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Pillay, Tahir
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013)
The editorial ‘No schools for medical editors’ struck a
personal chord. The lot of the journal editor can indeed be lonely. The
challenge of dealing with the manuscripts of colleagues, friends and
associates is often ...
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Bam, Nomonde; Marcus, Tessa S.; Hugo, J.F.M. (Jannie); Kinkel, Hans-Friedemann
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-02-22)
Health sector reforms initiated in South Africa in 1994 adopted a primary health care approach
to strengthen the health system and achieve public health outcomes through disease prevention
and health promotion.1 This led ...
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Mudau, Maanda; Jacobson, Rachael; Minenza, Nadia; Kuonza, Lazarus; Morris, Vida; Engelbrecht, Heather; Nicol, Mark P.; Bamford, Colleen
(Public Library of Science, 2013-03-14)
OBJECTIVE: To describe an outbreak of multi-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infections (MRPA-BSI) that
occurred in the haematology ward of a tertiary academic hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and determine ...
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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 ...
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Jacobson, B.F.; Louw, S.; Buller, H.; Mer, M.; De Jong, P.R.; Rowji, P.; Schapkaitz, E.; Adler, D.; Beeton, A.; Hsu, H-C.; Wessels, P.F.; Haas, S.
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-04)
BACKGROUND: Pharmacological prophylactic anticoagulation in many countries, including South Africa, is under-prescribed. This has
resulted in unacceptable rates of morbidity and mortality.
METHOD: The Southern African ...