Home Fellows Agness Nhidza-Manjoro

Fellows

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, born and raised in Zimbabwe, studied for her PhD in Medical Microbiology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, focusing on immune responses to asymptomatic enteric pathogens. She is currently employed as a Quality Systems Manager/ Senior Laboratory Scientist by the Biomedical Research and Training Institute in Harare, Zimbabwe, and is now interested in understanding immunology of infectious diseases such as long COVID. Her Post-doctoral studies focus on establishing a cohort of individuals that have been, or are, exposed to COVID-19 and will be followed up over time to study their immune responses to disease and post-disease. Nhidza would like to investigate the possibility of using inflammatory markers as predictive tools to identify patients most likely to suffer from long COVID. A predictor tool that identifies patients likely to suffer from long COVID-19 will impact patient management plans and improve time to recovery and survival. The output from this study will also inform the development of diagnostic tools to quickly diagnose/exclude long COVID-19 and improve clinical management of post-COVID patients

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

SANTHE is an Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) flagship programme funded by the Science for Africa Foundation through the DELTAS Africa programme; the Gates Foundation; Gilead Sciences Inc.; and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.

Copyright 2026 by SANTHE. All Rights Reserved.

Site by