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Communities in WIReDSpace
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- This community is for all faculties and schools' research outputs by Wits academics and researchers
- This community hosts traditional outputs such as published and unpublished research articles, conference papers, book chapters and other research outputs authored by Wits academics and researchers. Items in this collection are also mapped to relevant collections within the Faculties/Schools/Departments communities for more specific browsing and searching.
- This community is for all faculties and schools' electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by masters and doctoral students. NB: All electronic theses and dissertations to be edited and moved/uploaded here.
- This community for all Wits Inaugural lectures.
- This community is for all Wits Libraries staff presentations and publications.
Recent Submissions
Item type:Item, Extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complex (XDR-AB) colonisation and clinical outcome in neonates: a retrospective case-control study(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2025) Phambane, Gugulethu JuliaExtensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (XDR-AB) is a significant cause of healthcare-associated infections, particularly in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). This study aimed to determine the prevalence of XDR-AB colonisation and the odds of subsequent invasive infection. The secondary objective was to identify risk factors and in-hospital outcomes. We investigated 485 neonates admitted at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital from 1 June 2020 to 31 December 2022. Among them, 116 (23.92%) were colonised with XDR-AB, with a median colonisation age of 4 days. Of these, 29 (25%) developed invasive disease, and 12 (10.34%) died. Mechanical ventilation increased the risk of colonisation by 2.28 times. The study highlights the high prevalence of early colonisation and associated mortality, emphasizing the need for screening, vigilant monitoring, and tailored antibiotic treatment for colonized neonateItem type:Item, Epidemiology and anatomic distribution of colorectal cancer in South AfricaA Amer; AB Boutall; ED Coetzee; P Naidu; Heveshan Moodley; Wenlong Chen; KM ChuItem type:Item, Breast cancer overall survival annual risks of death and survival gap apportionment in subSaharan Africa ABCDO 7year followup of a prospective cohort study(ELSEVIER SCI LTD) Tingting Mo; Maureen Joffe; Herbert Cubasch; M Galukande; Groesbeck Parham; Leeya pinder; Wenlong Chen; E et alItem type:Item, Smokeless tobacco snuff and sitespecific cancer risks in adult Black South African women Findings from the Johannesburg Cancer Study(WILEY-BLACKWELL) M Motlhale; Freddy Sitas; Chantal Babb; Hannah Simba; Ariadna Feliu; Wenlong Chen; Mazvita Muchengeti; E et alItem type:Item, Genomewide association study identifies common variants associated with breast cancer in South African Black women(NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP) Mahtaab Hayat; Wenlong Chen; Chantal Babb de Villiers; Sang Hyuck Lee; Charles Curtis; Rob Newton; Tim Waterboer; Mazvita Muchengeti; Elvira Singh; E et al; Michele Ramsay; Christopher Mathew; Jean-Tristan Brandenburg