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Are C-reactive protein and procalcitonin safe and useful for antimicrobial stewardship purposes in patients with COVID-19? A scoping review

Williams A, Repetto E, Lebbie I, Khalife M, Jensen TO
2024-09-24 • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
2024-09-24 • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

OBJECTIVE

The ...

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Research

Extensively antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in trauma cases managed at the Médecins Sans Frontières tertiary orthopaedic center in Mosul, Iraq: A case series

Abdulrahman Ahmed H, Hasheem Mahmood H, Hosam Aldin Sami H, Natiq Taher A, Garcia-Vello P,  et al.
2024-07-08 • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
2024-07-08 • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

The Médecins Sans Frontières Tertiary Orthopaedic Care center in Mosul, Iraq, provides reconstructive surgery, microbiological analysis, integrated infection prevention and control, a...

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Research

Point-of-care diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections among migrants in Greece

Tsorou C, Williams A, van den Boogaard W, Staderini N, Repetto E,  et al.
2024-03-01 • Public Health Action
2024-03-01 • Public Health Action
SETTING
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can impact individuals of any demographic. The most common pathogens causing STIs are Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhea and Tr...
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Research

Prevalence of MDR bacteria in an acute trauma hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a retrospective analysis from 2012 to 2018

Acma A, Williams A, Repetto EC, Cabral S, Sunyoto T,  et al.
2021-09-06 • JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
2021-09-06 • JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
BACKGROUND
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is recognized as an increasing threat to global health. Haiti declared ABR an emerging public health threat in 2018, however, the current surve...
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Commentary

Ensuring on-site Ebola patient monitoring and follow-up: development of a laboratory structure embedded in an Ebola treatment center

Williams A, Amand M, Van der Bergh R, Antierens A, Chaillet P
2019-06-24 • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
2019-06-24 • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
The capacity to rapidly distinguish Ebola virus disease from other infectious diseases and to monitor biochemistry and viremia levels is crucial to the clinical management of suspected E...
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Research

Antibiotic resistance in patients with urinary tract infections in Pakistan

Bullens M, de Cerqueira Melo A, Raziq S, Lee JS, Khalid GG,  et al.
2022-03-21 • Public Health Action
2022-03-21 • Public Health Action
BACKGROUND
The level of antibiotic resistance of pathogens causing uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) is increasing. The 2017-2018 GLASS (Global Antimicrobial Resistance a...
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Research

Changing prevalence and factors associated with female genital mutilation in Ethiopia: Data from the 2000, 2005 and 2016 national demographic health surveys

Azeze GA, Williams A, Tweya H, Obsa MS, Mokonnon TM,  et al.
2020-09-03 • PLOS One
2020-09-03 • PLOS One
SETTING
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional surgical modification of the female genitalia comprising all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external fe...
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Research

Effects of real-time electronic data entry on HIV programme data quality in Lusaka, Zambia

Moomba K, Williams A, Savory T, Lumpa M, Chilembo P,  et al.
2020-03-21 • Public Health Action
2020-03-21 • Public Health Action
Setting: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clinics in
five hospitals and five health centres in Lusaka, Zambia,
which transitioned from daily entry of paper-based data
re...
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Commentary

How COVID-19 highlighted the need for infection prevention and control measures to become central to the global conversation: experience from the conflict settings of the Middle East

Mouallem RE, Moussally K, Williams A, Repetto EC, Menassa M,  et al.
2021-08-19 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2021-08-19 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
The COVID-19 pandemic has managed to bring to the foreground, in just few months, the conversation around what Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) experts have been pushing for decade...
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Research

'They eat it like sweets': A mixed methods study of antibiotic perceptions and their use among patients, prescribers and pharmacists in a district hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan

Burtscher D, Van den Bergh R, Nasim M, Mahama G, Au S,  et al.
2021-11-19 • PLOS One
2021-11-19 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health threat. In Afghanistan, high levels of indiscriminate antibiotic use exist, and healthcare programmes are not informed by ...
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Research

The challenge of antibiotic resistance in post-war Mosul, Iraq: An analysis of 20 months microbiological samples from a tertiary orthopaedic care centre

M'Aiber S, Maamari K, Williams A, Albakry Z, Taher AQM,  et al.
2022-06-01 • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
2022-06-01 • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
BACKGROUND
Iraq has suffered unrest and conflicts in the past decades leaving behind a weakened healthcare system. In 2018, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a tertiary orthopaed...
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Research

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

Checchi F, Roddy P, Kamara S, Williams A, Morineau G,  et al.
2005-02-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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...