ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The emergence and re-emergence of viral human pathogens from wildlife sources in the recent past has led to increased studies and surveillance of wildlife for potentially zoonotic agents in order to gain ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Chronic HIV-1 infection is characterized by extensive inflammation/immune activation and also by anaemia. Macrophages and neutrophils produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) which can cause damage to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The HIV epidemic in the past couple of decades has spread at an alarming rate throughout Southern Africa. Today the region accounts for roughly one third of all HIV infections, while prevalence rates in ...
Criteria that define low positive results on the COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan (CAP/CTM) HIV-
1 Qual test as inconclusive have been adopted by all academic centres in South Africa that conduct
infant HIV PCR, following ...
Oosthuysen, Wilhelm Frederick(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Numerous studies conducted internationally have identified and described several endemic methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) clones. However, only some of these clones are associated with ...
Van Zyl, Gert U.Liu, Tommy F.Claassen, MathildaEngelbrecht, SusanDe Oliveira, TulioPreiser, WolfgangWood, Natasha T.Travers, SimonShafer, Robert W.(Public Library of Science -- PLoS, 2013-06)
Objectives: South Africa’s national antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program expanded in 2010 to include the nucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors (NRTI) tenofovir (TDF) for adults and abacavir (ABC) for children. ...
Adu, BrightDodoo, DanielAdukpo, Selorme.Gyan, Ben A.Hedley, Paula L.Goka, BamenlaAdjei, George O.Larsen, Severin O.Christiansen, MichaelTheisen, Michael(PLOS, 2011-12)
Background: Cerebral malaria (CM) is the most severe outcome of Plasmodium falciparum infection and a major cause of
death in children from 2 to 4 years of age. A hospital based study in Ghana showed that P. falciparum ...
The diversity of HIV-1 sequences derived from patients in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, was investigated. The gag p24, pol p10 and p66/p51, pol p31 and env gp41 gene fragments from 51 patients were amplified and sequenced. ...
The efficiency in which HIV-1 can infect, spread and evade the attack of therapeutic
agents can be attributed to a high mutation rate and frequent recombination events.
These factors have collectively contributed to the ...
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s worst HIV-AIDS affected region. More interventions to manage this
pandemic are urgently required. Transmission of the virus through an exchange of saliva is rarely known to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite the availability of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination for over three decades, this infection remains a major public health problem. Whilst the WHO recommends giving a birth dose of the vaccine, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction
Acute respiratory tract infections cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, and are
the main reason for the utilisation of health care services. Identifying the aetiological ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunisation protocols in much of Africa are based on data from the pre-human immunodeficiency virus (pre-HIV) era that indicated that HBV transmission occurs predominantly ...
Van Zyl, Gert Uves(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Since the South African public sector antiretroviral roll-out programme started in 2004, the success of antiretroviral combination therapy (cART) has been experienced in terms of survival, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: The conventional sequence analysis is the most common method used for the detection of drug-resistant mutants. Due to its sensitivity limitations, it is unable to detect these mutants when ...
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended guidelines for a HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) survey for resource-limited countries. Eligibility criteria for patients include age below 25 years in order to ...
Mare, J. B.Keyzer, C. M. J.Becker, W. B.(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 1978-10)
Four cases of traumatic Herpesvirus hominis infection of the skin sustained during rugby are described. Attention is drawn to the importance of Herpesvirus infection of the eye, both primary and secondary, whether from ...
Van Greune, C. H. J.Bouic, P. J. D.(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 1990 - 08)
To the Editor: The chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a clinical
entity characterised by chronic fluctuating fatigue associated-with
a multitude of related symptoms, which may vary between
patients. It is of unknown ...