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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

Zoonotic viruses

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Venter M, Human S, van Niekerk S, Williams JH, Van Eeden C, Freeman F: 2011. Fatal neurological disease and abortion in mare infected with Lineage 1 West Nile Virus, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17 (8) / Aug, pp 1534-1536, Full Text

Venter M, Lassauniere MM, Kresfelder TL, Westerberg Y, Visser (formely Van Loggerenberg) A: 2011. Contribution of common and recently described respiratory viruses to annual hospitalizations in children in South Africa. Journal of Medical Virology, 83, pp 1458-1469.

Kresfelder TL, Janssen M, Bont L, Venter M: 2011. Confirmation of an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in the VDR Gene with respiratory syncytial virus related disease in South African children. Journal of Medical Virology, 83, pp 1834-1840, Full Text

Van Niekerk S, Venter M: 2011. Replacement of previously circulating Respiratory Syncytial Virus Subtype B strains with the BA genotype in South Africa. Journal of Virology, 85 (17) / Sep, pp 8789-8797, Full Text

Venter M, Van Niekerk S, Rakgantso AM, Bent N: 2011. Identification of Deletion Mutant Respiratory Syncytial virus strains lacking most of the G Protein in immunocompromised children with Pneumonia in South Africa. Journal of Virology, 85 (16) / Aug, pp 8453-8457, Full Text

Nair CH, Brooks WA, Katz M, Roca A, Berkley JA, Madhi SA, Simmerman JM, Gordon A, Sato M, Howie S, Krishnan A, Ope M, Venter M, et al : 2011. Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet, 378 / Dec, pp 1917-1930.

 

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