Group A Streptococcus
05/24/22 • 32 min
A very successful pathogen - one that causes a spectrum of disease, from asymptomatic to life-threatening. On this episode we talk about Group A Streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), the various types of infections that it causes and how to manage them.
About our Guest:
Dr Yesholata Mahabeer is a principal pathologist currently based
at National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) KwaZulu Natal academic complex at
Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban. She studied medicine at the
University of KwaZulu Natal. She subsequently completed her fellowship in microbiology
in 1999 followed by Masters in Medical Microbiology in 2015. She has worked in
several laboratories NLHS laboratories in Durban over the past 20 years. She
currently oversees paediatrics, neurosurgery and haematology wards. Her interests
include neurosurgical infections, mycology and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
She plays an active role in undergraduate and post graduate microbiology
training.
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A very successful pathogen - one that causes a spectrum of disease, from asymptomatic to life-threatening. On this episode we talk about Group A Streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), the various types of infections that it causes and how to manage them.
About our Guest:
Dr Yesholata Mahabeer is a principal pathologist currently based
at National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) KwaZulu Natal academic complex at
Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban. She studied medicine at the
University of KwaZulu Natal. She subsequently completed her fellowship in microbiology
in 1999 followed by Masters in Medical Microbiology in 2015. She has worked in
several laboratories NLHS laboratories in Durban over the past 20 years. She
currently oversees paediatrics, neurosurgery and haematology wards. Her interests
include neurosurgical infections, mycology and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
She plays an active role in undergraduate and post graduate microbiology
training.
Visit the Microbe Mail website to sign up for updates
E-mail: [email protected]
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About our Guest:
Dr Mohamed Said is a Clinical Microbiologist based at the
National Health Laboratory Services Tshwane Academic Laboratory in Pretoria,
South Africa. He is also a senior consultant at the Department of Medical
Microbiology at the University of Pretoria since 2016. He did his undergraduate
training at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and
completed specialist training at the University of Pretoria.
He is actively involved in training of specialists in the field
of Medical Microbiology and also supervises Science students. He serves on
numerous committees within the National Health Laboratory Services as well as
the Pharmacy and therapeutics committee of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in
Pretoria. He has published in peer reviewed journals in the fields of rapid
molecular diagnostics, Group B Streptococcus disease and infection prevention
and control. Dr Said has also presented his work at numerous national and
international conferences in the forms of posters and oral presentations.
Currently he is pursuing a PHD in the field of neonatal sepsis due to Group B
Streptococcus.
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I run a research group in medical mycology in South Africa, among a select few worldwide working in public health mycology. A major theme of my research is HIV-associated fungal diseases, many of which are life-threatening. My research activities span: 1) laboratory science (including characterisation of established/emerging fungal pathogens and diagnostic test development/evaluation), 2) population-based observational epidemiological studies, 3) cost-effectiveness modelling of public health interventions and treatments and 4) clinical trials. This research is aligned to my work as a centre head at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (www.nicd.ac.za) where I run South Africa’s national mycology reference laboratory. Our group serves as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for antimicrobial resistance. Our public health research is primarily funded through NICD but also partly through grants from the US National Institutes of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UK Medical Research Council, UK National Institute for Health Research and NHLS Research Trust.
Twitter @neleshg
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