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2023-01-31 • Diagnostics
2023-01-31 • Diagnostics
Culture media is fundamental in clinical bacteriology for the detection and isolation of bacterial pathogens. However, in-house media preparation could be challenging in low-resource set...
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2016-03-01 • PLOS Medicine
2016-03-01 • PLOS Medicine
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a highly lethal condition for which no specific treatment has proven efficacy. In September 2014, while the Ebola outbreak was at its peak, the World Health ...
Journal Article
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2018-08-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2018-08-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Low-resource settings are disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Good quality clinical bacteriology through a well functioning reference laborat...
Protocol
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2022-04-25 • PLOS One
2022-04-25 • PLOS One
Use of equipment-free, “manual” blood cultures is still widespread in low-resource settings, as requirements for implementation of automated systems are often not met. Quality of manual ...
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Biphasic versus monophasic manual blood culture bottles for low-resource settings: an in-vitro study
2021-12-13 • Lancet Microbe
2021-12-13 • Lancet Microbe
BACKGROUND
Manual blood culture bottles (BCBs) are frequently used in low-resource settings. There are few BCB performance evaluations, especially evaluations comparing them with aut...
Manual blood culture bottles (BCBs) are frequently used in low-resource settings. There are few BCB performance evaluations, especially evaluations comparing them with aut...
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2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
INTRODUCTION
Within MSF projects, many patients we treat have invasive bacterial infections, often in settings with increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance. However these proje...
Within MSF projects, many patients we treat have invasive bacterial infections, often in settings with increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance. However these proje...
Journal Article
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2020-06-01 • Lancet Microbe
2020-06-01 • Lancet Microbe
Journal Article
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2019-06-18 • Frontiers in Medicine
2019-06-18 • Frontiers in Medicine
Bloodstream infections (BSI) have a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite scarcity of data from many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is increas...
Journal Article
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2018-03-05 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2018-03-05 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Low-resource settings are disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Good quality clinical bacteriology through a well functioning reference laborat...
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2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
Journal Article
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2017-06-22 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2017-06-22 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
During the large Ebola outbreak that affected West Africa in 2014 and 2015, studies were launched to evaluate potential treatments for the disease. A clinical trial to evaluate the effec...
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2021-02-19 • Diagnostics
2021-02-19 • Diagnostics
Bacterial identification is challenging in low-resource settings (LRS). We evaluated the MicroScan identification panels (Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA, USA) as part of Médecins Sans Frontiè...
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2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation
2019-05-08 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019: Innovation