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SATuRN output: reports, clinical cases & publications

Here we provide you with HIV & TB drug resistance information in the form of reports, clinical cases, tweets and publications.
In this new section of the bioafrica.net website, physicians, researchers and public health officials can learn about our drug resistance work and its application to the management of patients failing ARVs and anti-TB therapies.

Reports


SATuRN Collaborates on a Successful Molecular Diagnostics in HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Zimbabwe, 6-9 Aug 2013

By Justen Manasa - 2013-08-21
SATuRN 2013 report


SATuRN and Khethimpilo HIV Drug Resistance and Clinical Management Workshop Report, Durban, 11-12 July 2013

By Dean Solomon and Tulio de Oliveira - 2013-08-01
SATuRN 2013 report


Major data analysis determines the trends of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations in South Africa.

By Tulio de Oliveira - 2013-07-01
SATuRN report 2013


Transferring knowledge and skills to frontline medical personnel fighting the HIV & TB epidemics in rural South Africa

By Tulio de Oliveira, Justen Manasa, Richard Lessells - 2013-03-16
SATuRN 2013 report


Bioafrica.net & SATuRN webpages received 186,746 visits in the past 12 months!

By Tulio de Oliveira - 2013-02-26
SATuRN 2013 report


Clinical Case Study: The Diagnosis and Management of First-line Antiretroviral Treatment Failure

By Theresa Rossouw, Tulio de Oliveira & Richard Lessells - 2013-01-16
SATuRN 2012 report


2nd Nurses and Health Care Workers Drug Resistance Training for the scale-up of resistance testing in the Free State Province, South Africa

By Dominique Goedhals & Cloete van Vuuren - 2012-07-10
SATuRN 2012 report

SATuRN output, 15 minutes, All reports...

Clinical Cases

HIV Case 1 - Adult female with virological failure on first line d4T/3TC/EFV
HIV Case 2 - Adult female patient with virological failure on first line therapy after substitution of EFV to NVP
HIV Case 3 - Adult female patient on treatment for epilepsy with virological failure on TDF/3TC/EFV; previous single dose NVP for PMTCT
HIV Case 4 - Adult female patient with virological and immunological failure after treatment interruption for symptomatic hyperlactataemia
HIV Case 5 - Adolescent initiated on first line therapy of d4T/3TC/EFV with virological and immunological failure
HIV Case 6 - Adult male patient with adverse effects and multiple ARV treatment switches. No virological response to LPV/r based second line therapy
HIV Case 7 - Adolescent case with adherence and toxicity problems
HIV Case 8 - Adult patient initiated on first line d4T/3TC/EFV with low CD4+ cell count (34 cells/ul) and concurrent TB treatment

Publications

Hybrid versus vaccine immunity of mRNA-1273 among people living with HIV in East and Southern Africa: a prospective cohort analysis from the multicentre CoVPN 3008 (Ubuntu) study. eClinicalMedicine (2025), I.F.:

Identifying genomic surveillance gaps in Africa for the global public health response to West Nile Virus. (2025), I.F.:

Craft: A Machine Learning Approach to Dengue Subtyping. (2025), I.F.:

Travel-associated international spread of Oropouche virus beyond the Amazon. Journal of Travel Medicine (2025), I.F.:

Infectious diseases in a warming world: A call for action. South African Journal of Science (2025), I.F.:

Genomic Characterization of Circulating Dengue Virus, Ethiopia, 2022–2023. Emerging Infectious Diseases (2025), I.F.:

Unveiling novel features and phylogenomic assessment of indigenous Priestia megaterium AB-S79 using comparative genomics. Microbiology Spectrum (2025), I.F.:

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 intrahost genetic evolution in vaccinated and non-vaccinated patients from the Kenyan population. medRxiv (2025), I.F.:

Spatiotemporal disease suitability prediction for Oropouche virus and the role of vectors across the Americas. medRxiv (2025), I.F.:

Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics. Nature (2025), I.F.:

SATuRN output,15 minutes, All publications...

KRISP has been created by the coordinated effort of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and the South African Medical Research Countil (SAMRC).


Location: K-RITH Tower Building
Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN
719 Umbilo Road, Durban, South Africa.
Director: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira