OVERVIEW

These scientific publications consist of research results and knowledge derived by scientists here at the National Institute for Communicable diseases. They communicate research findings and data analysis and serve to generate dialogue between peers on topical scientific issues.

Topics around infection include clinical and epidemiological aspects of communicable diseases, laboratory diagnosis of infections, characterisation of infective agents by molecular techniques and the study of transmission patterns of pathogens in institutional and community settings.

Other infection related studies cover surveillance of vaccine-controllable and other infectious diseases, drug susceptibility patterns of hospital-acquired and community-acquired pathogens and infection control strategies for the southern Africa region.