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139.       van Eeden C, Williams JH, Gerdes TG, van Wilpe E, Viljoen A, Swanepoel R, Venter M. 2012. Shuni virus as cause of neurologic disease in horses. Emerg Infect Dis 18:318-21.

140.       Radin JM, Katz MA, Tempia S, Talla Nzussouo N, Davis R, Duque J, Adedeji A, Adjabeng MJ, Ampofo WK, Ayele W, Bakamutumaho B, Barakat A, Cohen AL, Cohen C, Dalhatu IT, Daouda C, Dueger E, Francisco M, Heraud JM, Jima D, Kabanda A, Kadjo H, Kandeel A, Bi Shamamba SK, Kasolo F, Kronmann KC, Mazaba Liwewe ML, Lutwama JJ, Matonya M, Mmbaga V, Mott JA, Muhimpundu MA, Muthoka P, Njuguna H, Randrianasolo L, Refaey S, Sanders C, Talaat M, Theo A, Valente F, Venter M, Woodfill C, Bresee J, Moen A, Widdowson MA. 2012. Influenza surveillance in 15 countries in Africa, 2006-2010. J Infect Dis 206 Suppl 1:S14-21.

141.       Pretorius MA, Madhi SA, Cohen C, Naidoo D, Groome M, Moyes J, Buys A, Walaza S, Dawood H, Chhagan M, Haffjee S, Kahn K, Puren A, Venter M. 2012. Respiratory viral coinfections identified by a 10-plex real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assay in patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory illness--South Africa, 2009-2010. J Infect Dis 206 Suppl 1:S159-65.

142.       Lwande OW, Irura Z, Tigoi C, Chepkorir E, Orindi B, Musila L, Venter M, Fischer A, Sang R. 2012. Seroprevalence of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Ijara District, Kenya. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 12:727-32.

143.       Venter M, van Niekerk S, Rakgantso A, Bent N. 2011. Identification of deletion mutant respiratory syncytial virus strains lacking most of the G protein in immunocompromised children with pneumonia in South Africa. J Virol 85:8453-7.

144.       Venter M, Lassauniere R, Kresfelder TL, Westerberg Y, Visser A. 2011. Contribution of common and recently described respiratory viruses to annual hospitalizations in children in South Africa. J Med Virol 83:1458-68.

145.       Venter M, Human S, van Niekerk S, Williams J, van Eeden C, Freeman F. 2011. Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile virus, South Africa. Emerg Infect Dis 17:1534-6.

146.       van Niekerk S, Venter M. 2011. Replacement of previously circulating respiratory syncytial virus subtype B strains with the BA genotype in South Africa. J Virol 85:8789-97.

147.       Van Kerkhove MD, Mounts AW, Mall S, Vandemaele KA, Chamberland M, dos Santos T, Fitzner J, Widdowson MA, Michalove J, Bresee J, Olsen SJ, Quick L, Baumeister E, Carlino LO, Savy V, Uez O, Owen R, Ghani F, Paterson B, Forde A, Fasce R, Torres G, Andrade W, Bustos P, Mora J, Gonzalez C, Olea A, Sotomayor V, Najera De Ferrari M, Burgos A, Hunt D, Huang QS, Jennings LC, Macfarlane M, Lopez LD, McArthur C, Cohen C, Archer B, Blumberg L, Cengimbo A, Makunga C, McAnerney J, Msimang V, Naidoo D, Puren A, Schoub B, Thomas J, Venter M, Group WHOSHICSW. 2011. Epidemiologic and virologic assessment of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic on selected temperate countries in the Southern Hemisphere: Argentina, Australia, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa. Influenza Other Respir Viruses 5:e487-98.

148.       Nair H, Brooks WA, Katz M, Roca A, Berkley JA, Madhi SA, Simmerman JM, Gordon A, Sato M, Howie S, Krishnan A, Ope M, Lindblade KA, Carosone-Link P, Lucero M, Ochieng W, Kamimoto L, Dueger E, Bhat N, Vong S, Theodoratou E, Chittaganpitch M, Chimah O, Balmaseda A, Buchy P, Harris E, Evans V, Katayose M, Gaur B, O'Callaghan-Gordo C, Goswami D, Arvelo W, Venter M, Briese T, Tokarz R, Widdowson MA, Mounts AW, Breiman RF, Feikin DR, Klugman KP, Olsen SJ, Gessner BD, Wright PF, Rudan I, Broor S, Simoes EA, Campbell H. 2011. Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 378:1917-30.

149.       Kresfelder TL, Janssen R, Bont L, Pretorius M, Venter M. 2011. Confirmation of an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in the VDR gene with respiratory syncytial virus related disease in South African children. J Med Virol 83:1834-40.

150.       Venter M, Swanepoel R. 2010. West Nile virus lineage 2 as a cause of zoonotic neurological disease in humans and horses in southern Africa. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 10:659-64.

151.       Venter M, Steyl J, Human S, Weyer J, Zaayman D, Blumberg L, Leman PA, Paweska J, Swanepoel R. 2010. Transmission of West Nile virus during horse autopsy. Emerg Infect Dis 16:573-5.

152.       Lassauniere R, Kresfelder T, Venter M. 2010. A novel multiplex real-time RT-PCR assay with FRET hybridization probes for the detection and quantitation of 13 respiratory viruses. J Virol Methods 165:254-60.

153.       Blyth CC, Kelso A, McPhie KA, Ratnamohan VM, Catton M, Druce JD, Smith DW, Williams SH, Huang QS, Lopez L, Schoub BD, Venter M, Dwyer DE. 2010. The impact of the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus on seasonal influenza A viruses in the southern hemisphere, 2009. Euro Surveill 15.

154.       Berkley JA, Munywoki P, Ngama M, Kazungu S, Abwao J, Bett A, Lassauniere R, Kresfelder T, Cane PA, Venter M, Scott JA, Nokes DJ. 2010. Viral etiology of severe pneumonia among Kenyan infants and children. JAMA 303:2051-7.

155.       Zaayman D, Human S, Venter M. 2009. A highly sensitive method for the detection and genotyping of West Nile virus by real-time PCR. J Virol Methods 157:155-60.

156.       Venter M, Visser A, Lassauniere R. 2009. Human polyomaviruses, WU and KI in HIV exposed children with acute lower respiratory tract infections in hospitals in South Africa. J Clin Virol 44:230-4.

157.       Venter M, Human S, Zaayman D, Gerdes GH, Williams J, Steyl J, Leman PA, Paweska JT, Setzkorn H, Rous G, Murray S, Parker R, Donnellan C, Swanepoel R. 2009. Lineage 2 west nile virus as cause of fatal neurologic disease in horses, South Africa. Emerg Infect Dis 15:877-84.

158.       Venter M, Burt FJ, Blumberg L, Fickl H, Paweska J, Swanepoel R. 2009. Cytokine induction after laboratory-acquired West Nile virus infection. N Engl J Med 360:1260-2.

159.       Glass AJ, Venter M. 2009. Improved detection of JC virus in AIDS patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy by T-antigen specific fluorescence resonance energy transfer hybridization probe real-time PCR: evidence of diverse JC virus genotypes associated with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in Southern Africa. J Med Virol 81:1929-37.

160.       Archer B, Cohen C, Naidoo D, Thomas J, Makunga C, Blumberg L, Venter M, Timothy G, Puren A, McAnerney J, Cengimbo A, Schoub B. 2009. Interim report on pandemic H1N1 influenza virus infections in South Africa, April to October 2009: epidemiology and factors associated with fatal cases. Euro Surveill 14.

161.       Visser A, Delport S, Venter M. 2008. Molecular epidemiological analysis of a nosocomial outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus associated pneumonia in a kangaroo mother care unit in South Africa. J Med Virol 80:724-32.

162.       Rakoto-Andrianarivelo M, Gumede N, Jegouic S, Balanant J, Andriamamonjy SN, Rabemanantsoa S, Birmingham M, Randriamanalina B, Nkolomoni L, Venter M, Schoub BD, Delpeyroux F, Reynes JM. 2008. Reemergence of recombinant vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreak in Madagascar. J Infect Dis 197:1427-35.

163.       Briese T, Renwick N, Venter M, Jarman RG, Ghosh D, Kondgen S, Shrestha SK, Hoegh AM, Casas I, Adjogoua EV, Akoua-Koffi C, Myint KS, Williams DT, Chidlow G, van den Berg R, Calvo C, Koch O, Palacios G, Kapoor V, Villari J, Dominguez SR, Holmes KV, Harnett G, Smith D, Mackenzie JS, Ellerbrok H, Schweiger B, Schonning K, Chadha MS, Leendertz FH, Mishra AC, Gibbons RV, Holmes EC, Lipkin WI. 2008. Global distribution of novel rhinovirus genotype. Emerg Infect Dis 14:944-7.

164.       Botha EM, Markotter W, Wolfaardt M, Paweska JT, Swanepoel R, Palacios G, Nel LH, Venter M. 2008. Genetic determinants of virulence in pathogenic lineage 2 West Nile virus strains. Emerg Infect Dis 14:222-30.

165.       Zhai J, Palacios G, Towner JS, Jabado O, Kapoor V, Venter M, Grolla A, Briese T, Paweska J, Swanepoel R, Feldmann H, Nichol ST, Lipkin WI. 2007. Rapid molecular strategy for filovirus detection and characterization. J Clin Microbiol 45:224-6.

166.       Palacios G, Briese T, Kapoor V, Jabado O, Liu Z, Venter M, Zhai J, Renwick N, Grolla A, Geisbert TW, Drosten C, Towner J, Ju J, Paweska J, Nichol ST, Swanepoel R, Feldmann H, Jahrling PB, Lipkin WI. 2006. MassTag polymerase chain reaction for differential diagnosis of viral hemorrhagic fever. Emerg Infect Dis 12:692-5.

167.       Venter M, Myers TG, Wilson MA, Kindt TJ, Paweska JT, Burt FJ, Leman PA, Swanepoel R. 2005. Gene expression in mice infected with West Nile virus strains of different neurovirulence. Virology 342:119-40.

168.       Agenbach E, Tiemessen CT, Venter M. 2005. Amino acid variation within the fusion protein of respiratory syncytial virus subtype A and B strains during annual epidemics in South Africa. Virus Genes 30:267-78.

169.       Venter M, Smit SB, Leman P, Swanepoel R. 2004. Phylogenetic evidence of widespread distribution of genotype 3 JC virus in Africa and identification of a type 7 isolate in an African AIDS patient. J Gen Virol 85:2215-2219.

170.       Robertson SE, Roca A, Alonso P, Simoes EA, Kartasasmita CB, Olaleye DO, Odaibo GN, Collinson M, Venter M, Zhu Y, Wright PF. 2004. Respiratory syncytial virus infection: denominator-based studies in Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. Bull World Health Organ 82:914-22.

171.       Venter M, Rock M, Puren AJ, Tiemessen CT, Crowe JE, Jr. 2003. Respiratory syncytial virus nucleoprotein-specific cytotoxic T-cell epitopes in a South African population of diverse HLA types are conserved in circulating field strains. J Virol 77:7319-29.

172.       Madhi SA, Venter M, Alexandra R, Lewis H, Kara Y, Karshagen WF, Greef M, Lassen C. 2003. Respiratory syncytial virus associated illness in high-risk children and national characterisation of the circulating virus genotype in South Africa. J Clin Virol 27:180-9.

173.       Venter M, Collinson M, Schoub BD. 2002. Molecular epidemiological analysis of community circulating respiratory syncytial virus in rural South Africa: Comparison of viruses and genotypes responsible for different disease manifestations. J Med Virol 68:452-61.

174.       Venter M, Madhi SA, Tiemessen CT, Schoub BD. 2001. Genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus over four consecutive seasons in South Africa: identification of new subgroup A and B genotypes. J Gen Virol 82:2117-2124.

175.       Madhi SA, Venter M, Madhi A, Petersen MK, Klugman KP. 2001. Differing manifestations of respiratory syncytial virus-associated severe lower respiratory tract infections in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected and uninfected children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 20:164-70.

176.       Venter M, Napier G, Huismans H. 2000. Cloning, sequencing and expression of the gene that encodes the major neutralisation-specific antigen of African horsesickness virus serotype 9. J Virol Methods 86:41-53.