The following publications are by GERMS-SA members:

Publications in peer-reviewed journals


2003

von Gottberg A, Ludewick H, Bamber S, Govind C, Sturm AW, Klugman KP. Emergence of fluoroquiolone-resistant Streptococcus penumoniae in a South African child in a tuberculosis treatment facility. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2003;22:1020-1021.

2006

von Gottberg A, de Gouveia L, Madhi SA, du Plessis M, Quan V, Soma K, Huebner R, Flannery B, Schuchat A, Klugman KP, and the Group for Enteric, Respiratory and Meningeal disease Surveillance in South Africa (GERMS-SA). Impact of conjugate Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine introduction in South Africa. Bulletin of WHO 2006;84:811-818.

2007

Coulson G, von Gottberg A, du Plessis M, Smith AM, de Gouveia L, Klugman KP, for the Group for Enteric, Respiratory and Meningeal disease Surveillance in South Africa (GERMS-SA). Meningococcal disease in South Africa, 1999-2002. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13(2):273-281.

Govender N. HIV-associated opportunistic fungal infections: a guide to using the clinical microbiology laboratory. S Afr J HIV Med 2007; Spring edition:18-23.

Keddy KH, Nadan S, Govend C, Sturm AW for GERMS-SA. Evidence for a clonally different origin of the two cholera epidemics of 2001-2002 and 1980-1987 in South Africa. J Med Microbiol 2007;56 (12):1644-50.

Smith AM, Gouws A-M., Hoyland G, Sooka A, Keddy KH, for the Group for Enteric, Respiratory and Meningeal disease Surveillance in South Africa (GERMS-SA). Outbreaks of food-borne disease: A common occurrence but rarely reported. S Afr Med J 2007;97(12):1272.

McCarthy KM, Meintjes G, Arthington-Skaggs B, Bicanic T, Cotton M, Chiller T, Govender N, Harrison T, Karstaedt AS, Maartens G, Rabie H, Varavia E, Venter WDF, Vismer H. Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Cryptococcal Meningitis and Disseminated Cryptococcosis in HIV-infected patients. S Afr J HIV Med 2007; Spring edition:25-35.


Non peer-reviewed publications


2003

Coulson GB, von Gottberg A, Smith A, Klugman K and the National Surveillance Network. Meningococcal Outbreak 2003: Investigation of a community-based outbreak of serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis in South Africa. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2003;1(1)13-16.

2004

Keddy K. Cholera update. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2004;2(1):2-5. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, March 2004

Keddy K. Typhoid Fever. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2004;2(4):6-8. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, September 2004

Keddy K. Cholera. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2004;2(5):5.
Available from: Communicable Disesases Bulletin, November 2004

Keddy K. Enteric Disease Surveillance, 2004. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2005;3(1):6-7. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, January 2005

Prentice E, de Gouveia L, Quan V, von Gottberg A and GERMS-SA. Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Surveillance, 2004. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2005;3(1):7-8. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, January 2005

Nadan S, Keddy K. Quinolone Resistance in Enteric Bacteria. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2005;3(3):5-7. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, August 2005

2006

Keddy K. South African Laboratory Surveillance for Enteric Diseases, 2005. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2006;4(1):3. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, March 2006

von Gottberg A, de Gouveia L. Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Surveillance, South Africa, 2005. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2006;4(1):4-8. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, March 2006

McCarthy K. Cryptococcal surveillance, South Africa, 2005. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2007;4(1):8. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, March 2006

2007

Group for Enteric, Respiratory and Meningeal disease Surveillance in South Africa. GERMS-SA surveillance report, 2006. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2007;5(1):10-19. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, March 2007

von Gottberg A. Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease in Children: the Age of the Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine. Communicable Diseases Surveillance Bulletin 2007 May;5(2):5-6. Available from: Communicable Diseases Bulletin, May 2007

Publications utilising GERMS-SA isolates 2005 Helms M, S. Ethelberg, K. Mølbak and the DT104 study group. A Global Survey of Multidrugresistant Salmonella Typhimurium, with Particular Reference to DT104, 1992-2001. Emerg Infect Dis 2005;11:859-67.

R Wollin on the behalf of the Enternet participants. A study of invasiveness of different Salmonella serovars based on analysis of the Enternet database. Euro Surveill 2007;12(9):E070927.3 Erratum in: Euro Surveill 2007;12(10):E071004.6