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A qualitative PCR minipool strategy to screen for virologic failure and antiretroviral drug resistance in South African patients on first-line antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published on 29 May 2014

Activation of the cytokine network and unfavorable outcome in patients with yellow fever

scientific article published on 12 October 2004

Acute hepatitis E in catania (eastern sicily) 1980–1994. The role of hepatitis E virus ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Acute retinal necrosis six years after herpes simplex encephalitis: an elusive immune deficit suggested by insufficient test sensitivity

scientific article

Altered innate immune development in HIV-exposed uninfected infants

scientific article

Anti-HIV, anti-poxvirus, and anti-SARS activity of a nontoxic, acidic plant extract from the Trifollium species Secomet-V/anti-vac suggests that it contains a novel broad-spectrum antiviral.

scientific article published on November 2005

Antibody responses to vaccination among South African HIV-exposed and unexposed uninfected infants during the first 2 years of life.

scientific article published on 31 October 2012

Antiretroviral resistance patterns and factors associated with resistance in adult patients failing NNRTI-based regimens in the Western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published in October 2011

Attempted molecular detection of the thermally dimorphic human fungal pathogen Emergomyces africanus in terrestrial small mammals in South Africa

scientific article published on 9 September 2017

Bioterrorism: is it a real threat?

scientific article published on 2 September 2004

Clinical presentation and management of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

scientific article published on May 2003

Close relative of human Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in bat, South Africa

scientific article published on October 2013

Comparative evaluation of the Cobas Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Ultrasensitive Test, the new Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Ultrasensitive Test and the Versant HIV RNA 3.0 assays for quantitation of HIV-1 RNA in plasma samples

scientific article published in May 2005

Construction of a high titer infectious HIV-1 subtype C proviral clone from South Africa

scientific article

Cost-effectiveness of nucleic acid amplification tests for identifying acute HIV infections

scientific article published on April 2011

Cytomegalovirus infection decreases expression of thrombospondin-1 and -2 in cultured human retinal glial cells: effects of antiviral agents

scientific article

Cytomegalovirus-specific CD4 T-cell and glycoprotein B specific antibody response in recipients of allogenic stem cell transplantation.

scientific article

Development and clinical application of a fully controlled quantitative PCR assay for cell-free cytomegalovirus in human plasma.

scientific article published in January 2003

Development and evaluation of an internally controlled semiautomated PCR assay for quantification of cell-free cytomegalovirus

scientific article published in April 2002

Development of antiviral therapy for severe acute respiratory syndrome.

scientific article

Emergence and phenotypic characterization of the global SARS-CoV-2 C.1.2 lineage

scientific article published on 08 April 2022

Emerging antiretroviral drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa: novel affordable technologies are needed to provide resistance testing for individual and public health benefits

scientific article published on November 2014

Establishing diagnostic cut-off criteria for the COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Qualitative test through validation against the Amplicor DNA test v1.5 for infant diagnosis using dried blood spots.

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Evaluation of 11 enzyme immunoassays for the detection of immunoglobulin M antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus

scientific article published in March 1996

Evaluation of advanced reverse transcription-PCR assays and an alternative PCR target region for detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus

scientific article

Evaluation of diagnostic methods for the detection of cytomegalovirus in recipients of allogeneic stem cell transplants

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Evaluation of the reliability of 6 current anti-HIV-1/HIV-2 enzyme immunoassays

article

Extended routine polymerase chain reaction surveillance and pre-emptive antiviral therapy for cytomegalovirus after allogeneic transplantation

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Extraction buffer contaminated bacterially as a cause of invalid HIV-1 viral load results on the NucliSens EasyQ system.

scientific article published on 18 April 2008

Fatal microcystin intoxication in haemodialysis unit in Caruaru, Brazil ⬇️

scientific article published on July 4, 1998

Frequency, kinetics and determinants of viable SARS-CoV-2 in bioaerosols from ambulatory COVID-19 patients infected with the Beta, Delta or Omicron variants

scientific article published on 5 March 2024

HBV and HIV viral load but not microbial translocation or immune activation are associated with liver fibrosis among patients in South Africa.

scientific article

HBV reactivation after kidney transplantation

article published in 2005

HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in antiretroviral therapy-naïve patients in Tanzania not eligible for WHO threshold HIVDR survey is dramatically high

scientific article

HIV-1 genotyping: comparison of two commercially available assays

scientific article published on May 2004

HIV-1 viral load assays for resource-limited settings: clades matter

scientific article published in December 2006

Hantaviruses in Africa

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Hepatitis B virus infection in HIV-exposed infants in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Hepatitis E virus infection: An underdiagnosed infection in transplant patients in Southern Africa?

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

High HBV viral loads in HIV-infected pregnant women at a tertiary hospital, South Africa

scientific article

Human monoclonal antibody as prophylaxis for SARS coronavirus infection in ferrets

scientific article published in June 2004

Immune reconstitution hepatitis E: a neglected complication of antiretroviral therapy in Africa?

scientific article published in January 2013

Interpretation of indeterminate HIV-1 PCR results are influenced by changing vertical transmission prevention regimens.

scientific article published on 9 September 2017

Irreproducible positive results on the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HIV-1 Qual test are different qualitatively from confirmed positive results.

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Is hepatitis B birth dose vaccine needed in Africa?

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Isolation and Characterization of Human Monoclonal Antibodies from Individuals Infected with West Nile Virus

scientific article

Laboratory diagnosis of influenza--virology or serology?

scientific article published on 30 August 2002

Laboratory diagnosis of norovirus: which method is the best?

scientific article

Lack of correlation between different hepatitis C virus screening and confirmatory assays

scientific article published on May 1996

Lessons in diagnostic virology: expected and unexpected sources of error

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Molecular analysis of HIV type 1 vif sequences from Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article

Molecular and biological characterization of human monoclonal antibodies binding to the spike and nucleocapsid proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

scientific article published in February 2005

Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus in sub-Saharan Africa: time to act.

scientific article published on July 2015

Mutational Heterogeneity in p6 Gag Late Assembly (L) Domains in HIV-1 Subtype C Viruses from South Africa

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

NAT screening of blood donors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus can potentially prevent transfusion associated transmissions

scientific article published in April 2004

New methods for the diagnosis of cytomegalovirus

scientific article published in July 2004

No apparent effect of cidofovir in epidermodysplasia verruciformis

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

NucliSens EasyQ® HIV-1 V1.2 system: Detection of human plasma-derived background signal

article

Ontogeny of Toll-like receptor mediated cytokine responses of South African infants throughout the first year of life.

scientific article

Performance characteristics of an automated PCR assay for the quantification of cytomegalovirus DNA in plasma

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1 transmission

article

Phylogenetic diversity and low level antiretroviral resistance mutations in HIV type 1 treatment-naive patients from Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on July 2008

Pitfalls with rapid HIV antibody testing in HIV-infected children in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 July 2006

Point-of-care screening for hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant women at an antenatal clinic: A South African experience.

scientific article

Polyomavirus Viruria in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients: Lack of Correlation with Clinical Symptoms

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Pooled HIV-1 Viral Load Testing Using Dried Blood Spots to Reduce the Cost of Monitoring Antiretroviral Treatment in a Resource-Limited Setting ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2013

Pooled PCR testing of dried blood spots for infant HIV diagnosis is cost efficient and accurate

article

Pooled testing: A tool to increase efficiency of infant HIV diagnosis and virological monitoring

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Pooling Strategies to Reduce the Cost of HIV-1 RNA Load Monitoring in a Resource-Limited Setting ⬇️

scientific article published on January 15, 2011

Prevalence and risks of hepatitis E virus infection in blood donors from the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Prevalence- and gender-specific immune response to opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients in Lesotho

scientific article

Prevention of post-transfusion cytomegalovirus: leucoreduction or screening?

scientific article

Prolonged Th2 cell activation and increased viral replication in HIV-Leishmania co-infected patients despite treatment

article

Protease inhibitor resistance in South African children with virologic failure.

scientific article published in December 2009

RETRACTED: Gradual emergence followed by exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Africa

retracted paper

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

scientific article published on 07 January 2022

Rooting the phylogenetic tree of middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus by characterization of a conspecific virus from an African bat

scientific article

Seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus types 1 and type 2 in the Frankfurt am Main area, Germany

scientific article published in March 2002

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)--paradigm of an emerging viral infection.

scientific article published on January 2004

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: identification of the etiological agent

scientific article

Significantly Diminished Long-Term Specificity of the BED Capture Enzyme Immunoassay Among Patients With HIV-1 With Very Low CD4 Counts and Those on Antiretroviral Therapy

article

Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for antiretroviral therapy in adults: 2020 update

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Stability and inactivation of SARS coronavirus

scientific article published in January 2005

Surveillance of transmitted resistance to antiretroviral drug classes among young children in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

scientific article published in April 2010

The HIV/HBV co-infected patient: Time for proactive management

scientific article published on 27 February 2015

The epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected pregnant women in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

The role of viral load determination for the management of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection.

scientific article

Travel-acquired dengue infection: clinical spectrum and diagnostic aspects.

scientific article

Trends in Genotypic HIV-1 Antiretroviral Resistance between 2006 and 2012 in South African Patients Receiving First- and Second-Line Antiretroviral Treatment Regimens

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Tropical virus not only in the tropics. Treatment, epidemiology and diagnosis of tropical viral infections

scientific article published on January 2010

Ultrasensitive monitoring of HIV-1 viral load by a low-cost real-time reverse transcription-PCR assay with internal control for the 5' long terminal repeat domain

scientific article

Unusual course of herpes simplex virus encephalitis after acyclovir therapy

scientific article published in September 1996

Viral zoonoses - a threat under control?

scientific article

Virology and epidemiology of oral herpesvirus infections

scientific article published on 29 August 2002

Young age a predictor of weak reactivity in a rapid antibody test in infants infected with HIV

article

Zidovudine with nevirapine for the prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission reduces nevirapine resistance in mothers from the Western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published on June 2008

[Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease]

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

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