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September 2022

Melissa Murphy grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She attended the University of Cape (UCT) Town and graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology and a BSc Honours in Molecular and Cell Biology. Melissa worked for a scientific sales company as a Sales Administrator before returning to UCT…

May 2022

Dr Catherine Kegakilwe Koofhethile is currently in the final stages of her Postdoctoral/Fogarty Fellowship at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. She also holds a Research Associate position at the Botswana Harvard AIDS…

March 2021

Fatoumatta Darboe is a Post-doctoral researcher fellow at the MRC-Gambia/ LSHTM. Dr Darboe is currently working on the Tuberculosis Sequel project, which aims to identify immune sequelae of TB, as well as in response to antibiotic therapy.

February 2021

Simon G. Kimuda is a Post-Doctoral researcher based in Uganda. His research focuses on understanding humoral immunity against Myobacterium tuberculosis. He hopes his research will contribute to the development of improved TB diagnostics and vaccines.

February 2020

Prof. Magez is a Belgian Professor of immunology, who focuses on parasite-immunology. He currently leads his research teams based at the Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon, South Korea and the Free University of Brussel, Belgium. For the past 30 years he has conducted research on…

Hydroethanolic Extracts of Aframomum melegueta (AM) Inhibited TCR-Induced Cytokine Production in Severe and Mild Pathology Onchocerca volvulus-infected individuals Inflammation is a localized response of tissue to injury, caused by a mechanical or biological agent or by an aberrant autoimmune response The arachidonic acid pathway constitutes one of the main cellular mechanisms for mediating inflammation including Read More

A 7 year old girl presented to her local hospital for the second time in 3 months with arthralgia, a migratory skin rash and fever for 5 days. She was admitted and within 2 days…

A previously well 17 month old boy presents with a three day history of fever and a skin rash. No accompanying cough or diarrhoea. The patient recently moved to South Africa from Burund. His mother reports previously he has been well. She is unaware of contact with TB.

A 14 and half year old boy presents with a recent history of tender temperomandibular joints and regular morning stiffness in both hips. He has a limited range of movement in his hips, especially abduction and adduction, and is no longer able to run and play games with his brothers. Our patient started suffering with painful hips from age 14 and within a month he was unable to walk unassisted.

Only a few more days left to apply for the 5th Infectious Disease in Africa symposium…