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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae is emerging globally. Due to the limited treatment options, the World Health Organization has designated M. tuberculosis and N. gonorrhoeae ...
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ART initiation among women newly diagnosed with HIV in a contraceptive trial in sub-Saharan Africa (Taylor and Francis, 2022-04)Current guidelines recommend starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) as soon as possible after HIV diagnosis to reduce morbidity, mortality and onward HIV transmission. We examined factors influencing ART initiation by ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-09)OBJECTIVES : The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to assess Atopobium vaginae and Gardnerella vaginalis concentrations in pregnant women of different age groups, gestational age groups, vaginal flora categories ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-04)BACKGROUND : Bedaquiline improves outcomes of patients with rifampicin-resistant and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis; however, emerging resistance threatens this success. We did a cross-sectional and longitudinal ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020-12)BACKGROUND: Previous studies have described the association between dysbiosis of the vaginal microbiota (VMB) and related dysbiotic conditions, such as bacterial vaginosis (BV) and aerobic vaginitis (AV), and various adverse ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death worldwide, especially in Asia and Africa. Genotyping methods such as insertion sequence 6110-restriction fragment length polymorphism (IS6110-RFLP), spoligotyping and mycobacterial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-01)Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a serious problem in South Africa. Standardised and accurate drug susceptibility testing for first-line and second-line anti-TB drugs are ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)The NIH-funded center for autophagy research named Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, located at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center is now completing its ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Recently, NIH has funded a center for autophagy research named the Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, located at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center (UNM ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2007-04)Two patients with African sleeping sickness (SS) presented to the neurology unit, Pretoria Academic Hospital, during 2004 and 2005. SS has shown a recent resurgence, with epidemics in the Sudan, Angola and the Democratic ...
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(Hindawi, 2020-09)The burden of bloodstream infections (BSIs) has been warranted in Ethiopia. Globally, the emergency and raised resistance rate of bacterial antimicrobial resistance is becoming a prominent problem, and it is difficult to ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020-08-11)A healthy female genital tract harbors a microbiome dominated by lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide producing bacteria, which provide protection against infections by maintaining a low pH. Changes in the bacterial ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-08)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 ...
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(Elsevier, 2001)In this study, different carbon source profiles were generated by inoculating Biolog GN microwell plates, with different dilutions of microbial communities from a number of activated sludge systems. This led to the successful ...
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Biting off more than you can chew : microbiological flora isolated from human and animal bite wounds (Media 24 & South African Orthopaedic Association, 2012)BACKGROUND: Bite wounds, from human and animal origin, can lead to significant complications if appropriate therapy is not undertaken timeously. A basic knowledge of the microbiological flora is essential for each clinical ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2023-04)No abstract available.
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Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae : a key pathogen set for global nosocomial dominance (American Society for Microbiology, 2015-10)The management of infections due to Klebsiella pneumoniae has been complicated by the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, especially to the carbapenems. Resistance to the carbapenems in K. pneumoniae involves multiple ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-05)Nocardiosis commonly affects the respiratory system and is a rare cause of purulent pericarditis. Invasive nocardial infections occur more frequently in patients with immunosuppression. A misdiagnosis as tuberculosis ...
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Case-fatality and sequelae following acute bacterial meningitis in South Africa, 2016 through 2020 (Elsevier, 2022-09)OBJECTIVES : Providing country-specific estimates of case fatality and sequelae from bacterial meningitis (BM) is important to evaluate and monitor progress toward the World Health Organization's roadmap to “defeating ...
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