PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance & Mycoses
2021
A global call for talaromycosis to be recognised as a neglected tropical disease
Narayanasamy S, Dat VQ, Thanh NT, Ly VT, Chan JF, Yuen KY, Ning C, Liang H, Li L, Chowdhary A, Youngchim S, Supparatpinyo K, Aung NM, Hanson J, Andrianopoulos A, Dougherty J, Govender NP, Denning DW, Chiller T, Thwaites G, van Doorn HR, Perfect J, Le T.
Antimicrobial Resistance in the WHO African Region: a systematic literature review
Elizabeth Lindiwe Makubalo, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Laetitia Gahimbare, Walter Fuller, Sheick Oumar Coulibaly, Shakiwa Fausta Mosha, Claude Mambo Muvunyi, Olga Perovic, Hassiba Tali-Maamar
Association of semi-quantitative cryptococcal antigen results in plasma with subclinical cryptococcal meningitis and mortality among patients with advanced HIV disease
Blasich NP, Wake RM, Rukasha I, Prince Y, Govender NP.
Clade distribution of Candida auris in South Africa using whole genome sequencing of clinical and environmental isolates
Naicker SD, Maphanga TG, Chow NA, Allam M, Kwenda S, Ismail A, Govender NP for GERMS-SA.
Cryptococcus gattii Species Complex as an Opportunistic Pathogen: Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with the Infection
Yang DH, England MR, Salvator H, Anjum S, Park YD, Marr KA, Chu LA, Govender NP, Lockhart SR, Desnos-Ollivier M, Chen S, Halliday C, Kan A, Chen J, Wollenberg KR, Zelazny A, Perfect JR, Chang YC, Bennett JE, Holland SM, Meyer W, Williamson PR, Kwon-Chung KJ.
Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare yeast infections: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM
Chen SC, Perfect J, Colombo AL, Cornely OA, Groll AH, Seidel D, Albus K, de Almedia JN Jr, Garcia-Effron G, Gilroy N, Lass-Flörl C, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Pagano L, Papp T, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Salmanton-García J, Spec A, Steinmann J, Arikan-Akdagli S, Arenz DE, Sprute R, Duran-Graeff L, Freiberger T, Girmenia C, Harris M, Kanj SS, Roudbary M, Lortholary O, Meletiadis J, Segal E, Tuon FF, Wiederhold N, Bicanic T, Chander J, Chen YC, Hsueh PR, Ip M, Munoz P, Spriet I, Temfack E, Thompson L, Tortorano AM, Velegraki A, Govender NP.
Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of the endemic mycoses: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
Thompson GR 3rd, Le T, Chindamporn A, Kauffman CA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Ampel NM, Andes DR, Armstrong-James D, Ayanlowo O, Baddley JW, Barker BM, Lopes Bezerra L, Buitrago MJ, Chamani-Tabriz L, Chan JFW, Chayakulkeeree M, Cornely OA, Cunwei C, Gangneux JP, Govender NP, Hagen F, Hedayati MT, Hohl TM, Jouvion G, Kenyon C, Kibbler CC, Klimko N, Kong DCM, Krause R, Lee Lee L, Meintjes G, Miceli MH, Rath PM, Spec A, Queiroz-Telles F, Variava E, Verweij PE, Schwartz IS, Pasqualotto AC.
Impact of Erg11 amino acid substitutions identified in Candida auris clade III isolates on triazole drug susceptibility
Williamson B, Wilk A, Guerrero KD, Mikulski TD, Elias TN, Sawh I, Cancino-Prado G, Gardam D, Heath CH, Govender NP, Perlin DS, Kordalewska M, Healey KR.
Spinal epidural abscess caused by Aspergillus spp masquerading as spinal tuberculosis in a person with HIV
Rule R, Mitton B, Govender NP, Hoffmann D, Said M.
Clade distribution of Candida auris in South Africa using whole genome sequencing of clinical and environmental isolates
Naicker SD, Maphanga TG, Chow NA, Allam M, Kwenda S, Ismail A, Govender NP for GERMS-SA.
Clinical Characteristics and Histopathology of Coronavirus Disease 2019-Related Deaths in African Children
Mabena FC, Baillie VL, Hale MJ, Thwala BN, Mthembu N, Els T, Serafin N, du Plessis J, Swart P, Velaphi SC, Petersen KL, Wadula J, Govender NP, Verwey C, Moore DP, Moosa FY, Nakwa FL, Maroane BV, Okudo G, Mabaso TM, Dangor Z, Nunes MC, Madhi SA.
Etest ECVs/ECOFFs for detection of resistance in prevalent and three non-prevalent Candida spp. to triazoles and amphotericin B and Aspergillus spp. to caspofungin: Further assessment of modal variability
Espinel-Ingroff A, Sasso M, Turnidge J, Arendrup M, Botterel F, Bourgeois N, Bouteille B, Canton E, Cassaing S, Dannaoui E, Dehais M, Delhaes L, Dupont D, Fekkar A, Fuller J, Garcia-Effron G, Garcia J, Gonzalez GM, Govender NP, Guegan H, Guinea J, Houzé S, Lass-Flörl C, Pelaez T, Forastiero A, Lackner M, Magobo R
Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare yeast infections: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM
Chen SC, Perfect J, Colombo AL, Cornely OA, Groll AH, Seidel D, Albus K, de Almedia JN Jr, Garcia-Effron G, Gilroy N, Lass-Flörl C, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Pagano L, Papp T, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Salmanton-García J, Spec A, Steinmann J, Arikan-Akdagli S, Arenz DE, Sprute R, Duran-Graeff L, Freiberger T, Girmenia C, Harris M, Kanj SS, Roudbary M, Lortholary O, Meletiadis J, Segal E, Tuon FF, Wiederhold N, Bicanic T, Chander J, Chen YC, Hsueh PR, Ip M, Munoz P, Spriet I, Temfack E, Thompson L, Tortorano AM, Velegraki A, Govender NP.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance, prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance: a global survey
Tomczyk S, Taylor A, Brown A, de Kraker MEA, El-Saed A, Alshamrani M, Hendriksen RS, Jacob M, Löfmark S, Perovic O, Shetty N, Sievert D, Smith R, Stelling J, Thakur S, Vietor AC, Eckmanns T.
In Vitro Antifungal Resistance of Candida auris Isolates from Bloodstream Infections, South Africa
Maphanga TG, Naicker SD, Kwenda S, Muñoz JF, van Schalkwyk E, Wadula J, Nana T, Ismail A, Coetzee J, Govind C, Mtshali PS, Mpembe RS, Govender NP; for GERMS-SA
Association of semi-quantitative cryptococcal antigen results in plasma with subclinical cryptococcal meningitis and mortality among patients with advanced HIV disease
Blasich N, Wake R, Rukasha I, Prince Y, Govender NP
Etiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Pathogens Associated with Urinary Tract Infections among Women Attending Antenatal Care in Four South African Tertiary-Level Facilities, 2015–2019
Thembekile Zwane, Liliwe Shuping, Olga Perovic
Genotype, Antifungal Susceptibility, and Virulence of Clinical South African Cryptococcus neoformans Strains from National Surveillance, 2005–2009
Serisha D. Naicker, Rindidzani E. Magobo, Tsidiso G. Maphanga, Carolina Firacative, Erika van Schalkwyk, Juan Monroy-Nieto, Jolene Bowers, David M. Engelthaler, Liliwe Shuping, Wieland Meyer, Nelesh P. Govender
HIV Infection as Risk Factor for Death among Hospitalized Persons with Candidemia, South Africa, 2012–2017
Nelesh P. Govender, Jim Todd, Jeremy Nel, Mervyn Mer, Alan Karstaedt, Cheryl Cohen
Ward-specific clustering of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus spa-type t037 and t045 in two hospitals in South Africa: 2013 to 2017.
Strasheim W, Perovic O, Singh-Moodley ASM, Kwanda S, Ismail A and Lowe M
Ending deaths from HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis by 2030
Shroufi A, Chiller T, Jordan A, Denning DW, Harrison TS, Govender NP, Loyse A, Baptiste S, Rajasingham R, Boulware DR, Ribeiro I, Jarvis JN, Van Cutsem G
Ibrexafungerp: A First-in-Class Oral Triterpenoid Glucan Synthase Inhibitor
Jallow S, Govender NP
Skin and mucosal manifestations of an AIDS-related systemic mycosis
Boswell MT, Robinson L, Govender N.
