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Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Medical Virology

Venter, M

BSc (Mol) (Biol) BSc (Hons) MSc (Genetics) PhD (Med Virol) - Associate Professor

NRF Rating: Y2

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Telephone number: 012 319 2660
Fax number: 012 325 5550
E-mail address: marietjiev@nicd.ac.za

Research Interests:

Pathogenesis and diagnosis of West Nile virus in South Africa

Respiratory Viruses associated with acute lower Respiratory tract infections

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Venter M, Steyl J, Human S, Weyer J, Zaayman D, Blumberg L, Leman PA, Paweska J, Swanepoel R: 2010. Transmission of West Nile Virus during horse autopsy. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 16 (3) / Mar, pp 573-575, Full Text

Berkley JA, Munywoki P, Ngama M, Kazungu S, Abwao J, Bett A, Lassauniere MM, Kresfelder TL, Cane PA, Venter M, Scott J, Nokes DJ: 2010. Viral etiology of severe pneumonia among Kenyan infants and children. JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association, 303 (20) / May, pp 2051-2057.

Lassauniere MM, Kresfelder TL, Venter M: 2010. A novel multiplex real-time RT-PCR assay with FRET hybridization probes for the detection and quantitation of 13 respiratory viruses. Journal of Virological Methods, 165, pp 254-260, Full Text

Venter M, Swanepoel R: 2010. West Nile Virus Lineage 2 as a cause of Zoonotic Neurological Disease in humans and horses in southern Africa. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 10 (7), pp 659-664, Full Text

 

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