Marietjie Venter is professor in the Department of Medical Virology at the

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, where she also heads the Zoonotic Arbo and Respiratory Virus, Centre for Viral Zoonoses. She advises the

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and is a chair of

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* South African virologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{academic-stub