Browsing by Subject "Coronavirus"

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    • A call for action to safely deliver oral health care during and post COVID-19 pandemic 

      Mulder, Riaan; Farronato, Marco; Tadakamadla, Santosh Kumar (MPDI, 2020)
      The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak started just a couple of months ago and it grew rapidly causing several deaths and morbidities. The mechanism behind the transmission of the virus ...

    • Cellular Characterization of SARS Coronavirus Nucleocapsid 

      Goh, Phuay-Yee; Choi, Yook-Wah; Shen, Shuo; Tan, Yee-Joo; Fielding, Burtram C.; Tan, Timothy H.P.; O, Eng-Eong; Lim, Seng Gee; Hong, Wanjin (Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, 2004)
      The Severe and Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) is a newly-emerged virus that caused an outbreak of atypical pneumonia in the winter of 2002-2003. Polyclonal antibodies raised against the nucleocapsid (N) ...

    • Circuit breakers the mini lockdown needed for hotspots 

      Fielding, Burtram C. (SABC, 2020)
      Circuit breakers form part of five-point plan from the department of health that Premier Alan Winde be presented to the provincial cabinet on Tuesday for adoption. Professor Burtram Fielding, molecular biologist and ...

    • Covid-19 and cancer therapy: Interrelationships and management of cancer cases in the era of Covid-19 

      Mbugua, Simon N.; Njenga, Lydia W.; Onani, Martin O. (Hindawi, 2021)
      'e COVID-19 global epidemic poses this generation’s biggest worldwide public health challenge probably since the 1918 influenza epidemic. Recent reports on two new variants have triggered a dramatic upsurge in research ...

    • COVID-19 risk factors among health workers: A rapid review 

      Mhango, Malizgani; Dzobo, Mathias; Chitungo, Itai (Elsevier, 2020)
      Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) poses an important occupational health risk to health workers (HWs) that has attracted global scrutiny. To date, several thousand HWs globally have been reported as infected with the ...

    • COVID-19 schools of thought 

      Fielding, Burtram C. (SABC, 2020)
      Interview with Prof Bertram C. Fielding.

    • Current perspectives in the discovery of newer medications against the outbreak of Covid-19 

      Ramesh, M.; Anand, Krishnan; Shahbaaz, Mohd (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      A rapid and increasing spread of COVID-19 pandemic disease has been perceived worldwide in 2020. The current COVID-19 disease outbreak is due to the spread of SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that ...

    • District-based approach won't contain COVID-19 in WC – UWC virologist 

      Palm, Kaylynn (EYEWITNESS NEWS, 2020)
      CAPE TOWN - A University of the Western Cape (UWC) virologist believes a district-based approach will not contain the spread of the coronavirus in the Western Cape. Last week, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said government ...

    • The evolving role of science in society 

      Odman, Carolina (José Frantz, 2020)
      The world is experiencing a traumatic change brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is traumatic because it is sudden and affects everyone around the globe at once. Nothing like this has ever happened so rapidly before, ...

    • Genome sequencing of a severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 isolate obtained from a South African patient with Coronavirus disease 2019 

      Cloete, Ruben; Allam, Mushal M.; Khumalo, Zamantungwa T.H. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020)
      As a contribution to the global efforts to track and trace the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, here we present the sequence, phylogenetic analysis, and modeling of nonsynonymous mutations for a severe acute respiratory ...

    • Over-expression of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3b protein induces both apoptosis and necrosis in Vero E6 cells 

      Khan, Sehaam; Fielding, Burtram C.; Tan, Timothy H.P.; Chou, Chih-Fong; Shou, Shen; Lim, Seng Gee; Hong, Wanjin; Tan, Yee-Joo (Elsevier, 2006)
      The genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus encodes for eight accessory viral proteins with no known homologues in other coronaviruses. One of these is the 3b protein, which is encoded by the second ...

    • Possible biological explanations for kids’ escape from COVID-19 

      King, Anthony (The scientist, 2020)
      Since SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, was first recognized as a close cousin of the virus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2003, scientists have looked to the experience of that earlier epidemic ...

    • South Africa: Challenges and successes of the COVID-19 lockdown 

      Stiegler, Nancy; Bouchard, Jean Pierre (Elsevier, 2020)
      At the beginning of March 2020, South Africa (59 million inhabitants) was hit by the pandemic of COVID-19 and soon became the most affected country in Africa by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. From one single case on March 5th, the ...

    • Spektrum 10 Desember 2020 

      Fielding, Burtram C. (SABC, 2020)
      Die Minister van Gesondheid, dr. Zweli Mkhize, sê Suid-Afrika ondervind amptelik sy tweede vlaag van COVID-19-infeksies. Ons het by ‘n kenner gaan hoor wat dit inhou in die onmiddelike stryd teen die virus. Die DA pronk ...

    • Staying ahead of the bugs 

      Fielding, Burtram Clinton (FINWEEK, 2020)
      In a recent interview on his The DnilySlww, Jon Stewart asked astrophysicist Neil dcGrassc Tyson why the universe is trying to kill us, this in reference to the near-miss meteor event a few months ago. The universe - ...

    • Tin Roof owner adamant venue not source of Covid-19 ’superspreader event’ 

      Spiller, Sam (Independent Online, 2020)
      Cape Town - A large number of Covid-19 cases among high school pupils tracked to a bar in Cape Town has raised questions about social gatherings and easing of lockdown. James Truter, owner of the Tin Roof bar in Claremont, ...

    • Understanding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of SARS-CoV-2 

      Sibuyi, Nicole Remaliah Samantha; Fadaka, Adewale Oluwaseun; Adewale, Olusola Bolaji (SAGE, 2020)
      The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019 has resulted in over 20 million cases and 741,808 deaths globally, affecting more than 200 countries. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 ...

    • UWC Prof Burtram Fielding 

      Fielding, Burtram C. (SABC, 2020)
      Radio interview with Prof Burtram C. Fielding Radio Sonder Grense (RSG)