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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...
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...
Journal Article
|Review
2018-08-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2018-08-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Low-resource settings are disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Good quality clinical bacteriology through a well functioning reference laborat...
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2021-05-18 • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
2021-05-18 • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
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...
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...
Protocol
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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 ...
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Biphasic versus monophasic manual blood culture bottles for low-resource settings: an in-vitro study
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...
Manual blood culture bottles (BCBs) are frequently used in low-resource settings. There are few BCB performance evaluations, especially evaluations comparing them with aut...
Conference Material
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2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
INTRODUCTION
Within MSF projects, many patients we treat have invasive bacterial infections, often in settings with increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance. However these proje...
Within MSF projects, many patients we treat have invasive bacterial infections, often in settings with increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance. However these proje...
Journal Article
|Commentary
2020-06-01 • Lancet Microbe
2020-06-01 • Lancet Microbe
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2019-06-18 • Frontiers in Medicine
2019-06-18 • Frontiers in Medicine
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...
Journal Article
|Commentary
2018-03-05 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2018-03-05 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Low-resource settings are disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Good quality clinical bacteriology through a well functioning reference laborat...
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2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
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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...
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2016-11-03 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2016-11-03 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
Journal Article
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2013-02-26 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2013-02-26 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVE: The microbiologic causes of bloodstream infections (BSI) may differ between HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients and direct initial empiric antibiotic treatment (i.e. treatm...