Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented and highlighted new and
unanticipated challenges to the provision of clinical services, raising an urgency for the …

Hearing impairment (HI) is highly heterogeneous with over 123 associated genes reported
to date, mostly from studies among Europeans and Asians. Here, we performed a systematic …

Approximately half of congenital hearing impairment cases are inherited, with non-
syndromic hearing impairment (NSHI) being the most frequent clinical entity of genetic …

School Hearing Screening With a Portable, Tablet-Based, Nois... : Otology & Neurotology
School Hearing Screening With a Portable, Tablet-Based, Noise-Attenuating Audiometric …

DNA samples from five members of a multiplex non-consanguineous Cameroonian family,
segregating prelingual and progressive autosomal recessive non-syndromic sensorineural …

Objectives: To identify the etiologies of hearing impairment (HI) in schools for deaf students
and to use a systematic review to summarize reports on the etiologies and clinical and …

There is scarcity of known gene variants of hearing impairment (HI) in African populations.
This knowledge deficit is ultimately affecting the development of genetic diagnoses. We …

Hearing impairment (HI) is a silent planetary health crisis that requires attention worldwide.
The prevalence of HI in South Africa is estimated as 5.5 in 100 live births, which is about 5 …

This study describes the roles of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) in multi-
site genetics studies in Africa. We used the HiGeneS Africa project as a case study. The …

This book is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology,
with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re …