Internal Research Units

Biostatistics

• Wright GEB, Niehaus DJH, van der Merwe L, Koen L, Korkie LJ, Kinnear CJ, Drögemöller BI, Warnich L. Association of MB-COMT polymorphisms with schizophrenia-susceptibility and symptom severity in an African cohort. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 2012; 39(1):163-9. (Online)
  
• Manda SOM, Gale CP, Hall AS, Gilthorpe MS. Statistical profiling of hospital performance using acute coronary syndrome mortality. Cardiovascular Journal of Africa. 2012 Nov; 23(10): 546-551. (Online)

Environment

• Channa KR, Röllin HB, Wilson KS, Nøst TH, Odland JØ, Naik I, Sandanger TM. Regional variation in pesticide concentrations in plasma of delivering women residing in rural Indian Ocean coastal regions of South Africa. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 2012; 14(11):2952-60. (Online)

Gender

• Gevers A, Jewkes R, Mathews C, Flisher A. ‘I think it's about experiencing, like, life’: a qualitative exploration of contemporary adolescent intimate relationships in South Africa. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2012; 14(10):1125-37. (Online)

Health Promotion

• Nyembezi A, Resnicow K, James S, Funani I, Sifunda S, Ruiter RAC, Van Den Borne B, Sanders-Phillips K, Reddy P. The association between ethnic identity and sexual coercion among young men in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Health Psychology. 2012;17(7):1089-94. (Online)

Health Systems

• Nor B, Ahlberg BM, Doherty T, Zembe Y, Jackson D, Ekström EC. Mother's perceptions and experiences of infant feeding within a community-based peer counselling intervention in South Africa. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2012;8(4):448-58 (Online)
• Zembe W, Doherty T, Sanders D, Jackson D, Chopra M, Swanevelder S, Lombard C, Surender R. Why do families still not receive the child support grant in South Africa? A longitudinal analysis of a cohort of families across South Africa. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 2012; 12: 24. (Online)
• Naik R, Tabana H, Doherty T, Zembe W, Jackson D. Client characteristics and acceptability of a home-based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2012 Sep 25;12:824. (Online)

HIV Prevention

• Ramjee G, Wand H. Population-level impact of hormonal contraception on incidence of HIV infection and pregnancy in women in Durban, South Africa. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2012; 90(10):748-55. (Online)
• Ramjee G, Wand H, Whitaker C, McCormack S, Padian N, Kelly C, Nunn A. HIV incidence among non-pregnant women living in selected rural, semi-rural and Urban areas in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. 2012; 16(7):2062-71. (Online)
• Van Der Straten A, Montgomery ET, Cheng H, Wegner L, Masenga G, Von Mollendorf C, Bekker L, Ganesh S, Young K, Romano J, Nel A, Woodsong C. High acceptability of a vaginal ring intended as a microbicide delivery method for HIV prevention in African women. AIDS and Behavior. 2012; 16(7):1775-86. (Online)
• Montgomery ET, Van Der Straten A, Cheng H, Wegner L, Masenga G, Von Mollendorf C, Bekker L, Ganesh S, Young K, Romano J, Nel A, Woodsong C. Vaginal ring adherence in sub-saharan Africa: Expulsion, removal, and perfect use. AIDS and Behavior. 2012;16(7):1787-98. (Online)

Malaria

• Maharaj R, Maharaj V, Crouch NR, Bhagwandin N, Folb PI, Pillay P, Gayaram R. Screening of selected ethnomedicinal plants from South Africa for larvicidal activity against the mosquito Anopheles arabiensis. Malaria Journal. 2012;11:320. (Online)

National Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease

• Kengne AP, Czernichow S, Stamatakis E, Hamer M, Batty GD. Gamma-glutamyltransferase and risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in people with and without diabetes: Pooling of three British Health Surveys. Journal of Hepatology. 2012; 57(5):1083-9. (Online)
• Echouffo-Tcheugui JB, Kengne AP. Risk Models to Predict Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Progression: A Systematic Review. PLoS Medicine. 2012; 9(11):e1001344. (Online)
• Erasmus RT, Soita DJ, Hassan MS, Blanco-Blanco E, Vergotine Z, Kengne AP, Matsha TE. High prevalence of diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome in a South African coloured population: Baseline data of a study in Bellville, Cape Town. South African Medical Journal. 2012; 102(11):841-4. (Online)
• Kaze FF, Ashuntantang G, Kengne AP, Hassan A, Halle MP, Muna W. Acute hemodialysis complications in end-stage renal disease patients: The burden and implications for the under-resourced Sub-Saharan African health systems. Hemodialysis International. 2012; 16(4):526-31. (Online)

PROMEC

• Shephard GS, Rheeder JP, Van Der Westhuizen L. Effect of the traditional cooking practice on fumonisin content of maize porridge consumed in the former Transkei region of South Africa. World Mycotoxin Journal. 2012;5(4):405-7. (Online)

SA Cochrane Centre

• Wiysonge CS, Bradley HA, Volmink J, Mayosi BM, Mbewu A, Opie LH. Beta-blockers for hypertension. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2012, Issue 11. Art. No.: CD002003. (Online)

Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Intervention

• Dalton T, Cegielski P, Akksilp S, Asencios L, Caoili JC, Cho SN, Erokhin VV, Ershova J, Gler MT, Kazennyy BY, Kim HJ, Kliiman K, Kurbatova E, Kvasnovsky C, Leimane V, Van Der Walt M, Via LE, Volchenkov GV, Yagui MA, Kang H. Prevalence of and risk factors for resistance to second-line drugs in people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in eight countries: A prospective cohort study. The Lancet. 2012;380(9851):1406-17. (Online)

External Research Units

Anxiety and Stress Disorders

• Grant JE, Odlaug BL, Chamberlain SR, Keuthen NJ, Lochner C, Stein DJ. Skin picking disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2012;169(11):1143-9. (Online)

Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Barnard M, Gey Van Pittius NC, Van Helden PD, Bosman M, Coetzee G, Warren RM. The diagnostic performance of the GenoType MTBDRplus version 2 line probe assay is equivalent to that of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2012;50(11):3712-6. (Online)
• Cohen T, van Helden PD, Wilson D, Colijn C, McLaughlin MM, Abubakar I, Warren RM. Mixed-strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections and the implications for tuberculosis treatment and control. Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 2012;25(4):708-19. (Online)
• Le Roex N, Noyes H, Brass A, Bradley DG, Kemp SJ, Kay S, van Helden PD, Hoal EG. Novel SNP Discovery in African Buffalo, Syncerus caffer, Using High-Throughput Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(11):e48792. (Online)

Developmental Pathways

• Pettifor JM, Thandrayen K. Hypophosphatemic rickets: Unraveling the role of FGF23. Calcified Tissue International. 2012;91(5):297-306. (Online)
• Crowther NJ, Norris SA. The Current Waist Circumference Cut Point Used for the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in Sub-Saharan African Women Is Not Appropriate. PLoS ONE. 2012; 7(11):e48883. (Online)

Diarrhoeal Pathogens Research Unit

• Steele AD, Neuzil KM, Cunliffe NA, Madhi SA, Bos P, Ngwira B, Witte D, Todd S, Louw C, Kirsten M, Aspinall S, Van Doorn LJ, Bouckenooghe A, Suryakiran PV, Han HH. Human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix™ provides protection against diverse circulating rotavirus strains in African infants: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2012; 12;213. (Online)

Exercise and Sports Medicine

• Nell EM, Van Der Merwe L, Cook J, Handley CJ, Collins M, September AV. The apoptosis pathway and the genetic predisposition to Achilles tendinopathy. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 2012; 30(11):1719-24. (Online)
• Shultz SJ, Schmitz RJ, Benjaminse A, Chaudhari AM, Collins M, Padua DA. ACL Research Retreat VI: An update on ACL injury risk and prevention. Journal of Athletic Training. 2012; 47(5):591-603. (Online)
• Curry JW, Hohl R, Noakes TD, Kohn TA. High oxidative capacity and type IIx fibre content in springbok and fallow deer skeletal Muscle suggest fast sprinters with a resistance to fatigue. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2012;215(22):3997-4005. (Online)

Inflammation and Immunity

• Hodkinson B, Meyer PWA, Musenge E, Ally M, Anderson R, Tikly M. Exaggerated circulating Th-1 cytokine response in early rheumatoid arthritis patients with nodules. Cytokine. 2012;60(2):561-4. (Online)
• Hodkinson B, Musenge E, Ally M, Meyer PWA, Anderson R, Tikly M. Functional disability and health-related quality of life in South Africans with early rheumatoid arthritis. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 2012;41(5):366-74. (Online)

Medical Imaging

• Patel B, Douglas TS. Creating a virtual slide map from sputum smear images for region-of-interest localisation in automated microscopy. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2012;108(1):38-52. (Online)

Receptor Biology

• Grachev P, Li XF, Kinsey-Jones JS, Di Domenico AL, Millar RP, Lightman SL, O'Byrne K. Suppression of the GnRH pulse generator by neurokinin B involves a κ-opioid receptor-dependent mechanism. Endocrinology. 2012;153(10):4894-904. (Online)
• Grachev P, Li XF, Lin YS, Hu MH, Elsamani L, Paterson SJ, Millar RP, Lightman SL, O'Byrne KT. GPR54-Dependent Stimulation of Luteinizing Hormone Secretion by Neurokinin B in Prepubertal Rats. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(9):e44344. (Online)
• Sonigo C, Bouilly J, Carre N, Tolle V, Caraty A, Tello J, Simony-Conesa FJ, Millar R, Young J, Binart N. Hyperprolactinemia-induced ovarian acyclicity is reversed by kisspeptin administration. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2012;122(10):3791-5. (Online)

Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens

• Crowther-Gibson P, Cohen C, Klugman KP, De Gouveia L, Von Gottberg A. Risk factors for multidrug-resistant invasive pneumococcal disease in South Africa, a setting with high HIV prevalence, in the prevaccine era from 2003 to 2008. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2012;56(10):5088-95. (Online)
• Moodley C, Du Plessis M, Ndlangisa K, De Gouveia L, Klugman KP, Von Gottberg A. Clonal analysis of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strains in South Africa, 2002 to 2006: Emergence of new clone ST-4240/6688. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2012;50(11):3678-86. (Online)
• Grabenstein JD, Klugman KP. A century of pneumococcal vaccination research in humans. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 2012;18(Suppl. 5):15-24. (Online)

Rural Public Health and Health Transition Public Health and Health

• Schatz E, Gómez-Olivé X, Ralston M, Menken J, Tollman S. The impact of pensions on health and wellbeing in rural South Africa: Does gender matter? Social Science and Medicine. 2012; 75(10):1864-73. (Online)