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Browsing Health Sciences by UP Author "Peters, Remco P.H."
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Lilian, R.P.; Mutasa, B.; Railton, J.; Mongwe, W.; McIntyre, J.A.; Struthers, H.E.; Peters, Remco P.H. (Cambridge University Press, 2017-01)South Africa’s paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme is managed using a monitoring and evaluation tool known as TIER.Net. This electronic system has several advantages over paper-based systems, allowing ...
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Morikawa, E.; Mudau, M.; Olivier, D.; De Vos, L.; Davey, Dvora L. Joseph; Price, C.; McIntyre, J.A.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Klausner, J.D.; Medina-Marino, A. (Hindawi, 2018-05-09)BACKGROUND : Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) infections may increase the risk of vertical transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In resource-limited ...
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Kularatne, Ranmini S.; Niit, Ronelle; Rowley, Jane; Kufa-Chakezha, Tendesayi; Peters, Remco P.H.; Taylor, Melanie M.; Johnson, Leigh F.; Korenromp, Eline L. (Public Library of Science, 2018-10-15)OBJECTIVES : To estimate trends in prevalence and incidence of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in adult men and women in South Africa. METHODS : The Spectrum-STI tool estimated trends in prevalence and incidence of ...
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Schaftenaar, E.; Lecuona, K.A.; Baarsma, G.S.; Meenken, C.; Verjans, G.M.G.M.; McIntyre, J.A.; Peters, Remco P.H. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-08)Infectious uveitis is a significant cause of blindness in South Africa, especially among HIV-infected individuals. The visual outcome of uveitis depends on early clinical and laboratory diagnosis to guide therapeutic ...
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Maduna, Liteboho Daniel; Peters, Remco P.H.; Kingsburgh, C.; Strydom, K.A.; Kock, Marleen M. (SA MEDICAL ASSOC, 2021-10)BACKGROUND. Reports have emerged globally of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium infections. In South Africa (SA), there are substantial differences between private and public ...
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Maduna, Liteboho Daniel; Kock, Marleen M.; Van der Veer, Brian M.J.W.; Radebe, Oscar; McIntyre, James; Van Alphen, Lieke B.; Peters, Remco P.H. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-11)Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial drug resistance has emerged worldwide; however, the situation in sub-Saharan Africa is not well documented. We investigated the molecular epidemiology and occurrence of antimicrobial ...
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Juliana, Naomi C.A.; Suiters, Meghan J.M.; Al-Nasiry, Salwan; Morre, Servaas A.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Ambrosino, Elena (Frontiers Media, 2020-12)BACKGROUND: Previous studies have described the association between dysbiosis of the vaginal microbiota (VMB) and related dysbiotic conditions, such as bacterial vaginosis (BV) and aerobic vaginitis (AV), and various adverse ...
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Babalola, Chibuzor M.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Mukomana, Freedom; Mdingi, Mandisa; Gigi, Ranjana M.S.; Muzny, Christina A.; Taylor, Christopher M.; Medina-Marino, Andrew; Klausner, Jeffrey D (Oxford University Press, 2023-04)No abstract available.
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Peters, Remco P.H.; Kestelyn, Philippe G.; Zierhut, Manfred; Kempen, John H. (Taylor and Francis, 2020)PURPOSE : Overview of the evolving epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related ocular disease over time. METHOD : Narrative review. RESULTS : HIV enhances susceptibility to opportunistic eye infections, ...
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Peters, Remco P.H.; Doyle, Ronan; Redelinghuys, Mathys J.; McIntyre, James A.; Verjans, Georges M.; Judith Breuer; Kock, Martha Magdalena (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017-11)We detected Chlamydia trachomatis biovar L2 in vaginal swab specimens of 7 women with vaginal discharge in South Africa. Whole-genome sequencing directly from clinical specimens identified a closely related cluster of ...
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Schaftenaar, E.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Baarsma, G.S.; Meenken, C.; Khosa, N.S.; Getu, S.; McIntyre, J.A.; Osterhaus, A.D.M.E.; Verjans, G.M.G.M. (SpringerOpen Journal, 2016-05)The purpose of this investigation was to determine the clinical and corneal microbial profile of infectious keratitis in a high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence setting in rural South Africa. Data in this ...
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Ismail, Nabila; Peters, Remco P.H.; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Omar, Shaheed Vally (American Society for Microbiology, 2019-03)Six in vitro clofazimine-resistant spontaneous mutants obtained from a wild-type or pyrazinamide-resistant ATCC reference strain were selected to evaluate bedaquiline cross-resistance. The reverse was conducted for bedaquiline ...
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Ismail, Nabila; Omar, Shaheed Vally; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Peters, Remco P.H. (Elsevier, 2018-10)A comprehensive literature search was conducted to obtain previously published resistance associated mutations for bedaquiline, clofazimine and linezolid for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Where possible, mutation frequencies ...
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Hoffman, Charlotte M.; Fritz, Lise; Matlakala, Nthabiseng; Mbambazela, Nontembeko; Railton, Jean P.; McIntyre, James A.; Dubbink, Jan Henk; Peters, Remco P.H. (Wiley, 2019-08)OBJECTIVES : To determine the unmet need for care and barriers for consulting sexually transmitted infection (STI) services at six primary healthcare (PHC) facilities in rural South Africa. METHODS : Cross‐sectional study ...
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Goolam Mahomed, Tanweer; Peters, Remco P.H.; Pretorius, G.H.J.; Mahomed, A. Goolam; Ueckermann, Veronica; Kock, Marleen M.; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen (BioMed Central, 2021-08-18)BACKGROUND : Targeted metagenomics and IS-Pro method are two of the many methods that have been used to study the microbiome. The two methods target different regions of the 16 S rRNA gene. The aim of this study was to ...
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Juliana, Naomi C.A.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Al-Nasiry, Salwan; Budding, Andries E.; Morre, Servaas A.; Ambrosino, Elena (BioMed Central, 2021-09-03)BACKGROUND : The vaginal microbiota (VMB) are the set of microorganisms residing in the human vagina. During pregnancy, their composition is Lactobacillus-dominant in most Caucasian women. Previous studies suggest that the ...
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Jobson, Geoffrey A.; Naidoo, Nireshni; Matlakala, Nthabiseng; Marincowitzc, Gert; Railton, Jean; McIntyre, James A.; Struthers, Helen E.; Peters, Remco P.H. (Oxford University Press, 2020-07)BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are an essential cadre in the health systems of many low- and middle-income countries. These workers provide a wide variety of services and are key to ongoing processes of task ...
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Tshisevhe, V.S.; Mbelle, Nontombi Marylucy; Peters, Remco P.H. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-03-12)INTRODUCTION : Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) causes a significant burden of disease worldwide, especially among HIV-infected individuals and those with other immunosuppressive conditions. Cutaneous TB is an important ...
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Queiroz, Rafael de Pinho; Smit, Derrick P.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Vasconcelos-Santos, Daniel Vitor (Taylor and Francis, 2020)Syphilis and HIV infection may coexist in the same individual. Ocular syphilis and/or neurosyphilis may develop at any stage of coinfection, with a stronger association between ocular and neurosyphilis in individuals living ...
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Peters, Remco P.H.; McIntyre, James A.; Garrett, N.; Brink, Adrian J.; Celum, Connie L.; Bekker, Linda‑Gail (AOSIS, 2023-09-28)South Africa has a large burden of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with high rates among men who have sex with men (MSM). Randomised controlled trials have recently demonstrated high effectiveness of ...
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