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Evaluating the BED capture enzyme immunoassay to estimate HIV incidence among adults in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa

Kim, A. A.; McDougal, J. S.; Hargrove, J.; Rehle, T.; Pillay-Van Wyk, V.; Puren, A.; Ekra, A.; Borget-Alloue, M. Y.; Adje-Toure, C.; Abdullahi, A. S.; Odawo, L.; Marum, L.; Parekh, B. S. (2010)

Serological assays for estimating HIV-1 incidence are prone to misclassification, limiting the accuracy of the incidence estimate. Adjustment factors have been developed and recommended for estimating assay-based HIV-1 ...

Comparison of two active case-finding strategies for community-based diagnosis of symptomatic smear-positive tuberculosis and control of infectious tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe (DETECTB): A cluster-randomised trial

Corbett E.L.; Bandason T.; Duong T.; Dauya E.; Makamure B.; Churchyard G.J.; Williams B.G.; Munyati S.S.; Butterworth A.E.; Mason P.R.; Mungofa S.; Hayes R.J. (2010)

Background Control of tuberculosis in settings with high HIV prevalence is a pressing public health priority. We tested two active case-finding strategies to target long periods of infectiousness before diagnosis, which ...

Myocilin mutations in black South Africans with POAG

Whigham B.T.; Williams S.E.I.; Liu Y.; Rautenbach R.M.; Carmichae T.R.; Wheeler J.; Ziskind A.; Qin X.; Schmidt S.; Ramsay M.; Hauser M.A.; Rand Allingham R. (2011)

Human gene expression profiles of susceptibility and resistance in tuberculosis

Maertzdorf J.; Repsilber D.; Parida S.K.; Stanley K.; Roberts T.; Black G.; Walzl G.; Kaufmann S.H.E. (2011)

Xpert MTB/RIF for rapid diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis from fine-needle-aspiration biopsy specimens

Ligthelm L.J.; Nicol M.P.; Hoek K.G.P.; Jacobson R.; Van Helden P.D.; Marais B.J.; Warren R.M.; Wright C.A. (2011)

Symptoms of depression and anxiety among a sample of South African patients living with HIV

Kagee A.; Martin L. (2010)

Little systematic research has been conducted on the extent of psychiatric disorders among South African patients in general, and among patients living with HIV in particular. The present study reports on a survey conducted ...

Should SPECT-CT replace SPECT for the evaluation of equivocal bone scan lesions in patients with underlying malignancies?

Ndlovu X.; George R.; Ellmann A.; Warwick J. (2010)

INTRODUCTION: Bone scintigraphy is used extensively in evaluating metastatic disease. There are currently no clear recommendations for the use of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT in metastatic bone ...

High mortality from respiratory failure secondary to swine-origin influenza a (h1n1) in south africa

Koegelenberg C.F.N.; Irusen E.M.; Cooper R.; Diacon A.H.; Taljaard J.J.; Mowlana A.; Von Groote-Bidlingmaier F.; Bolliger C.T. (2010)

Background: The novel influenza A (H1N1) pandemic affected South Africa late during the 2009 Southern hemisphere winter and placed an extra burden on a health care system already dealing with a high prevalence of chronic ...

Rapid intrapartum or postpartum HIV testing at a midwife obstetric unit and a district hospital in South Africa

Theron G.B.; Shapiro D.E.; Van Dyke R.; Cababasay M.P.; Louw J.; Watts D.H.; Smith E.; Bulterys M.; Maupin R. (2011)

Objective: To compare the prepartum and postpartum feasibility and acceptance of voluntary counseling and rapid testing (VCT) among women with unknown HIV status in South Africa. Methods: Eligible women were randomized ...

Time to detection of the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in MGIT 960 for determining the early bactericidal activity of antituberculosis agentsTime to detection of the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in MGIT 960 for determining the early bactericidal activity of antituberculosis agents

Diacon A.H.; Maritz J.S.; Venter A.; Van Helden P.D.; Andries K.; McNeeley D.F.; Donald P.R.; Diacon A.H.; Maritz J.S.; Venter A.; Van Helden P.D.; Andries K.; McNeeley D.F.; Donald P.R. (2010)

Evaluation of early bactericidal activity (EBA) by the determination of a fall in viable colony-forming units (CFU) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum is a first step in the clinical study of new antituberculosis ...