- UPSpace Home
- →
- Health Sciences
- →
- Medical Microbiology
- →
- Recent submissions
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Medical Microbiology: Recent submissions
Now showing items 121-140 of 426
-
(Elsevier, 2021-11)Spinal epidural abscess caused by Aspergillus spp is a debilitating form of invasive aspergillosis that can easily be misdiagnosed as spinal tuberculosis due to shared risk factors and clinical features. In this Grand ...
-
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-04)No abstract available.
-
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-02)BACKGROUND. Pneumococcal carriage studies provide a baseline for measuring the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). The advent of conjugate vaccines has led to reductions in vaccine serotypes (VTs) in ...
-
(Elsevier, 2021-08)BACKGROUND : Current tuberculosis treatments leave patients with clinically significant lung injury and increased all-cause mortality post-cure. Adjunctive host-directed therapies could protect the lungs, improve long-term ...
-
Indicator-focussed technical assistance in South Africa’s HIV programme : a stepped-wedge evaluation (AOSIS, 2021-06-15)BACKGROUND : There is a lack of research on technical assistance (TA) interventions in low- and middle-income countries. Variation in local contexts requires tailor-made approaches to TA that are structured and replicable ...
-
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021-08)OBJECTIVE : STIs during pregnancy increase adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes and may increase HIV risk. STI syndromic management is standard of care in South Africa. Our study evaluated the prevalence and incidence of ...
-
(American Society for Microbiology, 2021-12-22)Escherichia coli is a leading cause of community-acquired and health careassociated bloodstream infections (BSIs) worldwide. Limited information is available regarding the changes in population dynamics of human E. coli ...
-
(Elsevier, 2021-08)Bedaquiline, a novel therapeutic drug, and clofazimine, a re-purposed drug, are front-line therapies recommended by WHO to treat rifampicin-resistant or multidrugresistant tuberculosis. Both drugs have been in use ...
-
(Wiley, 2022-03)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a public health threat globally. Carbapenems are β-lactam antibiotics used as last-resort agents for treating antibiotic-resistant infections. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play an important ...
-
(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-02-22)Patients who complete a standard course of anti-tuberculous treatment (ATT) for pulmonary tuberculosis and are declared cured according to the current standard of care commonly have residual metabolic activity (RMA) in ...
-
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021-12)Shuni virus is associated with neurologic and febrile illness in animals and humans. To determine potential vectors, we collected mosquitoes in South Africa and detected the virus in species of the genera Mansonia, Culex, ...
-
(BMC, 2022-03)BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during pregnancy may increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. STI syndromic management is standard of care in South Africa but has its limitations. We evaluated ...
-
(Oxford University Press, 2021-08)We read with interest the article by Theron et al. on their post hoc analysis of the Promoting Maternal and Infant Survival Everywhere (PROMISE) 1077BF/1077FF trials. They found an increased incidence of low birth-weight ...
-
(Microbiology Society, 2021-06)INTRODUCTION : Colistin is one of the last-resort antibiotics for treating multidrug-resistant (MDR) or extensively drug-resistant (XDR) lactose non-fermenting Gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and ...
-
(American Society for Microbiology, 2021)Treatment outcomes among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients receiving ethambutol, cycloserine, or terizidone as part of a standardized regimen were compared, determining occurrence of serious adverse drug ...
-
(Elsevier, 2021-09)OBJECTIVES : Globally, the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis (TB) are declining; however, low detection of drug-resistant disease threatens to reverse current progress toward global TB control. Multiple rapid molecular ...
-
(Wiley, 2022-01)The emergence of polymyxin resistance, due to transferable mcr genes, threatens public and animal health as there are limited therapeutic options. As polymyxin is one of the last-line antibiotics, there is a need to ...
-
(Public Library of Science, 2021-07)Sepsis and septic shock are key contributors to mortality in critically ill patients and thus prompt recognition and management thereof is central to achieving improved patient outcomes. Early initiation of appropriate ...
-
(Springer, 2022)This study was designed to characterize extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)–producing extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (E.coli) (ExPEC) associated with urinary tract infections in nine different geographic ...
-
(University of Pretoria, 2015)Genetic typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae is used for epidemiological referencing. In the clinical setting it can be useful in outbreak investigations, understanding transmission and managing hospital infections. Multi-drug ...
Now showing items 121-140 of 426