Peer-reviewed publications – 2016

  1. Ballah NJ, Kuonza LR, De Gita G, Musekiwa A, Williams S, Takuva S. Decline in syphilis seroprevalence among females of reproductive age in Northern Cape Province, South Africa, 2003-2012: utility of laboratory-based information. Int J STD AIDS. 2016 Feb 27. pii: 0956462416636727. PMID: 2692450.
  2. Erika Britz, Olga Perovic, Claire von Mollendorf, Anne von Gottberg, Samantha Iyaloo, Vanessa Quan, Verushka Chetty, Charlotte Sriruttan, Nazir A. Ismail, Ananta Nanoo, Alfred Musekiwa, Carl Reddy, Karien Viljoen, Cheryl Cohen and Nelesh P. Govender. The epidemiology of meningitis among adults in a South African province with a high HIV prevalence, 2009-2012 (2016). PLoS One
  3. Mandla Mlotshwa; Natasha Abraham; Moira Beery; Seymour Williams; Sandra Smit; Margot Uys; Carl Reddy; Andrew Medina Marino. Risk factors for tuberculosis smear non-conversion in Eden District, Western Cape, South Africa, 2007-2013: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016.
  4. Nicola Page, Michelle Groome, Tanya Murray, Sandrama Nadan, et al. Sapovirus prevalence in children less than five years of age hospitalised for diarrhoeal disease in Souh Africa, 2009 – 2013. Journal of Clinical Virology (2016) 78:82-88.

 

  1. Page N, Groome MJ, Murrary T, Nadan S, Netshikweta R, Keddy KH, Poonsamy B, Moyes J, Walaza S, Kahn K, Kuonza L, Taylor MB, Madhi SA, Cohen C. Sapovirus prevalence in children less than five years of age hospitalised for diarrhoeal disease in South Africa, 2009–2013. J Clinical Virology 78: 82-88. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2016.03.013

 

 

  1. Cohen AL, Sahr PK, Treurnicht F, Walaza S, Groome MJ, Kahn K, Dawood H, Variava E, Tempia S, Pretorius M, Moyes J, Olorunju SA, Malope-Kgokong B, Kuonza L, Wolter N, von Gottberg A, Madhi SA, Venter M, Cohen C. Parainfluenza Virus Infection Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Children and Adults Hospitalized for Severe Acute Respiratory Illness in South Africa, 2009-2014. Open Forum Infec Dis 2015, 2(4) doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofv139

 

 

 

 

 

Peer-reviewed publications – 2015

  1. Elvira Singh, Paul Ruff , Chantal Babb, Mazvita Sengayi, Moira Beery, Lerato Khoali, Patricia Kellett, J Michael Underwood. Establishment of a cancer surveillance programme: the South African experience. Lancet Oncol 2015; 16: e414–21. Available at: (thelancet.com/oncology) [Published August 2015]
  2. Mazvita Naome Mberi, Lazarus Rugare Kuonza, Nomathemba Michelle Dube, Cornelius Nattey, Samuel Manda, Robert Summers. Determinants of loss to follow-up in patients on antiretroviral treatment, South Africa, 2004–2012: a cohort study. BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:259 doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0912-2. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/15/259  [Published 4 July 2015]
  3. Bernard Sawadogo, Khin San Tint, Mufuta Tshimanga, Lazarus Kuonza, Laurent Ouedraogo. Risk factors for tuberculosis treatment failure among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in four health regions of Burkina Faso, 2009: case control study. Pan African Medical Journal 2015; 21: 152 doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.21.152.4827
  4. Adam L. Cohen, Philip K. Sahr, Florette Treurnicht, Sibongile Walaza, Michelle J. Groome, Kathleen Kahn, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava, Stefano Tempia, Marthi Pretorius, Jocelyn Moyes, Steven A.S. Olorunju, Babatyi Malope-Kgokong, Lazarus Kuonza, Nicole Wolter, Anne von Gottberg, Shabir A. Madhi, Marietjie Venter and Cheryl Cohen. Parainfluenza Virus Infection among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Children and Adults Hospitalized for Severe Acute Respiratory Illness in South Africa, 2009-2014. Open Forum Infect Dis (2015) doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofv139.
  5. R K Jacobson, M R Manesen, C Moodley,M Smith, S G Williams, M P Nicol, C M Bamford. Molecular characterisation and epidemiological investigation of an outbreak of blaOXA-181 carbapenemase producing isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in South Africa. S Afr Med J 2015;105 (12):1030-1035. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2015.v105i12.9926. [Published December 2015]
  6. Britz E et al. Large outbreak of Candida krusei bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit – Pretoria, South Africa, 2014. Mycoses 58:43-43 · October 2015

Peer-reviewed publications – 2014

  1. Maho Imanishi, Patience Kweza, Rachel B. Slayton, Tanaka Urayai, Odrie Ziro, Wellington Mushayi, Monica Chizororo, Lazarus Kuonza, Tracy Ayers, Molly Freeman, Emmaculate Govore, Clemence Duri, Prosper Chonzi, Sekesai Zinyowera, Portia Manangazira, Peter H. Kilmarx, Eric Mintz, Daniele Lantagne, the Zimbabwe Typhoid Fever Outbreak Working Group 2011–2012. Household Water Treatment Uptake during a Public Health Response to a Large Typhoid Fever Outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2014 90(5):945-954. Doi:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0497.

Available at: (http://www.ajtmh.org/content/early/2014/03/20/ajtmh.13-0497.abstract)

Peer-reviewed publications – 2013

  1. Maanda Mudau, Rachael Jacobson, Nadia Minenza, Lazarus Kuonza, Vida Morris, Heather Engelbrecht, Mark P. Nicol, Colleen Bamford. Outbreak of Multi-Drug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bloodstream Infection in the Haematology Unit of a South African Academic Hospital. PLOS One 2013, 8:3
  2. Ester Khosa, Lazarus R Kuonza, Phillip Kruger, Eric Maimela. Towards the elimination of malaria in South Africa: a review of surveillance data in Mutale Municipality, Limpopo Province, 2005 to 2010. Malaria Journal 2013, 12:7
  3. Landiwe S Khuzwayo, Lazarus R Kuonza, Ntombenhle J Ngcobo. Evaluating the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system in South Africa, 2005-2009 – an analysis of secondary data. Pan African Medical Journal. 2013;14:86.
  4. Kubheka V, Govender P, Margot B, Kuonza L. Dog-bites and human rabies in Uthungulu district of Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 2008-2010 – a review of surveillance data. South Afr J Epidemiol Infect 2013; 29 (2)
  5. Marang Tebogo Mamahlodi, Lazarus R Kuonza, Sue Candy. Cervical cancer screening programme in Limpopo province: January 2007 to December 2010. SAJGO 2013; 5 ( 1).
  6. Ebonwu, J. I., Tint, K. S., Ihekweazu, C. Low treatment initiation rates among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Gauteng, South Africa, 2011. IJTLD 2013: 17 1043-1048(6)
  7. Nomathemba M Dube, BV Girdler-Brown, KS Tint, P Kellett. Repeatability of manual coding of cancer reports in the South African National Cancer Registry, 2010. South Afr J Epidemiol Infect 2013;28(3):157-165
  8. Archer BN et al. Epidemiologic Investigations into Outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever in Humans, South Africa, 2008–2011. Emerging Infectious Diseases; Vol. 19, No. 12, December 2013

 

Peer-reviewed publications – 2012

  1. Nomathemba Michell Dube, Robert Summers, Khin-San Tint, Guistee Mayayise. A pharmacovigilance study of adults on highly active antiretroviral therapy, South Africa: 2007 – 2011. Pan African Medical Journal. 2012; 11:39
  2. Essoya D Landoh, Potougnima Tchamdja, Bayaki Saka, Khin S Tint, Sheba N Gitta, Peter Wasswa, de J Christiaan. Morbidity and mortality due to malaria in Est Mono district, Togo, from 2005 to 2010: a times series analysis. Malaria Journal 2012, 11:389
  3. TW Motladiile, J Tumbo, HO Zvinavhashe, C Sebekedi, ME Rakau. Multidrug-resistant nosocomial infections among private hospital patients in the North West province. South Afr J Epidemiol Infect 2012;27(3):111-115

 

Peer-reviewed publications – 2011

  1. Crowther-Gibson P, Govender N, Lewis DA, Bamford C, Brink A. Part IV. Human infections and antibiotic resistance. South African Medical Journal 2011; 101(8): 567-578.
  2. Bamford C, Brink A, Govender N, Lewis DA, Perovic O. Part V. Surveillance activities. South African Medical Journal 2011; 101(8): 579-582.
  3. Smith AM, Keddy KH, Ismail H, Thomas J, Van der Grÿp R, Manamela MJ, Huma M, Sooka A, Theobald LK, Mennen MA, O’Reilly LC and GERMS-SA. International collaboration tracks typhoid fever cases over two continents from South Africa to Australia. J Med Microbiol. 2011 Sep;60(Pt 9):1405-7. Epub 2011 Apr 7.
  4. Paweska JT, Sewlall NH, Ksiazek TG, Blumberg LH, Hale MJ, Lipkin WI, Weyer J, Nichol ST, Rollin PE, McMullan LK, Paddock CD, Briese T, Mnyaluza J, Dinh TH, Mukonka V, Ching P, Duse A, Richards G, de Jong G, Cohen C, Ikalafeng B, Mugero C, Asomugha C, Malotle MM, Nteo DM, Misiani E, Swanepoel R, Zaki SR; Outbreak Control and Investigation Teams. Nosocomial outbreak of novel arenavirus infection, Southern Africa. J Med Microbiol. 2011 Sep;60(Pt 9):1405-7. Epub 2011 Apr 7
  5. Archer BN, Weyer J, Paweska J, Nkosi D, Leman P, Tint KS, Blumberg L. Outbreak of Rift Valley fever affecting veterinarians and farmers in South Africa, 2008. S Afr Med J. 2011 Apr;101(4):263-6

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