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Sprecher A, Van Herp M

2024-11-26 • Marburg Virus: Methods and Protocols

In many ways, Marburg virus disease resembles the more well-known Ebola virus disease: The clinical syndrom...

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Poster

Soubrier H, Talla C, Gaye A, Mbala P, Van Herp M, et al.

2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024

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Poster

Elsinga J, Sunyoto T, Di Stefano L, Giorgetti PF, Kyi HA, et al.

2024-05-16 • MSF Scientific Day International 2024

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Sprecher A, Van Herp M

2024-03-15 • Science

For those exposed to filovirus, such as Sudan virus and Ebola virus, a new study offers hope.

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Commentary

Kofman AD, Haberling DL, Mbuyi G, Martel LD, Whitesell AN, et al.

2023-08-18 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

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Commentary

Lindsey NP, Horton J, Barrett ADT, Demanou M, Monath TP, et al.

2022-11-02 • NPJ Vaccines

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Research

Van Herp M, Parqué V, Rackley E, Ford NP

2003-06-01 • Disasters

The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo for decades have been living in a situation of chronic crisis. Violence, population displacement and the destruction of infrastructure and ...

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Research

Polonsky JA, Martinez-Pino I, Nackers F, Chonzi P, Manangazira P, et al.

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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Letter

Carroll MW, Matthews DA, Hiscox JA, Elmore MJ, Pollakis G, et al.

2015-06-17 • Nature

West Africa is currently witnessing the most extensive Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak so far recorded. Until now, there have been 27,013 reported cases and 11,134 deaths. The origin of the ...

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Research

Fitzpatrick G, Vogt F, Gbabai O, Black B, Santantonio M, et al.

2014-10-09 • Eurosurveillance

Case management centres (CMCs) are part of the outbreak control plan for Ebola virus disease (EVD). A CMC in Sierra Leone had 33% (138/419) of primary admissions discharged as EVD negati...

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Research

Lightowler M, Manangazira P, Nackers F, Van Herp M, Phiri I, et al.

2022-06-09 • Vaccine

BACKGROUND
Zimbabwe suffers from regular outbreaks of typhoid fever (TF), worse since 2017. Most cases were in Harare and a vaccination campaign with Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) ...

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Juan-Giner A, Alsalhani A, Panunzi I, Lambert V, Van Herp M, et al.

2020-02-08 • Vaccine

Measles outbreaks occur periodically in remote and difficult to reach areas in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. The possibility to keep measles vaccines at temperature...

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Dallatomasinas S, Crestani R, Squire JS, Declerck H, Caleo GNC, et al.

2015-01-07 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

To describe Ebola cases in the district Ebola Management Centre of in Kailahun, a remote rural district of Sierra Leone, in terms of geographic origin, patient and hospitalization charac...

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Letter

Nathan N, Barry M, Van Herp M, Zeller H

2001-12-01 • Lancet

A yellow fever epidemic erupted in Guinea in September, 2000. From Sept 4, 2000, to Jan 7, 2001, 688 instances of the disease and 225 deaths were reported. The diagnosis was laboratory c...

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Sissoko D, Laouenan C, Folkesson E, M’Lebing A, Beavogui A, et al.

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 ...

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Fitzpatrick G, Vogt F, Gbabai O, Decroo T, Keane M, et al.

2015-05-22 • Journal of Infectious Diseases

This paper describes patient characteristics, including Ebola viral load, associated with mortality in an MSF Ebola case management centre. Out of 780 admissions between June and October...

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van Griensven J, Bah EI, Haba N, Delamou A, Camara BS, et al.

2016-12-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

By using data from a 2015 clinical trial on Ebola convalescent-phase plasma in Guinea, we assessed the prevalence of electrolyte and metabolic abnormalities at admission and their predic...

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Commentary

De Clerck H, Nanclares C, Sprecher A, Van Herp M, Wolz A

2019-03-29 • Nature Microbiology

The recent large outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Western Africa resulted in greatly increased accumulation of human genotypic, phenotypic and clinical data, and improved our und...

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Ponsar F, Tayler-Smith K, Philips M, Gerard S, Van Herp M, et al.

2011-05-19 • International Health

Although user fees are a common form of healthcare financing in resource-poor countries, there is growing consensus that their use compromises health service utilisation and population h...

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Guthmann JP, Checchi F, van den Broek IVF, Balkan S, Van Herp M, et al.

2008-08-05 • PLOS Medicine

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Mismatch of supply and demand: Marburg virus disease outbreaks need countermeasures but will not provide opportunity for clinical trials

Unravelling the chains of transmission of the 9th Ebola outbreak in DRC, 2018

Validity and feasibility of a Pan-Lassa rapid diagnostic test for Lassa fever in Abakaliki, Nigeria: a field evaluation

An oral antiviral for Ebola disease

Revisiting the minimum incubation period of Zaire ebolavirus

Yellow fever resurgence: An avoidable crisis?

Mortality, violence and lack of access to healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Descriptive Epidemiology of Typhoid Fever during an Epidemic in Harare, Zimbabwe, 2012

Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014-2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa

Describing readmissions to an ebola case management centre (CMC), Sierra Leone, 2014

Effectiveness of typhoid conjugate vaccine in Zimbabwe used in response to an outbreak among children and young adults: A matched case control study

Evaluation of the stability of measles vaccine out of the cold chain under extended controlled temperature conditions

Ebola outbreak in rural West Africa: epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes

Shortage of vaccines during a yellow fever outbreak in Guinea

Experimental Treatment with Favipiravir for Ebola Virus Disease (the JIKI Trial): A Historically Controlled, Single-Arm Proof-of-Concept Trial in Guinea

The contribution of Ebola viral load at admission and other patient characteristics to mortality in a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola Case Management Centre (CMC), Kailahun, Sierra Leone, June -October, 2014

Electrolyte and metabolic disturbances in Ebola patients during a clinical trial, Guinea, 2015

New filovirus disease classification and nomenclature

No cash, no care: how user fees endanger health—lessons learnt regarding financial barriers to healthcare services in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Haiti and Mali

Assessing antimalarial efficacy in a time of change to artemisinin-based combination therapies: The role of Médecins Sans Frontières