Ferreras E, Blake A, Chewe O, Mwaba J, Zulu G, et al.
2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection
2020-03-13 • Epidemiology and Infection
We conducted a matched case-control (MCC), test-negative case-control (TNCC) and case-cohort study in 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia, following a mass vaccination campaign. Confirmed cholera cas...
Poncin M, Zulu G, Voûte C, Ferreras E, Muleya CM, et al.
2017-10-19 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2017-10-19 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE To describe the implementation and feasibility of an innovative mass vaccination strategy - based on single-dose oral cholera vaccine - to curb a cholera epidemic in a larg...
Camacho A, Bouhenia M, Alyusfi R, Alkohlani A, Naji MAM, et al.
2018-05-03 • Lancet Global Health
2018-05-03 • Lancet Global Health
In war-torn Yemen, reports of confirmed cholera started in late September, 2016. The disease continues to plague Yemen today in what has become the largest documented cholera epidemic of...
Mwaba J, Ferreras E, Chizema Kawesha E, Mwimbe D, Tafirenyika F, et al.
2018-05-31 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2018-05-31 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVE To assess the performance of the SD Bioline Cholera Ag O1/O139 rapid diagnostic test (RDT) compared to a reference standard combining culture and PCR for the diagnosis of c...
Sissoko D, Laouenan C, Folkesson E, M’Lebing A, Beavogui A, et al.
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 ...
Poncin M, Marembo J, Chitando P, Sreenivasan N, Makwara I, et al.
2022-08-02 • Vaccine
2022-08-02 • Vaccine
INTRODUCTION Typhoid fever is a public-health problem in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, with seasonal outbreaks occurring annually since 2010. In 2019, the Ministry of Health ...
Ferreras E, Matopo B, Chizema Kawesha E, Chewe O, Mzyece H, et al.
2019-08-30 • PLOS One
2019-08-30 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND:
In April 2016, an emergency vaccination campaign using one dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was organized in response to a cholera outbreak that started in Lusaka in F...
Camacho A, Bouhenia M, Azman AS, Poncin M, Zagaria N, et al.
2018-10-10 • Lancet Global Health
2018-10-10 • Lancet Global Health
Research Ethics and International Epidemic Response: The Case of Ebola and Marburg Hemmorrhagic Fevers
Calain P, Fiore N, Poncin M
2009-04-01 • Public Health Ethics
2009-04-01 • Public Health Ethics
Outbreaks of filovirus (Ebola and Marburg) hemorrhagic fevers in Africa are typically the theater of rescue activities involving international experts and agencies tasked with reinforcin...
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2015-03-13 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2015-03-13 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
In an observational cohort study including 89 Ebola patients, predictor factors of death were analyzed. The crude mortality rate was 43.8%. Myalgia (OR; 4.04; P=0.02), hemorrhage (OR=3.5...
