Author:le Roux, DavidDate: 2022Background Child pneumonia is a substantial cause of childhood mortality and morbidity; it is the largest single cause of under-5 mortality outside the neonatal period. Incidence of child pneumonia, and pneumonia mortality, have decreased ...Read more
Author:Claassen, ShantelleDate:2015Background: Meconium microbiota have recently gained great interest; however very few studies have included meconium specimens when longitudinally characterizing the infant GIT microbiota. This study therefore aimed to longitudinally characterize ...Read more
Author:Manenzhe, Rendani InnocentDate:2015Background: The prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) - and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in healthy humans in the community is largely unknown. We aimed to determine the prevalence and genetic characteristics of ...Read more
Author:Duyver, MennaDate:2015Introduction: The indoor home environment comprises many niches that are occupied by bacterial communities. The composition of these bacterial communities may be influenced by numerous factors such as number of occupants, pets, season and ...Read more
Author:Sarkar, RajeshDate:2013The genome structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is strongly clonal, in the absence of horizontal gene transfer. Thus it is feasible that clonal lineages may exhibit particular phenotypic characteristics, which may, in turn, result in ...Read more
Author:Manenzhe, Rendani InnocentDate:2019Introduction: Nasopharyngeal (NP) colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) precedes the development of respiratory tract infection. Colonization by antimicrobial-resistant pneumococci, especially in infants, is a major ...Read more
Author:Milovic, AnaDate:2010There is a clear need for a rapid, inexpensive point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB). The aim of this study was to analyze the performance of a novel rapid diagnostic test for TB, GeneXpert MTB/RIF, in symptomatic adults and to ...Read more
Author:Ojo, Anna OlutoyinDate:2019Human breast milk is a complex species-specific biological fluid universally known as the optimal postnatal source of nutrition for infants and therefore, recommended by the World Health Organization as the exclusive food for infants in the ...Read more