Introduction: Poultry workers have an increased risk of respiratory symptoms associated with various irritant and allergenic exposures causing airway inflammation. This study investigated the levels of (1-3)-β-D glucan ...

Background: Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) is the commonest type of nephropathy seen in children. The histopathological types and steroid response patterns of INS have been changing over the years and this has been ...

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Background Odontogenic cysts and tumours may be observed in association with impacted teeth. There are no published reports on the histopathological characterisation of cysts and tumours associated with impacted teeth in ...

Ageing is a degenerative process characterised by detrimental changes which accumulate to cause a decline in physiological functioning of the organism. It is characterised by stem cell exhaustion, mitochondrial dysfunction ...

The cave deposits at Malapa, on the Malapa Nature Reserve, Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng Province, South Africa, have yielded the remains of two extremely well-preserved hominins (Australopithecus sediba) ...

Extensions to the Witwatersrand Basin have been widely examined, with many geophysical surveys being carried out in the early 1990s. One of these areas is the Bethlehem sub-basin, located on the south eastern edge of the ...

SUMMARY This study retrospectively analysed the bacteriology of 226 patients who were admitted, with acute complicated sinusitis, to the University of the Witwatersrand’s ENT complex over a 5-year period, between the ...

The incorporation of extrinsic defects in semiconductors by ion implantation and appropriate annealing gives rise to instabilities that profoundly affect their electronic and optical properties. Consequently, the knowledge ...