Ms Carrim, Maimuna

Maimuna Carrim is a Senior Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She completed her Master’s degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she explored the prevalence of bacteria causing atypical pneumonia in South Africa. Carrim is currently pursuing her PhD that focusses on understanding carriage and transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae through a community cohort study in South Africa. She is also working on determining aberrations in the nasopharyngeal microbiome in influenza positive individuals.
Furthermore, Carrim has been the involved in coordinating the molecular laboratory aspects of the Prospective Household Observational Cohort Study of SARS-CoV-2, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and other Respiratory Pathogens Community Burden and Transmission Dynamics in South Africa (The PHIRST study and PHIRST-C study).