Keynote Address:

COVID19: The experiences from the Tygerberg Virology Lab

Dr T. Mapongo 

Keynote Address:

COVID19: The experiences from the Tygerberg Virology Lab

Dr T. Mapongo

Development of a functional metagenomics approach for human gut resistome analysis.

Amanda-Jo Venter 

The association between a plant-based diet and cardiovascular disease risk.

Tatum Lopes

The isolation and propagation of SARS-CoV-2: A skill in the fighting of a pandemic.

Andrew Sutherland

The incidence and factors associated with bone marrow involvement in lymphoma staging bone marrow examination from 2015-2019: a cross-sectional retrospective descriptive study.

Kingsley Lohlun 

Molecular characterization and transmission dynamics of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales at Tygerberg Hospital.

Moloto Kedisaletse   

Performance of urine methaqualone (mandrax) rapid test strips and effects of suspected drug interferences.

Kelebogile Moremi

Transfer of the SARS-CoV-2 Allplex™ assay from the laboratory-based CFX96 real-time RT-QPCR instrument to the portable paradna point-of-care device using heat-inactivated saliva samples.

Moremi Kelebogile

Inflammatory cytokine levels and lymphocyte subset distribution in multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children cases at Tygerberg Hospital.

Edwin Mohlake 

Characterisation of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein b genotypes in clinical samples at Tygerberg Hospital, Division of Medical Virology.

Nothukela Mpanzi

The occurrence of drug resistance-associated mutations among viraemic Hepatitis B samples obtained from the OX-SA Hep B cohort study participants.

Bongani Mkhize 

The role of fluoroquinolone-induced bacterial stress responses in the development of antimicrobial resistance.

Chante Brand

Investigating meningitis in cases of sudden and unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) at the Tygerberg Medico-legal mortuary in the Eastern metropole of Cape Town.

Simone-Odette Nortje

Full-length genome sequencing of the Hepatitis E virus among South African patients.

Bronwyn Roberts

Variable functional phenotypes of inherited IL-12 receptor variants in patients with mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease.

Ansia Van Coller

Thrombophagocytosis by neutrophils as a spurious cause of thrombocytopenia.

Thinus Dicks

Imatinib resistance: evaluating the role of pharmacogenetic variability in a South African chronic myeloid leukemia cohort.

Chantal de Long

Re-decontamination of liquid mycobacterial cultures: additional Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture yield in the era of Xpert MTb/Rif ultra®.

Dawood da Costa

The characterization of virulence in Coagulase-negative Staphylococci causing neonatal sepsis at Tygerberg Hospital.

Stephanie Cloete

Reference intervals for biochemical analytes in transgender individuals on hormone therapy.

Morne Bezuidenhout

Two-step algorithm: an acceptable alternative for detecting Clostridiodes difficile in resource limited-settings.

Sarishna Singh

Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for the detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens at Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape.

Malefu Moleleki

Keynote Address:

POPIA: Implications for Clinical Research

Dr L. Nair

Keynote Address:

POPIA: Implications for Clinical Research

Dr L. Nair

Evaluation of an innovative new method for the quantitation of plasma cells on CD138 immunohistochemistry.

Ethan Gantana

All you need to know about:
Sudden unexpected death in infancy research in South Africa.

Hameer Vanmali

Calprotectin (S100 A8/A9) as a marker of inflammation and treatment monitoring in cases of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Christine Evert

Variation in diagnostic requests and outcomes for hereditary thrombophilia over testing and under testing.

Shareefa Isaacs

E. coli subtyping of gastrointestinal samples from cases of sudden and unexpected death in infancy at the Tygerberg Medico-legal mortuary.

Danielle Cupido

The carriage of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance genes in children from Cape Town communities.

Danielle Wilck

Grey platelet syndrome in a COVID-19 patient: A case study.

Keshanya Moodley

Application of personalised medicine using an integrated service and research (PM-ISR) approach extending from somatic to germline TP53 variant detection.

Kelebogile Moremi

The plot thickens – case report of a hyper viscous sample.

Razia Banderker

The gut mycobiota of young South African children: insights revealed by next-generation sequencing.

Kristien Nel van Zyl 

Antibiotic resistant Staphylococci in South Africa – A one health approach.

Remous Ocloo

Comparative assessment of multiple serological assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

Liret Swanepoel

Haematological findings in adult patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection at Tygerberg hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

Helena Cornelissen

Investigating the synergystic effect of silver nanoparticles with third generation cephalosporins against Acinetobacter baumannii.

Luzell Britz

The initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new cancer diagnoses at the National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg Hospital.

Abraham van Wyk

Milheiriço PCR based SCCmec typing scheme for the characterisation of Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-negative Staphylococci.

Farron Brooks

A rare case of bone marrow based diagnosis of a mature large B-cell neoplasm with flow cytometry pitfalls.

Kingsley Lohlun

The role of accessory gene regulator systems on biofilm formation and stress response in Staphylococcus aureus.

Kgomotso Maleka 

Investigating associations between sociodemographic factors and Human Rhinovirus infection in SUDI cases at Tygerberg Medico-legal Mortuary, within the East Metropole region of Cape Town. 

Hameer Vanmali