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2009-07-07 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2009-07-07 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND:
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is a zoonotic or anthropozoonotic disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Predominantly affecting populations in poor...
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is a zoonotic or anthropozoonotic disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Predominantly affecting populations in poor...
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2008-10-04 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-10-04 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In 2005, a Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) outbreak occurred in Uíge province, Angola, which had its epicentre in Uíge municipality. Concurrently, a health facility located a considerab...
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2011-05-24 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2011-05-24 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Background: Marburg virus (MARV), a zoonotic pathogen causing severe hemorrhagic fever in man, has emerged in Angola resulting in the largest outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) ...
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2007-11-15 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2007-11-15 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
From 27 March 2005 onwards, the independent humanitarian medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, together with the World Health Organization, the Angolan Ministry of Health, and oth...
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2012-12-28 • PLOS One
2012-12-28 • PLOS One
A confirmed Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) outbreak in Bundibugyo, Uganda, November 2007-February 2008, was caused by a putative new species (Bundibugyo ebolavirus). It included 93 putat...
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2012-09-04 • Population Health Metrics
2012-09-04 • Population Health Metrics
During 2010, a community-based, sentinel site prospective surveillance system measured mortality, acute malnutrition prevalence, and the coverage of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inte...
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2015-06-12 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2015-06-12 • BMC Infectious Diseases
Malnutrition and malaria frequently coexist in sub-Saharan African countries. Studies on efficacy of antimalarial treatments usually follow the WHO standardized protocol in which severel...
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2012-03-05 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2012-03-05 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Objectives Bihar, the poorest state in India, concentrates most of the visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases in the country. A large proportion of the poor rural communities where VL is end...
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2009-11-01 • Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
2009-11-01 • Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Between 1999-2002, Médécins Sans Frontières-Spain implemented a project seeking to determine the efficacy and safety of benznidazole in the treatment of recent chronic Chagas disease in ...
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2011-11-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2011-11-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Testing an innovative therapy for filovirus hemorrhagic fever (FHF) in an outbreak setting may be years away. Moreover, beyond anecdotal evidence, little is known about best practice for...
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2011-05-04 • PLOS One
2011-05-04 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
As resources are limited when responding to cholera outbreaks, knowledge about where to orient interventions is crucial. We describe the cholera epidemic affecting Guinea-...
As resources are limited when responding to cholera outbreaks, knowledge about where to orient interventions is crucial. We describe the cholera epidemic affecting Guinea-...
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2012-11-21 • PLOS One
2012-11-21 • PLOS One
In resource-limited settings where viral load (VL) monitoring is scarce or unavailable, clinicians must use immunological and clinical criteria to define HIV virological treatment failur...
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2008-07-08 • Gaceta sanitaria / S.E.S.P.A.S
2008-07-08 • Gaceta sanitaria / S.E.S.P.A.S
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To estimate the prevalence of genital ulcer and urethral discharge in Pweto, Democratic Republic of Congo, and to analyze the association between the estimated prevalence ...
To estimate the prevalence of genital ulcer and urethral discharge in Pweto, Democratic Republic of Congo, and to analyze the association between the estimated prevalence ...
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2011-02-22 • AIDS Care
2011-02-22 • AIDS Care
We assess the coverage of a Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission (PMTCT) programme in Busia (Kenya) from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2008 and estimate the risk of transmission of...
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2012-11-08 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2012-11-08 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Use of cholera vaccines in response to epidemics (reactive vaccination) may provide an effective supplement to traditional control measures. In Haiti, reactive vaccination was considered...
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2009-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2009-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In May 2005, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was recognized for the first time in Libo Kemken, Ethiopia, a highland region where only few cases had been reported before. We analyzed records ...
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2011-10-01 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2011-10-01 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Reports on treatment outcomes of visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection in India are lacking. To our knowledge, none have studied the efficacy of lipo...
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2010-08-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-08-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We evaluated, through the prospective monitoring of 251 patients at Sadar Hospital in Bihar, India, the effectiveness and safety of 20 mg/kg body weight of liposomal amphotericin B for t...