Image use in aphasia rehabilitation: Practices of speech-language pathologists in South Africa and international contexts.

Purpose: The study aimed to explore speech-language pathologists' practices regarding image selection and use in the treatment of people living with aphasia. Images are widely utilised with people living with aphasia, however, supporting their communication optimally remains challenging.

Method: Ninety-two speech-language pathologists from South Africa, Australia, USA, and the UK completed a custom-designed online survey.

Youth exposure to violence and victimization in a South African community sample.

Background: Studies show that youth in low socioeconomic communities suffer significant disturbances in mental and emotional health because of exposure to violence and peer victimisation, manifesting in internalising disorders such as depression, anxiety and traumatic stress.

Aim: To examine the relation between risks and exposure to community violence and peer victimisation.

Setting: Low socioeconomic communities in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

In silico design of multi-epitope adhesin protein vaccines.

(Mtb) adhesin proteins are promising candidates for subunit vaccine design. Multi-epitope Mtb vaccine and diagnostic candidates were designed using immunoinformatic tools. The antigenic potential of 26 adhesin proteins were determined using VaxiJen 2.

Tuberculosis in otherwise healthy adults with inherited TNF deficiency.

Severe defects in human IFNγ immunity predispose individuals to both Bacillus Calmette-Guérin disease and tuberculosis, whereas milder defects predispose only to tuberculosis. Here we report two adults with recurrent pulmonary tuberculosis who are homozygous for a private loss-of-function TNF variant. Neither has any other clinical phenotype and both mount normal clinical and biological inflammatory responses.