UPDATE ON SNAKEBITE ANTIVENOM SHORTAGE
Contrary to the recent media reports that there is no snakebite antivenom in the country, there is snakebite antivenom available in South Africa and more snakebite antivenom doses are being manufactured. We have scaled [...]
The teaching programme includes the training of medical technologists and technicians in association with the universities of technology. The training of undergraduate and postgraduate medical, dental and other health professionals is done through the pathology and public health departments based at the medical and dental schools.
NEW COVID-19 VARIANT DETECTED IN SOUTH AFRICA
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, confirms that through collaborative efforts with private laboratories and the NGS-SA members, a new COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, has been detected in [...]
SARS-COV-2 VARIANT OF INTEREST, MU (21H / B.1.621)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently (30 August 2021) classified the PANGO lineage B.1.621 (nextclade assignment: 21H) as a variant of interest (VOI) and assigned it the Greek name “Mu”. This variant was [...]
DETECTION AND FREQUENCY OF THE C.1.2 MUTATED SARS-COV-2 LINEAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA), which includes the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), KRISP at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), University of Cape Town (UCT), Stellenbosch University (SUN), the [...]
Research conducted covers a wide spectrum of activities in the pathology and surveillance disciplines. The research agenda covers the priority diseases within South Africa, such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, pneumococcal infections, occupational health, screening for cervical cancer and malnutrition.
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