The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

H Tegally, JE San, M Cotten, M Moir, B Tegomoh… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Investment in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing
in Africa over the past year has led to a major increase in the number of sequences that …

Advancing disease genomics beyond COVID-19 and reducing health disparities: what does the future hold for Africa?

C Ibe, AA Otu, NP Mnyambwa - Briefings in Functional …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in high-throughput sequencing technology as an
essential public health tool. Scaling up and operationalizing genomics in Africa is crucial as …

The genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in Kenya

G Githinji, AW Lambisia, I Omah, A O'Toole… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
The emergence and establishment of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern presented a major
global public health crisis across the world. There were six waves of SARS-CoV-2 cases in …

Tracing household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand using genomics

L Jelley, N Aminisani, M O'Neill, T Jennings, J Douglas… - npj Viruses, 2024 - nature.com
By early 2022, the highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 had spread across
most of the world. For the first time since the pandemic began, New Zealand was …

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Seychelles, 2020–2021

JM Morobe, B Pool, L Marie, D Didon, AW Lambisia… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Seychelles, an archipelago of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean, had confirmed 24,788 cases
of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the 31st of December …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal distribution and clinical characteristics of the Alpha, Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in Laikipia, Kenya: institutional and …

AW Lambisia, GH Mudhune… - Wellcome Open …, 2023 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
Background: Understanding the molecular epidemiology and clinical presentation of the
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOC) …

COVID-19 research and science infrastructure in South Africa

L Manderson, S Levine - South African Journal of Science, 2023 - scielo.org.za
Abstract MANDERSON, Lenore and LEVINE, Susan. COVID-19 research and science
infrastructure in South Africa. S. Afr. j. sci.[online]. 2023, vol. 119, n. 7-8, pp. 1-3. ISSN 1996 …

Kinetics of naturally induced binding and neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels and potencies among Kenyan patients with diverse grades of COVID-19 …

J Kimotho, Y Sein, S Sayed, R Shah, K Mwai, M Saleh… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Background Given the low levels of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa,
despite high levels of natural SARS-CoV-2 exposures, strategies for extending the breadth …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant of concern in the Seychelles: Introduction and spread

JM Morobe, B Pool, L Marie… - Wellcome Open …, 2023 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
Background: The emergence of the Omicron variant of concern in late 2021 led to a
resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 infections globally. By September 2022, Seychelles had …

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 within households in coastal Kenya: a case ascertained cohort study

CN Agoti, KE Gallagher, J Nyiro, AW Lambisia… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Background Analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
genomic sequence data from household infections should aid its detailed epidemiological …