Immunosuppression and fungal risk among individuals living with HIV

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » “An outbreak of community-aquired Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: Initial manifestation of cellular immune dysfunction” The Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR) reported the first cases of what would become the HIV pandemic in June 1981:...

Plasma collection and preparation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Epidemiology of HIV infection Since the last decade of last century, HIV/AIDS epidemic has become the greatest challenge in global health. Overall the number of HIV infected individuals has regularly increased. In 2012,...

The Inc proteins: key components of the Chlamydia-host cell interaction

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Lymphogranuloma venereum Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is caused by the L1, L2 and L3 serovars of C. trachomatis. In contrast to other serovars, LGV is an invasive biovar, spreading to the lymphatic and subepithelial...

THE HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS AND ITS LINK TO INTRAEPITHELIAL AND INVASIVE CERVICAL NEOPLASIA 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS AND ITS LINK TO INTRAEPITHELIAL AND INVASIVE CERVICAL NEOPLASIA HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE In 1907 the viral aetiology of common warts was established and first described by Giuseppe Ciuffo. It was only...

SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORKS

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Burden and mortality of pneumonia

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction Pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide and causes 18% of all deaths in children less than 5 years of age (Black, Cousens et al. 2010). Respiratory...

Mother-to-child transmission landscape in South Africa

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 3 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Conclusion There is an unacceptably high volume of MDOs within SA’s infant HIV testing programme. More than 17 000 specimens fail to yield either a positive or negative...

INFANTS AFFECTED BY HIV: PROVIDING A FULL PACKAGE OF CARE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The South African early infant diagnosis of HIV (EID) programme South Africa has one of the longest-standing, leading EID programmes globally, and has been providing EID to HIV exposed infants and children since...

HUMAN IMMUNO-DEFICIENCY VIRUS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION Literature review assists to summarize and understand the existing knowledge regarding the topic under study (Sadler, Burgin, McKinney & Ponjuan 2010:235). The literature review in this study serves...

Detection of Acute and Early HIV-1 Infections in an HIV Hyper-Endemic Area with Limited Resources

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 2 Detection of Acute and Early HIV-1 Infections in an HIV Hyper- Endemic Area with Limited Resources The editorial style of the PLOS ONE journal was followed in this chapter – (minor...