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Nickson Murunga

Affiliation : Kenya Medical Research Institute · KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme

• 22Publications (affiliation in Kenya)

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Nickson Murunga has 22 indexed publications (2020–2025). Their work appears mainly in “Wellcome Open Research”, “Gut Pathogens” and “Virus Evolution”. Their most cited article, “COVID-19 transmission dynamics underlying epidemic waves in Kenya” (2021), has been cited 90 times. 8 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United Kingdom, South Africa, United States, Belgium.

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Publications (22)

• Genomic and clinical epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in coastal Kenya: insights into variant circulation, reinfection, and multiple lineage importations during a post-pandemic wave
  2025 · BMC Global and Public Health · cited 5 times
• Temporal changes in the positivity rate of common enteric viruses among paediatric admissions in coastal Kenya, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2019–2022
  2024 · Gut Pathogens · cited 13 times
• The cost of care for children hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) associated lower respiratory infection in Kenya
  2024 · BMC Public Health · cited 8 times
• Estimates of the national burden of respiratory syncytial virus in Kenyan children aged under 5 years, 2010–2018
  2023 · BMC Medicine · cited 21 times
• Genomic epidemiology of human adenovirus F40 and F41 in coastal Kenya: A retrospective hospital-based surveillance study (2013–2022)
  2023 · Virus Evolution · cited 18 times
• Genomic epidemiology of the rotavirus G2P[4] strains in coastal Kenya pre- and post-rotavirus vaccine introduction, 2012–8
  2023 · Virus Evolution · cited 7 times
• Symptom prevalence and secondary attack rate of SARS‐CoV‐2 in rural Kenyan households: A prospective cohort study
  2023 · Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses · cited 7 times
• Assessment of gestational age at antenatal care visits among Kenyan women to inform delivery of a maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in low- and middle-income countries
  2023 · Wellcome Open Research · cited 7 times
• Optimization of the SARS-CoV-2 ARTIC Network V4 Primers and Whole Genome Sequencing Protocol
  2022 · Frontiers in Medicine · cited 79 times
• Transmission networks of SARS-CoV-2 in Coastal Kenya during the first two waves: A retrospective genomic study
  2022 · eLife · cited 26 times
• Differences in epidemiology of enteropathogens in children pre- and post-rotavirus vaccine introduction in Kilifi, coastal Kenya
  2022 · Gut Pathogens · cited 21 times
• Epidemiology of COVID-19 infections on routine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serology testing in Coastal Kenya
  2022 · Wellcome Open Research · cited 19 times
• Efficiency of transplacental transfer of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) specific antibodies among pregnant women in Kenya
  2022 · Wellcome Open Research · cited 14 times
• Drivers of respiratory syncytial virus seasonal epidemics in children under 5 years in Kilifi, coastal Kenya
  2022 · PLoS ONE · cited 10 times
• COVID-19 transmission dynamics underlying epidemic waves in Kenya
  2021 · Science · cited 90 times
• Epidemiological Trends of Five Common Diarrhea-Associated Enteric Viruses Pre- and Post-Rotavirus Vaccine Introduction in Coastal Kenya
  2020 · Pathogens · cited 32 times
• Respiratory syncytial virus seasonality in three epidemiological zones of Kenya
  2020 · Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses · cited 24 times
• Surveillance of endemic human coronaviruses (HCoV-NL63, OC43 and 229E) associated with childhood pneumonia in Kilifi, Kenya
  2020 · Wellcome Open Research · cited 20 times
• Multiple Introductions and Predominance of Rotavirus Group A Genotype G3P[8] in Kilifi, Coastal Kenya, 4 Years after Nationwide Vaccine Introduction
  2020 · Pathogens · cited 16 times
• Evolution of respiratory syncytial virus genotype BA in Kilifi, Kenya, 15 years on
  2020 · Scientific Reports · cited 16 times
• Surveillance of endemic human coronaviruses (HCoV-NL63, OC43 and 229E) associated with pneumonia in Kilifi, Kenya
  2020 · Wellcome Open Research · cited 13 times
• Accuracy of diagnostic tests for respiratory syncytial virus infection within a paediatric hospital population in Kilifi County, Kenya
  2020 · Wellcome Open Research · cited 8 times

Publication venues

• Wellcome Open Research × 6
• Gut Pathogens × 2
• Virus Evolution × 2
• Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses × 2
• Pathogens × 2
• BMC Global and Public Health × 1

Publications per year

• 20251
• 20242
• 20235
• 20226
• 20211
• 20207

Collaborations

Partner institutions : University of Warwick · Ministry of Health · University of Oxford · Pwani University · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Co-authors’ countries : United Kingdom · South Africa · United States · Belgium

Co-authors

• D. James Nokes
• Charles N. Agoti
• Arnold W. Lambisia
• George Githinji
• Martin N. Mutunga
• Bryan O. Nyawanda
• Joyce Uchi Nyiro
• Lynette Isabella Ochola‐Oyier
• Patrick K. Munywoki
• Nancy A. Otieno
• Godfrey Bigogo
• George M. Warimwe

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