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2024-10-01 • Vaccine X
2024-10-01 • Vaccine X
BACKGROUND
In 2019–2020, preventative Oral Cholera Vaccine campaigns were conducted in 24/32 n...
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2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
Conference Material
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2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
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2023-10-04 • Scientific African
2023-10-04 • Scientific African
BACKGROUND
Although the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa did not produce the expected catastrophe, the true impact of COVID-19 in the Cameroonian population was unclear....
Although the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa did not produce the expected catastrophe, the true impact of COVID-19 in the Cameroonian population was unclear....
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2023-08-31 • Frontiers in Public Health
2023-08-31 • Frontiers in Public Health
BACKGROUND
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the challenges of the healthcare system in Iraq, which has limited intensive care unit beds, medical perso...
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the challenges of the healthcare system in Iraq, which has limited intensive care unit beds, medical perso...
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2023-06-08 • PLOS Global Public Health
2023-06-08 • PLOS Global Public Health
Although seroprevalence studies have demonstrated the wide circulation of SARS-COV-2 in African countries, the impact on population health in these settings is still poorly understood. U...
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2023-04-11 • AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
2023-04-11 • AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
CONTEXT
The Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) is a clinical monitoring tool used routinely in emergency and observation rooms to detect rapid deterioration in paediatric patient...
The Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) is a clinical monitoring tool used routinely in emergency and observation rooms to detect rapid deterioration in paediatric patient...
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2023-01-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2023-01-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
In its earliest phases, Ebola virus disease's rapid-onset, high fever, and gastrointestinal symptoms are largely indistinguishable from other infectious illnesses. We aime...
In its earliest phases, Ebola virus disease's rapid-onset, high fever, and gastrointestinal symptoms are largely indistinguishable from other infectious illnesses. We aime...
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2023-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2023-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
Africa’s Lake Tanganyika basin is a cholera hotspot. During 2001–2020, Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates obtained from the Democratic Republic of the Congo side of the lake belonged to 2 of th...
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2022-11-09 • PLOS Global Public Health
2022-11-09 • PLOS Global Public Health
The true burden of COVID-19 in Yemen is underestimated. The healthcare system is dysfunctional and there is a high shortage of health care workers in the country. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 ...
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2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
SUMMARY Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian u...
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2014-12-08 • PLOS One
2014-12-08 • PLOS One
Typhoid fever remains a significant public health problem in developing countries. In October 2011, a typhoid fever epidemic was declared in Harare, Zimbabwe - the fourth enteric infecti...
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2013-11-05 • PLOS Medicine
2013-11-05 • PLOS Medicine
Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to lo...
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2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
INTRODUCTION
During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
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2013-05-03 • PLOS One
2013-05-03 • PLOS One
The Sahel is subject to seasonal hungry periods with increasing rates of malnutrition. In Northern Nigeria, there is no surveillance system and surveys are rare. The objectives were to a...
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2017-05-15 • Conflict and Health
2017-05-15 • Conflict and Health
The Central African Republic has known long periods of instability. In 2014, following the fall of an interim government installed by the Séléka coalition, a series of violent reprisals ...
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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...
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2020-01-29 • Pediatric Research
2020-01-29 • Pediatric Research
BACKGROUND:
The prognostic significance of hyperlactatemia in young children with liver injury suspected to be attributed to repeated supratherapeutic doses of acetaminophen remain ...
The prognostic significance of hyperlactatemia in young children with liver injury suspected to be attributed to repeated supratherapeutic doses of acetaminophen remain ...
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2009-06-23 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2009-06-23 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND: Buruli ulcer (BU) is a chronic, indolent necrotizing disease of the skin and underlying tissues caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, which may result in functional incapacity. I...
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2015-09-03 • Epidemics
2015-09-03 • Epidemics
BACKGROUND
Cholera is caused by Vibrio cholerae, and is transmitted through fecal-oral contact. Infection occurs after the ingestion of the bacteria and is usually asymptomatic. In a...
Cholera is caused by Vibrio cholerae, and is transmitted through fecal-oral contact. Infection occurs after the ingestion of the bacteria and is usually asymptomatic. In a...