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  • Post-procedural Bacillus cereus septic arthritis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus 
    Mitton, Barend C.; Rule, Roxanne; Mbelle, Nontombi Marylucy; Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, W.G. (Wesley); Said, Mohamed (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-08-20)
    INTRODUCTION : Bacillus species are often considered as contaminants when cultured from clinical samples. Bacillus cereus may be a pathogen in certain circumstances and is known to cause musculoskeletal infections. This ...
  • Potential for maternally administered vaccine for infant group B streptococcus 
    Madhi, Shabir A.; Anderson, Annaliesa S.; Absalon, Judith; Radley, David; Simon, Raphael; Jongihlati, Babalwa; Strehlau, Renate; Van Niekerk, Anika M.; Izu, Alane; Naidoo, Niree; Kwatra, Gaurav; Ramsamy, Yogandree; Said, Mohamed; Jones, Stephanie; Jose, Lisa; Fairlie, Lee; Barnabas, Shaun L.; Newton, Ryan; Munson, Samantha; Jefferies, Zahra; Pavliakova, Danka; Silmon de Monerri, Natalie C.; Gomme, Emily; Perez, John L.; Scott, Daniel A.; Gruber, William C.; Jansen, Kathrin U. (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2023-07)
    BACKGROUND : Natural history studies have correlated serotype-specific anti–capsular polysaccharide (CPS) IgG in newborns with a reduced risk of group B streptococcal disease. A hexavalent CPS–cross-reactive material 197 ...
  • Potential mosquito vectors for Shuni Virus, South Africa, 2014-2018 
    Guarido, Milehna M.; Motlou, Thopisang; Riddin, Megan A.; MacIntyre, Caitlin; Manyana, Sontaga Cris; Johnson, Todd; Schrama, Maarten; Gorsich, Erin E.; Brooke, Basil D.; Almeida, Antonio Paulo Gouveia; Venter, Marietjie (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021-12)
    Shuni virus is associated with neurologic and febrile illness in animals and humans. To determine potential vectors, we collected mosquitoes in South Africa and detected the virus in species of the genera Mansonia, Culex, ...
  • Pre-detection history of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
    Brown, Tyler S.; Challagundla, Lavanya; Baugh, Evan H.; Omar, Shaheed Vally; Mustaev, Arkady; Auld, Sara C.; Shah, N. Sarita; Kreiswirth, Barry N.; Brust, James C.M.; Nelson, Kristin N.; Narechania, Apurva; Kurepina, Natalia; Mlisana, Koleka; Bonneau, Richard; Eldholm, Vegard; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis; Robinson, D. Ashley; Gandhi, Neel R.; Mathema, Barun (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-11)
    Antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections pose a major threat to global public health. Similar to other AMR pathogens, both historical and ongoing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) epidemics are characterized by transmission ...
  • Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning 
    Ahmadpour, Ehsan; Beshir Ahmed, Muktar; Akalu, Temesgen Yihunie; Al- Aly, Ziyad; Alanezi, Fahad Mashhour; Alanzi, Turki M.; Alipour, Vahid; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Ansari, Fereshteh; Ansha, Mustafa Geleto; Anvari, Davood; Appiah, Seth Christopher Yaw; Arabloo, Jalal; Arnold, Benjamin F.; Ausloos, Marcel; Ayanore, Martin Amogre; Baig, Atif Amin; Banach, Maciej; Barac, Aleksandra; Barnighausen, Till Winfried; Bayati, Mohsen; Bhattacharyya, Krittika; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Bibi, Sadia; Bijani, Ali; Bohlouli, Somayeh; Bohluli, Mahdi; Brady, Oliver J.; Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi; Butt, Zahid A.; Carvalho, Felix; Chatterjee, Souranshu; Chattu, Vijay Kumar; Chattu, Soosanna Kumary; Cormier, Natalie Maria; Dahlawi, Saad M.A.; Damiani, Giovanni; Daoud, Farah; Darwesh, Aso Mohammad; Daryani, Ahmad; Deribe, Kebede; Dharmaratne, Samath Dhamminda; Diaz, Daniel; Do, Hoa Thi; Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed; Tantawi, Maha El; Elemineh, Demelash Abewa; Faraj, Anwar; Harandi, Majid Fasihi; Fatahi, Yousef; Feigin, Valery L.; Fernandes, Eduarda; Foigt, Nataliya A.; Foroutan, Masoud; Franklin, Richard Charles; Gubari, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen; Guido, Davide; Guo, Yuming; Haj-Mirzaian, Arvin; Abdullah, Kanaan Hamagharib; Hamidi, Samer; Herteliu, Claudiu; De Hidru, Hagos Degefa; Higazi, Tarig B.; Hossain, Naznin; Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi; Househ, Mowafa; Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen; Ilic, Milena D.; Ilic, Irena M.; Iqbal, Usman; Irvani, Seyed Sina Naghibi; Jha, Ravi Prakash; Joukar, Farahnaz; Jozwiak, Jacek Jerzy; Kabir, Zubair; Kalankesh, Leila R.; Kalhor, Rohollah; Matin, Behzad Karami; Karimi, Salah Eddin; Kasaeian, Amir; Kavetskyy, Taras; Kayode, Gbenga A.; Karyani, Ali Kazemi; Kelbore, Abraham Getachew; Keramati, Maryam; Khalilov, Rovshan; Khan, Ejaz Ahmad; Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman; Khatab, Khaled; Khater, Mona M.; Kianipour, Neda; Kibret, Kelemu Tilahun; Kim, Yun Jin; Kosen, Soewarta; Krohn, Kris J.; Kusuma, Dian; La Vecchia, Carlo; Lansingh, Charles; Lee, Paul H.; LeGrand, Kate E.; Li, Shanshan; Longbottom, Joshua; Abd El Razek, Hassan Magdy; Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy; Maleki, Afshin; Mamun, Abdullah A.; Manafi, Ali; Manafi, Navid; Mansournia, Mohammad Ali; Martins- Melo, Francisco Rogerlandio; Mazidi, Mohsen; McAlinden, Colm; Meharie, Birhanu Geta; Mendoza, Walter; Mengesha, Endalkachew Worku; Mengistu, Desalegn Tadese; Mereta, Seid Tiku; Mestrovic, Tomislav; Miller, Ted R.; Miri, Mohammad; Moghadaszadeh, Masoud; Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Abdollah; Mohammadpourhodki, Reza; Mohammed, Shafiu; Mohammed, Salahuddin; Moradi, Masoud; Moradzadeh, Rahmatollah; Moraga, Paula; Mosser, Jonathan F.; Naderi, Mehdi; Nagarajan, Ahamarshan Jayaraman; Naik, Gurudatta; Negoi, Ionut; Nguyen, Cuong Tat; Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi; Nguyen, Trang Huyen; Nikbakhsh, Rajan; Oancea, Bogdan; Olagunju, Tinuke O.; Olagunju, Andrew T.; Bali, Ahmed Omar; Onwujekwe, Obinna E.; Pana, Adrian; Pourjafar, Hadi; Rahim, Fakher; Rahman, Mohammad Hifz Ur; Rathi, Priya; Rawaf, Salman; Rawaf, David Laith; Rawassizadeh, Reza; Resnikoff, Serge; Reta, Melese Abate; Rezapour, Aziz; Rubagotti, Enrico; Rubino, Salvatore; Sadeghi, Ehsan; Saghafipour, Abedin; Sajadi, S. Mohammad (Public Library of Science, 2021-07-28)
    Recent evidence suggests that, in some foci, elimination of onchocerciasis from Africa may be feasible with mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin. To achieve continental elimination of transmission, mapping surveys ...
  • Prevalence and detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in HIV-infected pregnant women 
    Price, Collin M.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Steyn, Janré; Mudau, Maanda; Olivier, Dawie; De Vos, Lindsey; Morikawa, Erika; Kock, Marleen M.; Medina-Marino, Andrew; Klausner, Jeffrey D. (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2018-05)
    BACKGROUND : Trichomonas vaginalis is a sexually transmitted infection associated with increased transmission of HIV and significant adverse birth outcomes; culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are commonly used in ...
  • Prevalence and trends of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in hospitalized patients in South Africa, 2010 to 2012 : laboratory-based surveillance mapping of antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology 
    Perovic, Olga; Iyaloo, Samantha; Kularatne, Ranmini; Lowman, Warren; Bosman, Noma; Wadula, Jeannette; Seetharam, Sharona; Duse, Adriano; Mbelle, Nontombi Marylucy; Bamford, Colleen; Dawood, Halima; Mahabeer, Yesholata; Bhola, Prathna; Abrahams, Shareef; Singh-Moodley, Ashika (Public Library of Science, 2015-12-31)
    INTRODUCTION We aimed to obtain an in-depth understanding on recent antimicrobial resistance trends and molecular epidemiology trends of S. aureus bacteraemia (SAB). METHODS Thirteen academic centres in South Africa ...
  • Prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical specimens from Pretoria Academic Hospital 
    Bellomo, Alessandro N.; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen; Kock, Marleen M.; Makgotlho, Phuti Edward; Creative Studios, Dept. of Education Innovation, University of Pretoria. (2008-10-23)
    Acinetobacter baumannii is an important cause of nosocomial infections in hospitals, with most cases occurring in immunocompromised patients. Nosocomial infections are most often associated with medical device related ...
  • Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa, 2017-19 : a multistage, cluster-based, cross-sectional survey 
    Moyo, Sizulu; Ismail, Farzanah; Van der Walt, Martie; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Mkhondo, Nkateko; Dlamini, Sicelo; Mthiyane, Thuli; Chikovore, Jeremiah; Oladimeji, Olanrewaju; Mametja, David; Maribe, Phaleng; Seocharan, Ishen; Ximiya, Phumlani; Law, Irwin; Tadolini, Marina; Zuma, Khangelani; Manda, S.O.M. (Samuel); Sismanidis, Charalambos; Pillay, Y.; Mvusi, Lindiwe (Elsevier, 2022-08)
    BACKGROUND : Tuberculosis remains an important clinical and public health issue in South Africa, which has one of the highest tuberculosis burdens in the world. We aimed to estimate the burden of bacteriologically confirmed ...
  • Prevalence of blaSHV, blaTEM and blaCTX-M antibiotic resistance genes in selected bacterial pathogens from the Pretoria Academic Hospital 
    Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen; Veldsman, C.; Makgotlho, Phuti Edward; Kock, Marleen M.; Dove, Mike G.; Creative Studios, Dept of Education Innovation, University of Pretoria (2008-10-23)
    Extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are considered one of the most important antibiotic resistance mechanisms. Multidrug resistance is emerging in many Gram-negative pathogens and is associated with severe nosocomial ...
  • Prevalence of carbapenem resistance genes in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical specimens obtained from an academic hospital in South Africa 
    Kock, Marleen M.; Bellomo, Alessandro N.; Storm, Nadia; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen (Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa, 2013)
    Acinetobacter baumannii is an important cause of hospital-acquired infections. The occurrence of carbapenem resistance that is caused by the carbapenem-hydrolysing class D β-lactamases and the metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) ...
  • Prevalence of Clostridium difficile toxin genes in Pretoria 
    Storm, Nadia; Kock, Marleen M.; Kruger, M.D.; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen (Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa, 2012)
    The hypervirulent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ribotype 027 strain of Clostridium difficile produces toxins A, B and a binary toxin. Toxin detection kits are commonly used in diagnostic laboratories, but have been ...
  • Prevalence of drug resistance-conferring mutations associated with isoniazid- and rifampicin-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia : a systematic review and meta-analysis 
    Reta, Melese Abate; Alemnew, Birhan; Abate, Biruk Beletew; Fourie, P.B. (Petrus Bernardus) (Elsevier, 2021-09)
    OBJECTIVES : Globally, the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis (TB) are declining; however, low detection of drug-resistant disease threatens to reverse current progress toward global TB control. Multiple rapid molecular ...
  • Prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis and imputed burden in South Africa : a national and sub-national cross-sectional survey 
    Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Mvusi, Lindiwe; Nanoo, Ananta; Dreyer, Andries; Omar, Shaheed Vally; Babatunde, Sanni; Molebatsi, Thabo; Van der Walt, Martie; Adelekan, Adeboye; Deyde, Varough; Ihekweazu, Chikwe; Madhi, S.A. (Elsevier, 2018-07)
    BACKGROUND : Globally, per-capita, South Africa reports a disproportionately high number of cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. We sought to estimate the ...
  • Prevalence of ESBL and MBL antibiotic resistance genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae in Pretoria Academic Hospital 
    Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed; Omar, Shaheed Vally; Maningi, Nontuthuko Excellent; Makgothlo, E.; Kock, Marleen M.; Creative Studios, Dept of Education Innovation, University of Pretoria (2008-12-09)
    Extended-spectrum-beta-lactamases (ESBL) have been recovered from medical centres in South Africa since the late 1980’s but little is known about the various types of ESBLs present and their prevalence. Metallo-beta-lactamase ...
  • Prevalence of vaccine-derived polioviruses in sewage and river water in South Africa 
    Pavlov, Dobromir Nikolov; Van Zyl, Walda B.; Van Heerden, J.; Grabow, W.O.K.; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen (Elsevier, 2005-09)
    Polioviruses (PVs) are not associated with waterborne transmission to the same extent as many other enteric viruses. However, they are typically transmitted by the faecal-oral route, which implies that the risk of infection ...
  • Protein profiles of phosphorus- and nitrate-removing activated sludge systems 
    Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen; Cloete, Thomas Eugene (Water Research Council, 1999-07)
    Samples from laboratory-scale activated sludge systems operating under spesific conditions which differ in phosphate-removing capabilities were obtained from the University of Cape Town. The total protein content of samples ...
  • Provision of sexually transmitted infection services in a mobile clinic reveals high unmet need in remote areas of South Africa : a cross-sectional study 
    Hoffman, Charlotte M.; Mbambazela, Nontembeko; Sithole, Phumzile; Morré, Servaas A.; Dubbink, Jan Henk; Railton, Jean; McIntyre, James A.; Kock, Marleen M.; Peters, Remco P.H. (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2019-03)
    BACKGROUND : The burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in areas of sub-Saharan Africa with poor access to health care services is not well documented. In remote areas of South Africa, we investigated the prevalence ...
  • PulseNet International survey on the implementation of whole genome sequencing in low and middle-income countries for foodborne disease surveillance 
    Davedow, Taylor; Carleton, Heather; Kubota, Kristy; Palm, Daniel; Schroeder, Morgan; Gerner-Smidt, Peter; Al-Jardani, Amina; Chinen, Isabel; Kam, Kai Man; Smith, Anthony M.; Nadon, Celine (Mary Ann Liebert, 2022-05)
    PulseNet International (PNI) is a global network of 88 countries who work together through their regional and national public health laboratories to track foodborne disease around the world. The vision of PNI is to implement ...
  • Rapid antibiotic-resistance predictions from genome sequence data for Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
    Bradley, Phelim; Gordon, N. Claire; Walker, Timothy M.; Dunn, Laura; Heys, Simon; Huang, Bill; Earle, Sarah; Pankhurst, Louise J.; Anson, Luke; De Cesare, Mariateresa; Piazza, Paolo; Votintseva, Antonina A.; Golubchik, Tanya; Wilson, Daniel J.; Wyllie, David H.; Diel, Ronald; Niemann, Stefan; Feuerriegel, Silke; Kohl, Thomas A.; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Omar, Shaheed Vally; Smith, E. Grace; Buck, David; McVean, Gil; Walker, A. Sarah; Peto, Tim E.A.; Crook, Derrick W.; Iqbal, Zamin (Nature Publishing Group, 2015-12-21)
    The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has led to an urgent need for rapid detection of drug resistance in clinical samples, and improvements in global surveillance. Here we show how de Bruijn graph representation of ...