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Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Medical Virology

Janse van Rensburg, E

MBChB; MMed ; PhD - Head of Department

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Telephone number: 012 319 2351
Fax number: 012 325 5550
E-mail address: estrelita.jansevanrensburg@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

HIV/AIDS: Genetic aspects of HIV-1 risk in an African setting and HIV-1 viral diversity

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Loxton AG, Treurnicht F, Laten A, Janse van Rensburg E, Engelbrecht S: 2005. Sequence analysis of near full-length HIV type 1 Subtype D primary strains isolated in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1984 - 1986. Aids Research and Human Retroviruses, 21 (5), pp 410-413.

De Oliveira t, Deforche K, Cassol SA, Salminen M, Paraskevis D, Seebregts C, Snoeck J, Janse van Rensburg E, Wensing AMJ, van de Vijver DA, Boucher CA, Camacho R, Vandamme A: 2005. An Automated Genotyping system for analysis of HIV-1 and other microbial sequences. Bioinformatics, 21 (19) / Oct, pp 3797-3800.

Petersen DC, Glashoff RH, Shrestha S, Bergeron J, Laten A, Gold B, Janse van Rensburg E, Dean M, Hayes VM: 2005. Risk for HIV-1 infection associated with a common CXCL 1 2 (SDF1) Polymorphism and CXCR4 variation in an African populationl. JAIDS-Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 40 (5) / Dec, pp 521-526.

Lian Y, Srivastava I, Gomez-Roman VR, Megede zur , Sun Y, Kan E, Hilt S, Engelbrecht S, Himathongkham S, Luciw PA, Otton G, Ulmer JB, Donnelly JJ, Rabussay D, Montefiori D, Janse van Rensburg E, Barnett SW: 2005. Evaluation of envelope vaccines derived from the South African Subtype C Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 TV1 strain. Journal of Virology, 79 (21) / Nov, pp 13338-13349.

Scriba TJ, Megede zur , Glashoff RH, Treurnicht FK, Barnett SW, Janse van Rensburg E: 2005. Functionally-inactive and immunogenic Tat, Rev and Nef DNA vaccines derived from sub-Saharan subtype C human immunodeficiency virus type 1 consensus sequences. Vaccine, 23, pp 1158-1169.

 

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