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  • Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile virus, South Africa 
    Venter, Marietjie; Human, Stacey; Van Niekerk, Stephanie; Williams, June Heather; Van Eeden, Charmaine; Freeman, Frank (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011-08)
    In 2010, lineage 1 West Nile virus was detected in South Africa in the brain of a pregnant mare that succumbed to neurologic disease and in her aborted fetus, suggesting an association with abortion in horses. All West ...
  • Feasibility of the bag-mediated filtration system for environmental surveillance of poliovirus in Kenya 
    Zhou, Nicolette A.; Fagnant-Sperati, Christine S.; Komen, Evans; Mwangi, Benlick; Mukubi, Johnstone; Nyangao, James; Hassan, Joanne; Chepkurui, Agnes; Maina, Caroline; Van Zyl, Walda B.; Matsapola, P.N. (Peter); Wolfaardt, Marianne; Ngwana, F.B. (Fhatuwani); Jeffries-Miles, Stacey; Coulliette-Salmond, Angela; Penaranda, Silvia; Shirai, Jeffry H.; Kossik, Alexandra L.; Beck, Nicola K.; Wilmouth, Robyn; Boyle, David S.; Burns, Cara C.; Taylor, Maureen B.; Borus, Peter; Meschke, John Scott (Springer, 2020-03)
    The bag-mediated filtration system (BMFS) was developed to facilitate poliovirus (PV) environmental surveillance, a supplement to acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in PV eradication efforts. From April to September 2015, ...
  • Field performance of the INSTI HIV‐1/‐2 antibody test in two South African antenatal clinics 
    Mayaphi, Simnikiwe Horatious; Martin, Desmond J.; Quinn, Thomas C.; Stoltz, Anton Carel (Wiley, 2019-07)
    This was a prospective study that assessed field performance of the INSTI HIV‐1/‐2 antibody test (INSTI test) in two antenatal clinics in South Africa (SA). INSTI test was evaluated against rapid tests used at these clinics, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • The fraction of Rhinovirus detections attributable to mild and severe respiratory illness in a setting of high human immunodeficiency virus prevalence, South Africa, 2013-2015 
    Hellferscee, Orienka; Treurnicht, Florette K.; Walaza, Sibongile; Du Plessis, Mignon; Von Gottberg, Anne; Wolter, Nicole; Moyes, Jocelyn; Dawood, Halima; Variava, Ebrahim; Pretorius, Marthi Andréa; Venter, Marietjie; Cohen, Cheryl; Tempia, Stefano (Oxford University Press, 2019-06)
    BACKGROUND : The association of rhinovirus (RV) detection to illness is poorly understood. METHODS : We enrolled case patients hospitalized with severe respiratory illness (SRI) at 2 hospitals and outpatients with ...
  • Functional analysis of novel SLC11A1 (NRAMP1) promoter variants in susceptibility to HIV-1 
    Donninger, Howard; Cashmore, T.J.; Scriba, Thomas Jens; Petersen, Desiree C.; Janse van Rensburg, Estrelita; Hayes, Vanessa M. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2004-04)
    The divalent cation transporter is the natural resistance associated macrophage protein 1 (formerly NRAMP1 and now named SLC11A1) for solute carrier 11A1 (OMIM accession number 600266). The gene that codes for this ...
  • Functionally-inactive and immunogenic Tat, Rev and Nef DNA vaccines derived from sub-Saharan subtype C human immunodeficiency virus type 1 consensus sequences 
    Scriba, Thomas Jens; Zur Megede, Jan; Glashoff, Richard H.; Treurnicht, Florette K.; Barnett, Susan W.; Janse van Rensburg, Estrelita (Elsevier, 2005-01-19)
    The efficacy of cellular immune responses elicited by HIV vaccines is dependent on their strength, durability and antigenic breadth. The regulatory proteins are abundantly expressed early in the viral life cycle and CTL ...
  • Fungal systematics and evolution : FUSE 6 
    Haelewaters, Danny; Dima, Balint; Abdel-Hafiz, Abbas I.I.; Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed A.; Abul-Ezz, Samar R.; Acar, Ismail; Aguirre-Acosta, Elvira; Aime, M. Catherine; Aldemir, Suheda; Ali, Muhammad; Ayala-Vasquez, Olivia; Bakhit, Mahmoud S.; Bashir, Hira; Battistin, Eliseo; Bendiksen, Egil; Castro-Rivera, Rigoberto; Faruk Çolak, Ömer; De Kesel, Andre; De la Fuente, Javier Isaac; Dizkırıcı, Ayten; Hussain, Shah.; Jansen, Gerrit Maarten; Kaygusuz, Oguzhan; Khalid, Abdul Nasir; Khan, Junaid; Kiyashko, Anna A.; Larsson, Ellen; Martínez-Gonzalez, Cesar Ramiro; Morozova, Olga V.; Niazi, Abdul Rehman; Noordeloos, Machiel Evert; Pham, Thi Ha Giang; Popov, Eugene S.; Psurtseva, Nadezhda V.; Schoutteten, Nathan; Sher, Hassan; Türkekul, Ibrahim; Verbeken, Annemieke; Ahmad, Habib; Afshan, Najam ul Sehar; Christe, Philippe; Fiaz, Muhammad; Glaizot, Olivier; Liu, Jingyu; Majeed, Javeria; Markotter, Wanda; Nagy, Angelina; Nawaz, Haq; Papp, Viktor; Peter, Aron; Pfliegler, Walter P.; Qasim, Tayyaba; Riaz, Maria; Sándor, Attila D.; Szentiványi, Tamara; Voglmayr, Hermann; Yousaf, Nousheen; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard (Verlag Ferdinand Berger , 2020)
    Fungal Systematics and Evolution (FUSE) is one of the journal series to address the “fusion” between morphological data and molecular phylogenetic data and to describe new fungal taxa and interesting observations. This ...
  • FUT2 secretor status influences susceptibility to VP4 strain-specific rotavirus infections in South African children 
    MacDonald, Jaime Claire; Groome, Michelle J.; Janet, Janet; Page, Nicola Anne (MDPI, 2020-09)
    Gastroenteritis is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Rotavirus vaccination has significantly reduced the disease burden, but the sub-optimal vaccine efficacy observed in low-income regions needs ...
  • Genetic characterisation of South African and Mozambican bovine rotaviruses reveals a typical bovine-like artiodactyl constellation derived through multiple reassortment events 
    Strydom, Amy; Donato, Celeste M.; Nyaga, Martin M.; Boene, Simone S.; Peenze, Ina; Mogotsi, Milton T.; João, Eva D.; Munlela, Benilde; Potgieter, A. Christiaan; Seheri, Mapaseka L.; De Deus, Nilsa; O’Neill, Hester G. (MDPI, 2021-10-12)
    This study presents whole genomes of seven bovine rotavirus strains from South Africa and Mozambique. Double-stranded RNA, extracted from stool samples without prior adaptation to cell culture, was used to synthesise ...
  • Genetic determinants of virulence in pathogenic lineage 2 West Nile virus strains 
    Botha, Elizabeth Magdelena; Markotter, Wanda; Wolfaardt, Marianne; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Swanepoel, Robert; Palacios, Gustavo; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Venter, Marietjie (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008-02)
    We determined complete genome sequences of lineage 2 West Nile virus (WNV) strains isolated from patients in South Africa who had mild or severe WNV infections. These strains had previously been shown to produce either ...
  • 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 ...
  • Genetic diversity of Culex pipiens mosquitoes in distinct populations from Europe : contribution of Cx. quinquefasciatus in Mediterranean populations 
    Shaikevich, Elena V.; Vinogradova, Elena B.; Bouattour, Ali; De Almeida, Antonio Paulo Gouveia (BioMed Central, 2016-01-27)
    BACKGROUND : Mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex are cosmopolitan, and important vectors of neglected tropical diseases, such as arbovirosis and lymphatic filariasis. Among the complex taxa, Cx. pipiens (with two ...
  • Genome sequence analysis of in vitro and in vivo phenotypes of Bunyamwera and Ngari virus isolates from Northern Kenya 
    Odhiambo, Collins; Venter, Marietjie; Limbaso, Konongoi; Swanepoel, Robert; Sang, Rosemary; Aguilar, Patricia V. (Public Library of Science, 2014-08-25)
    Biological phenotypes of tri-segmented arboviruses display characteristics that map to mutation/s in the S, M or L segments of the genome. Plaque variants have been characterized for other viruses displaying varied ...
  • Genomic and phylogenetic characterization of Shuni virus 
    Van Eeden, Charmaine; Harders, Frank; Kortekaas, Jeroen; Bossers, Alex; Venter, Marietjie (Springer, 2014-06)
    Shuni virus (SHUV), a member of the genus Orthobunyavirus, has in a recent study been associated with neurological disease in horses in South Africa. After its first isolation in 1966 from an asymptomatic bovine, very ...
  • The geographic distribution of priority population groups for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa 
    Moyo, Faith; Mazanderani, Ahmad Haeri; Kufa, Tendesayi; Sherman, Gayle G. (Public Library of Science, 2020-04-08)
    BACKGROUND Women of reproductive age living with HIV (WRLHIV), HIV-positive pregnant women, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are key populations for eliminating mother-to-child of HIV (eMTCT) in South Africa. We ...
  • Global distribution of novel rhinovirus genotype 
    Briese, Thomas; Renwick, Neil; Venter, Marietjie; Jarman, Richard G.; Ghosh, Dhrubaa; Kondgen, Sophie; Shrestha, Sanjaya K.; Hoegh, A. Mette; Casas, Inmaculada; Adjogoua, Edgard Valerie; Akoua-Koffi, Chantal; Myint, Khin Saw; Williams, David T.; Chidlow, Glenys; Van den Berg, Ria; Calvo, Cristina; Koch, Orienka; Palacios, Gustavo; Kapoor, Vishal; Villari, Joseph; Dominguez, Samuel R.; Holmes, Kathryn V.; Harnett, Gerry; Smith, David; Mackenzie, John S.; Ellerbrok, Heinz; Schweiger, Brunhilde; Schonning, Kristian; Chadha, Mandeep S.; Leendertz, Fabian H.; Mishra, A.C.; Gibbons, Robert V.; Holmes, Edward C.; Lipkin, Ian W. (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008-06)
    Global surveillance for a novel rhinovirus genotype indicated its association with community outbreaks and pediatric respiratory disease in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Molecular dating indicates ...
  • Global role and burden of influenza in pediatric respiratory hospitalizations, 1982–2012 : a systematic analysis 
    Venter, Marietjie; Lafond, Kathryn E.; Nair, Harish; Rasooly, Mohammad Hafiz; Valente, Fatima; Guzman, Guiselle; Coulibaly, Daouda; Armero, Julio; Jima, Daddi; Howie, Stephen R. C.; Ampofo, William; Mena, Ricardo; Chadha, Mandeep; Sampurno, Ondri Dwi; Emukule, Gideon O.; Nurmatov, Zuridin; Corwin, Andrew; Heraud, Jean Michel; Noyola, Daniel E.; Cojocaru, Radu; Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn; Barakat, Amal; Adedeji, Adebayo; Von Horoch, Marta; Olveda, Remigio; Nyatanyi, Thierry; Mmbaga, Vida; Chittaganpitch, Malinee; Nguyen, Tran Hien; Theo, Andros; Whaley, Melissa; Azziz-Baumgartner, Eduardo; Bresee, Joseph; Campbell, Harry; Widdowson, Marc-Alain; Booy, Robert (Public Library of Science, 2016-03-24)
    BACKGROUND The global burden of pediatric severe respiratory illness is substantial, and influenza viruses contribute to this burden. Systematic surveillance and testing for influenza among hospitalized children has ...