Dr. Marietjie Venter National Institute for Communicable Disease, South Africa

Prof Marietjie Venter is the Head of the Center for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis (Section: Virology), National Institute for Communicable Diseases, and director of the National Influenza Centre, South Africa. She is also the head of and associate Professor in the Zoonosis Research unit, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She... read morehas been working in respiratory viruses and emerging zoonotic diseases for the past 14 years and published molecular epidemiological investigation of several newly described viruses for the first time in Africa.