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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

The biochemistry, immunology and molecular biology of parasites and bacteria of medical-veterinary significance in Southern Africa - Postgraduate Student Projects

Dissertations:
Mans BJ: Functional perspectives on the evolution of argasid tick salivary gland protein superfamilies (Prof AWH Neitz, Prof AI Louw, Dr ARM Gaspar)

Stoltz AC: Immunological properties of mycolic acids, the major lipid cell wall component of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Prof JA Verschoor, Prof J Grooten)

Theses:
Ehebauer M: Putative extrinsic blood coagulation pathway inhibitors from the tick Ornithodoros savignyi (Prof AWH Neitz, Dr ARM Gaspar)

Korf JE: The modulating properties of mycobacterial mycolic acids on murine macrophage function (Prof JA Verschoor, Prof J Grooten)

Manning SK: Molecular characterization of the hexose transporter (PfHT1) of Plasmodium falciparum in Xenopus laevis oocytes (Prof AI Louw, Prof S Krishna)

Olivier NA: The isolation and characterization of antibacterial peptides from the hemolymph of the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi (Prof AWH Neitz, Dr ARM Gaspar)

 

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