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Karen Du Preez

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Associate Professor

Stellenbosch University

South Africa

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The association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of tuberculosis in South African children

Open Date: 2025-07-01

Close Date: 2025-12-01

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The impact of COVID-19 on the burden, spectrum and outcomes of paediatric TBM

Open Date: 2021-09-01

Close Date: 2023-08-01

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Interdisciplinary and multi-level approach to estimate the disease burden and outcomes of childhood tuberculous meningitis.

Open Date: 2020-02-05

Close Date: 2025-01-31

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TB Kids E-Training: a novel pragmatic approach to training on paediatric TB for healthcare workers

Open Date: 2015-01-01

Close Date: 2015-08-01

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Kid-Care 2: Linking care to prevent and treat children with TB

Open Date: 2014-02-01

Close Date: 2015-12-01

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Collaborators (12)

Rosella Centis

Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA IRCCS Lumezzane

ITALY

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James A. Seddon

Professor Extraordinary

Stellenbosch University

SOUTH AFRICA

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Marlo Möller

Professor

Stellenbosch University

SOUTH AFRICA

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Moises Huaman

Associate Professor

University of Cincinnati

UNITED STATES

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Pete Dodd

University of Sheffield

UNITED KINGDOM

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Henry Welch

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine

UNITED STATES

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Rebecca Nightingale

Senior Clinical Lecturer

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

UNITED KINGDOM

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Brian van Wyk

Professor

University of the Western Cape

SOUTH AFRICA

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Mari Thiart

Senior lecturer

Stellenbosch University

SOUTH AFRICA

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Graeme Hoddinott

Senior Lecturer

University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Ronald Van Toorn

Professor

Stellenbosch University

SOUTH AFRICA

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Dillon Wademan

Senior Researcher

Stellenbosch University

SOUTH AFRICA

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Karen Du Preez

Research Interests

Recent Grants

Articles (15)

Understanding ischemia in children with tuberculous meningitis (iThemba): a protocol paper

Epidemiology of Pediatric Tuberculosis in the Western Cape: A Population-Based Study (2017–2023)

Lessons from community engagement approaches in the Western Cape’s COVID 19 health response: A document review

Impact of tuberculosis healthcare service disruptions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa—a mathematical modelling study

Global burden of tuberculous meningitis in children aged 0–14 years in 2019: a mathematical modelling study

Incidence, Disease Spectrum, and Outcomes of Tuberculous Meningitis in South African Children: The Initial Impact of COVID-19

Using participatory methods to develop a narrative intervention to alleviate distress in children hospitalised with TB in South Africa: The DIMPle project

Navigating complex care pathways-healthcare workers' perspectives on health system barriers for children with tuberculous meningitis in Cape Town, South Africa.

Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response

Post-TB health and wellbeing.

Clinical standards for drug-susceptible TB in children and adolescents

Reducing Initial Loss to Follow-up Among People With Bacteriologically Confirmed Tuberculosis: LINKEDin, a Quasi-experimental Study in South Africa

A systematic review of risk factors for mortality among tuberculosis patients in South Africa

Prevalence of neurotoxicity symptoms among postpartum women on isoniazid preventive therapy and efavirenz-based treatment for HIV: an exploratory objective of the IMPAACT P1078 randomized trial

TB preventive therapy preferences among children and adolescents

Collaborators (12)

Rosella Centis

James A. Seddon

Marlo Möller

Moises Huaman

Pete Dodd

Henry Welch

Rebecca Nightingale

Brian van Wyk

Mari Thiart

Graeme Hoddinott

Ronald Van Toorn

Dillon Wademan

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