Manyana a , Kerri-Lee Francois a , Knowledge Chipango d; Journal of Clinical Virology Plus 3 (2023) 100143
Accepted 31 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcvp.2023.100143
Published online: 09/02/2023:
Manyana, S., Pillay, M., Gounder, L. et al. Affordable drug resistance genotyping of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, protease and integrase genes, for resource limited settings. AIDS Res Ther 20, 9 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12981-023-00505-3
Heterogeneity in COVID-19 infection among older persons in South Africa: Evidence from national surveillance data, Nada Abdelatif1, Inbarani Naidoo2*, Shanaaz Dunn3, Mikateko Mazinu1, Zaynab Essack4,5, Candice Groenewald2,6, Pranitha Maharaj3, Nokukhanya Msomi7, Tarylee Reddy8, Benjamin Roberts9 and KhangelaniZuma10,11; Front. Public Health 11:1009309., 16 March 2023
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1009309
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1009309/full
2022
Persistent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection With accumulation of mutations in a patient with poorly controlled Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection; Tongai G. Maponga,1, Montenique Jeffries,2 Houriiyah Tegally,3 Andrew Sutherland,1 Eduan Wilkinson,6 Richard J. Lessells,3, Nokukhanya Msomi,4 Gert van Zyl,1,5, Tulio de Oliveira,3,6,7, and Wolfgang Preiser1,’ Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases, Society of America. 23 August 2022
https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac548
Article ID: JIA225957
Article Title: Prospective Study of Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Initiation and Adherence among Young Women in KwaZulu-Natal; South Africa, Journal of the International AIDS Society; Leila E. Mansoor,Lara Lewis,Cherise L. Naicker,Ishana Harkoo,Halima Dawood,Kalendri Naidoo,Tanuja N. Gengiah,Natasha Samsunder,Ivana Beesham,Salim S. Abdool Karim,Quarraisha Abdool Karim; First published: 03 July 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25957
Crosstalk between Host Genome and Metabolome among People with HIV in South Africa Chang Liu 1 , Zicheng Wang 2 , Qin Hui 1 , Yiyun Chiang 1 , Junyu Chen 1 , Jaysingh Brijkumar 3 , Johnathan A. Edwards 4,5,6, Claudia E. Ordonez 7 , Mathew R. Dudgeon 5 , Henry Sunpath 3 , Selvan Pillay 3 , Pravi Moodley 8 , Daniel R. Kuritzkes 9 , Mohamed Y. S. Moosa 3 , Dean P. Jones 5 , Vincent C. Marconi 5,7,10 and Yan V. Sun 1,* Metabolites 2022, 12, 624. 6 July 2022
https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12070624
Khan A. Viewpoint of a virologist in the era of COVID-19: Impacts on communities, lessons learned and where do we go from here. Lab Culture 2022, No. 27, Pages 18-21
J C Y Nyasulu,1,2 PhD; R Maphoto,3 MMed; M G S Kamupira,4 PhD; N Msomi,5 PhD, South Africa regains polio-free status: Processes involved and lessons learnt, S Afr J Child Health 2021;16(2): June 2022, Vol 16, No2
https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCH.2022.v16.i2.1822
Kerusha Govender 1,2 , Raveen Parboosing 1, Salvatore Camiolo 2, Petr Hubáˇcek 3, Irene Görzer 4 ,Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl 4 and Nicolás M. Suárez 2,*; Complexity of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection in South African HIV-Exposed Infants with Pneumonia, Viruses 2022, 14, 855. 21 April 2022
https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050855
Nokukhanya Msomi 1,2,* , Raveen Parboosing 1, Eduan Wilkinson 3, Jennifer Giandhari 3,
Kerusha Govender 1,2 , Benjamin Chimukangara 1 and Koleka P. Mlisana 4; Persistent Hepatitis B Viraemia with Polymerase Mutations among HIV/HBV Co-Infected Patients on HBV-Active ART in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Viruses 2022, 14, 788. 10 April 2022
https://doi.org/10.3390/v14040788
Cathrine Scheepers 1,2,24, Josie Everatt 1,24, Daniel G. Amoako 1, Houriiyah Tegally3,4, Constantinos Kurt Wibmer1, Anele Mnguni 1, Arshad Ismail 1, Boitshoko Mahlangu1, Bronwen E. Lambson1,2,Darren P. Martin5, Eduan Wilkinson 3,4, James Emmanuel San 3,4, Jennifer Giandhari3, Nelia Manamela1,2,Noxolo Ntuli1, Prudence Kgagudi1,2, Sandile Cele6,7, Simone I. Richardson 1,2, Sureshnee Pillay3,Thabo Mohale1, Upasana Ramphal 3, Yeshnee Naidoo3,4, Zamantungwa T. Khumalo1,8, Gaurav Kwatra9,10,Glenda Gray11, Linda-Gail Bekker12, Shabir A. Madhi9, Vicky Baillie9, Wesley C. Van Voorhis 13, Florette K. Treurnicht14,15, Marietjie Venter 16, Koleka Mlisana7,14,17, Nicole Wolter1,15, Alex Sigal 6,7,18, Carolyn Williamson 5,14,19, Nei-yuan Hsiao 5,14,19, Nokukhanya Msomi14,20, Tongai Maponga 21,Wolfgang Preiser 14,21, Zinhle Makatini14,15, Richard Lessells 3, Penny L. Moore 1,2,5,22,Tulio de Oliveira 3,4, Anne von Gottberg 1,15,23 & Jinal N. Bhiman 1,15, Emergence and phenotypic characterization of the global SARS-CoV-2 C.1.2 lineage, Nature Communications, Volume 13, Article number: 1976 (2022), 08 April 2022
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29579-9
Affordable method for genotyping HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, protease and integrase genes: an in-house protocol v1; March 2022; Sontaga Manyana; Melendhran Pillay; Lilishia Gounder; Benjamin Chimukangara; Aabida Khan; Kogie Naidoo; protocols.io
Mark Bateman, Allison Wolf, Benjamin Chimukangara; Max O’Donnell, Adherence measured using electronic dose monitoring is associated with emergent antiretroviral resistance and poor outcomes in patients co-infected with HIV/AIDS and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; Clinical Infectious Diseases; March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac232
Mosa Moshabela, Nokukhanya Msomi, Ginette Claude Mireille Kalla, Gloria Maimela, Jean-Cyr Yombi, Francois-Xavier Mbopi-Keou, Hosting ICASA 2021 in South Africa amidst the global Omicron scare. Pan African Medical Journal. 2022;41(91). 10.11604/pamj.2022.41.91.33535 PAMJ – 41(91). 02 Feb 2022 , Received: 30 Jan 2022 – Accepted: 01 Feb 2022 – Published: 02 Feb 2022
Available online at: https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/41/91/full
Ziyaad Valley-Omar , *, Gert Marais , Arash Iranzadeh , Michelle Naidoo , Stephen Korsman, Tongai Maponga , Hannah Hussey, Mary-Ann Davies , Andrew Boulle , Deelan Doolabh, Mariska Laubscher, Justyna Wojno , J.D. Deetlefs , Jean Maritz , Lesley Scott, Nokukhanya Msomi, Cherise Naicker, Houriiyah Tegally , Tulio de Oliveira , Jinal Bhiman, Carolyn Williamson, Wolfgang Preiser , Diana Hardie , Nei-yuan Hsiao: Reduced amplification efficiency of the RNA-dependent-RNA-polymerase target enables tracking of the Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant using routine diagnostic tests Journal of Virological Methods; January 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166093422000180?via%3Dihub
N Wolter, W Jassat, S Walaza, R Welch, H Moultrie, M Groome Amoako DF, Everatt J, Bhiman JN, Scheepers C, Tebeila N, Chiwandire N, du Plessis M, Govender N, Ismail A, Glass A, Mlisana K, Stevens W, Treurnicht FK, Makatini Z, Hsiao N-y, Parboosing R, Wadula J, Hussey H, Davies M-A, Boulle A, von Gottberg A, Cohen C Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant in South Africa: a data linkage study Lancet (2022) January–4 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00017-4
2021
Msomi N, Lessells RJ, Mlisana K, de Oliveira T : Africa: tackle HIV and COVID-19 together Nature.2021 Dec; 600
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03546-8
Tegally H, Wilkinson E, Giovanetti M, Iranzadeh A, Fonseca V, Giandhari J, Doolabh D, Pillay S, San EJ, Msomi N, Mlisana K. Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa. Nature. 2021 Apr;592(7854):438-43.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03402-9
Tegally H, Wilkinson E, Lessells RJ, Giandhari J, Pillay S, Msomi N, Mlisana K, Bhiman JN, von Gottberg A, Walaza S, Fonseca V. Sixteen novel lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa. Nature Medicine. 2021 Mar;27(3):440-6.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01255-3
Castillo-Mancilla JR, Edwards J, Jaysingh B, Moosa M, Zhao Y, Ofotokun I, Johnson BJ, Lee M, Pillay S, Pillay M et al: Tenofovir Diphosphate in Dried Blood Spots is Associated with Virologic Failure and Resistance to first-line therapy in South Africa: a case-control cohort study. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2021, In Press.
Ellapen MT, Ellapen TJ, Paul Y. The growth patterns of the medical technology profession in South Africa. Afr.J.Lab.Med. 2021;10(1):1-5.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8111615/
Soobramoney C, Parboosing R: siRNAs and viruses: The good, the bad and the way forward. Curr Mol Pharmacol 2021.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33881977
Chimukangara B, Lessells RJ, Sartorius B, Gounder L, Manyana S, Pillay M, Singh L, Giandhari J, Govender K, Samuel R et al: HIV-1 drug resistance in adults and adolescents on protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral treatment in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. J Glob Antimicrob Resist 2021.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34785393
Govender K, Msomi N, Moodley P, Parboosing R: Cytomegalovirus pneumonia of infants in Africa: a narrative literature review. Future Microbiol 2021.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34812046
Fagnant-Sperati CS, Ren Y, Zhou NA, Komen E, Mwangi B, Hassan J, Chepkurui A, Nzunza R, Nyangao J, van Zyl WB et al: Validation of the bag-mediated filtration system for environmental surveillance of poliovirus in Nairobi, Kenya. J Appl Microbiol 2021, 130(3):971-981.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32743931
Venugopala KN, Deb PK, Pillay M, Chopra D, Chandrashekharappa S, Morsy MA, Aldhubiab BE, Attimarad M, Nair AB, Sreeharsha N et al: 4-Aryl-1,4-Dihydropyridines as Potential Enoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase Inhibitors: Antitubercular Activity and Molecular Docking Study. Curr Top Med Chem 2021, 21(4):295-306.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138763
Maduray K, Parboosing R: Metal Nanoparticles: a Promising Treatment for Viral and Arboviral Infections. Biol Trace Elem Res 2021, 199(8):3159-3176.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33029761
Ziningi Nobuhle J, Tivani PM-T, Raveen P: Self-Sampling Interventions for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Women: A Scoping Review Protocol. Research Square 2021.
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-64831/v1
Reynolds Z, McCluskey SM, Moosa MYS, Gilbert RF, Pillay S, Aturinda I, Ard KL, Muyindike W, Musinguzi N, Masette G et al: Who’s slipping through the cracks? A comprehensive individual, clinical and health system characterization of people with virological failure on first-line HIV treatment in Uganda and South Africa. HIV Med 2021.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34755438
Siedner MJ, Moosa MS, McCluskey S, Gilbert RF, Pillay S, Aturinda I, Ard K, Muyindike W, Musinguzi N, Masette G et al: Resistance Testing for Management of HIV Virologic Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Unblinded Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Intern Med 2021.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34698502
Chimukangara B, Lessells RJ, Singh L, Grigalionyte I, Yende-Zuma N, Adams R, Dawood H, Dlamini L, Buthelezi S, Chetty S et al: Acquired HIV drug resistance and virologic monitoring in a HIV hyper-endemic setting in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. AIDS Res Ther 2021, 18(1):74.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34656129
Bardon AR, Dorward J, Sookrajh Y, Sayed F, Quame-Amaglo J, Pillay C, Feutz E, Ngobese H, Simoni JM, Sharma M et al: Simplifying TREAtment and Monitoring for HIV (STREAM HIV): protocol for a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care urine tenofovir and viral load testing to improve HIV outcomes. BMJ Open 2021, 11(10):e050116.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34610939
Dorward J, Sookrajh Y, Ngobese H, Lessells R, Sayed F, Bulo E, Moodley P, Samsunder N, Lewis L, Tonkin-Crine S et al: Protocol for a randomised feasibility study of Point-Of-care HIV viral load testing to Enhance Re-suppression in South Africa: the POwER study. BMJ Open 2021, 11(2):e045373.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33593788
Hird TR, Partap U, Moodley P, Pirie FJ, Esterhuizen TM, O’Leary B, McCarthy MI, Young EH, Sandhu MS, Motala AA: HIV infection and anaemia do not affect HbA1c for the detection of diabetes in black South Africans: Evidence from the Durban Diabetes Study. Diabet Med 2021, 38(11):e14605.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34028093
2020
Nelson KN, Gandhi NR, Mathema B, Lopman BA, Brust JCM, Auld SC, Ismail N, Omar SV, Brown TS, Allana S et al: Modeling Missing Cases and Transmission Links in Networks of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Am J Epidemiol 2020, 189(7):735-745.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32242216
Msomi N, Mlisana K, de Oliveira T, Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa writing g: A genomics network established to respond rapidly to public health threats in South Africa. Lancet Microbe 2020, 1(6):e229-e230.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32838349
Msomi N, Naidoo K, Yende-Zuma N, Padayatchi N, Govender K, Singh JA, Abdool-Karim S, Abdool-Karim Q, Mlisana K: High incidence and persistence of hepatitis B virus infection in individuals receiving HIV care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Infect Dis 2020, 20(1):847.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33198649
Khan A, Hans L, Hsiao NY: Comparison of Alere q whole blood viral load with DBS and plasma viral load in the classification of HIV virological failure. PLoS One 2020, 15(5):e0232345.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32469947
Dookie N, Padayatchi N, Lessells RJ, Naicker CL, Chotoo S, Naidoo K: Individualized Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Using Whole-Genome Sequencing and Expanded Drug-Susceptibility Testing. Clin Infect Dis 2020, 71(11):2981-2985.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32384148
Chimukangara B, Giandhari J, Lessells R, Yende-Zuma N, Sartorius B, Samuel R, Khanyile KS, Stray-Pedersen B, Moodley P, Metzner KJ et al: Impact of pretreatment low-abundance HIV-1 drug-resistant variants on virological failure among HIV-1/TB-co-infected individuals. J Antimicrob Chemother 2020, 75(11):3319-3326.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32772079
Dorward J, Drain PK, Osman F, Sookrajh Y, Pillay M, Moodley P, Garrett N: Short Communication: Early Antiretroviral Therapy Is Associated with Better Viral Suppression and Less HIV Drug Resistance After Implementation of Universal Treatment in South Africa. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2020, 36(4):297-299.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31663368
Mitha M, Pillay M, Moodley JY, Balakrishna Y, Abbai N, Bhagwan S, Dangor Z, Bhigjee AI: Laboratory diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive patients: Correlation with the uniform case definition. S Afr J Infect Dis 2020, 35(1):135.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34485474
Venugopala KN, Tratrat C, Pillay M, Chandrashekharappa S, Al-Attraqchi OHA, Aldhubiab BE, Attimarad M, Alwassil OI, Nair AB, Sreeharsha N et al: In silico Design and Synthesis of Tetrahydropyrimidinones and Tetrahydropyrimidinethiones as Potential Thymidylate Kinase Inhibitors Exerting Anti-TB Activity Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Drug Des Devel Ther 2020, 14:1027-1039.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32214795
Venugopala KN, Uppar V, Chandrashekharappa S, Abdallah HH, Pillay M, Deb PK, Morsy MA, Aldhubiab BE, Attimarad M, Nair AB et al: Cytotoxicity and Antimycobacterial Properties of Pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinoline Derivatives: Molecular Target Identification and Molecular Docking Studies. Antibiotics (Basel) 2020, 9(5).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32392709
Venugopala KN, Kandeel M, Pillay M, Deb PK, Abdallah HH, Mahomoodally MF, Chopra D: Anti-Tubercular Properties of 4-Amino-5-(4-Fluoro-3- Phenoxyphenyl)-4H-1,2,4-Triazole-3-Thiol and Its Schiff Bases: Computational Input and Molecular Dynamics. Antibiotics (Basel) 2020, 9(9).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32878018
Brijkumar J, Johnson BA, Zhao Y, Edwards J, Moodley P, Pathan K, Pillay S, Castro KG, Sunpath H, Kuritzkes DR et al: A packaged intervention to improve viral load monitoring within a deeply rural health district of South Africa. BMC Infect Dis 2020, 20(1):836.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33176715
Rautenberg TA, George G, Bwana MB, Moosa MS, Pillay S, McCluskey SM, Aturinda I, Ard K, Muyindike W, Moodley P et al: Comparative analyses of published cost effectiveness models highlight critical considerations which are useful to inform development of new models. J Med Econ 2020, 23(3):221-227.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31835974
Nelson KN, Jenness SM, Mathema B, Lopman BA, Auld SC, Shah NS, Brust JCM, Ismail N, Omar SV, Brown TS et al: Social Mixing and Clinical Features Linked With Transmission in a Network of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Cases in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Clin Infect Dis 2020, 70(11):2396-2402.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31342067
Drain PK, Dorward J, Violette LR, Quame-Amaglo J, Thomas KK, Samsunder N, Ngobese H, Mlisana K, Moodley P, Donnell D et al: Point-of-care HIV viral load testing combined with task shifting to improve treatment outcomes (STREAM): findings from an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial. Lancet HIV 2020, 7(4):e229-e237.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32105625
Smith JP, Gandhi NR, Shah NS, Mlisana K, Moodley P, Johnson BA, Allana S, Campbell A, Nelson KN, Master I et al: The Impact of Concurrent Antiretroviral Therapy and MDR-TB Treatment on Adverse Events. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2020, 83(1):47-55.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31809360
Naicker CL, Mansoor LE, Dawood H, Naidoo K, Singo D, Matten D, Williamson C, Abdool Karim Q: Importance of early identification of PrEP breakthrough infections in a generalized HIV epidemic: a case report from a PrEP demonstration project in South Africa. BMC Infect Dis 2020, 20(1):532.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32698772
Zhou NA, Fagnant-Sperati CS, Komen E, Mwangi B, Mukubi J, Nyangao J, Hassan J, Chepkurui A, Maina C, van Zyl WB et al: Feasibility of the Bag-Mediated Filtration System for Environmental Surveillance of Poliovirus in Kenya. Food Environ Virol 2020, 12(1):35-47.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31679104
2019
Swe Swe-Han K, Pillay M, Pillay M: Amikacin-resistant Acinetobacter species mediated by the aphA6 gene associated with clinical outcome at an academic complex hospital in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. S Afr Med J 2019, 110(1):49-54.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31865943
Peterson ML, Gandhi NR, Clennon J, Nelson KN, Morris N, Ismail N, Allana S, Campbell A, Brust JCM, Auld SC et al: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ‘hotspots’ and sociodemographic associations in Durban, South Africa. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2019, 23(6):720-727.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31315705
Smith S, Govender K, Moodley P, La Russa P, Kuhn L, Archary M: Impact of Shifts to Birth Testing on Early Infant Diagnosis Program Outcomes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2019, 38(7):e138-e142.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31192977
Motaze NV, Manamela J, Smit S, Rabie H, Harper K, duPlessis N, Reubenson G, Coetzee M, Ballot D, Moore D et al: Congenital Rubella Syndrome Surveillance in South Africa Using a Sentinel Site Approach: A Cross-sectional Study. Clin Infect Dis 2019, 68(10):1658-1664.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30203002
Simeon K, Sharma M, Dorward J, Naidoo J, Dlamini N, Moodley P, Samsunder N, Barnabas RV, Garrett N, Drain PK: Comparative cost analysis of point-of-care versus laboratory-based testing to initiate and monitor HIV treatment in South Africa. PLoS One 2019, 14(10):e0223669.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31618220
Stephens F, Gandhi NR, Brust JCM, Mlisana K, Moodley P, Allana S, Campbell A, Shah S: Treatment Adherence Among Persons Receiving Concurrent Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and HIV Treatment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2019, 82(2):124-130.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31513073
Chimukangara B, Lessells RJ, Rhee SY, Giandhari J, Kharsany ABM, Naidoo K, Lewis L, Cawood C, Khanyile D, Ayalew KA et al: Trends in Pretreatment HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Antiretroviral Therapy-naive Adults in South Africa, 2000-2016: A Pooled Sequence Analysis. EClinicalMedicine 2019, 9:26-34.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143879
Msomi N, Ndlovu K, Giandhari J, Wilkinson E, Parboosing R, Zungu S, Mlisana K: High rate of occult hepatitis B virus infection in hemodialysis units of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. J Med Virol 2019, 91(10):1797-1803.