Lena van der Westhuizen
Biographic Data
| ID | 9066518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena van der Westhuizen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena |
| FAMILY NAME | van der Westhuizen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER WESTHUIZEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | South African Medical Research Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strong effect of demographic changes on Tuberculosis susceptibility in South Africa
South Africa is among the world’s top eight tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, and despite a focus on HIV-TB co-infection, most of the population living with TB are not HIV co-infected. The disease is endemic across the country, with 80–90% exposure by adulthood. We investigated epidemiological risk factors for (TB) in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa: an understudied TB endemic region with extreme TB incidence (926/100,000). We leverage…
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Strong effect of demographic changes on Tuberculosis susceptibility in South Africa
South Africa is among the world’s top eight tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, and despite a focus on HIV-TB co-infection, most of the population living with TB are not HIV co-infected. The disease is endemic across the country, with 80–90% exposure by adulthood. We investigated epidemiological risk factors for (TB) in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa: an understudied TB endemic region with extreme TB incidence (926/100,000). We leverage…
Cohort (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Environmental health (1 work) · Epidemiology (1 work) · Gerontology (1 work) · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (1 work) · Internal Medicine (1 work) · Logistic regression (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Pathology (1 work)