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Coulborn RM, Bastard M, Peyraud N, Gignoux EM, Luquero FJ, et al.

2024-02-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

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The rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP vaccine constitutes a valuable tool to control Ebola virus disease outbreaks. This retrospective cohort study aimed to assess the protective effect of ...

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Simons E, Nikolay B, Ouedraogo P, Pasquier E, Tiemeni C, et al.

2023-06-08 • PLOS Global Public Health

Although seroprevalence studies have demonstrated the wide circulation of SARS-COV-2 in African countries, the impact on population health in these settings is still poorly understood. U...

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

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

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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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Temessadouno FW, Ndong JG, Gignoux EM, Coppieters Y, Ba A, et al.

2023-01-05 • PLOS Global Public Health

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus associated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). At the time of the study, little data on the level of exposure o...

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Nsio JM, Ardiet DL, Coulborn RM, Grellety E, Albela M, et al.

2023-01-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

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In its earliest phases, Ebola virus disease's rapid-onset, high fever, and gastrointestinal symptoms are largely indistinguishable from other infectious illnesses. We aime...

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Malaeb R, Yousef N, Al-Nagdah O, Ali QH, Saeed MAS, et al.

2022-11-09 • PLOS Global Public Health

The true burden of COVID-19 in Yemen is underestimated. The healthcare system is dysfunctional and there is a high shortage of health care workers in the country. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 ...

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Zheng Q, Luquero FJ, Ciglenecki I, Wamala JF, Abubakar A, et al.

2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit...

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Grandesso F, Allan M, Jean-Simon PSJ, Boncy J, Blake A, et al.

2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection

SUMMARY Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian u...

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Jones FK, Wamala JF, Rumunu J, Mawien PN, Kol MT, et al.

2020-12-01 • Lancet Planetary health

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Between 2014 and 2017, successive cholera epidemics occurred in South Sudan within the context of civil war, population displacement, flooding, and drought. We aim to des...

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Azman AS, Luquero FJ

2016-08-18 • New England Journal of Medicine

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Polonsky JA, Martinez-Pino I, Nackers F, Chonzi P, Manangazira P, et al.

2014-12-08 • PLOS One

Typhoid fever remains a significant public health problem in developing countries. In October 2011, a typhoid fever epidemic was declared in Harare, Zimbabwe - the fourth enteric infecti...

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Minetti A, Bopp C, Fermon F, Francois G, Grais RF, et al.

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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Ferreras E, Blake A, Chewe O, Mwaba J, Zulu G, et al.

2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection

We conducted a matched case-control (MCC), test-negative case-control (TNCC) and case-cohort study in 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia, following a mass vaccination campaign. Confirmed cholera cas...

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Iyer AS, Ryan ET, Martin S, Legros D, Lessler J, et al.

2016-10-24 • Scientific Reports

Despite recent large-scale cholera outbreaks, little is known about the immunogenicity of oral cholera vaccines (OCV) in African populations, particularly among those at highest cholera ...

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Grout L, Martinez-Pino I, Ciglenecki I, Keita S, Diallo AK, et al.

2015-12-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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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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Lightowler M, Manangazira P, Nackers F, Van Herp M, Phiri I, et al.

2022-06-09 • Vaccine

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Zimbabwe suffers from regular outbreaks of typhoid fever (TF), worse since 2017. Most cases were in Harare and a vaccination campaign with Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) ...

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Martinez-Pino I, Luquero FJ, Sakoba K, Sylla S, Haile M, et al.

2013-08-15 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

During the 2012 cholera outbreak in the Republic of Guinea, the Ministry of Health, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Center Geneva, used the oral cholera vaccine Shanc...

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Grellety E, Luquero FJ, Mambula C, Adamu HH, Elder G, et al.

2013-05-03 • PLOS One

The Sahel is subject to seasonal hungry periods with increasing rates of malnutrition. In Northern Nigeria, there is no surveillance system and surveys are rare. The objectives were to a...

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Luquero FJ, Grais RF

2008-07-24 • New England Journal of Medicine

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Azman AS, Luquero FJ

2020-04-02 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

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Case fatality risk among individuals vaccinated with rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP: a retrospective cohort analysis of patients with confirmed Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and retrospective mortality in two African settings: Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Implementation of targeted cholera response activities, Cameroon

Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors from December 2020 to June 2021 in Koutiala district, Mali

Differential symptomology of possible and confirmed Ebola virus disease infection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective cohort study

High seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among healthcare workers 8 months after the first wave in Aden, Yemen

Cholera outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa during 2010-2019: a descriptive analysis

Risk factors for cholera transmission in Haiti during inter-peak periods: insights to improve current control strategies from two case-control studies

Successive epidemic waves of cholera in South Sudan between 2014 and 2017: a descriptive epidemiological study

Single-dose oral cholera vaccine in Bangladesh

Descriptive Epidemiology of Typhoid Fever during an Epidemic in Harare, Zimbabwe, 2012

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

Alternative observational designs to estimate the effectiveness of one dose of oral cholera vaccine in Lusaka, Zambia

Immune responses to an oral cholera vaccine in internally displaced persons in South Sudan

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

Effectiveness of typhoid conjugate vaccine in Zimbabwe used in response to an outbreak among children and young adults: A matched case control study

Use of a Cholera Rapid Diagnostic Test during a Mass Vaccination Campaign in Response to an Epidemic in Guinea, 2012

Observational bias during nutrition surveillance: results of a mixed longitudinal and cross-sectional data collection system in northern Nigeria

Violence-related mortality in Iraq, 2002-2006

From China: hope and lessons for COVID-19 control