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2025-08-01 • Nature Communications
2025-08-01 • Nature Communications
Hospitalisation and routine antibiotic treatment are recommended for children with complicated severe acute...
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2025-07-29 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2025-07-29 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Médecins sans Frontières designed an all-in-one microbiology laboratory (the "Mini-Lab") to improve bacterial infections diagnosis in low-r...
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2025-06-13 • New England Journal of Medicine
2025-06-13 • New England Journal of Medicine
BACKGROUND
International recommendations advise against the use of intravenous rehydration therapy in children with severe acute malnutrition because of the con...
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2025-01-08 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2025-01-08 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
In settings with low pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) coverage, multi-age cohort mass campaigns could increase population immunity, and fractiona...
Technical Report
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2024-10-29
2024-10-29
At the time of writing, many people around the world are feeling the pain, disruption, and devastating health consequences driven by climate change. The world has been shocked by the ...
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2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
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2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
BACKGROUND
While case confirmation is most of the time not necessary for case management decisions– the measles outbreak response relies on the timely biological confirmation of outb...
While case confirmation is most of the time not necessary for case management decisions– the measles outbreak response relies on the timely biological confirmation of outb...
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2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024
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2024-02-26 • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
2024-02-26 • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
INTRODUCTION
Current guidelines for the outpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) recommend the provision of routine medications to all children at admission and prescr...
Current guidelines for the outpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) recommend the provision of routine medications to all children at admission and prescr...
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2024-01-16 • Wellcome Open Research
2024-01-16 • Wellcome Open Research
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Chi...
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2023-10-19 • Lancet Microbe
2023-10-19 • Lancet Microbe
BACKGROUND
Children with severe acute malnutrition are treated with antibiotics as outpatients. We aimed to determine the effect of 7 days of amoxicillin on acute and long-term chang...
Children with severe acute malnutrition are treated with antibiotics as outpatients. We aimed to determine the effect of 7 days of amoxicillin on acute and long-term chang...
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2023-07-11 • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
2023-07-11 • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
BACKGROUND
Antibiotic resistance is a significant public health problem and is responsible for high mortality in children and new-borns. Strengthening the rational use of antibiotics...
Antibiotic resistance is a significant public health problem and is responsible for high mortality in children and new-borns. Strengthening the rational use of antibiotics...
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2023-06-25 • Journal of Infection
2023-06-25 • Journal of Infection
OBJECTIVE
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-E. coli) in developing countries is lacking. Here we describe the population...
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-E. coli) in developing countries is lacking. Here we describe the population...
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2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
BACKGROUND
Patients with advanced HIV disease (AHD), defined as WHO clinical stage 3 or 4 and/or CD4<200, have a high risk of death. One common cause of death is invasive bacterial i...
Patients with advanced HIV disease (AHD), defined as WHO clinical stage 3 or 4 and/or CD4<200, have a high risk of death. One common cause of death is invasive bacterial i...
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2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
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2019-10-16 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2019-10-16 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Background: Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) and culture are the most reliable methods for tuberculosis diagnosis but are still poorly accessible in many low resource countries. We aimed to assess ...
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2020-03-03 • BMC Nutrition
2020-03-03 • BMC Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Nutritional supplements are used for preventing and treating childhood malnutrition. While there is a growing body of evidence on product efficacy, less emphasis has been ...
Nutritional supplements are used for preventing and treating childhood malnutrition. While there is a growing body of evidence on product efficacy, less emphasis has been ...
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2019-08-22 • BMC Public Health
2019-08-22 • BMC Public Health
BACKGROUND:
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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2018-02-27 • Malaria Journal
2018-02-27 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND
In Niger, malaria transmission is markedly seasonal with most of the disease burden occurring in children during the rainy season. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) w...
In Niger, malaria transmission is markedly seasonal with most of the disease burden occurring in children during the rainy season. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) w...