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Identification des zones de santé prioritaires pour le renforcement de la surveillance épidémiologique dans l’Ex-Province orientale en RDC

Masudi C, Mukembe N, Tikela E, Mbogne G, Grout L
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
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Research

Effect of large-scale mass drug administration for malaria on mortality and morbidity in Angumu health zone, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Grout L, Katuala Givo Y, Newport T, Mahamat TA, Gitahi P,  et al.
2023-02-06 • Malaria Journal
2023-02-06 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND
Angumu health zone in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, is a highly malaria-endemic area with an overburdened health system and hosting internally displaced persons (ID...
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Commentary

Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of médecins sans frontières

Minetti A, Bopp C, Fermon F, Francois G, Grais RF,  et al.
2013-11-05 • PLOS Medicine
2013-11-05 • PLOS Medicine
Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to lo...
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Research

Pregnancy outcomes after a mass vaccination campaign with an oral cholera vaccine in Guinea: a retrospective cohort study

Grout L, Martinez-Pino I, Ciglenecki I, Keita S, Diallo AK,  et al.
2015-12-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015-12-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
INTRODUCTION
Since 2010, WHO has recommended oral cholera vaccines as an additional strategy for cholera control. During a cholera episode, pregnant women are at high risk of complic...
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Research

First outbreak response using an oral cholera vaccine in Africa: vaccine coverage, acceptability and surveillance of adverse events, Guinea, 2012

Luquero FJ, Grout L, Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Traore B,  et al.
2013-10-17 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2013-10-17 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND
Despite World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification of two safe and effective oral cholera vaccines (OCV), concerns about the acceptability, potential diversion of re...
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Research

Local discrepancies in measles vaccination opportunities: results of population-based surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

Grout L, Conan N, Giner AJ, Hurtado N, Fermon F,  et al.
2014-02-21 • BMC Public Health
2014-02-21 • BMC Public Health
Background: The World Health Organization recommends African children receive two doses of measles containing vaccine (MCV) through routine programs or supplemental immunization activiti...
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Research

Use of Vibrio cholerae vaccine in an outbreak in Guinea

Luquero FJ, Grout L, Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Traore B,  et al.
2014-05-29 • New England Journal of Medicine
2014-05-29 • New England Journal of Medicine
BACKGROUND
The use of vaccines to prevent and control cholera is currently under debate. Shanchol is one of the two oral cholera vaccines prequalified by the World Health Organizatio...
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Mass drug administration as a tool for rapid reduction of malaria morbidity and mortality in emergency settings

Grout L
2022-06-01 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2022
2022-06-01 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2022
WHO recommends mass drug administration (MDA) for malaria in complex emergencies. Angumu health zone in Ituri (DRC) is a highly malaria-endemic area with an overburdened health system an...
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Research

Measles in Democratic Republic of Congo: an outbreak description from Katanga, 2010--2011

Grout L, Minetti A, Hurtado N, Francois G, Fermon F,  et al.
2013-05-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2013-05-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: The Democratic Republic of Congo experiences regular measles outbreaks. From September 2010, the number of suspected measles cases increased, especially in Katanga province, ...
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Commentary

Cholera epidemic in South Sudan and Uganda and need for international collaboration in cholera control

Abubakar A, Bwire GS, Azman AS, Bouhenia M, Deng LO,  et al.
2018-05-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2018-05-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
Combining the official cholera line list data and outbreak investigation reports from the ministries of health in Uganda and South Sudan with molecular analysis of Vibrio cholerae strain...
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Mass drug administration as a tool for rapid reduction of malaria morbidity and mortality in emergency settings

Grout L
2022-06-21 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2022
2022-06-21 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2022