Alimuddin Zumla

Apr 8, 2024 | thelancet.com | Alimuddin Zumla |Malik Peiris

(A) Location of merbecoviruses within the coronavirus family. Only the nine coronaviruses known to cause disease in humans are shown, with genera split by colour: Alphacoronavirus (blue), Betacoronavirus (pink), and Deltacoronavirus (green). Subgenera within Betacoronavirus are also shown. Four of these nine viruses cause the common cold (HCoV-229E, HcoV-NL63, HcoV-OC43, and HcoV-HKU1), while three cause severe pneumonia (SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, and MERS-CoV).

Mar 23, 2023 | theconversation.com | Tom Nyirenda |Alimuddin Zumla |Francine Ntoumi

World TB Day on March 24th will commemorate the day in 1882 when announced in Berlin that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Effective treatment for TB has been available since . But it continues to be the world’s top cause of death from a single infectious disease. In TB was declared a global public emergency of international concern and still is 30 years on. The focus at that time was on adult TB.