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2023-10-04 • Scientific African
2023-10-04 • Scientific African
BACKGROUND
Although the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa did not produce the expected catastrophe, the true impact of COVID-19 in the Cameroonian population was unclear....
Although the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa did not produce the expected catastrophe, the true impact of COVID-19 in the Cameroonian population was unclear....
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2023-04-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2023-04-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
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2016-06-02 • AIDS and Behavior
2016-06-02 • AIDS and Behavior
Little is known about associations between viral suppression, adherence, and duration of prior viral suppression in sub-Saharan Africa. Study participants were from the UARTO study in Mb...
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2020-04-19 • Transfusion Clinique et Biologique
2020-04-19 • Transfusion Clinique et Biologique
Identify factors that influence the return of donors to increase their loyalty while improving blood safety is crucial in our context. Between October 2017 and April 2018, we conducted a...
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2017-03-31 • East African Medical Journal
2017-03-31 • East African Medical Journal
BACKGROUND
To confirm presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, some tuberculosis culture laboratories still rely on para-nitrobenzoic acid (PNB), a traditional technique that ...
To confirm presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, some tuberculosis culture laboratories still rely on para-nitrobenzoic acid (PNB), a traditional technique that ...
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2017-10-28 • Malaria Journal
2017-10-28 • Malaria Journal
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Early diagnosis of suspected malaria cases with a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) has been shown to be an effective malaria control tool used in many resource-constrained sett...
Early diagnosis of suspected malaria cases with a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) has been shown to be an effective malaria control tool used in many resource-constrained sett...
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2017-08-02 • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
2017-08-02 • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
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Mortality among children with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) empiric TB treatment can be high. We describe the predictors of death among children with presumptive TB, and t...
Mortality among children with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) empiric TB treatment can be high. We describe the predictors of death among children with presumptive TB, and t...
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2019-10-18 • BMJ Global Health
2019-10-18 • BMJ Global Health
INTRODUCTION
Africa contributes little to the biomedical literature despite its high burden of infectious diseases. Global health research partnerships aimed at addressing Africa-end...
Africa contributes little to the biomedical literature despite its high burden of infectious diseases. Global health research partnerships aimed at addressing Africa-end...
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2019-08-15 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2019-08-15 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Many men with HIV express fertility intentions and nearly half have HIV-uninfected sexual partners. We measured partner pregnancy among a cohort of men accessing antiretroviral therapy (...
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2015-02-06 • PLOS One
2015-02-06 • PLOS One
There are limited data on region-specific drug susceptibility of tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda. We performed resistance testing on specimens collected from treatment-naive patients with pu...
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2018-01-16 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2018-01-16 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Residual systemic inflammation persists despite suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) and is associated with non-AIDS clinical outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the association between A...
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2020-03-01 • Lancet Global Health
2020-03-01 • Lancet Global Health
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2021-06-15 • Journal of the American Heart Association
2021-06-15 • Journal of the American Heart Association
BACKGROUND
Although ≈70% of the world's population of people living with HIV resides in sub-Saharan Africa, there are minimal prospective data on the contributions of HIV infection t...
Although ≈70% of the world's population of people living with HIV resides in sub-Saharan Africa, there are minimal prospective data on the contributions of HIV infection t...
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2016-03-30 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2016-03-30 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Sputum acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear microscopy has suboptimal sensitivity but remains the most commonly used laboratory test to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). We prospectively ev...
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2021-07-01 • Scientific African
2021-07-01 • Scientific African
Official case counts suggest Africa has not seen the expected burden of COVID-19 as predicted by international health agencies, and the proportion of asymptomatic patients, disease sever...
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2021-12-01 • SSM - Mental Health
2021-12-01 • SSM - Mental Health
Depression affects over 40% of people with HIV (PHIV) in low- and middle-income countries, and over half of PHIV report HIV-related internalized stigma. However, few longitudinal studies...
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2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases
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Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource ...
Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource ...
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2016-06-23 • New England Journal of Medicine
2016-06-23 • New England Journal of Medicine
Recent gains in reducing the global burden of malaria are threatened by the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins. The discovery that mutations in portions of a P...
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2018-05-08 • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
2018-05-08 • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The Xpert MTB/RIF assay is a major advance for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden countries but is limited in children by their difficulty to produce sputum. We investigated T...
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2014-01-08 • AIDS
2014-01-08 • AIDS
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with better economic outcomes.
DESIGN
Prospective cohort study of HIV-pos...
To determine whether earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with better economic outcomes.
DESIGN
Prospective cohort study of HIV-pos...