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Castleman’s disease in the HIV-endemic setting
(Dovepress, 2018)
Castleman’s disease (CD), first described by Benjamin Castleman in 1954, is a
giant or angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia, described as a rare monotypic polyclonal B-cell
lymphoproliferative disorder with an incompletely ...
Effectiveness of sms technology on timely community health worker follow-up for childhood malnutrition: A retrospective cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa
(U.S. Agency for International Development, 2018)
The Millennium Villages Project facilitated technology-based health interventions in rural under-resourced areas of subSaharan Africa. Our study examined whether data entry using SMS compared with paper forms by community ...
Reproductive health situation in South Africa: Emerging policy issue
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
South Africa is still lagging behind with health outcomes, especially when it comes to accessing treatment,
prevention and care for reproductive health issues despite the significant progress made with regard to
certain ...
Water futures and solutions: Options to enhance water security in sub-Saharan Africa
(Springer, Cham, 2018)
Water security is one of the greatest health, ecological, environmental, and human rights challenges of our time. Africa sits at the epicenter of this quandary, with the need to build resilience into already over allocated ...
Establishing the link between urban land cover change and the proliferation of aquatic hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2018)
Urbangrowthisakeyprocessaffectingthefunctioningofnaturalecosystems,andconsequentlythegloballand-surface process. This work aimed at establishing the link between land cover changes around HarareMetropolitancityandtheprol ...
Epidemiology and outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection among hospitalised patients: results of a multicentre retrospective study in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
INTRODUCTION Limited data exist on Clostridium difficile
infection (CDI) in low-resource settings and settings with
high prevalence of HIV. We aimed to determine baseline
CDI patient characteristics and management and ...
Synthesis and characterization of two new TiO2-containing benzothiazole-based imine composites for organic device applications
(Beilstein-Institut, 2018)
The effect of the presence of titanium dioxide in two new imines, (E,E)-(butane-1,4-diyl)bis(oxybutane-4,1-diyl) bis(4-
{[(benzo[d][1,3]thiazol-2-yl)methylidene]amino}benzoate) (SP1) and (E)-N-[(benzo[d][1,3]thiazol-2-y ...
Radon-222 measurements at Cape Point: A characterization of a 15-year time series
(National Association for Clean Air, 2018)
The Cape Point (CPT) Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) research
station have been monitoring climatically significant trace
gases for four decades. Among these is radon, a naturally
occurring noble gas with a large continental ...
Ecosystem engineering by hummock-building earthworms in seasonal wetlands of eastern South Africa: Insights into the mechanics of biomorphodynamic feedbacks in wetland ecosystems
(Wiley, 2018)
This paper resolves the origin of clay hummock micro-topography in seasonal wetlands of the Drakensberg Foothills,
providing a review and appraisal of previously-suggested mechanisms of hummock formation in the context ...
Prediction of human-Bacillus anthracis protein–protein interactions using multi-layer neural network
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
Triplet amino acids have successfully been included in feature selection to predict
human-HPV protein-protein interactions (PPI). The utility of supervised learning methods is
curtailed due to experimental data not being ...