Evaluation of the malaria case surveillance system in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 2022: a focus on DHIS2.

Background: South Africa set a target to eliminate malaria by 2023, with KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province the malaria-endemic province closest to achieving this goal. Objective two of the National Malaria Elimination Strategic Plan (NMESP) focused on strengthening surveillance systems to support the country's elimination efforts. Regular evaluations of the malaria surveillance systems against the targets of the NMESP objective are crucial in improving their performance and impact.

Risk factors for breast cancer among women in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng province of South Africa, 2017‒2020: a case-control study.

Introduction: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women in South Africa (SA), with an age-standardised incidence rate of 52.6 and an age-standardised mortality rate of 16.0 per 100,000 population.

Etiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Pathogens Associated with Urinary Tract Infections among Women Attending Antenatal Care in Four South African Tertiary-Level Facilities, 2015-2019.

In South Africa, uncomplicated community-acquired UTIs (CA-UTIs) are treated empirically; however, the extent of antibiotic resistance among these pathogens is not well known. We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study of women attending ANCs at four tertiary public-sector hospitals in Gauteng. Female patients aged 15-49 years, with urine cultures performed between January 2015 and December 2019, were included.

Spatiotemporal expression analysis of Prdm1 and Prdm1 binding partners in early chick embryo.

Prdm1 is a global repressor of transcription that plays multiple important roles during embryonic development, including neural crest specification. Prdm1 acts by repressing large sets of genes via sequence-specific recruitment of co-repressors, many of which are epigenetic modifiers. It is not known whether Prdm1 is expressed during neural crest development in chick embryo.