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Meakin S, Nsio J, Camacho A, Kitenge R, Coulborn RM, et al.

2024-08-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

BACKRGOUND

The rec...

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Ratnayake R, Knee J, Cumming O, Saidi JM, Rumedeka BB, et al.

2024-08-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

We evaluated the spatiotemporal clustering of rapid diagnostic test−positive cholera cases in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We detected spatiotemporal clusters that...

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Moser W, Broban A, Welo PO, Mukadi D, Gerstl S, et al.

2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024

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Finger F, Mimbu N, Ratnayake R, Meakin S, Bahati JB, et al.

2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024

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2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024

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Finger F, Mimbu N, Ratnayake R, Meakin S, Bahati JB, et al.

2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024

INTRODUCTION
The risk of cholera outbreaks spreading rapidly and extensively is substantial. Case-area targeted interventions (CATI) are based on the premise that early detection can...

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Casera M, Lacan K, Camacho A, Augustin C, Métrailler F, et al.

2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024

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Finger F, Heitzinger K, Berendes D, Ciglenecki I, Dominguez M, et al.

2024-04-30 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

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Research

Klein A, Bastard M, Hemat H, Singh SN, Muniz B, et al.

2023-08-24 • PLOS Global Public Health

Though many studies on COVID have been published to date, data on COVID-19 epidemiology, symptoms, risk factors and severity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICS), such as Afghanis...

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Mimbu N, Finger F

2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023

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Finger F

2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023

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Mimbu N, Finger F

2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023

The risk of small-scale cholera outbreaks propagating rapidly and enlarging extensively remains substantial. As opposed to relying on mass, community-wide approaches, cholera control str...

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Finger F

2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023

The years 2022 and 2023 have been marked by a number of cholera outbreaks affecting populations around the world. Hundreds of thousands of cholera cases and thousands of deaths have been...

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Case Report/Series

Ouamba JP, Fouda Mbarga N, Ciglenecki I, Ratnayake R, Tchiasso D, et al.

2023-03-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization

OBJECTIVE
To describe the implementation of case-area targeted interventions to reduce cholera transmission using a rapid, localized response in Kribi district, Cameroon.

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Klein A, Bastard M, Hemat H, Singh SN, Muniz B, et al.

2023-02-16 • medRxiv

BACKGROUND
Though many studies on COVID have been published to date, data on COVID-19 epidemiology, symptoms, risk factors and severity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICS), s...

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Haider A, Finger F

2021-06-10 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2021

In this presentation, we provide an overview of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen and Afghanistan and describe the characteristics of patients seen sel...

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Research

Polonsky JA, Ivey M, Mazhar KA, Rahman Z, le Polain de Waroux O, et al.

2021-04-01 • PLOS Medicine

BACKGROUND
Unrest in Myanmar in August 2017 resulted in the movement of over 700,000 Rohingya refugees to overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. A large outbreak of diphtheria...

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Review

Ratnayake R, Finger F, Azman AS, Lantagne D, Funk S, et al.

2021-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control. Although mass campaigns covering large populations are commonly used to control cholera, spatial targeting of case hous...

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Jarvis CI, Gimma A, Finger F, Morris TP, Thompson JA, et al.

2022-05-23 • PLoS Computational Biology

The fraction of cases reported, known as 'reporting', is a key performance indicator in an outbreak response, and an essential factor to consider when modelling epidemics and assessing t...

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Mazhar KA, Finger F, Evers ES, Kuehne A, Ivey M, et al.

2021-04-29 • PLOS One

In the summer of 2017, an estimated 745,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in what has been described as one of the largest and fastest growing refugee crises in the world. Among numerous h...

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Effectiveness of rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination during the 2018–20 Ebola virus disease epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective test-negative study

Spatiotemporal modeling of cholera, Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2016−2020

A multi-site pilot study of the deployment of cholera rapid diagnostic tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera - a prospective observational study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera - a prospective observational study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera: a prospective observational study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Real-time high resolution geo-spatial analysis of key indicators in a large-scale cholera outbreak in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2022-2023

Reporting of deaths during cholera outbreaks: case fatality ratio and community deaths

Factors associated with adverse outcomes among patients hospitalized at a COVID-19 treatment center in Herat, Afghanistan

Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera: updates from the DRC study

Epidemiological situation of cholera in 2023

Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera: updates from the DRC study

Epidemiological situation of cholera in 2023

Implementation of targeted cholera response activities, Cameroon

Factors associated with adverse outcomes among patients hospitalized at a COVID-19 treatment center run by Médecins sans Frontières in Herat, Afghanistan

COVID-19 — Focus on Yemen and Afghanistan

Epidemiological, clinical, and public health response characteristics of a large outbreak of diphtheria among the Rohingya population in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2017 to 2019: A retrospective study

Highly targeted spatiotemporal interventions against cholera epidemics, 2000–19: a scoping review

Measuring the unknown: an estimator and simulation study for assessing case reporting during epidemics

An outbreak of acute jaundice syndrome (AJS) among the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: findings from enhanced epidemiological surveillance