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2015-07-01 • Surgery
2015-07-01 • Surgery
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2019-08-01 • AIDS
2019-08-01 • AIDS
BACKGROUND
Many individuals failing first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa never initiate second-line ART or do so after significant delay. For people on ART w...
Many individuals failing first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa never initiate second-line ART or do so after significant delay. For people on ART w...
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2011-11-01 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2011-11-01 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
BACKGROUND
Drug resistance poses a significant challenge for the successful application of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) globally. Furthermore, emergence of HIV-1 isol...
Drug resistance poses a significant challenge for the successful application of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) globally. Furthermore, emergence of HIV-1 isol...
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2014-08-11 • PLOS One
2014-08-11 • PLOS One
In low- and middle-income countries, bloodstream infections are an important cause of mortality in patients with burns. Increasingly implicated in burn-associated infections are highly d...
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2021-09-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2021-09-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
The wider availability of dolutegravir (DTG) containing HIV therapy for patients living with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) presents several advantages. DTG-based antiretroviral therapy...
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2020-06-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2020-06-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Cryptococcal Meningitis (CM) is estimated to cause 181,000 deaths annually; with the majority occurring in Sub Saharan Africa. Flucytosine is recommended by the World Heal...
Cryptococcal Meningitis (CM) is estimated to cause 181,000 deaths annually; with the majority occurring in Sub Saharan Africa. Flucytosine is recommended by the World Heal...
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2018-10-09 • PLOS One
2018-10-09 • PLOS One
Acute central nervous system (CNS) infections in children in sub-Saharan Africa are often fatal. Potential contributors include late presentation, limited diagnostic capacity and inadequ...
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2016-11-01 • American Journal of Infection Control
2016-11-01 • American Journal of Infection Control
Antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) implementation in humanitarian settings is a new endeavor. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières introduced an ASP within a hospital in Am...
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2016-02-25 • World Journal of Surgery
2016-02-25 • World Journal of Surgery
BACKGROUND
Compared to high-income settings, survival in burn units in low-income settings is lower with invasive infections one leading cause of death. Médecins Sans Frontières is i...
Compared to high-income settings, survival in burn units in low-income settings is lower with invasive infections one leading cause of death. Médecins Sans Frontières is i...
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2015-03-30 • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
2015-03-30 • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
The diagnosis of histoplasmosis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus in southern Africa is complicated by the nonspecific presentation of the disease in this patient group and t...
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2009-02-01 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
2009-02-01 • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
The treatment of concurrent HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in children <3 years of age has not been well-studied and is complicated by potential drug-drug interactions. The recommended antire...
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2012-09-28 • PLOS One
2012-09-28 • PLOS One
In HIV-infected patients receiving rifampicin-based treatment for tuberculosis (TB), the dosage of lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) is adjusted to prevent sub-therapeutic lopinavir concentrat...
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2010-07-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2010-07-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
OBJECTIVES
A prospective cohort study was conducted among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected in-patients with tuberculosis (TB) or other opportunistic infections (OIs) in So...
A prospective cohort study was conducted among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected in-patients with tuberculosis (TB) or other opportunistic infections (OIs) in So...
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2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
The epidemiology of surgical site infections (SSIs) in surgical programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is inadequately described. We reviewed deep and organ-space SSIs occurring within a traum...
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2013-12-09 • AIDS Patient Care and STDs
2013-12-09 • AIDS Patient Care and STDs
Abstract We sought to develop individual-level Early Warning Indicators (EWI) of virologic failure (VF) for clinicians to use during routine care complementing WHO population-level EWI. ...
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2011-07-01 • Journal of Trauma - Injury Infection and Critical Care
2011-07-01 • Journal of Trauma - Injury Infection and Critical Care
War-related orthopedic injury is frequently complicated by environmental contamination and delays in management, placing victims at increased risk for long-term infectious complications....
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2008-06-01 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2008-06-01 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis have emerged as important infections in South Africa among patients infected with human immunodeficiency viru...