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Field research in humanitarian medical programmes. Treatment of a cohort of tuberculosis patients using the Manyatta regimen in a conflict zone in South Sudan

Keus K, Houston S, Melaku Y, Burling S
2008-01-31 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-01-31 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This is a descriptive report of a pilot project of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in a conflict zone. A TB programme was implemented by Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)-Holland in a semi-nomad...
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Evaluation of a new recombinant K39 rapid diagnostic test for Sudanese visceral leishmaniasis

Ritmeijer KKD, Melaku Y, Mueller M, Kipngetich S, O'keeffe C,  et al.
2006-01-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-01-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
A new rK39 rapid diagnostic dipstick test (DiaMed-IT-Leish) was compared with aspiration and a direct agglutination test (DAT) for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in 201 parasit...
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Ethiopian visceral leishmaniasis: generic and proprietary sodium stibogluconate are equivalent; HIV co-infected patients have a poor outcome

Ritmeijer KKD, Veeken H, Melaku Y, Leal G, Amsalu R,  et al.
2008-01-31 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-01-31 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We evaluated generic sodium stibogluconate (SSG) (International Dispensary Association, Amsterdam) versus Pentostam (sodium stibogluconate, GlaxoWellcome, London) under field conditions ...
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Treatment of kala-azar in Southern Sudan using a 17-day regimen of sodium stibogluconate combined with paromomycin: a retrospective comparison with 30-day sodium stibogluconate monotherapy

Melaku Y, Collin SM, Keus K, Gatluak F, Ritmeijer KKD,  et al.
2007-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2007-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Médecins sans Frontières-Holland has treated > 67,000 patients with kala-azar (KA) in southern Sudan since 1989. In 2002, we replaced the standard regimen of 30 days of daily sodium stib...
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Malaria in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan: baseline genotypic resistance and efficacy of the artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and artesunate plus amodiaquine combinations

Hamour S, Melaku Y, Keus K, Wambugu J, Atkin S,  et al.
2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Both northern and southern Sudan are deploying artemisinin-based combinations against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria (artesunate+sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine [AS+SP] in the nor...