Mayaphi, Simnikiwe Horatious; Brauer, Marieke; Morobadi, Daniel M.; Mazanderani, Ahmad Haeri; Mafuyeka, Rendani T.; Olorunju, Steve A.S.; Tintinger, Gregory Ronald; Stoltz, Anton Carel(Public Library of Science, 2014-04-03)
BACKGROUND : Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is associated with severe diseases in immunosuppressed patients; however,
there is a lack of data for pre-emptive therapy in patients with HIV/AIDS.
METHOD : This was a ...
Assays that detect p24 antigen reduce the diagnostic window period of HIV testing. Most point-of-care HIV assays have poor sensitivity to diagnose acute HIV infection as they only detect antibodies against
HIV-1 and HIV-2 ...
Brauer, Marieke; Wolfaardt, Marianne; Webber, Lynne M.; Taylor, Maureen B.(Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd and Cogent, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)
The study aimed to determine the presence of mumps virus (MuV) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens and to genetically
characterise detected MuV strains. A real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction ...
