Medical Virology

The Department of Medical Virology is part of the School of Pathology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It is a department-level unit with no listed sub-units.

Its publication record centres on virology, with work spanning HIV and AIDS, hepatitis B, rotavirus and SARS-CoV-2. Research also addresses molecular epidemiology and antiviral drug resistance, drawing on laboratory and genomic methods.

Further themes include vaccine-preventable viral disease, viral diagnostics and the molecular characterisation of circulating strains. The research is focused mainly on South Africa and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, with comparisons to other regions where the data support them.