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Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

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Nelesh P Govender · Sankore

National Health Laboratory Service

Nelesh P Govender

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0001-7869-9462

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Publications

80

Citations

2,150

h-index

20

Computed over the works the graph holds, so it is a floor rather than a career figure.

i10-index

27

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Affiliations

Every institution this scholar has appeared with on a work, by how many.

University of the Witwatersrand5 works
National Health Laboratory Service4 works
National Institute for Communicable Diseases1 works
University of Cape Town1 works

Publications

4 works in the graph, newest first.

Distribution of capsule and O types in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: A meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence to inform potential vaccine coverage
2026PLoS MedicineJournalOpen access4 citations10.1371/journal.pmed.1004879
Contribution of nosocomial transmission to Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: An observational study of infection clusters inferred from pathogen genomics and temporal data
2026PLoS MedicineJournalOpen access1 citations10.1371/journal.pmed.1005077
Neurological Symptoms and Cause of Death Among Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
2024JAMA Network OpenJournalOpen access7 citations10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.31512
Diagnostic capacity for invasive fungal infections in advanced HIV disease in Africa: a continent-wide survey
2022The Lancet Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen access49 citations10.1016/s1473-3099(22)00656-9