Filomena Manjate

With a bachelor degree in Biology and Health by Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. In 2019 received a PhD scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and is currently enrolled in the PhD in Biomedical Sciences, specialty of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Working at Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Mozambique since 2015, as co-researcher and study coordinator and since 2020 as junior researcher.

Have been working in the diarrhoeal diseases research area, with focus for enteric virus infections, with the application of molecular biology techniques for diagnosis, monitoring infection and track virus evolution. Her research objectives are to evaluate the impact of rotavirus vaccination on the burden of the diarrhoeal disease and rotavirus strain diversity, among children living in a rural area of Mozambique, a low income country.

1. Assucênio Chissaque, Rachel M. Burke, Esperança L. Guimarães, Filomena Manjate, Arsénio Nhacolo, Jorfélia Chilaúle, Benilde Munlela, Percina Chirinda, Jerónimo S. Langa, Idalécia Cossa-Moiane, Elda Anapakala, Adilson Fernando Loforte Bauhofer, Marcelino Garrine, Eva D. João, Júlia Sambo, Luzia Gonçalves, Goitom Weldegebriel, Keith Shaba, Isah Mohammed Bello, Jason M. Mwenda, Umesh D. Parashar, Jacqueline E. Tate, Inácio Mandomando, Nilsa de Deus (2022). Effectiveness of Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccine in Mozambique, a Country with a High Burden of Chronic Malnutrition. Vaccines. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10030449
2. Filomena Manjate, Eva D. João, Percina Chirinda, Marcelino Garrine, Delfino Vubil, Nélio Nobela, Karen Kotloff, James P. Nataro, Tacilta Nhampossa, Sozinho Acácio, Jacqueline E. Tate, Umesh Parashar, Jason M. Mwenda, Pedro L. Alonso, Martin Nyaga, Celso Cunha, Inácio Mandomando (2022). Molecular Epidemiology of Rotavirus Strains in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Children in Manhiça District, Southern Mozambique 2008–2019. Viruses. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14010134
3. Aly S Muadica, Augusto E Messa Jr, Alejandro Dashti , Sooria Balasegaram , Mónica Santin, Filomena Manjate, Percina Chirinda, Marcelino Garrine, Delfino Vubil, Sozinho Acácio, Pamela C Köster, Begoña Bailo, Tacilta Nhampossa, Rafael Calero-Bernal, Jason M Mwenda, Inácio Mandomando, David Carmena. (2020). First identification of genotypes of Enterocytozoon bieneusi (Microsporidia) among symptomatic and asymptomatic children in Mozambique. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008419
4. Belén Saavedra, Edson Mambuque, Neide Gomes, Dinis Nguenha, Rita Mabunda, Luis Faife, Ruben Langa, Shilzia Munguambe, Filomena Manjate, Anelsio Cossa, Lesley Scott, Alberto L García-Basteiro. (2021). Diagnostic performance of the Abbott RealTime MTB assay for tuberculosis diagnosis in people living with HIV. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96922-3