Table of Contents
Contents
Contents | |
1-2 |
From the Editor
COVID-19 vaccines – the magic bullet? | |
B Farham | 3 |
Correspondence
HLA and disease: Missing clinical data on laboratory request forms – a missed opportunity | |
W J Janse van Rensburg, A de Kock, C Bester, J F Kloppers | 4 |
Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) ST221 isolated in the microbiome of swine in South Africa | |
L L Founou, R C Founou, M Allam, A Ismail, S Y Essack | 5-6 |
Book reviews
The Butcher of Rosebank: He had more lives than a cat, by Jon Abbott South Africa: Digital Action, 2020. ISBN 978-0-620-89984-0 | |
J P van Niekerk | 7 |
Editorial
Importance of genetic diagnosis in the management of early-onset epilepsies | |
A I Esterhuizen, G L Carvill, K Fieggen, C McIntosh, R S Ramesar, J M Wilmshurst | 8-9 |
In Practice
Long-COVID: An evolving problem with an extensive impact | |
M Mendelson, J Nel, L Blumberg, S A Madhi, M Dryden, W Stevens, F W D Venter | 10-12 |
Maintaining focus on administering effective malaria treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
J Raman, K I Barnes, L Baker, M Blaylock, L Blumberg, J Frean, E Misiani, I S Ukpe | 13-16 |
Paraffin dangers, health and socioeconomic consequences: Urgent need for policy action | |
D Kimemia, A van Niekerk, M Seedat | 17-19 |
Managing the healthcare demand-supply gap during and after COVID-19: The need to review the approach to healthcare priority-setting in South Africa | |
G C Solanki, T Wilkinson, E Daviaud, D Besada, C R Tamandjou Tchuem, S Docrat, S M Cleary | 20-22 |
Do COVID-19 patients needing extended care in an intensive care unit fall under the ‘emergency medical treatment’ provisions of the South African Constitution? | |
D J McQuoid-Mason | 23-25 |
Research
Prostate cancer age-standardised incidence increase between 2006 and 2016 in Gauteng Province, South Africa: A laboratory data-based analysis | |
N Cassim, A Ahmad, R Wadee, T R Rebbeck, D K Glencross, J A George | 26-32 |
Living conditions and respiratory health in Walmer Township and Wells Estate, Port Elizabeth, South Africa | |
J Teare, N Naicker, C Swanepoel, R Street, A Mathee | 33-39 |
Substance use and depressive and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa | |
C P Bonner, T Carney, F A Browne, J W Ndirangu, B N Howard, W M Wechsberg | 40-45 |
Appropriateness of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans in a rural regional hospital in South Africa: A 6-year follow-up study | |
P E Fouche, L S Jenkins, A Vermeulen | 46-51 |
Locked down: Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on trauma presentations to the emergency department | |
A Venter, C M Lewis, P Saffy, L P Chadinha | 52-56 |
Namaqualand hip dysplasia in South Africa: The molecular determinant elucidated | |
G Agenbag, A Vorster, S Julius, R Ramesar, P Beighton | 57-60 |
Dose-related treatment outcomes in South African patients prescribed clofazimine for drug-resistant tuberculosis | |
N Misra, N Padayatchi, P Naidoo | 61-67 |
Factors predicting 6-month retention among people with opioid use disorders accessing outpatient methadone maintenance therapy in Tshwane, South Africa | |
N R Gloeck, B N Harris, E M Webb, A Scheibe | 68-73 |
A multicentre cross-sectional descriptive study evaluating the cardiovascular risk profile of preoperatively identified patients with hypertension | |
S Govender, C Pfister, B Rayner, R Dyer, M Flint, F Roodt, J Davids, M B Nejthardt, J L Swanevelder, E Chiu, E Cloete, V Koller, T Pretorius, Z Fullerton, J Roos, R van Zyl, B M Biccard | 74-79 |
Incidence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among adult HIV-positive patients receiving antiretroviral therapy at Themba Lethu HIV clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
D Onoya, P Manjengwa, C Nattey, S Kgowedi, M Mbele, K Shumba, M P Fox | 80-86 |
CPD
CPD Questions | |