Hardy L, Vermoesen T, Genbrugge E, Natale A, Franquesa C, et al.
2024-03-01 • EBioMedicine
2024-03-01 • EBioMedicine
BACKGROUND Bloodstream infections (BSI) pose a significant threat due to high mortality rates and the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In 2019, an estimated 4.95 m...
Natale A, Oueslati S, Rochard A, Lopez-Baez D, Ombelet S, et al.
2023-01-31 • Diagnostics
2023-01-31 • Diagnostics
Culture media is fundamental in clinical bacteriology for the detection and isolation of bacterial pathogens. However, in-house media preparation could be challenging in low-resource set...
Ronat JB, Natale A, Kesteman T, Andremont A, Elamin W, et al.
2021-10-01 • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
2021-10-01 • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
BACKGROUND In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), data related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are often inconsistently collected. Humanitarian, private and non-governmental ...
BACKGROUND Culture media are fundamental in clinical microbiology. In laboratories in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), they are mostly prepared in-house, which is challengin...
Ombelet S, Natale A, Ronat JB, Vandenberg O, Jacobs J, et al.
2022-04-25 • PLOS One
2022-04-25 • PLOS One
Use of equipment-free, “manual” blood cultures is still widespread in low-resource settings, as requirements for implementation of automated systems are often not met. Quality of manual ...
Ombelet S, Natale A, Ronat JB, Kesteman T, Vandenberg O, et al.
2021-12-13 • Lancet Microbe
2021-12-13 • Lancet Microbe
BACKGROUND Manual blood culture bottles (BCBs) are frequently used in low-resource settings. There are few BCB performance evaluations, especially evaluations comparing them with aut...
Ronat JB, Oueslati S, Natale A, Kesteman T, Elamin W, et al.
2022-08-30 • Diagnostics
2022-08-30 • Diagnostics
Easy and robust antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) methods are essential in clinical bacteriology laboratories (CBL) in low-resource settings (LRS). We evaluated the Beckman Coul...
Bloodstream infections (BSI) have a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite scarcity of data from many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is increas...
Ombelet S, Natale A, Ronat JB, Vandenberg O, Hardy L, et al.
2021-02-19 • Diagnostics
2021-02-19 • Diagnostics
Bacterial identification is challenging in low-resource settings (LRS). We evaluated the MicroScan identification panels (Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA, USA) as part of Médecins Sans Frontiè...
