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Risk factors for severe respiratory syncytial virus-associated respiratory tract infection in a high HIV prevalence setting, South Africa, 2012 – 2018

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Identifying risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)–associated severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) will assist with targeting vaccine interventions.
Jocelyn Moyes, Stefano Tempia, Sibongile Walaza, Adam L. Cohen, Florette Treurnicht, Orienka Hellferscee, Nicole Wolter, Anne von Gottberg, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava, Kathleen Kahn, Shabir A. Madhi, Cheryl Cohen   +12 more
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Healthcare seeking behaviour for common infectious syndromes among people in three administrative regions of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2015: a cross-sectional study

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019
INTRODUCTION: hospital-based surveillance programs only capture people presenting to facilities and may underestimate disease burden. We conducted a healthcare utilisation survey to characterise healthcare-seeking behaviour among people with common ...
Relebogile Mapuroma, Cheryl Cohen, Lazarus Kuonza, Alfred Musekiwa, Stefano Tempia, Akhona Tshangela, Claire von Mollendorf   +6 more
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Phylogenetic relationships and regional spread of meningococcal strains in the meningitis belt, 2011–2016Research in context

EBioMedicine, 2019
Background: Historically, the major cause of meningococcal epidemics in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa has been Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A (NmA), but the incidence has been substantially reduced since the introduction of a serogroup A ...
Nadav Topaz, Dominique A. Caugant, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Ola Brønstad Brynildsrud, Nadia Debech, Eva Hong, Ala-Eddine Deghmane, Rasmata Ouédraogo, Sani Ousmane, Kadidja Gamougame, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Seydou Diarra, LeAnne M. Fox, Xin Wang   +13 more
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Cryptococcal meningitis: improving access to essential antifungal medicines in resource-poor countries [PDF]

, 2013
Cryptococcal meningitis is the leading cause of adult meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa, and contributes up to 20% of AIDS-related mortality in low-income and middle-income countries every year.
Chiller, Tom, Harrison, Thomas S, Bicanic, Tihana, Roy, Monika, Thangaraj, Harry, Easterbrook, Philippa, Govender, Nelesh, Loyse, Angela, Ford, Nathan   +8 more
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A machine learning approach to differentiating bacterial from viral meningitis [PDF]

, 2006
Clinical reports indicate that differentiating bacterial from viral (aseptic) meningitis is still a difficult issue, compounded by factors such as age and time of presentation.
M. Ene, K. Revett, Revett, K., Ene, M., Gorunescu, F., F. Gorunescu, Gorunescu, M.   +6 more
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Outbreak of influenza A in a boarding school in South Africa, 2016

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019
INTRODUCTION: We investigated an outbreak of influenza-like illness (ILI) at a boarding school in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. We aimed to confirm the etiological agent, estimate attack rates and identify risk factors for illness.
Jackie Kleynhans, Florette Kathleen Treurnicht, Cheryl Cohen, Theesan Vedan, Mpho Seleka, Lwando Maki, Anne von Gottberg, Kerrigan McCarthy, Wayne Ramkrishna, Meredith McMorrow, Sibongile Walaza   +10 more
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Characteristics of infections with ancestral, Beta and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the PHIRST-C community cohort study, South Africa, 2020-2021

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Data on the characteristics of individuals with mild and asymptomatic infections with different SARS-CoV-2 variants are limited. We therefore compared the characteristics of individuals infected with ancestral, Beta and Delta SARS-CoV-2 ...
Cheryl Cohen, Jackie Kleynhans, Anne von Gottberg, Meredith L. McMorrow, Nicole Wolter, Jinal N. Bhiman, Jocelyn Moyes, Mignon du Plessis, Maimuna Carrim, Amelia Buys, Neil A. Martinson, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Limakatso Lebina, Floidy Wafawanaka, Jacques du Toit, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Fatimah S. Dawood, Thulisa Mkhencele, for the PHIRST group, Stefano Tempia   +20 more
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Neoplastic meningitis

Seminars in Neurology, 2004
Neoplastic meningitis (NM) is a common problem in neuro-oncology occurring in approximately 5% of all patients with cancer, and is the third most common site of CNS metastases. NM is a disease affecting the entire neuraxis, and therefore clinical manifestations are pleomorphic affecting the spine, cranial nerves, and cerebral hemispheres.
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The Establishment and Diversification of Epidemic-Associated Serogroup W Meningococcus in the African Meningitis Belt, 1994 to 2012

mSphere, 2016
Epidemics of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by meningococcal serogroup A have been eliminated from the sub-Saharan African so-called “meningitis belt” by the meningococcal A conjugate vaccine (MACV), and yet, other serogroups continue to ...
Adam C. Retchless, Fang Hu, Abdoul-Salam Ouédraogo, Seydou Diarra, Kristen Knipe, Mili Sheth, Lori A. Rowe, Lassana Sangaré, Absetou Ky Ba, Soumeya Ouangraoua, Dhwani Batra, Ryan T. Novak, Rasmata Ouédraogo Traoré, Xin Wang   +13 more
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Meningitis [PDF]

Infectious disease trading card.Meningitis is an infection of the fluids around the spinal cord or the brain. Either viruses or bacteria cause this infection. People with viral meningitis often aren't very sick, but those with bacterial meningitis almost

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