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Topical immunotherapy for Pseudomonas keratitis : use of antilipopolyssacharide plasma

  • Authors: Rauch, Andrew Johan
  • Date: 1984 , 2013-03-13
  • Subjects: Pseudomonas infections , Immunotherapy
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:3817 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004910 , Pseudomonas infections , Immunotherapy
  • Description: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen capable of infecting the human cornea. Such infections are difficult to treat, and are often fulminative, in that the infected eye is lost, or severely scarred. The use of alternative therapeutic agents has been necessitated by the frequent failure of conventional antibiotic therapy. Equine hyperimmune antilipopolysaccharide plasma (Anti-LPS) was obtained by the plasmapheresis of suitably immunized horses. The plasma contained 1,O- 1 ,5g/ml of LPS-precipitible IgG antibodies. Topical administration of Anti-LPS as a lavage was shown to be effective against Pseudomonas keratitis in rabbits and guinea pigs. Subsequent use of topical corticosteroids was found to further reduce corneal pathology. The improvement noted in these experimental infections involved all three parameters measured, area of keratitis, depth of lesion, and degree of vascularization. In vitro , Anti-LPS was shown to be rapidly bactericidal for Gram negative bacteria. The plasma can therefore be said to have a dual mechanism of action: antitoxic, and antibacterial. Ocular administration of Anti-LPS, by both the topical and subconjunctival routes, was well tolerated by both rabbits and baboons. In conclusion, Anti-LPS is a potentially useful immunotherapeutic agent with many applications in both veteriary and human medicine, particularly in the treatment of surface infections involving antibiotic-resistant Gram negative bacteria , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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  • Date Issued: 1984

United Albany Brethren Benefit Society

  • Authors: Berning, J M
  • Date: 1984
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6991 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012416
  • Description: The United Albany Brethren Benefit Society (Albany Brethren) was a Grahamstown example of the friendly society movement which reached a peak in Britain during the last century.
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  • Date Issued: 1984

Himantura draco, a new species of stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from South Africa: with a key to the Dasyatidae and the first record of Dasyatis kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841) from southern Africa

  • Authors: Compagno, Leonard J V , Heemstra, Phillip C , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1984-01
  • Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification , Stingrays -- Africa, Southern
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70050 , vital:29610 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 33 , Himantura draco sp.n is described from an immature male specimen of 56 cm disc width collected at Durban. Dasyatis kuhlii is reported from southern Africa based on three specimens from Natal. Records of H. fava, H. imbricata and H. jenkinsii from southern Africa appear to be erroneous, the latter two being misidentifications of H. gerrardi, and the first a misidentified specimen of H. uarnak. Records of H. purpurea are apparently based on Dasyatis violacea and Himantura sp. (possibly H. fai). A key to the 13 species of dasyatids known from southern Africa is presented.
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  • Date Issued: 1984-01

Fishes of the Sak River, South Africa: with comments on the nomenclature of the smallmouth yellowfish, Barbus aeneus (Burchell, 1822)

  • Authors: Hocutt, Charles H , Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1983-12
  • Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa -- Sak River , Fishes -- South Africa -- Nomenclature , Barbus aeneus
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70039 , vital:29609 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 32 , Fishes were collected from 30 localities in the Sak River system, South Africa. Six species are known from the drainage, including two exotics. New distributional data were collected for Barbus aeneus, Barbus anoplus and Labeo umbratus. Additionally, the exotics Cyprinus carpio and Carassius auratus were added to the ichthyofauna known from the drainage. An annotated list of species either collected or historically known from the drainage is presented. Barbus aeneus (Burchell, 1822) is recognized as the valid name for the smallmouth yellowfish and a senior synonym of Barbus holubi Steindachner, 1894.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-12

Records of fishes of the family Triacanthodidae (Tetraodontiformes) from the western Indian Ocean off East Africa

  • Authors: Tyler, James C, 1935- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1983-12
  • Subjects: Fishes -- Indian Ocean , Tetraodontiformes
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70027 , vital:29608 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 31 , Reports of triacanthodid fishes from the Indian Ocean published since the revision of the family by Tyler (.1968) are reviewed, and new records are added from off the east coast of Africa. These new records are based mostly on specimens recently collected by the R/V Fridtjof Nansen off Kenya (including new western Indian Ocean records of Halimochirurgus alcocki and of Bathyphylax bombifrons), as well as on some older materials from the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology and the South African Museum. Eight species of triacanthodids known from off east Africa are discussed briefly, with special attention given to Bathyphylax bombifrons and B. omen, previously known only from holotypes, for which additional specimens are now available. Seven species are illustrated with photographs.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-12

The Educational Journal

Clinus spatulatus, a new species of clinid fish (Perciformes: Blennoidei) from South Africa: with a modified definition of the genus Clinus

  • Authors: Bennett, B A , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1983-11
  • Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification , Blenniidae -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70002 , vital:29606 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 29 , Clinus spatulatus sp. n. is described from 50 specimens collected from an estuary in the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa. The presence of supraorbital tentacles or papillae distinguishes Clinus and Gynutoclinus from other South African genera of the subtribe Clinidi. The new species has simple supraorbital tentacles, an intermediate condition between the well-developed, at least bifid tentacles of Clinus and the simple supraorbital papillae of Gynutoclinus. For this reason Penrith's (1969) diagnosis of Clinus is modified to include the new species as well as the monospecific Gynutoclinus thereby incorporating all South African species with supraorbital papillae or tentacles.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-11

Opistognathus margaretae, a new species of jawfish (Perciformes: Opistognathidae) from the Indian Ocean, with notes on O. nigromarginatus Rüppel and O. muscatensis Boulenger

  • Authors: Smith-Vaniz, William F , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1983-11
  • Subjects: Fishes -- Indian Ocean -- Classification , Perciformes
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70013 , vital:29607 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 30 , A new species of jawfish, Opistognathus margaretae, is described from six specimens from the coasts of Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Madagascar. Diagnoses, synonymies and illustrations are given for O. nigromarginatus and O, muscatensis, and a key to the three species of jawfishes from southern Africa is presented.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-11

The Educational Journal

Admission of Dr the Hon Henry Gluckman to honorary fellowship of the College of Medicine of South Africa

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1983-10-21
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7459 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018336
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  • Date Issued: 1983-10-21

Ceremony of the key: Selborne College, East London

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1983-10-21
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7460 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018337
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Rhodeo: 1983 - October

  • Date: 1983-10
  • Subjects: Grahamstown -- Newspapers , Journalism, Students -- South Africa , Rhodes University -- Activate , Rhodes University -- Students , Student newspapers and periodicals -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14722 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019594
  • Description: Rhodeo is the Independent Student Newspaper of Rhodes University. Located in Grahamstown, Rhodeo was established in 1947, and renamed in 1994 as Activate. During apartheid Rhodeo became an active part of the struggle for freedom of expression as part of the now defunct South African Student Press Union. Currently Activate is committed to informing Rhodes University students, staff and community members about relevant issues, mainly on campus. These issues range from hard news to more creative journalism. While Activate acts as a news source, one of its main objectives it to be accessible as a training ground for student journalists. The newspaper is run entirely by the students and is published twice a term. Activate is a free newspaper which receives an annual grant from the Rhodes University Student Representative Council, however, majority of its revenue is generated through advertising.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-10

A Vice-Chancellor looks back

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1983-09-26
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7458 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018335
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  • Date Issued: 1983-09-26

Opening address: Third South African Computer Symposium on Research in Theory, Software and Hardware

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1983-09-14
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7457 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018334
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  • Date Issued: 1983-09-14

The Educational Journal

Rhodeo: 1983 - August

  • Date: 1983-08-24
  • Subjects: Grahamstown -- Newspapers , Journalism, Students -- South Africa , Rhodes University -- Activate , Rhodes University -- Students , Student newspapers and periodicals -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14724 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019596
  • Description: Rhodeo is the Independent Student Newspaper of Rhodes University. Located in Grahamstown, Rhodeo was established in 1947, and renamed in 1994 as Activate. During apartheid Rhodeo became an active part of the struggle for freedom of expression as part of the now defunct South African Student Press Union. Currently Activate is committed to informing Rhodes University students, staff and community members about relevant issues, mainly on campus. These issues range from hard news to more creative journalism. While Activate acts as a news source, one of its main objectives it to be accessible as a training ground for student journalists. The newspaper is run entirely by the students and is published twice a term. Activate is a free newspaper which receives an annual grant from the Rhodes University Student Representative Council, however, majority of its revenue is generated through advertising.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-08-24

Abasebenzi bempahla manyanani

  • Authors: Labour History Group
  • Date: 1983-08
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/299946 , vital:57874
  • Description: Abantu abamnyama bahlupheka ngakumbi ngokuye kusanda kobungxowankulu emZantsi Afrika. Abamhlophe abaninzi bazuze kobubungxowa nkulu. Abamhlophe babanolawulo kwinkompani zemiGodi; belawula nefaraa ezinkulu kwanamizi Mvaliso ngo- kunjalo. Abasebenzi abamhlophe emigodini ba- sebenzisa uMona ukuzuza ngokuphindwe kalishumi kunabamnyama.Kodwa ayingabobonke abamhlophe ababanelo- thamsanqa. Abanye abamhlophe babehluphekule. Belahlekana nemihlaba yabo ngokungxothwa ngo- nofama abatyebileyo. Baya ezidolophini apho bahlala ngokuhlwempuzeka okukhulu njengabobonke abamnyama. Uninzi 1walamahlwempu amhlophe yayi- ngamaBulu.Lamahlwempu amaBulu ayengafundanga engenayo na- nqeqesho ngezoshishino bafumana kunzima uku- fumana imisebenzi. Babanokwenza umsebenzi aba- ngawuqeqeshelwanga kodwa abaqeshi babewunika abemnyama bona babehlawula phantsi. uRulumente wancedisana neqaqobana lalamahlwempu amhlophe angena ngqeqesho ngokuwafunela umsebenzi kwa- Loliwe.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-08

The Educational Journal

Message to be read out on behalf of the VC at a party being held to honour Guy Butler at Rhodes University during the AUTESA Conference

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1983-07-09
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7456 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018333
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  • Date Issued: 1983-07-09

Rhodeo: 1983 - June

  • Date: 1983-06-06
  • Subjects: Grahamstown -- Newspapers , Journalism, Students -- South Africa , Rhodes University -- Activate , Rhodes University -- Students , Student newspapers and periodicals -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14720 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019592
  • Description: Rhodeo is the Independent Student Newspaper of Rhodes University. Located in Grahamstown, Rhodeo was established in 1947, and renamed in 1994 as Activate. During apartheid Rhodeo became an active part of the struggle for freedom of expression as part of the now defunct South African Student Press Union. Currently Activate is committed to informing Rhodes University students, staff and community members about relevant issues, mainly on campus. These issues range from hard news to more creative journalism. While Activate acts as a news source, one of its main objectives it to be accessible as a training ground for student journalists. The newspaper is run entirely by the students and is published twice a term. Activate is a free newspaper which receives an annual grant from the Rhodes University Student Representative Council, however, majority of its revenue is generated through advertising.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-06-06
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