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38 years after its discovery, Ebola virus spins out of control
(South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), 2014-09)The evolutionary origin of Ebolaviruses is not very clear. The simple notion that these viruses have been circulating for many millennia in wildlife in tropical parts of Africa, occasionally spilling over into human ... -
Aberrant in vitro HLA-DR expression in patients with chronic fatigue
(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 ... -
Academic publishing in pandemic times
(ASSAf, 2020-09-21)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Even though it tends to feel like ages, it has not been that long since the final days of 2019, when cases of severe respiratory illness (now known as COVID-19), caused by a previously unknown coronavirus ... -
Analyses of HIV-1 integrase sequences prior to South African national HIV-treatment program and availability of integrase inhibitors in Cape Town, South Africa
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: HIV-Integrase (IN) has proven to be a viable target for highly specific HIV-1 therapy. We aimed to characterize the HIV-1 IN gene in a South African context and identify resistance-associated mutations ... -
Analysis of viral diversity in relation to the recency of HIV-1C infection in Botswana
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Cross-sectional, biomarker methods to determine HIV infection recency present a promising and cost-effective alternative to the repeated testing of uninfected individuals. We evaluate a viral-based assay ... -
Anti-HIV-1 activity of salivary MUC5B and MUC7 mucins from HIV patients with different CD4 counts
(BioMed Central, 2010-10)Background: We have previously shown that MUC5B and MUC7 mucins from saliva of HIV negative individuals inhibit HIV-1 activity by 100% in an in vitro assay. The purpose of this subsequent study was to investigate whether ... -
Antibody responses to vaccination among South African HIV-exposed and unexposed uninfected infants during the first 2 years of life
(American Society for Microbiology, 2013-01)HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) infants born to HIV-infected mothers from areas in the world with a high burden of infectious disease suffer higher infectious morbidity and mortality than their HIV unexposed uninfected ... -
The apoptotic potential of different HIV-1 subtype C Tat mutations in cell culture
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)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 ... -
B lymphocyte activation and exhaustion in chronic HIV : novel surrogate markers of generalised immune activation and selective modulation of aberrant B cell responses using vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Chronic HIV-1 infection is characterized by immune activation and dysregulation of immune homeostasis, which impacts on multiple immune cell types. The B-cell compartment, which plays an ... -
Barriers to HIV remission research in low- and middle-income countries
(Wiley Open Access, 2017)Introduction: HIV eradication and remission research has largely taken place in high-income countries. In low- and middleincome countries (LMIC), there may be factors that have a substantial impact on the size of the ... -
Barriers to VCT despite 13 years of community-based awareness campaigns in a peri-urban township in northern Limpopo
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Bimodal distribution and set point HBV DNA viral loads in chronic infection : retrospective analysis of cohorts from the UK and South Africa
(Wellcome Open Research, 2020-10-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) viral load (VL) is used as a biomarker to assess risk of disease progression, and to determine eligibility for treatment. While there is a well recognised association between VL ... -
Biomedical research and capacity building : bilateral collaboration between research institutes in South Africa and Cameroon
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Blood dendritic cells in chronically HIV-1 infected individuals in South Africa: Phenotype, function and immune modulation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT :HIV-1 infection detrimentally affects CD4 T lymphocytes as well as the blood plasmacytoid (pDC) and myeloid dendritic cell (mDC) compartment. DCs act as innate sensors and as initiators and directors ... -
Candida species : species distribution and antifungal susceptibility patterns
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The characterisation and expression of HIV-1 subtype C gag
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The gag gene of HIV-1 encodes for one of the major structural proteins, which contains several conserved cytotoxic T cell (CTL) epitopes. Gag specific CTL responses are important in controlling viral ... -
Characterisation of new full-length HIV-1 subtype D viruses from South Africa
(2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first episode of HIV-1 in South Africa was documented in 1982. Homosexual transmission of the virus was the predominate mode of transmission in an epidemic of mainly HIV-1 subtype Band D infections. ... -
Characterisation of the HIV-1 subtype C Env gene and the expression of the Env protein from selected isolates in mammalian cells
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: At the end of 2002, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had infected 42 million people worldwide. The morbidity and mortality rate, as well as the epidemic proportions of the disease have led to ... -
Characterization of HIV-1 subtype B near full-length genome sequences identified at the start of HIV epidemic in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: South Africa is home to approximately 20.0% of the global Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected population. The first reported cases of HIV-1 in the country were described in 1982 amongst the homosexual ... -
Characterization of the persisting HIV-1 reservoir in early treated children on long-term suppressive ARV regimens
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)Introduction: The major barrier to curing HIV-1 infection is a latent reservoir of long-lived, replication-competent proviruses that persists despite suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART). Initiating ART during acute ...
