Nonhlanhla Lunjani

Gut microbial metabolism of peanuts generates immunoregulatory metabolites

Background. Complementary feeding practices and timing are thought to significantly influence early life immune development, with the early introduction of allergenic foods being especially important for prevention of food allergy. We hypothesized that allergen-containing foods s...

Multimodal protective and susceptibility clusters in paediatric atopic dermatitis: A machine learning-based, data-driven observational study

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that typically develops in early childhood. Differences in AD prevalence and allergy sensitisation patterns have been observed in African populations, including the AmaXhosa population in South Africa, sugge...