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Agness Nhidza-Manjoro

SANTHE Post-doctoral Fellow


Collaborative Clinical Research Centre (CCRC), Harare, Zimbabwe

Project

Post COVID-19 Syndrome: Inflammatory Indicators in a cohort of recovered COVID-19 patients to assess the role of continued Inflammatory process amongst SARS-CoV-2 infection survivors

Collaboration Interests
  • Cohort creation
  • Proposal writing (immunogenetics of infectious diseases)
  • Setting up of immunogenomic research laboratory in Zimbabwe (research support centre)
Supervisor
Denis Kyabaggu

Agness Nhidza is a Zimbabwean-born scientist who completed her PhD in Medical Microbiology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. Her doctoral research focused on immune responses to asymptomatic enteric pathogens.

She is currently a Quality Systems Manager and Senior Laboratory Scientist at the Biomedical Research and Training Institute in Harare, Zimbabwe. Her research interests have expanded to include the immunology of infectious diseases, with a particular focus on long COVID.

In her postdoctoral work, she is establishing a cohort of individuals exposed to or infected with SARS-CoV-2 to study immune responses over time. Her research aims to identify inflammatory markers that could serve as predictive tools for long COVID, with the goal of improving patient management, recovery outcomes, and clinical decision-making. She also seeks to contribute to the development of diagnostic tools for the early identification or exclusion of long COVID.

Publications
TB prevalence in Zimbabwe: a national cross-sectional survey Influence of maternal characteristics during pregnancy on the infant early life immune responses in a high HIV burdened setting in Harare, Zimbabwe Immune response to asymptomatic infections by Entamoeba histolytica and other enteric pathogens in pregnant women and their infants in a high HIV burdened setting in Zimbabwe Benefits of annual chemotherapeutic control of schistosomiasis on the development of protective immunity Endophytic Fungi Associated with Annona senegalensis: Identification, Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Potential Endophytic Fungi Isolated from the Medicinal Plants Kigelia africana and Warburgia salutaris Global Control Efforts of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis Distribution of SPV genes, plasmid profiles and pulsotypes of Salmonella enteritidis isolates of animal and human origins in selected locations of Zimbabwe

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