Alimuddin Zumla

Research interests

Publications

• Global Tuberculosis Report 2020 – Reflections on the Global TB burden, treatment and prevention efforts

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.02.107

• Addressing challenges to rolling out COVID-19 vaccines in African countries

  The Lancet Global Health · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(21)00097-8

• Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.11.040

• Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 in Africa: Early Insights from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1240

• COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

  Frontiers in Public Health · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.596944

• Single-cell landscape of immunological responses in patients with COVID-19

  Nature Immunology · 2020 · 10.1038/s41590-020-0762-x

• Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for the Prevention or Treatment of COVID-19 in Africa: Caution for Inappropriate Off-label Use in Healthcare Settings

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0290

• The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health — The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.01.009

• Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.049

• Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries

  BMJ Global Health · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003319

• Human Monkeypox

  Infectious Disease Clinics of North America · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2019.03.001

• Coronaviruses — drug discovery and therapeutic options

  Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd.2015.37

• Middle East respiratory syndrome

  The Lancet · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60454-8

• An Observational, Laboratory-Based Study of Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Jeddah and Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2014

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu812

• Rapid point of care diagnostic tests for viral and bacterial respiratory tract infections—needs, advances, and future prospects

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(14)70827-8

• Travel implications of emerging coronaviruses: SARS and MERS-CoV

  Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.06.007

• Transmission of MERS-Coronavirus in Household Contacts

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1405858

• Hajj: infectious disease surveillance and control

  The Lancet · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60381-0

• Spread, Circulation, and Evolution of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

  mBio · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01062-13

• Respiratory Tract Samples, Viral Load, and Genome Fraction Yield in Patients With Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

  The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiu292

• Transmission and evolution of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: a descriptive genomic study

  The Lancet · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)61887-5

• Epidemiological, demographic, and clinical characteristics of 47 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease from Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(13)70204-4

• Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2013 · 10.1056/nejmoa1306742

• Advances in the development of new tuberculosis drugs and treatment regimens

  Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 2013 · 10.1038/nrd4001

• Tuberculosis

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2013 · 10.1056/nejmra1200894

• Drug-resistant tuberculosis: time for visionary political leadership

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(13)70030-6

• European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care

  European Respiratory Journal · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00203811

• Tuberculosis

  The Lancet · 2011 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(10)62173-3

• Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2010 · 10.1016/s1473-3099(10)70089-x

• Biomarkers and diagnostics for tuberculosis: progress, needs, and translation into practice

  The Lancet · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60359-5

• Global lung health: the colliding epidemics of tuberculosis, tobacco smoking, HIV and COPD

  European Respiratory Journal · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00072909

• Within-Subject Variability and Boosting of T-Cell Interferon-γ Responses after Tuberculin Skin Testing

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200811-1704oc

• Differential susceptibility of PCR reactions to inhibitors: an important and unrecognised phenomenon

  BMC Research Notes · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-1-70

• Real-time RT-PCR normalisation; strategies and considerations

  Genes and Immunity · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.gene.6364190

• Validation of housekeeping genes for normalizing RNA expression in real-time PCR

  BioTechniques · 2004 · 10.2144/04371rr03

Current projects

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