National Institute for Communicable Diseases

Recent papers from National Institute for Communicable Diseases

1. Innate immune mechanisms of HIV control and reservoir regulation in elite and posttreatment controllersCurrent Opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2026
2. Prevalence and outcomes of primary bedaquiline resistance in adults with rifampicin-resistant pulmonary tuberculosisOpen Forum Infectious Diseases · 2026
3. Identifying candidate genetic determinants associated with invasion in pneumococcal lineages2026
4. Laboratory performance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing for GLASS pathogens among participants in the EQuAfrica programme, 2021‒2025PLOS Global Public Health · 2026
5. DISCONTOOLS Certificates - Zoonotic Poxviruses2026
6. Geographical Variation in Antimalarial Drug Resistance Marker Prevalence across the Southern African Elimination Eight RegionAmerican Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2026
7. Recent insights from prophylactic passive immunization trials of HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies: implications for vaccine designCurrent Opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2026
8. Prophylactic treatment with broadly neutralizing antibody VRC01 selects for escape mutants after infection in Antibody-Mediated Prevention trialsNature Microbiology · 2026
9. High Mortality in Adults With Community-Acquired Pneumonia Admitted to Hospitals in South Africa Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Stratified by HIV Serostatus and Viral Load: Data From a Prospective Cohort Study (2019–2021)Open Forum Infectious Diseases · 2026
10. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guideline on doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infectionsSouthern African Journal of HIV Medicine · 2026
11. Phylo-Plex: a phylogenetically informed, low-cost amplicon sequencing platform for deployable high-resolution genomic epidemiologyNature Communications · 2026
12. Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 in-hospital mortality in people living with HIV across SARS-CoV-2 variant waves: Analyses of data from the WHO Global Clinical PlatformMedicine · 2026
13. Persistent Burden of Schistosomiasis in South Africa: A National Laboratory-Based Analysis, 2019–2024Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease · 2026
14. Geographical Variation in Antimalarial Drug Resistance Marker Prevalence Across the Southern African Elimination Eight Region2026
15. Long-read sequencing of Mycobacterial tuberculosis is comparable to short-read sequencing for antimicrobial resistance prediction and epidemiological studies2026
16. Measuring capacities to advance global health security and bioeconomic development on the African continentInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2026
17. Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance by a global network of WHO collaborating centresBulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026
18. Methodological Evaluation of Community Health Centre Systems in South Africa Using Panel Data for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis2015
19. Designing User Interfaces for Literate Barriers in African Low-Literacy Populations2014
20. Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Evaluating Water Treatment Facility Efficiency in South Africa2014