Author:Boyles, Tom H; Wilkinson, Lynne S; Leisegang, Rory; Maartens, GaryDate:2011The prognosis of patients with HIV in Africa has improved with the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) but these successes are threatened by low rates of long-term retention in care. There are limited data on predictors of retention ...Read morecb
Author:Boyles, Tom H; Black, John; Meintjes, Graeme; Mendelson, MarcDate:2012Isospora belli causes diarrhoea in patients with AIDS. Most respond to targeted therapy and recommendations are that secondary prophylaxis can be stopped following immune reconstitution with ART. We report eight cases of chronic isosporiasis ...Read morecb
Author:Boyles, Tom HDate:2015The mortality rate for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa is approximately 65% [1]. There are no published figures for high-resource settings, but media sources and individual case reports suggest it is much lower and ...Read morecb
Author:Farley, EliseDate:2017Antibiotic resistance (ABR), alternately referred to as antimicrobial resistance, has been labelled as the next big global health crisis. If current levels of ABR continue along the same trajectories, by 2050 ABR will cost the lives of 10 ...Read more
Author:Boyles, Tom H; Cohen, KarenDate:2011The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in 1 765 HIVpositive patients in rural Eastern Cape was 7.1%. This is lower than the previously reported rural prevalence and is similar to urban prevalence. Male sex and baseline alanine ...Read more