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2018-12-07 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2018-12-07 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Between December 2015 and July 2016, a yellow fever (YF) outbreak affected urban areas of Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We described the outb...
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2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection
2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection
We conducted a matched case-control (MCC), test-negative case-control (TNCC) and case-cohort study in 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia, following a mass vaccination campaign. Confirmed cholera cas...
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2011-01-06 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
2011-01-06 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
Providing abandoned children the necessary medical and psychological care as possible after their institutionalization may minimize developmental delays. We describe psychomotor developm...
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2019-08-22 • BMC Public Health
2019-08-22 • BMC Public Health
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Measles continues to circulate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the country suffered from several important outbreaks over the last 5 years. Despite a large outb...
Measles continues to circulate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the country suffered from several important outbreaks over the last 5 years. Despite a large outb...
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2018-12-01 • Epidemics
2018-12-01 • Epidemics
Although patterns of social contacts are believed to be an important determinant of infectious disease transmission, it remains unclear how the frequency and nature of human interactions...
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2018-05-31 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2018-05-31 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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To assess the performance of the SD Bioline Cholera Ag O1/O139 rapid diagnostic test (RDT) compared to a reference standard combining culture and PCR for the diagnosis of c...
To assess the performance of the SD Bioline Cholera Ag O1/O139 rapid diagnostic test (RDT) compared to a reference standard combining culture and PCR for the diagnosis of c...
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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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2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In April 2004, 137 children 6-59 months of age with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria (Caala, Central Angola) were randomized to receive either artemether-lumefantrine (Co...
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2009-08-23 • Malaria Journal
2009-08-23 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND: Artesunate and amodiaquine (AS&AQ) is at present the world's second most widely used artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). It was necessary to evaluate the efficacy of...
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2017-09-18 • Vaccine
2017-09-18 • Vaccine
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Information on Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage before the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction is essential to monitor impact. The 10-va...
Information on Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage before the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction is essential to monitor impact. The 10-va...
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2019-08-30 • PLOS One
2019-08-30 • PLOS One
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In April 2016, an emergency vaccination campaign using one dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was organized in response to a cholera outbreak that started in Lusaka in F...
In April 2016, an emergency vaccination campaign using one dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was organized in response to a cholera outbreak that started in Lusaka in F...
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2016-11-01 • Lancet Global Health
2016-11-01 • Lancet Global Health
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Oral cholera vaccines represent a new effective tool to fight cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2-4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies su...
Oral cholera vaccines represent a new effective tool to fight cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2-4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies su...
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2020-01-31 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2020-01-31 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) has increasingly been used as an outbreak control measure, but vaccine shortages limit its application. A two-dose OCV campaign targeting residents aged over 1...
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2017-11-01 • International Health
2017-11-01 • International Health
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In 2015, more than 1 million refugees arrived in Europe. During their travels, refugees often face harsh conditions, violence and torture in transit countries, but there i...
In 2015, more than 1 million refugees arrived in Europe. During their travels, refugees often face harsh conditions, violence and torture in transit countries, but there i...
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2012-08-04 • Appetite
2012-08-04 • Appetite
Few studies have looked at consumption of Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Foods (RUSFs) during a nutritional emergency. Here, we describe the use and acceptability of RUSF within households i...
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2018-09-27 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2018-09-27 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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To evaluate vaccination coverage, identify reasons for non-vaccination and assess satisfaction with two innovative strategies for distributing second doses in an oral chole...
To evaluate vaccination coverage, identify reasons for non-vaccination and assess satisfaction with two innovative strategies for distributing second doses in an oral chole...
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2020-02-25 • Vaccine
2020-02-25 • Vaccine
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During a measles epidemic, the Ministry of Public Health (MOH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo conducted supplementary immunization activities (2016-SIA) from Au...
During a measles epidemic, the Ministry of Public Health (MOH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo conducted supplementary immunization activities (2016-SIA) from Au...
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2018-03-13 • BMC Medicine
2018-03-13 • BMC Medicine
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Since 2015, Europe has been facing an unprecedented arrival of refugees and migrants: more than one million people entered via land and sea routes. During their travels, r...
Since 2015, Europe has been facing an unprecedented arrival of refugees and migrants: more than one million people entered via land and sea routes. During their travels, r...
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2020-06-19 • BMC Public Health
2020-06-19 • BMC Public Health
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In East Africa, fishing communities are considered most-at-risk populations for the acquisition of HIV. We estimated HIV prevalence and assessed progress towards the UNAID...
In East Africa, fishing communities are considered most-at-risk populations for the acquisition of HIV. We estimated HIV prevalence and assessed progress towards the UNAID...
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2018-05-16 • PLoS Computational Biology
2018-05-16 • PLoS Computational Biology
Computational models of cholera transmission can provide objective insights into the course of an ongoing epidemic and aid decision making on allocation of health care resources. However...