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Shareef Abrahams

Researcher at National Health Laboratory Service

Publications -  8
Citations -  2251

Shareef Abrahams is an academic researcher from National Health Laboratory Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Logistic regression. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications receiving 1279 citations.

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Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa.

TL;DR: A newly arisen lineage of SARS-CoV-2 (designated 501Y.V2) was identified in South Africa after the first wave of the epidemic in a severely affected metropolitan area (Nelson Mandela Bay) that is located on the coast of the Eastern Cape province.
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Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa

Houriiyah Tegally, +60 more
- 22 Dec 2020 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage (501Y.V2) characterised by eight lineage-defining mutations in the spike protein, including three at important residues in the receptor-binding domain (K417N, E484K and N501Y).
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Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine among the Healthcare Workers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: A Cross Sectional Study

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study performed in November and December 2020, a total of 1308 HCWs from two large academic hospitals participated in the Eastern Cape Healthcare Workers Acquisition of SARS-CoV-2 (ECHAS) study.
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Cryptococcus neoformans: Diagnostic Dilemmas, Electron Microscopy and Capsular Variants.

TL;DR: Investigating discordant diagnostic results of cryptococcal meningitis and Cryptococcus neoformans found multilocus sequence typing and transmission electron microscopy using a capsule-staining protocol revealed a >50% reduction in capsular material in both cases, relative to a control culture.