Browsing Department of Microbiology by Title
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Mineralogy and chemical mobility in a weathered ash dump site, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Coal fly ash generated from coal fired plants poses potential health risks to humans and plants in the environment due to the surface enrichment of the ash with various toxic trace elements during combustion. Only a small ... -
The molecular characterisation of a baculovirus isolated from trichoplusia ni
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)In South Africa there are more than 106 insects pests which attack a wide variety of crops. The top ten or twenty of these can seriously limit successful production on the farm. Costs involved in controlling these pests ... -
New algorithms for EST clustering
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)Summary: Expressed sequence tag database is a rich and fast growing source of data for gene expression analysis and drug discovery. Clustering of raw EST data is a necessary step for further analysis and one of the most ... -
New Algorithms for EST clustering
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)Expressed sequence tag database is a rich and fast growing source of data for gene expression analysis and drug discovery. Clustering of raw EST data is a necessary step for further analysis and one of the most challenging ... -
Palladium telluride quantum dots biosensor for the determination of indinavir drug
(2013)Indinavir is a potent and well tolerated protease inhibitor drug used as a component of the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) of HIV/AIDS, which results in pharmacokinetics that may be favourable or adverse. ... -
Parameters affecting the production of fumonisin B1 by fusarium verticillioides in culture
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)Fi1sarium verticillioides is a very important mycotoxin-produeing fungus associated with maize. Fverticillioides produces a group of mycotoxins known as fumonisins under suitable environmental conditions. A series of studies ... -
Purification and characterisation of plasmodium falciparum Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Malaria remains the most important parasitic disease worldwide. It is estimated that over 500 million infections and more that 2.7 million deaths arising from malaria occur each year. Most (90%) of the infections occur in ... -
Reliability of panoramic radiographs to determine the vertical position of the impacted third molar root tip from the inferior alveolar canal
(2013)Nowadays, the availability of radiographic modalities from conventional radiography to more advanced approaches such as medical computed tomography as well as cone beam computed tomography have been useful in providing ... -
Science text: Facilitating access to physiology through cognition-based reading intervention
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)Reading and understanding science text is the principal means by which students at tertiary level access scientific information and attain scientific literacy. However, understanding and learning from science texts require ... -
A study of the pollination biology of the (gyno) dioecious fig, Ficus capreifolia Del. (Moraceae)
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)Ficus capreifolia is a (gyno)dioecious species with separate male and female plants bearing male and female syconia respectively. Male syconia had staminate flowers near the ostiolar region of their syconia and numerous ... -
Synthesis of One-Dimensional TiO2 Nanotube Arrays by Potentiostatic Anodisation
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)TiO2 nanomaterials, in particular nanotubes, are some of the most studied materials, as they are considerably important in technological and biological applications due to their unique electronic properties and biocompatibility. ... -
Thermal stability and defect structure of hot-wire deposited amorphous silicon
(UWC, 2004)Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin films are presently used in several large-area thin-film applications. However, one major concern of a-Si:H is the fact that the stability of the material degrades when it is ... -
Three-dimensional structure of a type III glutamine synthetase by single particle reconstruction
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)This study represents the first structural investigation of any type III glutamine synthetase (GS). The GS, GlnA, from the medically important opportunistic human pathogen Bacteroides fragilis was studied with a view to ... -
Transcriptional regulatory networks in the mouse hippocampus
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Neurological diseases are socially disabling and often mortal. To efficiently combat these diseases, a deep understanding of involved cellular processes, gene functions and anatomy is required. However, differential ... -
What constitutes morphological normal and abnormal human sperm heads
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)The percentage morphologically normal sperm appears to be of predictive value in the in vitro fertilization laboratory. However, the methodology used in this context is technically inaccurate and imprecise (subjective) and ...