FROM THE EDITOR

 

Thank you from SAMA and the editors

 

 

The SAMJ reviewers

Adentunji O Adenji

Alessandro P Aldera

Mahmood Ally

Andrew C Argent

Daynia Ballot

Zunaid Barday

Arvin Bhana

Rajendra Bhimma

Franz Birkholtz

David Bishop

Marc Blockman

Larisse Bolton

Martin Brand

Hanneke Brits

Magritha du Bruyn

Rosemary Burnett

Felicity Burt

Saretha Chetty

Damian Luiz Clarke

Marius Coetzee

Ishaaq Datay

Halima Dawood

Rik De Decker

Pieter de Waal

Lynette Denny

Ellen-ge Denton

Ros Dowse

Lilian Dudley

Janet Early

Sue Fawcus

Melvyn Freeman

Bernard Gaede

Matthew Goodier

Komalan Govender

Rajeshree Govender

Richard Greeff

Newton Handireketi

Anthony Hawkridge

Andrea Hayward

George Justus Hofmeyr

Ebrahim Hoosien

Luke Hunter

Emma Kalk

Zach Koto

Carl-Heinz Kruse

Sa'ad Lahri

Kate Le Grand

Rcihard Lessels

Susan Louw

Vernon Louw

R Maharaj

Zeyn Mahomed

Desiree Malope

Anmed Manjra

Relebogile Mapuroma

Mokgadi Mashola

Cathy Mathews

Ismail Mayet

David McQuoid-Mason

Marc Mendelson

Johanna C Meyer

Alexia S Michaelides

Andre Mochan

D Modi

Zainab Mohamed

Enkosi Mondleki

Amos Msekandiana

Threnesan Naidoo

Tracey Naledi

Pradeep Navsaria

Ntombizodwa Ndlovu

Nnabuike C Ngene

Thandeka Nkosi

Phiwe B Nota

Enyinna S Nwauche

Kenny Nyamande

Hein Odendaal

Olakunle Oginni

Atshakala O Onyangunga

Fathima Paruk

Moosa Patel

Shrikant M Peters

Marcel Post

Richard Raine

Jaishree Raman

Kaveer Ramchandre

Shekar N Roopan

Andrew Ross

Elise Schapkaitz

Gail Scher

Pawel T Schubert

Riaz Y Seedat

David Simon

Magda Slabbert

Priya Soma-Pillay

Harsha Somaroo

Elizabeth Spooner

Gerhard Theron

Daniel J van Hoving

Willem D F Venter

Klaus von Pressentin

Morne Vorster

Ryan Wagner

David Warrell

Sean Wasserman

Andrew Whitelaw

Lizemarie Wium

Elizabeth Wolvaardt

Michelle Wong

 

The CME guest editors and authors

As editor of CME and SAMJ, I would like to thank all the guest editors and authors for their truly outstanding contributions to CME during 2022. This is much appreciated, particularly in the face of increasingly heavy clinical and teaching loads.

 

Asthma in South African children

Guest editors

A Bhamjee, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Authors

A Bhamjee, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa F Mahomed-Asmail, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa J Perold, Tygerberg Hospital Stellenbosch University Cochlear Implant Unit, Cape Town, South Africa

J W Loock, Division of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa T le Roux, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa

 

Dolutegravir drug-drug interactions

Guest editors and authors

E Mondleki, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

G Maartens, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

Optimising blood cultures: The interplay between diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship

Guest editors

N S Papavarnavas, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa M Mendelson, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa S Naicker, National Kidney Foundation of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Authors

N S Papavarnavas, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa A J Brink, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

S Dlamini, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa S Wasserman, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa A Whitelaw, Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

N A B Ntusi, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa;

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa M Mendelson, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Cardiovascular deaths: What do the genes say?

Guest editors and authors

B Stroh van Deventer, Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

L du Toit-Prinsloo, New South Wales Health Pathology, Forensic and Analytical Science Service, Newcastle, Australia

C van Niekerk, Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria and National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria, South Africa

Bridget Farham

Editor

ugqirha@iafrica.com