Let’s take a moment to reflect on all the incredible events and activities we had lined up last year! From empowering women
with power walks to stalls of fermented flavors and everything in between, it was truly a memorable celebration.
The Division of Microbiology launched the One Heath Unit on the 25 March 2025 with a think tank: Towards next sequencing (including metgenomics) across a ONE HEALTH spectrum across South Africa and the UK.
Ruan will be working with Robert Wilkinson at the Crick and Adrian Brink at the University of Cape Town to contribute towards implementing metagenomics in the clinic in South Africa.
The WHO-approved Xpert MTB/XDR test detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis and resistance to isoniazid, fluoroquinolones, ethionamide and injectable-drugs directly on specimens.
The genomic characterization of carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens at Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa, indicating the emergence and spread of resistance and virulence in this organism.
Researchers at UCT have become the first in Africa to successfully operationalize clinical metagenomics, a technique that expedites the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
The University of Cape Town’s Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine Transformation Committee, has awarded four grants to two professional, administrative support and service staff and to two postdoctoral research fellows.
