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Improved vaccination coverage after two rounds of multi-antigenic catch-up vaccination in Mauritania

Pagola-Ugarte M, Rakesh A, Gil-Cuesta J, Kidinda D, Kelly TM,  et al.
2024-02-14 • PLOS Global Public Health
2024-02-14 • PLOS Global Public Health
Although Mauritania carried out its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), in 2015 the goal of vaccination coverage (VC) remained unmet in Bassikounou district and Mbera camp, context...
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Alternative observational designs to estimate the effectiveness of one dose of oral cholera vaccine in Lusaka, Zambia

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...
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Cholera epidemic in Yemen, 2016-18: an analysis of surveillance data

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...
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Evaluation of the SD Bioline cholera rapid diagnostic test during the 2016 cholera outbreak in Lusaka, Zambia

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...
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Implementation and operational feasibility of SAMBA I HIV‐1 semi‐quantitative viral load testing at the point‐of‐care in rural settings in Malawi and Uganda

Gueguen M, Nicholas S, Poulet E, Schramm B, Szumilin E,  et al.
2020-11-07 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2020-11-07 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Objective
We monitored a large‐scale implementation of the Simple Amplification‐Based Assay semi‐quantitative viral load test for HIV‐1 version I (SAMBA I Viral Load = SAMBA I VL) w...
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Point-of-care viral load monitoring: outcomes from a decentralized HIV programme in Malawi

Nicholas S, Poulet E, Wolters L, Wapling J, Rakesh A,  et al.
2019-08-01 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2019-08-01 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
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Routinely monitoring the HIV viral load (VL) of people living with HIV (PLHIV) on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) facilitates intensive adherence counselling and faster ...
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Single-dose cholera vaccine in response to an outbreak in Zambia

Ferreras E, Chizema Kawesha E, Blake A, Chewe O, Mwaba J,  et al.
2018-02-08 • New England Journal of Medicine
2018-02-08 • New England Journal of Medicine
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Genomic Insights into the 2016-2017 Cholera Epidemic in Yemen

Weill FX, Domman D, Njamkepo E, Almesbahi AA, Naji MAM,  et al.
2019-01-02 • Nature
2019-01-02 • Nature
Yemen is currently experiencing, to our knowledge, the largest cholera epidemic in recent history. The first cases were declared in September 2016, and over 1.1 million cases and 2,300 d...