Browsing Health Sciences by Author "Haffejee, Summaya"

Browsing Health Sciences by Author "Haffejee, Summaya"

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  • Epidemiology of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) among adults and children aged 5 years in a high HIV-prevalence Setting, 2009–2012 
    Cohen, Cheryl; Walaza, Sibongile; Moyes, Jocelyn; Groome, Michelle; Tempia, Stefano; Pretorius, Marthi Andréa; Hellferscee, Orienka; Dawood, Halima; Haffejee, Summaya; Variava, Ebrahim; Kahn, Kathleen; Tshangela, Akhona; Von Gottberg, Anne; Wolter, Nicole; Cohen, Adam L.; Kgokong, Babatyi; Venter, Marietjie; Madhi, Shabir A. (Public Library of Science, 2015-02-23)
    OBJECTIVE There are few published studies describing severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) epidemiology amongst older children and adults from high HIV-prevalence settings. We aimed to describe SARI epidemiology amongst ...
  • Epidemiology of viral-associated acute lower respiratory tract infection among children < 5 years of age in a high HIV prevalence setting, South Africa, 2009-2012 
    Cohen, Cheryl; Walaza, Sibongile; Moyes, Jocelyn; Groome, Michelle; Tempia, Stefano; Pretorius, Marthi Andréa; Hellferscee, Orienka; Dawood, Halima; Chhagan, Meera; Naby, Fathima; Haffejee, Summaya; Variava, Ebrahim; Kahn, Kathleen; Nzenze, Susan; Tshangela, Akhona; Von Gottberg, Anne; Wolter, Nicole; Cohen, Adam L.; Kgokong, Babatyi; Venter, Marietjie; Madhi, Shabir A. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015-01)
    BACKGROUND : Data on the epidemiology of viral-associated acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) from high HIV prevalence settings are limited. We aimed to describe LRTI hospitalizations among South African children ...
  • Genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of human rhinoviruses in South Africa 
    Pretorius, Marthi Andréa; Tempia, Stefano; Treurnicht, Florette K.; Walaza, Sibongile; Cohen, Adam L.; Moyes, Jocelyn; Hellferscee, Orienka; Variava, Ebrahim; Dawood, Halima; Chhagan, Meera; Haffejee, Summaya; Madhi, Shabir A.; Cohen, Cheryl; Venter, Marietjie (Wiley, 2014-07-03)
    BACKGROUND Rhinoviruses (RV) are a well-established cause of respiratory illness. RV-C has been associated with more severe illness. We aimed to characterize and compare the clinical presentations and disease severity ...
  • Mortality amongst patients with influenza - associated severe acute respiratory illness, South Africa, 2009-2013 
    Cohen, Cheryl; Moyes, Jocelyn; Tempia, Stefano; Groome, Michelle; Walaza, Sibongile; Pretorius, Marthinus W.; Dawood, Halima; Chhagan, Meera; Haffejee, Summaya; Variava, Ebrahim; Kahn, Kathleen; Von Gottberg, Anne; Wolter, Nicole; Cohen, Adam L.; Malope-Kgokong, Babatyi; Venter, Marietjie; Madhi, Shabir A. (Public Library of Science, 2015-03-18)
    INTRODUCTION Data on the burden and risk groups for influenza-associated mortality from Africa are limited. We aimed to estimate the incidence and risk-factors for in-hospital influenza-associated severe acute respiratory ...
  • Respiratory viral coinfections identified by a 10-plex real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assay in patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory iIllness, South Africa, 2009–2010 
    Pretorius, Marthi Andréa; Madhi, Shabir A.; Cohen, Cheryl; Naidoo, Dhamari; Groome, Michelle; Moyes, Jocelyn; Buys, Amelia; Walaza, Sibongile; Dawood, Halima; Chhagan, Meera; Haffejee, Summaya; Kahn, Kathleen; Puren, Adrian; Venter, Marietjie (Oxford University Press, 2012)
    BACKGROUND: Data about respiratory co-infections of Influenza A H1N1 during the pandemic in Africa are limited. We used an existing surveillance programme for severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) to evaluate a new ...
  • Severe influenza-associated respiratory infection in high HIV prevalence setting, South Africa, 2009-2011 
    Cohen, Cheryl; Moyes, Jocelyn; Tempia, Stefano; Groome, Michelle; Walaza, Sibongile; Pretorius, Marthi Andréa; Dawood, Halima; Chhagan, Meera; Haffejee, Summaya; Variava, Ebrahim; Kahn, Kathleen; Tshangela, Akhona; Von Gottberg, Anne; Wolter, Nicole; Cohen, Adam L.; Kgokong, Babatyi; Venter, Marietjie; Madhi, Shabir A. (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013-11)
    Data on influenza epidemiology in HIV-infected persons are limited, particularly for sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV infection is widespread. We tested respiratory and blood samples from patients with acute lower respiratory ...
  • Systemic shigellosis in South Africa 
    Keddy, Karen H.; Sooka, Arvinda; Crowther-Gibson, Penny; Quan, Vanessa; Meiring, Susan; Cohen, Cheryl; Nana, Trusha; Sriruttan, Charlotte; Seetharam, Sharona; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed; Naicker, Preneshni; Elliott, Eugenne; Haffejee, Summaya; Whitelaw, Andrew; Klugman, Keith P. (University of Chicago Press, 2012-05-15)
    BACKGROUND: Systemic disease due to shigellae is associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malnutrition, and other immunosuppressed states. We examined the clinical and microbiologic characteristics of systemic ...