Browsing by Subject "Diagnostics"
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Comparative evaluation of molecular-based detection methods for drug resistant tuberculosis
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2022)Tuberculosis (TB) is a globally problematic infectious disease and is currently one of the leading causes of death from any infectious disease worldwide. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is notorious for developing ... -
Development of high resolution melt qPCR assays for detection of Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium and Trypanosoma species
(North-West University (South Africa)North-West University, 2020)Protozoan parasites are amongst the leading diseases causing agents in both animals and humans. Trypanosomosis, cryptosporidiosis and toxoplasmosis are diseases of medical, veterinary and economic importance caused by ... -
Diagnosing emerging fungal threats: a one health perspective
(Frontiers Media, 2018)Emerging fungal pathogens are a growing threat to global health, ecosystems, food security, and the world economy. Over the last century, environmental change and globalized transport, twinned with the increasing application ... -
The ecology of chytrid lineages in southern Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)The inter- and intraspecific diversity of microbial communities is known to be an important, but difficult to disentangle, factor in pathogen ecology. Conspecific or interspecific microbial interactions may result in ... -
Evaluating the impact of pre-diagnostics on an automotive workshop’s operational efficiency
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) is an addition to traditional Activity-Based Costing (ABC). The process of ABC highlights and allocates costs to products providing a more accurate view. However, TDABC focuses ... -
Metabolomics and personalized medicine
(Elsevier, 2016)Current clinical practice strongly relies on the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases using methods determined and averaged for the specific diseased cohort/population. Although this approach complies positively ... -
Metabolomics biomarkers for tuberculosis diagnostics: current status and future objectives
(Future Medicine, 2017)Numerous studies have contributed to our current understanding of the complex biology of pulmonary tuberculosis and subsequently provided solutions to its control or eradication. Metabolomics, a newcomer to the Omics ... -
One after the other: a novel Bluetongue virus strain related to Toggenburg virus detected in the Piedmont region (North‐western Italy), extends the panel of novel atypical BTV strains
(Wiley, 2018)In this rapid communication, a novel atypical bluetongue virus (BTV) strain detected in goats in the Piedmont region (north-western Italy) is described. This strain, BTV-Z ITA2017, is most related in Seg-2/VP-2 (83.8% ... -
A survey of the state of condition-based maintenance (CBM) in the nuclear power industry
(Elsevier, 2018)Condition-based maintenance (CBM) involves undertaking maintenance activities based on the health of the system. CBM has found useful applications in many industries. This paper presents a survey on the state of condition-based ...