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Poverty undermines the adherence of patients to tuberculosis treatment. A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the extent to which ...
Maduna, Simo NRossouw, CharnéRoodt-Wilding, RouvayBester-van der Merwe, Aletta E(2014-06)
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Similarly to the rest of the world, southern Africa’s diverse chondrichthyan fauna is currently experiencing high fishing pressures from direct and non-direct ...
Kidd, Jeffrey MSharpton, Thomas JBobo, DeanNorman, Paul JMartin, Alicia RCarpenter, Meredith LSikora, MartinGignoux, Christopher RNemat-Gorgani, NedaAdams, AlexandraGuadalupe, MoraimaGuo, XiaosenFeng, QiangLi, YingruiLiu, XiaoParham, PeterHoal, Eileen GFeldman, Marcus WPollard, Katherine SWall, Jeffrey DBustamante, Carlos DHenn, Brenna M(BioMed Central, 2014-04)
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Targeted capture of genomic regions reduces sequencing cost while generating higher coverage by allowing biomedical researchers to focus on specific loci of interest, ...
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Integrated team-based primary care is an international imperative. This is required more so in Africa, where fragmented verticalised care dominates. South Africa is trying ...
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L-Lactic acid, one of the most important chiral molecules and organic acids, is produced via pyruvate from carbohydrates in diverse microorganisms catalyzed by an NAD+-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase. ...
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Little is known on the short-term or medium-term psychological
and psychiatric sequelae following Stevens
Johnson syndrome (SJS), toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)
and drug reaction with eosinophilia and ...
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The epidemiology of Burkitt Lymphoma (BL) shows that the endemic type is mainly confined to equatorial Africa and has a very close association with the Epstein-Barr ...
Mihret, AdaneLoxton, Andre GBekele, YonasKaufmann, Stefan HEKidd, MartinHaks, Mariëlle COttenhoff, Tom HMAseffa, AbrahamHowe, RawleighWalzl, Gerhard(BioMed Central, 2014-05)
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Genetic factors are involved in susceptibility or protection to tuberculosis (TB). Apart from gene polymorphisms and mutations, changes in levels of gene expression, ...
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Emergency healthcare workers, including trainees and individuals in related occupations are at
heightened risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression owing to work-related ...
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The early contributions of childhood trauma (emotional, physical, sexual, and general) have been hypothesized to play a significant role in the development of anxiety ...
"Exile" is always the narrative of one person or entity, an "I" or an "us". Therefore we speak not of "exiles" (the condition, that is), but of "exile". It is not that exile cannot be other than its volatile laws of ...
Muller, Stephanus(Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, 2010)
Before he was being invented by others, or started imagining himself in
autobiographical texts, he was creating new names for himself. Born Jan
Gysbert Hugo Bosman on 24 February 1882, the first of these names was ...
Muller, Stephanus(The Musical Times Publications Ltd, 2011)
SEVENTEEN YEARS after the first democratic elections in South Africa
in 1994, radical voices in the country are asking the question: to what
extent does the South Africa of 2011 display more continuities than
discontinuities ...
Op 19 Augustus 2004 het die Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes onder Ieiding van die Amerikaanse dirigent Leslie B. Dunner vir die eerste keer Hendrik Hofmeyr se Sinfonia
Africana uitgevoer in die Kaapstadse stadsaal. Die simfonie ...
Botman, H. RusselBotman, Beryl(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-07)
How we respond to poverty is a question that is faced not just by us in Africa, but by societies everywhere, including Scotland. No country is exempt, as we have seen in the wake of the recent World Financial Crisis. The ...