[HTML][HTML] Higher SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in workers with lower socioeconomic status in Cape Town, South Africa

JA Shaw, M Meiring, T Cummins, NN Chegou… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Inequality is rife throughout South Africa. The first wave of COVID-19 may have
affected people in lower socioeconomic groups worse than the affluent. The SARS-CoV-2 …

Establishment of a patient-derived, magnetic levitation-based, three-dimensional spheroid granuloma model for human tuberculosis

…, D Lang, AG Loxton, S Cooper, M Meiring… - Msphere, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculous granulomas that develop in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( M.
tuberculosis ) infection are highly dynamic entities shaped by the host immune response and …

[HTML][HTML] Optimising the yield from bronchoalveolar lavage on human participants in infectious disease immunology research

JA Shaw, M Meiring, D Allies, L Cruywagen… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is becoming a common procedure for research into infectious
disease immunology. Little is known about the clinical factors which influence the main …

[HTML][HTML] Immunologic and vascular biomarkers of mortality in critical COVID-19 in a South African cohort

JA Shaw, M Meiring, C Snyders, F Everson… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Biomarkers predicting mortality among critical Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
patients provide insight into the underlying pathophysiology of fatal disease and assist …

Establishment of a Patient-Derived, Magnetic Levitation-Based, 3D Spheroid Granuloma Model for Human Tuberculosis

…, D Lang, AG Loxton, S Cooper, M Meiring… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Tuberculous granulomas that develop in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb)
infection are highly dynamic entities shaped by the host immune response and disease kinetics. …

Optimising the yield from bronchoalveolar lavage on human participants in infectious disease immunology research (preprint)

JA Shaw, M Meiring, D Allies, L Cruywagen, TL Fisher… - 2023 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is becoming a common procedure for research into infectious
disease immunology. Little is known about the clinical factors which influence the main …

Modelling of the invasion dynamics of plasmodium falciparum merozoites into red blood cells

M Meiring - 2016 - scholar.sun.ac.za
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND The physiological symptoms of P. falciparum infection are
associated with a 48 hour replication cycle whereby parasites (merozoites) invade susceptible …

[PDF][PDF] Data-driven Construction of Mathematical Models

M Meiring - 2011 - academia.edu
Mathematical models have become crucial tools in describing and understanding many
scientific processes in which complex dynamics between many metabolites are present. …

Higher SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Workers with Lower Socioeconomic Status in Cape Town, South Africa.(preprint)

JA Shaw, M Meiring, T Cummins, N Chegou… - 2020 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
Background: South Africa has a high degree of inequality between population groups. The
first wave of COVID-19 may have affected people in lower socioeconomic groups worse than …

[HTML][HTML] Performance and immune characteristics of bronchoalveolar lavage by research bronchoscopy in pulmonary tuberculosis and other lung diseases in the …

C Young, P Ahlers, AM Hiemstra, AG Loxton… - Translational Medicine …, 2019 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a debilitating, deadly disease that warrants
innovative research tools to fully understand the pathogenesis and host immune responses, …