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h-index: 3
Works: 11
Citations: 67

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Geographical migration and fitness dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae
S. Belman, N. Lefrancq, S. Nzenze, Sarah Downs +93 more
2024Nature30 citations Open access
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Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease-causing lineages among South African children
Cebile Lekhuleni, K. Ndlangisa, R. Gladstone, S. Chochua +17 more
2024Nature Communications21 citations Open access
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Meningitis-associated pneumococcal serotype 8, ST 53, strain is hypervirulent in a rat model and has non-haemolytic pneumolysin which can be attenuated by liposomes
Annelies Müller, Cebile Lekhuleni, Sabrina Hupp, M. du Plessis +7 more
2023Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology7 citations Open access
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Population snapshot of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease among adults aged ≥18 years in South Africa before and after implementation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in 2005–2020
K. Ndlangisa, Cebile Lekhuleni, Happy Skosana, L. De Gouveia +8 more
2025Microbial Genomics3 citations
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Genomic epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 16F lineages
Jolynne Mokaya, Kate C. Mellor, Gemma G. R. Murray, A. Kalizang'oma +7 more
2023Microbial Genomics3 citations Open access
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Clonal expansion of global pneumococcal sequence cluster 3 within serotype 8 after 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction, South Africa
Cebile Lekhuleni, K. Ndlangisa, Ana D. Sanches Ferreira, H. R. Cheng +15 more
2026Microbial Genomics2 citations Open access
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Pneumococcal population structure influences the effects of air pollution on invasive disease risk in South Africa.
S. Belman, Cebile Lekhuleni, J. Kleynhans, G. Moirano +7 more
2026Nature Microbiology1 citations Open access
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Evidence of virulence and antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 16F lineages
Jolynne Mokaya, Kate C. Mellor, G. Murray, A. Kalizang'oma +7 more
2023bioRxiv1 citations Open access
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Antimicrobial resistance trends and lineage distribution among invasive pneumococcal disease isolates pre- and post-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction, South Africa.
Cebile Lekhuleni, K. Ndlangisa, L. De Gouveia, S. Chochua +16 more
2026Journal of Infection0 citations Open access
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A soluble host signal drives rapid, brain-predominant capsular thickening in Streptococcus pneumoniae via a putative sodium-dependent transporter (SPD_0642) and capsular prepromoter sequence
Nikola Tomov, Sabrina Hupp, Annelies Müller, Dario Baronti +8 more
2026bioRxiv0 citations Open access
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Microbial diversity mediates the impact of air pollution on pneumococcal disease risk
S. Belman, Cebile Lekhuleni, J. Kleynhans, G. Moirano +7 more
2025medRxiv0 citations
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