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Risk factors for cholera transmission in Haiti during inter-peak periods: insights to improve current control strategies from two case-control studies

Grandesso F, Allan M, Jean-Simon PSJ, Boncy J, Blake A,  et al.
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
SUMMARY Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian u...
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Médecins Sans Frontières experience in orthopedic surgery in post-earthquake Haiti in 2010

Teicher CL, Alberti KP, Porten K, Elder G, Baron E,  et al.
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
INTRODUCTION
During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
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Ceftriaxone as effective as long-acting chloramphenicol in short-course treatment of meningococcal meningitis during epidemics: a randomised non-inferiority study

Nathan N, Borel T, Djibo A, Evans D, Djibo S,  et al.
2008-04-14 • Lancet
2008-04-14 • Lancet
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, more than 600,000 people had epidemic meningococcal meningitis, of whom 10% died. The current recommended treatment by WHO is short-course...
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Use of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) to estimate vaccination coverage helps guide future vaccination efforts

Alberti KP, Guthmann JP, Fermon F, Nargaye KD, Grais RF
2008-03-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-03-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Inadequate evaluation of vaccine coverage after mass vaccination campaigns, such as used in national measles control programmes, can lead to inappropriate public health responses. Overes...
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Violence Against Civilians and Access to Health Care in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Three Cross-Sectional Surveys

Alberti KP, Grellety E, Lin YD, Polonsky JA, Coppens K,  et al.
2010-11-08 • Conflict and Health
2010-11-08 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND
The province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been afflicted by conflict for over a decade. After months of relative calm, offences restarted in Septe...
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Post-licensure deployment of oral cholera vaccines: a systematic review

Martin S, Lopez AMZ, Bellos A, Deen JL, Ali MI,  et al.
2014-09-29 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2014-09-29 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE
To describe and analyse the characteristics of oral cholera vaccination campaigns; including location, target population, logistics, vaccine coverage and delivery costs.
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Evaluation of a rapid test for the diagnosis of cholera in the absence of a gold standard

Page AL, Alberti KP, Mondonge V, Rauzier J, Quilici ML,  et al.
2012-05-30 • PLOS One
2012-05-30 • PLOS One
Early detection and confirmation of cholera outbreaks are crucial for rapid implementation of control measures. Because cholera frequently affects regions with limited laboratory resourc...
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Unacceptably high mortality related to measles epidemics in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad

Grais RF, Dubray C, Gerstl S, Guthmann JP, Djibo A,  et al.
2007-01-01 • PLOS Medicine
2007-01-01 • PLOS Medicine
BACKGROUND: Despite the comprehensive World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) measles mortality-reduction strategy and the Measles Initiative, a partnersh...
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Mortality rates during cholera epidemic, Haiti, 2010-2011

Luquero FJ, Rondy M, Boncy J, Munger A, Mekaoui H,  et al.
2016-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2016-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was one of the largest cholera epidemics ever recorded. To estimate the magnitude of the death toll during the first wave of the epidemic, we retrospec...
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Use of filter paper as a transport medium for laboratory diagnosis of cholera under field conditions

Page AL, Alberti KP, Guenole A, Mondongue V, Lonlas Mayele S,  et al.
2011-06-22 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2011-06-22 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Confirmation of a cholera epidemic is based on bacteriological identification of the agent and requires the sending of samples to a culture laboratory, often in countries with limited re...
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Geographic Distribution and Mortality Risk Factors during the Cholera Outbreak in a Rural Region of Haiti, 2010-2011

Page AL, Ciglenecki I, Jasmin ER, Desvignes L, Grandesso F,  et al.
2015-03-26 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015-03-26 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
In 2010 and 2011, Haiti was heavily affected by a large cholera outbreak that spread throughout the country. Although national health structure-based cholera surveillance was rapidly ini...