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  • Fighting COVID-19 pandemic fatigue and complacency in Zimbabwe 
    Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa; Madziva, Roda; Murewanhema, Grant; Musuka, Godfrey; Chingombe, Innocent; Herrera, Helena; Chiyaka, Edward Tapfumaneyi; Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa (Elsevier, 2022-06)
    As COVID-19 continues to threaten local and global health, there are increased reports that the protracted COVID-19 pandemic is causing pandemic fatigue throughout the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines ...
  • FIGO has revised the staging of carcinoma of the vulva 
    Lindeque, B. Gerhard (Open Journals Systems, 2010)
    Cancers are staged to allow for standardised terminology, appropriate prognosis, and worldwide communication. Therapeutic guidelines often flow from staging data. FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and ...
  • Filgrastim biosimilar (EP2006) : a review of 15 years’ post-approval evidence 
    Gascón, Pere; Harbeck, Nadia; Rapoport, Bernardo Leon; Anderson, Ronald; Brueckmann, Ines; Howe, Sebastian; Aapro, Matti (Elsevier, 2024-04)
    Filgrastim is approved for several indications, including reduction of the incidence and duration of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and for stem cell mobilization. The filgrastim biosimilar, EP2006, has been available ...
  • Filovirus RefSeq entries : evaluation and selection of Filovirus type variants, type sequences, and names 
    Kuhn, Jens H.; Andersen, Kristian G.; Bao, Yiming M.; Bavari, Sina; Becker, Stephan; Bennett, Richard S.; Bergman, Nicholas H.; Blinkova, Olga; Bradfute, Steven; Brister, J. Rodney; Bukreyev, Alexander A.; Chandran, Kartik; Chepurnov, Alexander A.; Davey, Robert A.; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Doggett, Norman A.; Dolnik, Olga; Dye, John M.; Enterlein, Sven; Fenimore, Paul W.; Formenty, Pierre; Freiberg, Alexander N.; Garry, Robert F.; Garza, Nicole L.; Gire, Stephen K.; Gonzalez, Jean-Paul; Griffiths, Anthony; Happi, Christian T.; Hensley, Lisa E.; Herbert, Andrew S.; Hevey, Michael C.; Hoenen, Thomas; Honko, Anna N.; Ignatyev, Georgy M.; Jahrling, Peter B.; Johnson, Joshua C.; Johnson, Karl M.; Kindrachuk, Jason; Klenk, Hans-Dieter; Kobinger, Gary; Kochel, Tadeusz J.; Lackemeyer, Matthew G.; Lackner, Daniel F.; Leroy, Eric M.; Lever, Mark S.; Muhlberger, Elke; Netesov, Sergey V.; Olinger, Gene G.; Omilabu, Sunday A.; Palacios, Gustavo; Panchal, Rekha G.; Park, Daniel J.; Patterson, Jean L.; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Peters, Clarence J.; Pettitt, James; Pitt, Louise; Radoshitzky, Sheli R.; Ryabchikova, Elena I.; Saphire, Erica Ollmann; Sabeti, Pardis C.; Sealfon, Rachel; Shestopalov, Aleksandr M.; Smither, Sophie J.; Sullivan, Nancy J.; Swanepoel, Robert; Takada, Ayato; Towner, Jonathan S.; Van der Groen, Guido; Volchkov, Viktor E.; Volchkova, Valentina A.; Wahl-Jensen, Victoria; Warren, Travis K.; Warfield, Kelly L.; Weidmann, Manfred; Nichol, Stuart T. (MDPI Publishing, 2014)
    Sequence determination of complete or coding-complete genomes of viruses is becoming common practice for supporting the work of epidemiologists, ecologists, virologists, and taxonomists. Sequencing duration and costs are ...
  • Final-year medical students need to know their future supervisory role of clinical associates 
    Koortzen, Michiel; Biggs, Lourens W.; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Turner, A.C. (Astrid); Bac, Martin; Volpe, Mark (Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd and Cogent, Taylor and Francis Group, 2020-07-16)
    BACKGROUND : A clinical associate (ClinA) is a mid-level health professional who may only practise under the supervision of a medical doctor. By extension, medical students need to be prepared for this responsibility. ...
  • Fine mapping on chromosome 13q32-34 and brain expression analysis implicates MYO16 in schizophrenia 
    Rodriguez-Murillo, Laura; Xu, Bin; Roos, J.L. (Johannes Louw); Abecasis, G.R.; Gogos, Joseph A.; Karayiorgou, Maria (Nature Publishing Group, 2014-03)
    We previously reported linkage of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder to 13q32–34 in the European descent Afrikaner population from South Africa. The nature of genetic variation underlying linkage peaks in psychiatric ...
  • A fire extinguisher death : the Macklin effect 
    Blumenthal, Ryan; Hänert-van der Zee, Brigitte (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018-06)
    We present the case of an adult white man found dead in a psychiatric institution with fine white powder (monoammonium phosphate) deposited over the entire face after he insufflated the contents of a dry chemical fire ...
  • First ancient mitochondrial human genome from a prepastoralist Southern African 
    Morris, Alan G.; Heinze, Anja; Chan, Eva K.F.; Smith, Andrew B.; Hayes, Vanessa M. (Oxford University Press (open Access), 2014-09)
    The oldest contemporary human mitochondrial lineages arose in Africa. The earliest divergent extant maternal offshoot, namely haplogroup L0d, is represented by click-­‐speaking forager peoples of ...
  • The first animals : ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia 
    Brain, Charles Kimberlin (Bob); Prave, Anthony R.; Hoffmann, Karl-Heinz; Fallick, Anthony E.; Botha, Andre; Herd, Donald A.; Sturrock, Craig; Young, Iain; Condon, Daniel J.; Allison, Stuart G. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2012-01-18)
    One of the most profound events in biospheric evolution was the emergence of animals, which is thought to have occurred some 600–650 Ma. Here we report on the discovery of phosphatised body fossils that we interpret as ...
  • First detection of human sapoviruses in river water in South Africa 
    Murray, Tanya Y.; Mans, Janet; Taylor, Maureen B. (IWA Publishing, 2013)
    Over a 2-year period, from January 2009 to December 2010, water samples were collected from three rivers (Klip, Rietspruit and Suikerbosrand) in the Vaal River System, South Africa. Enteric viruses were recovered by a ...
  • First episode schizophrenia 
    Khamker, Nadira (MedPharm Publications, 2015)
    Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric condition. Patients with schizophrenia present clinically with psychotic, negative and cognitive symptoms, which can become evident late in adolescence or in early adulthood. The ...
  • First molecular identification of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in continental Portugal 
    Ferreira, Catia Alexandra Costa; Mixao, Veronica de Pinho; Novo, Maria Teresa Lourenco Marques; Calado, Maria Manuela Palmeiro; Goncalves, Luzia Augusta Pires; Belo, Silvia Maria Duarte; De Almeida, Antonio Paulo Gouveia (BioMed Central, 2015-03-03)
    BACKGROUND : Canine dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria immitis is known to be endemic in continental Portugal. However, information about the transmitting mosquito species is still scarce, with only Culex theileri identified ...
  • First population-level effectiveness evaluation of a national programme to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child, South Africa 
    Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Dinh, Thu-Ha; Jackson, Debra J.; Lombard, Carl; Delaney, Kevin P.; Puren, Adrian; Sherman, Gayle G.; Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Ramokolo, Vundli; Crowley, Siobhan; Doherty, Tanya; Chopra, Mickey; Shaffer, Nathan; Pillay, Yogan (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015-03)
    BACKGROUND : There is a paucity of data on the national population-level effectiveness of preventing mother-tochild transmission (PMTCT) programmes in high-HIVprevalence, resource-limited settings. We assessed national ...
  • The first presentation of cardiovascular disease 
    Ker, James A. (New Media Publishing, 2016-10)
    For decades there has been an emphasis on the first presentation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as a myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke and subsequently the effort in prevention was on these two conditions. This strategy ...
  • First report of a complete genome sequence for a begomovirus infecting Jatropha gossypifolia in the Americas 
    Simmonds-Gordon, R.N.; Collins-Fairclough, A.M.; Stewart, C.S.; Roye, M.E. (Springer, 2014-10)
    Jatropha gossypifolia is a weed that is commonly found with yellow mosaic symptoms growing along the roadside and in close proximity to cultivated crops in many farming communities in Jamaica. For the first time, the ...
  • First report of a whole-genome shotgun sequence of a clinical Enterococcus faecalis sequence type 6 strain from South Africa 
    Mbelle, Nontombi Marylucy; Maningi, Nontuthuko Excellent; Tshisevhe, V.S.; Modipane, Lesedi; Amoako, Daniel Gyamfi; Sekyere, John Osei (American Society for Microbiology, 2017-12-14)
    Enterococcus faecalis is a lactic acid-producing Gram-positive bacterium commonly found in the intestinal tract of humans and animals; it is implicated in multidrug-resistant nosocomial infections. The draft genome of ...
  • First report of blaIMP-14 on a plasmid harboring multiple drug resistance genes in Escherichia coli sequence type 131 
    Stoesser, Nicole; Sheppard, Anna E.; Peirano, Gisele; Sebra, Robert; Lynch, Tarah; Anson, Luke; Kasarskis, Andrew; Motyl, Mary R.; Crook, Derrick W.; Pitout, Johann D.D. (American Society for Microbiology, 2016-08)
    The blaIMP-14 carbapenem resistance gene has largely previously been observed in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. As part of global surveillance and sequencing of carbapenem-resistant E. coli, we identified ...
  • First report of the concentrations and implications of DDT residues in chicken eggs from a malaria-controlled area 
    Bouwman, Hindrik; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); Van Dyk, Cobus; Barnhoorn, Irene E.J. (Elsevier, 2015-10)
    In malaria-endemic areas, where DDT is still used for vector control by indoor residual spraying (IRS), the concentrations of DDT in human blood and breast milk are high, and there are indications of human health impacts. ...
  • First results of universal SARS-CoV-2 virus testing of asymptomatic pregnant patients presenting for antenatal care at the Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital 
    Snyman, Leon Cornelius; Molokoane, Felicia; Seopela, L.; Mopane, N.; Mojela, M. (In House Publications, 2020)
    BACKGROUND : The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has reached the stage of community spread in South Africa. Asymptomatic carriers have been reported amongst pregnant women. Against this background, a ...
  • The first year of life of the Johannesburg Bantu 
    Griffiths, Joan (South African Medical Association, 1960-11-26)
    No abstract available.