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2025-03-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2025-03-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
In low-resource settings, limited laboratory capacity adds to the burden of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children and spurs overuse of ...
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2024-08-27 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2024-08-27 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BACKGROUND
Deaths ...
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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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2023-04-28 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2023-04-28 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Current supply shortages constrain yellow fever vaccination activities, particularly outbreak response. Although fractional doses of all WHO-prequalified yellow fever vacc...
Current supply shortages constrain yellow fever vaccination activities, particularly outbreak response. Although fractional doses of all WHO-prequalified yellow fever vacc...
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2023-03-01 • Burns
2023-03-01 • Burns
BACKGROUND
Burn injuries are a major cause of morbidity and mortality within Low- and Middle-income countries (LMICs). Most of these burn injuries occur at home with children most a...
Burn injuries are a major cause of morbidity and mortality within Low- and Middle-income countries (LMICs). Most of these burn injuries occur at home with children most a...
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2017-09-18 • Vaccine
2017-09-18 • Vaccine
BACKGROUND
Information on Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage before the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction is essential to monitor impact. The 10-va...
Information on Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage before the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction is essential to monitor impact. The 10-va...
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2022-06-29 • Infectious Diseases and Therapy
2022-06-29 • Infectious Diseases and Therapy
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most severe and disabling form of tuberculosis (TB), with at least 100,000 cases per year and a mortality rate of up to 50% in individuals co-infected...
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2017-04-13 • PLOS One
2017-04-13 • PLOS One
INTRODUCTION
Puerperal sepsis causes 10% of maternal deaths in Africa, but prospective studies on incidence, microbiology and antimicrobial resistance are lacking.
METHODS
Puerperal sepsis causes 10% of maternal deaths in Africa, but prospective studies on incidence, microbiology and antimicrobial resistance are lacking.
METHODS
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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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2020-11-04 • JMIR Research Protocols
2020-11-04 • JMIR Research Protocols
BACKGROUND
A timely differential diagnostic is essential to identify the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children, in order to facilitate targeted treatment, m...
A timely differential diagnostic is essential to identify the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children, in order to facilitate targeted treatment, m...
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Effect of high-dose rifampicin on efavirenz pharmacokinetics: drug-drug interaction randomized trial
2020-01-30 • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
2020-01-30 • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Background: High-dose rifampicin is considered to shorten anti-TB treatment duration but its effect on antiretroviral metabolism is unknown.
Objectives: To assess the effect o...
Objectives: To assess the effect o...
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2017-07-27 • PLOS One
2017-07-27 • PLOS One
Point-of-care (POC) tests have become increasingly available and more widely used in recent years. They have been of particular importance to low-income settings, enabling them with clin...
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2017-06-02 • Scientific Reports
2017-06-02 • Scientific Reports
Infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are severe conditions, leading to neurological sequelae or death. Knowledge of the causative agents is essential to develop guidelines for ...
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2018-09-20 • International Journal of Microbiology
2018-09-20 • International Journal of Microbiology
INTRODUCTION
The proportion of women with severe maternal morbidity from obstructed labor is between 2 and 12% in resource-limited settings. Maternal vaginal colonization with group ...
The proportion of women with severe maternal morbidity from obstructed labor is between 2 and 12% in resource-limited settings. Maternal vaginal colonization with group ...