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Roddy P, Dalrymple U, Jensen TO, Dittrich S, Rao VB, et al.

2019-07-25 • PLOS One

Severe-febrile-illness (SFI) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The burden of SFI in SSA is currently unknown and its estimation is fraught wit...

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Yun O, Lima MA, Ellman T, Chambi W, Castillo S, et al.

2009-07-07 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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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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Roddy P, Marchiol A, Jeffs B, Palma PP, Bernal O, et al.

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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Borchert M, Mutyaba I, Van Kerkhove MD, Lutwama J, Luwaga H, et al.

2011-12-28 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is infamous for its high case-fatality proportion (CFP) and the ease with which it spreads among contacts of the diseased. We describe the c...

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Roddy P, Weatherill D, Jeffs B, Abaakouk Z, Dorion C, et al.

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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Roddy P, Howard N, Van Kerkhove MD, Lutwama J, Wamala JF, et al.

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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Pascual Martinez F, Picado A, Roddy P, Palma PP

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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Roddy P, Colebunders R, Jeffs B, Palma PP, Van Herp M, et al.

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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Ferreyra C, Yun O, Eisenberg N, Alonso E, Khamadi AS, et al.

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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Kratz T, Roddy P, Tshomba A, Jeffs B, Pou Ciruelo D, et al.

2015-06-24 • PLOS One

Data collected during the 2012 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were analysed for clinical signs, symptoms and case fatality of EVD caused by Bu...

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Raabe VN, Mutyaba I, Roddy P, Lutwama J, Geissler W, et al.

2010-01-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Interviews were conducted with health workers and community members in Masindi, Uganda on improving the acceptability of infection control measures used during an Ebola outbreak. Measure...

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Checchi F, Roddy P, Kamara S, Williams A, Morineau G, et al.

2005-02-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

OBJECTIVES: To provide nationally relevant information on the antimalarial efficacy of chloroquine (CQ), sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and amodiaquine (AQ) in Sierra Leone, with a view...

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Sinha PK, Roddy P, Palma PP, Kociejowski A, Lima MA, et al.

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...

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Quantifying the incidence of severe-febrile-illness hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa

Feasibility, drug safety, and effectiveness of etiological treatment programs for Chagas disease in Honduras, Guatemala, and Bolivia: 10-year experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

Decreased peripheral health service utilisation during an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, Uíge, Angola, 2005

Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Masindi district, Uganda: outbreak description and lessons learned

The Medecins Sans Frontieres intervention in the Marburg hemorrhagic fever epidemic, Uige, Angola, 2005. II. lessons learned in the community

Clinical Manifestations and Case Management of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever caused by a newly identified virus strain, Bundibugyo, Uganda, 2007-2008

Low castes have poor access to visceral leishmaniasis treatment in Bihar, India

Filovirus hemorrhagic fever outbreak case management: a review of current and future treatment options

Evaluation of Clinical and Immunological Markers for predicting Virological Failure in a HIV/AIDS treatment cohort in Busia, Kenya

Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Isiro, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2012: Signs and Symptoms, Management and Outcomes

Infection control during filoviral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: preferences of community members and health workers in Masindi, Uganda

Evidence basis for antimalarial policy change in Sierra Leone: five in vivo efficacy studies of chloroquine, sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine

Effectiveness and safety of liposomal amphotericin B for visceral leishmaniasis under routine program conditions in Bihar, India