SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pascal O. Bessong, Lisa Tambe, Mathys Redelinghuys. A brief narrative on SAJS communications on selected disease outbreaks of global significance in the last 120 years. South African Journal of Science 2024; https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/20303.
Bixa Ogola, Nontokozo D Matume, Denis M Tebi, Lufuno G Mavhandu-Ramarumo, Pascal Obong Bessong. Immunologic, virologic and drug resistance outcomes in an HIV-infected prospective cohort on treatment in South Africa. PLOS One 2024; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307519.
Justine Fri, Mulalo Raphalalani, Lufuno Grace Mavhandu-Ramarumo, Pascal Obong Bessong. Exploring the potential influence of human gut microbiota on gut resistome: A systematic review. Microbiology Research 2024; https://doi.org/10.3390/microbiolres15030107.
Fatouma Mohamed Abdoul-Latif, Mukhethwa Munzhedzi, Maria Mgella Zinga, Stefano Cacciatore, Yaiselin Lopez Rodas, Duniesky Tejidor Bello. Epidemiology of Malaria in Hospital Intensive Care in Djibouti: Analysis of the Relationship between Plasmodium Infection and Hematological Parameters(2024). Journal Of Analytical Sciences And Applied Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.48402/IMIST.PRSM/jasab-v6i1.48182.
Tambe, Lisa Arrah Mbang, Phindulo Mathobo, Mukhethwa Munzhedzi, Pascal Obong Bessong, and Lufuno Grace Mavhandu-Ramarumo. 2023. “Prevalence and Molecular Epidemiology of Human Coronaviruses in Africa Prior to the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: A Systematic Review” (2023). Viruses, https://doi.org/10.3390/v15112146.
Tambe Lisa Arrah Mbang, Mathobo Phindulo, Matume Nontokozo Daphney, Munzhedzi Mukhethwa, Edokpayi Joshua Nosa, Viraragavan Amsha, Glanzmann Brigitte, Tebit Denis M., Mavhandu-Ramarumo Lufuno Grace, Street Renee, Johnson Rabia, Kinnear Craig, Bessong Pascal Obong Molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Northern South Africa: wastewater surveillance from January 2021 to May 2022 (2023). Frontiers in Public Health, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1309869.
Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Stephanie A Brennhofer, Sarah E Elwood, Timothy L McMurry, Joseph A Lewnard, Esto Mduma, Sanjaya Shrestha, Najeeha Iqbal, Pascal O Bessong, Gagandeep Kang, Margaret Kosek, Aldo A. M. Lima, Tahmeed Ahmed, Jie Liu, Eric Houpt, James A Platts-Mills. Frequency of bystander exposure to antibiotics for enteropathogenic bacteria among young children in low-resource settings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2022. https://www.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208972119.
Pascal O. Bessong, Lufuno G. Mavhandu-Ramarumo. Moving towards the global HIV 95% viral suppression target (comment). The Lancet HIV 2021; https://www.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00273-3.
Bixa Okech Ogola, Nontokozo D Matume, Lufuno Grace Mavhandu, Denis Manga Tebit, Pascal Obong Bessong. Drug resistance mutations in a population prior to antiretroviral therapy initiation in Northern South Africa. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 2021; https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2021.0026.
Lufuno Mavhandu, Lisa Tambe, Nontokozo Matume, David Katerere, Pascal Bessong. Undisclosed exposure to antiretrovirals prior to treatment initiation: An exploratory analysis.
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine 2021. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v22i1.1200.
Pascal Obong Bessong, Nontokozo Daphney Matume, Denis Manga Tebit. Potential challenges to sustained viral load suppression in the HIV treatment programme in South Africa: A narrative overview. AIDS Research and Therapy 2021; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12981-020-00324-w.
Mathobo, P., Matume, N.D. and Bessong, P.O. (2021) ‘Application of next generation sequencing in HIV drug resistance studies in Africa, 2005–2019: A systematic review’, Scientific African, 12. doi:10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00829.
Munzhedzi, M., Rogawski McQuade, E.T., Guler, J.L. et al. Community knowledge, attitudes and practices towards malaria in Ha-Lambani, Limpopo Province, South Africa: a cross-sectional household survey. Malar J 20, 188 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03724-z
Raman AS, Gehrig JL, Venkatesh S, Chang HW, Hibberd MC, Subramanian S, Kang G, Bessong PO, Lima AAM, Kosek MN, Petri WA Jr, Rodionov DA, Arzamasov AA, Leyn SA, Osterman AL, Huq S, Mostafa I, Islam M, Mahfuz M, Haque R, Ahmed T, Barratt MJ, Gordon JI. A sparse covarying unit that describes healthy and impaired human gut microbiota development. Science 2019. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau4735.
Alicia DeFrancesco, Nicoline Tanih, Amidou Samie, Richard Guerrant, Pascal O. Bessong. Antibiotic Resistance Patterns and β-Lactamase Identification in E. coli Isolated from Young Children in Rural Limpopo, South Africa: The MAL-ED Cohort. South African Medical Journal 2017; https://doi.org/10.7196/samj.2017.v107i3.12111.
Elizabeth T. Rogawski, James A. Platts-Mills, Jessica C. Seidman, Sushil John, Mustafa Mahfuz, Manjeswori Ulak, Sanjaya Shrestha, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Pablo Penataro Yori, Estomih Mduma, Erling Svensen, Tahmeed Ahmed, Aldo A.M. Lima, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Margaret Kosek, Dennis Lang, Michael Gottlieb, Anita Zaidi, Gagandeep Kang, Pascal O. Bessong, Eric R. Houpt, Richard L. Guerrant, and the MAL-ED Network Investigators. Diverse antibiotic use practices in the first two years of life across 8 sites in the MAL-ED birth cohort study. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2017; 95: 49-61; http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.176123.
Cristina Redko, Pascal Bessong, David Burt, Max Luna, Samuel Maling, Christopher Moore, Faustin Ntirenganya, Alison N. Martin, Robin Petroze, Julia den Hartog, April Ballard, Rebecca Dillingham. Exploring the significance of bi-directional learning for global health Education. Annals of Global Health 2016; 82(6): 955-963; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.11.008.