Axelsson-Robertson, Rebecca; Loxton, Andre G.; Walzl, Gerhard; Ehlers, M.M. (Marthie Magdaleen); Kock, Marleen M.; Zumla, Alimuddin; Maeurer, Markus(Public Library of Science, 2013-03-26)
We studied major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I peptide-presentation and nature of the antigen-specific CD8+ Tcell
response from South African tuberculosis (TB) patients with active TB. 361 MHC class I binding ...
Mahomed, Hassan; Fourie, P. Bernard(Elsevier, 2012)
A new efficacious tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has the potential to dramatically assist control efforts for the global TB epidemic. Good progress has been made with the clinical development of new TB vaccine candidates with ...
INTRODUCTION: Most individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus-1, in the absence of antiretroviral
therapy, exhibit persistent virus replication and declining CD4+ cell numbers, and progress to acquired ...
Storm, Nadia; Kock, M.M.; Ehlers, M.M. (Marthie Magdaleen); Kruger, M.D.(Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa, 2012)
The hypervirulent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ribotype 027 strain of Clostridium difficile produces toxins A, B and a binary
toxin. Toxin detection kits are commonly used in diagnostic laboratories, but have been ...
Visser, Adele; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-01)
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection
has been estimated to cause 270 000 deaths
worldwide annually from cervical cancer
and approximately 80% of these occur in
resource-poor countries.1 In South Africa,
cervical cancer ...