Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Paediatrics Kalafong
Kruger, M
MBChB(Pret) MMed(Paed)(Pret) PhD(Leuven) MPhil Toegepaste Etiek(Stel) (Cum Laude) - Senior Specialist / Head
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 373 1008
Fax number: 012 373 7977
E-mail address: mariana.kruger@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Audit of the response to antiretroviral therapy in therapy-naïve HIV-infected children at Kalafong hospital
The socio-economic profile and support structures of HIV infected and HIV exposed children cared for at Kalafong hospital, Pretoria
Improving the diagnosis of HIV in children born to HIV infected mothers
Cardiac involvement in newly diagnosed HIV infected children and the effect of HAART on cardiac disease
Unlicensed or off label drug use in Paediatric practice: A Survey
Booster Hepatitis B Vaccination in previously vaccinated HIV-Infected children
Growth, nutrition and health in HIV exposed children in South Africa
The use of over-the-counter medications among children
HIV
Oncology
To assess the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of three doses of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals’ oral live attenuated human rotavirus (HRV) vaccine
Human Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix)
Research Ethics
Placebo and Clinical Trials - PACT
The medical and social characteristics of HIV-infected children
Severe adverse events in children started on antiretroviral therapy at Kalafong hospital
Food as medicine and medicine as food: Antiretroviral Therapy and Nutritional Supplementation in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Children in South Africa
Effects Of Food Insecurity on Growth of Children Born to HIV Infected Mothers
Assessing neurodevelopment in HIV infected children under the age of three years at Kalafong Hospital
Association between infection and cancer among children in Southern Africa
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Pavlov D, van Zyl WB, Kruger M, Blignaut L, Grabow WOK, Ehlers MM: 2006. Poliovirus vaccine strains detected in stool specimens of immunodeficient children in South Africa. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 54, pp 23-30.
Pavlov D, van Zyl WB, van Heerden J, Kruger M, Blignaut L, Grabow WOK, Ehlers MM: 2006. Prevalence of vaccine-derived polioviruses in stools of immunodeficient children in South Africa. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 101, pp 1367-1379.
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