Browsing by Author "Blumberg, Lucille Hellen"

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  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum and other Anaplasma spp. in various hosts in the Mnisi Community, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 
    Kolo, Agatha Onyemowo; Collins, Nicola E.; Brayton, Kelly A.; Chaisi, Mamohale E.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Frean, John; Gall, Cory A.; Wentzel, Jeanette Maria; Wills-Berriman, Samantha; De Boni, Liesl; Weyer, Jacqueline; Rossouw, Jennifer; Oosthuizen, Marinda C. (MDPI, 2020-11)
    DNA samples from 74 patients with non-malarial acute febrile illness (AFI), 282 rodents, 100 cattle, 56 dogs and 160 Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks were screened for the presence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA using a ...
  • Answer to Paredes et al. commenting on “COVID-19 vaccines under the International Health Regulations — we must use the WHO international certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis” 
    Petersen, Eskild; Lucey, Daniel; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Kramer, Laura D.; Al-Abri, Seif; Lee, Shui Shan; De Castro Abreu Pinto, Tatiana; Obiero, Christina W.; Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.; Yapi, Richard; Abubakar, Aisha; Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah; Holmes, Allison; Chen, Lin H. (Elsevier, 2021-02)
    No abstract available.
  • The burden of imported malaria in Gauteng Province 
    Weber, Ingrid Brigitte; Baker, Lee; Mnyaluza, Joy; Matjila, Maila J.; Barnes, Karen; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-05)
    OBJECTIVES: To describe the burden of malaria in Gauteng Province, and to identify potential risk factors for severe disease. DESIGN: We conducted a prospective survey of malaria cases diagnosed in hospitals throughout ...
  • A call to accelerate an end to human rabies deaths 
    Thumbi, S.M.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Le Roux, Kevin; Salahuddin, Naseem; Abela-Ridder, Bernadette (Elsevier, 2022-12)
    Every year, an estimated 59 000 vaccine-preventable deaths occur globally due to rabies. These deaths occur despite more than 100 years of existence of effective vaccines against rabies in humans and dogs, which serve as ...
  • Case management of malaria : treatment and chemoprophylaxis 
    Ukpe, I.S. (Indongesit Sunday); Moonasar, Devanand; Raman, Jaishree; Barnes, K.I.; Baker, Lee; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-10)
    Malaria case management is a vital component of programmatic strategies for malaria control and elimination. Malaria case management encompasses prompt and effective treatment to minimise morbidity and mortality, reduce ...
  • A case of human survival of rabies, South Africa 
    Weyer, Jacqueline; Msimang-Dermaux, Veerle; Paweska, Janusz T.; Le Roux, Kevin; Govender, Premi; Coertse, Jessica; Markotter, Wanda; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd, Taylor & Francis, and Informa business, 2016)
    Human survival from rabies is exceptionally rare. We report a case of human survival (with severe neurological sequelae) in a child from South Africa. The patient was exposed to rabid dogs on two separate occasions and ...
  • Clinical features and patient management of Lujo hemorrhagic fever 
    Sewlall, Nivesh H.; Richards, Guy A.; Duse, Adriano; Swanepoel, Robert; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Dinh, Thu-Ha; Bausch, Daniel (Public Library of Science, 2014-11-13)
    BACKGROUND : In 2008 a nosocomial outbreak of five cases of viral hemorrhagic fever due to a novel arenavirus, Lujo virus, occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lujo virus is only the second pathogenic arenavirus, after ...
  • The COVID-19 crisis in South Africa : protecting the vulnerable 
    Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, Waasila; Mendelson, Marc; Cohen, Cheryl (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-09)
    As of 3 July 2020, global cases of COVID-19 surpassed 10 million with over half a million deaths in more than 210 countries. South Africa (SA) too reached a milestone last week, recording a total of 100 000 laboratory-confirmed ...
  • COVID-19 hospital admissions and mortality among healthcare workers in South Africa, 2020–2021 
    Tlotleng, Nonhlanhla; Cohen, Cheryl; Made, Felix; Kootbodien, Tahira; Masha, Maureen; Naicker, Nisha; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, W. (Elsevier, 2022)
    OBJECTIVES : This study describes the characteristics of admitted HCWs reported to the DATCOV surveillance system, and the factors associated with in-hospital mortality in South African HCWs. METHODS : Data from March 5, ...
  • COVID-19 vaccines under the international health regulations – we must use the WHO international certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis 
    Petersen, Eskild; Lucey, Daniel; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Kramer, Laura D.; Al-Abri, Seif; Lee, Shui Shan; De Castro Abreu Pinto, Tatiana; Obiero, Christina W.; Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.; Yapi, Richard; Abubakar, Aisha; Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah; Holmes, Allison; Chen, Lin H. (Elsevier, 2021-01)
    The first vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have now received emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA) and national authorities in China, India, UK, and ...
  • Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever presenting with undiagnosed chronic myeloid leukaemia 
    Coetzee, Marius J.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Leman, Pat; Swanepoel, Robert; De Kock, Andre (Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd, Taylor and Francis, and Informa business, 2017)
    A patient with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) presented with a high white cell count and splenomegaly. Underlying chronic myeloid leukaemia was diagnosed. The management of this complex case was difficult, and ...
  • Decreased severity of disease during the first global Omicron variant COVID-19 outbreak in a large hospital in Tshwane, South Africa 
    Abdullah, Fareed; Myers, J.; Basu, Debashis; Tintinger, Gregory; Ueckermann, Veronica; Mathebula, M.; Ramlall, R.; Spoor, S.; De Villiers, T.; Van der Walt, Z.; Cloete, Jeane; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Rheeder, Paul; Paruk, Fathima; Engelbrecht, Adel; Lalloo, Vidya; Myburg, M.; Kistan, J.; Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, W.G. (Wesley); Boswell, Michael T.; Gray, G.; Welch, R.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, W. (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    INTRODUCTION : The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is a global pandemic that is threatening the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. To date there have been more ...
  • Detection of zoonotic bacterial pathogens in various hosts in the Mnisi community, Mpumalanga, South Africa using a microbiome sequencing approach 
    Kolo, Agatha Onyemowo; Collins, Nicola E.; Brayton, Kelly A.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Frean, John A.; Wentzel, Jeanette Maria; Gall, Cory A.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; University of Pretoria. Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; American Society for Rickettsiology. Meeting (30th : 2019) (2021)
    The Mnisi community, an agro pastoral area adjacent to the Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, is classified as one of South Africa's 14 rural poverty nodes. It is nestled at the cusp of a human-live ...
  • Effectiveness and knowledge, attitudes and practices of seasonal influenza vaccine in primary healthcare settings in South Africa, 2010-2013 
    McAnerney, Johanna M.; Walaza, Sibongile; Cohen, Adam L.; Tempia, Stefano; Buys, Amelia; Venter, Marietjie; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Duque, Jazmin; Cohen, Cheryl (Wiley, 2015-10)
    OBJECTIVES : Influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) and coverage data for sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. Using a test-negative case–control design, we estimated influenza VE annually among individuals with influenza-like ...
  • Effectiveness of 24‑h mobile reporting tool during a malaria outbreak in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 
    Davies, Craig; Graffy, Rebecca; Shandukani, Mbavhalelo; Baloyi, Ednah; Gast, Laura; Kok, Gerdalize; Mbokazi, Frans; Zita, Alpheus; Zwane, Mandla; Magagula, Ray; Mabuza, Aaron; Ramkrishna, Wayne; Morris, Natashia; Porteous, Jacqueline; Shirreff, George; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Misiani, Eunice; Moonasar, Devanand (BioMed Central, 2019-02-21)
    BACKGROUND : As surveillance is a key strategy for malaria elimination in South Africa, ensuring strong surveillance systems is a National Department of Health priority. Historically, real time tracking of case trends and ...
  • Epidemiologic investigations into outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever in humans, South Africa, 2008–2011 
    Archer, Brett N.; Thomas, Juno; Weyer, Jacqueline; Cengimbo, Ayanda; Landoh, Dadja E.; Jacobs, Charlene; Ntuli, Sindile; Modise, Motshabi; Mathonsi, Moshe; Mashishi, Morton S.; Leman, Patricia A.; Le Roux, C.A. (Chantel Anne); Jansen van Vuren, Petrus; Kemp, Alan; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013-12)
    Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging zoonosis posing a public health threat to humans in Africa. During sporadic RVF outbreaks in 2008–2009 and widespread epidemics in 2010–2011, 302 laboratory-confirmed human infections, ...
  • Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 1983-2007 
    Weyer, Jacqueline; Szmyd-Potapczuk, Anna Victoria; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Leman, Patricia A.; Markotter, Wanda; Swanepoel, Robert; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Nel, Louis Hendrik (Elsevier, 2011-01)
    Rabies remains a global public health problem but increasingly so in the developing world. Given a lack of awareness, priority and diagnostic capability, very few developing countries, especially in Africa, report on ...
  • Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 2008-2018 
    Weyer, Jacqueline; Dermaux-Msimang, V.; Grobbelaar, A.; Le Roux, C.; Moolla, Naazneen; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-09)
    BACKGROUND. Human rabies cases continue to be reported annually in South Africa (SA). Previous investigations have shown the association between the occurrence of human rabies cases and dog rabies cases in the ...
  • Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection and SARS-CoV-2 positive hospital admissions among children in South Africa 
    Kufa, Tendesayi; Jassat, Waasila; Cohen, Cheryl; Tempia, Stefano; Masha, Maureen; Wolter, Nicole; Walaza, Sibongile; Gottburg, Anne; Govender, Nelesh P.; Hunt, Gillian; Shonhiwa, Andronica Moipone; Ebonwu, Joy; Ntshoe, Genevie M.; Maruma, Wellington; Bapela, Poncho; Ndhlovu, Nomathamsanqa; Mathema, Hlengani; Modise, Motshabi; Shuping, Liliwe; Manana, Pinky N.; Moore, David R.; Dangor, Ziyaad; Verwey, Charl; Madhi, Shabir A.; Saloojee, Haroon; Zar, Heather J.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Wiley Open Access, 2022-01)
    INTRODUCTION : We describe epidemiology and outcomes of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and positive admissions among children <18 years in South Africa, an upper-middle income setting with high inequality. METHODS : ...
  • Evaluation of two influenza surveillance systems in South Africa 
    Budgell, Eric; Cohen, Adam L.; McAnerney, Johanna M.; Walaza, Sibongile; Madhi, Shabir A.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Dawood, Halima; Kahn, Kathleen; Tempia, Stefano; Venter, Marietjie; Chohen, Cheryl (Public Library of Science, 2015-03-30)
    BACKGROUND The World Health Organisation recommends outpatient influenza-like illness (ILI) and inpatient severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) surveillance. We evaluated two influenza surveillance systems in South ...