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Ratnayake R, Knee J, Cumming O, Saidi JM, Rumedeka BB, et al.

2024-08-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

We evaluated the spatiotemporal clustering of rapid diagnostic test−positive cholera cases in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We detected spatiotemporal clusters that...

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Azman AS, Gignoux E, Nesbitt R, Rumunu J, Aggarwal R, et al.

2023-02-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Hounmanou YM, Njamkepo E, Rauzier J, Gallandat K, Jeandron A, et al.

2023-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Africa’s Lake Tanganyika basin is a cholera hotspot. During 2001–2020, Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates obtained from the Democratic Republic of the Congo side of the lake belonged to 2 of th...

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Molina-de la Fuente I, Benito MJS, Flevaud L, Ousley J, Pasquale HA, et al.

2023-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Pfhrp2 and pfhrp3 gene deletions threaten the use of Plasmodium falciparum malaria rapid diagnostic tests globally. In South Sudan, deletion frequencies were 15.6% for pfhrp2, 20.0% for ...

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Schillberg EBL, Ariti C, Bryson LHM, Delva-Senat R, Price DJ, et al.

2016-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

We assessed risk factors for fetal death during cholera infection and effect of treatment changes on these deaths. Third trimester gestation, younger maternal age, severe dehydration, an...

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Sanchez-Padilla E, Dlamini T, Ascorra A, Rusch-Gerdes S, Tefera ZD, et al.

2012-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

In Africa, although emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) represents a serious threat in countries severely affected by the HIV epidemic, most countries lack drug-resi...

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Minetti A, Kagoli M, Katsulukuta A, Huerga H, Featherstone A, et al.

2013-02-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Despite high reported coverage for routine and supplementary immunization, in 2010 in Malawi, a large measles outbreak occurred that comprised 134,000 cases and 304 deaths. Although the ...

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Page AL, Jusot V, Mamaty AA, Adamou L, Kaplon J, et al.

2014-04-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Knowledge of rotavirus epidemiology is necessary to make informed decisions about vaccine introduction and to evaluate vaccine impact. During April 2010–March 2012, rotavirus surveillanc...

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Escribà JM, Nakoune E, Recio C, Massamba PM, Matsika-Claquin MD, et al.

2008-04-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

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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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Nanclares C, Kapetshi J, Lionetto F, de la Rosa O, Muyembe Tamfun JJ, et al.

2016-09-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

During July-November 2014, the Democratic Republic of the Congo underwent its seventh Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. The etiologic agent was Zaire Ebola virus; 66 cases were reporte...

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Achar J, Berry C, Herboczek K, Parpieva N, Tillashaykhov M, et al.

2015-09-09 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Nordenstedt H, Bah EI, de la Vega MA, Barry M, NFaly M, et al.

2016-04-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Kucharski AJ, Camacho A, Checchi F, Waldman RJ, Grais RF, et al.

2015-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

In some parts of western Africa, Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) have reached capacity. Unless capacity is rapidly scaled up, the chance to avoid a generalized Ebola epidemic will soon di...

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Mbuagbaw L, Guglielmetti L, Hewison CCH, Bakare N, Bastard M, et al.

2019-05-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Bedaquiline is recommended by the World Health Organization for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). We pooled data from 5 c...

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Van der Bergh R, Chaillet P, Sow MS, Amand M, van Vyve C, et al.

2016-02-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Rapid diagnostic methods are essential in control of Ebola outbreaks and lead to timely isolation of cases and improved epidemiologic surveillance. Diagnosis during Ebola outbreaks in We...

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de Wit E, Falzarano D, Onyango C, Rosenke K, Marzi A, et al.

2016-02-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

Malaria is a major public health concern in the countries affected by the Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa. We determined the feasibility of using molecular malaria diagnostic...

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Nathan N, Rose AMC, Legros D, Tiendrebeogo SRM, Bachy C, et al.

2007-06-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

In 2002, the largest epidemic of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 occurred in Burkina Faso. The highest attack rate was in children <5 years of age. We describe cases from 1 distric...

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Chappuis F, Lima MA, Flevaud L, Ritmeijer KKD

2010-02-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Kolaczinski JH, Worku DT, Chappuis F, Reithinger R, Kabatereine N, et al.

2007-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Spatiotemporal modeling of cholera, Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2016−2020

Hepatitis E virus outbreak among Tigray War refugees from Ethopia, Sudan

Genomic microevolution of Vibrio cholerae O1, Lake Tanganyika Basin, Africa

Plasmodium falciparum pfhrp2 and pfhrp3 Gene Deletions in Malaria-Hyperendemic Region, South Sudan

Factors related to fetal death in pregnant women with cholera, Haiti, 2011-2014

High prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Swaziland, 2009-2010

Lessons and challenges for measles control from unexpected large outbreak, Malawi

Rotavirus Surveillance in Urban and Rural Areas of Niger, April 2010–March 2012

Hepatitis E, Central African Republic

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

Ebola Virus Disease, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Child Successfully Treated with 9-Month Drug Regimen

Ebola Virus in Breast Milk in an Ebola Virus-Positive Mother with Twin Babies, Guinea, 2015

Evaluation of the benefits and risks of introducing Ebola community care centers, Sierra Leone

Outcomes of Bedaquiline Treatment in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Feasibility of Xpert Ebola Assay in Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Program, Guinea

The merits of malaria diagnostics during an Ebola virus disease outbreak

Meningitis serogroup W135 outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002

Human African trypanosomiasis in areas without surveillance

Kala-azar control, Uganda [letter]