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Tiffany A, Moundekeno FP, Traore A, Haile M, Sterk E, et al.

2016-10-03 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Multiple community-based approaches can aid in quantifying mortality in the absence of reliable health facility data. Community-based sentinel site surveillance that was used to document...

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Grout L, Martinez-Pino I, Ciglenecki I, Keita S, Diallo AK, et al.

2015-12-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

INTRODUCTION
Since 2010, WHO has recommended oral cholera vaccines as an additional strategy for cholera control. During a cholera episode, pregnant women are at high risk of complic...

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Mwaba J, Ferreras E, Chizema Kawesha E, Mwimbe D, Tafirenyika F, et al.

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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Commentary

Azman AS, Ciglenecki I, Wamala JF, Lynch JA, Aggarwal R, et al.

2019-07-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Gignoux EM, Azman AS, de Smet M, Azuma P, Massaquoi M, et al.

2016-01-07 • New England Journal of Medicine

BACKGROUND
Malaria treatment is recommended for patients with suspected Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, whether systematically or based on confirmed malaria diagnosis. At t...

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Baudin E, Bhatt NB, Rouzioux C, Serafini M, Molfino L, et al.

2019-02-08 • F1000Research

BACKGROUND
In the CARINEMO ANRS 12146 clinical trial, HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients in Mozambique were randomized to nevirapine (NVP) or to efavirenz (EFV)-based antiretrovir...

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Christinet V, Rossel L, Serafini M, Delhumeau C, Odermatt P, et al.

2014-04-26 • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Abstract
Background. Buruli ulcer is the third most common mycobacterial disease after tuberculosis and leprosy and is particularly f...

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Christinet V, Comte E, Ciaffi L, Odermatt P, Serafini M, et al.

2014-05-21 • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Background: Buruli ulcer (BU) is the third most common mycobacterial disease after tuberculosis and leprosy and is particularly frequent in rural West and Central Africa. However, the im...

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Luquero FJ, Grout L, Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Traore B, et al.

2013-10-17 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

BACKGROUND
Despite World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification of two safe and effective oral cholera vaccines (OCV), concerns about the acceptability, potential diversion of re...

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Tiffany A, Moundekeno FP, Traore A, Haile M, Sterk E, et al.

2016-05-28 • Malaria Journal

BACKGROUND
Malaria is one of the principal causes of morbidity and mortality in the Republic of Guinea, particularly in the highly endemic regions. To assist in malaria control effor...

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Luquero FJ, Grout L, Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Traore B, et al.

2014-05-29 • New England Journal of Medicine

BACKGROUND
The use of vaccines to prevent and control cholera is currently under debate. Shanchol is one of the two oral cholera vaccines prequalified by the World Health Organizatio...

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Gignoux EM, Polonsky JA, Ciglenecki I, Bichet M, Coldiron ME, et al.

2018-03-14 • PLOS One

In 2013, a large measles epidemic occurred in the Aketi Health Zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We conducted a two-stage, retrospective cluster survey to estimate the attack rat...

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Letter

Peyraud N, Rafael F, Parker LA, Quere M, Alcoba G, et al.

2017-02-05 • Lancet Global Health

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Review

Pissani E, Aaby P, Breugelmans JG, Carr D, Groves T, et al.

2016-10-10 • British Medical Journal (BMJ)

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Ciglenecki I, Azman AS, Jamet C, Serafini M, Luquero FJ, et al.

2018-09-14 • Journal of Infectious Diseases

The use of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) has increased since 2011, when Shanchol, the first OCV suitable for large-scale use, became available. Médecins Sans Frontières considers OCVs an es...

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Ontweka L, Deng LO, Rauzier J, Debes AK, Tadesse F, et al.

2016-12-19 • PLOS One

Cholera rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) could play a central role in outbreak detection and surveillance in low-resource settings, but their modest performance has hindered their broad adop...

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Ibrahim YL, Masouye I, Tschanz E, Atangana P, Etard JF, et al.

2019-05-07 • Dermatopathology

Background: Buruli ulcer (BU) is a cutaneous infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. In this prospective study, we aim to clarify the main histopathological features of cuta...

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Policy Brief

Devine C, Guevara M, Belliveau LB, Jobanputra K, Serafini M, et al.

2019-11-01

KEY MESSAGES:

• Apply a cross-sector and interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian and global health responses and local, regional and international collaborations
• Identi...

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Commentary

O'Brien DP, Comte E, Serafini M, Ehounou G, Antierens A, et al.

2013-12-02 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

Despite great advances in the diagnosis and treatment of Buruli ulcer, it is one of the least studied major neglected tropical diseases. In Africa, major constraints in the management of...

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Ferreras E, Chizema Kawesha E, Blake A, Chewe O, Mwaba J, et al.

2018-02-08 • New England Journal of Medicine

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Community-based surveillance to monitor mortality in a malaria-endemic and Ebola-epidemic setting in rural Guinea

Pregnancy outcomes after a mass vaccination campaign with an oral cholera vaccine in Guinea: a retrospective cohort study

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

Hepatitis E should be considered a neglected tropical disease

Effect of artesunate-amodiaquine on mortality related to Ebola virus disease

Early assessment of antiretroviral efficacy is critical to prevent the emergence of resistance mutations in HIV-tuberculosis coinfected patients: a substudy of the CARINEMO-ANRS12146 trial

Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus on the Severity of Buruli Ulcer Disease: Results of a Retrospective Study in Cameroon

Impact of HIV on the Severity of Buruli Ulcer Disease: Results of a Retrospective Study in Cameroon

First outbreak response using an oral cholera vaccine in Africa: vaccine coverage, acceptability and surveillance of adverse events, Guinea, 2012

Encouraging impact following 2.5 years of reinforced malaria control interventions in a hyperendemic region of the Republic of Guinea

Use of Vibrio cholerae vaccine in an outbreak in Guinea

Risk factors for measles mortality and the importance of decentralized case management during an unusually large measles epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013

An Epidemic of Dystonic Reactions in Central Africa

Beyond Open Data: Realising the Health Benefits of Sharing Data

Progress and challenges in using oral cholera vaccines to control outbreaks: The Médecins Sans Frontières experience

Cholera Rapid Test with Enrichment Step Has Diagnostic Performance Equivalent to Culture

Diagnostic Value of Histological Analysis of Punch Biopsies in Suspected Cutaneous Buruli Ulcer: A Study on 32 Cases of Confirmed Buruli Ulcer in Cameroon

Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: policy brief on humanitarian impacts

The urgent need for clinical, diagnostic, and operational research for management of Buruli ulcer in Africa

Single-dose cholera vaccine in response to an outbreak in Zambia