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2025-04-09 • PLOS Global Public Health
2025-04-09 • PLOS Global Public Health
Scabies is a dermatological parasitic infestation prevalent in many regions worldwide. Classified as a neglected disease by World Health Organization (WHO) since 2017, it is often ass...
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2025-03-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2025-03-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
In low-resource settings, limited laboratory capacity adds to the burden of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children and spurs overuse of ...
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2025-02-05 • medRxiv
2025-02-05 • medRxiv
BACKGROUND
Circulating markers of immune and endothelial activation risk stratify infection syndromes agnostic to disease aetiology. However, their utility in c...
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2024-09-10 • The Lancet Healthy Longevity
2024-09-10 • The Lancet Healthy Longevity
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2024-06-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2024-06-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether adding urine culture to urinary tract infection diagnosis in pregnant women from refugee camps in Lebanon reduced unnecessary antibiotic use.
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To determine whether adding urine culture to urinary tract infection diagnosis in pregnant women from refugee camps in Lebanon reduced unnecessary antibiotic use.
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2024-04-16 • PLOS Global Public Health
2024-04-16 • PLOS Global Public Health
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat and AMR-attributable mortality is particularly high in Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Africa. The burden of clinically inf...
Journal Article
|Case Report/Series
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Yeast-related bloodstream infections (BSIs) in pediatric patients are associated with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), hematological/oncological malignancies and admission to an intensiv...
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2023-06-25 • Journal of Infection
2023-06-25 • Journal of Infection
OBJECTIVE
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-E. coli) in developing countries is lacking. Here we describe the population...
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-E. coli) in developing countries is lacking. Here we describe the population...
Conference Material
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2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
BACKGROUND
Patients with advanced HIV disease (AHD), defined as WHO clinical stage 3 or 4 and/or CD4<200, have a high risk of death. One common cause of death is invasive bacterial i...
Patients with advanced HIV disease (AHD), defined as WHO clinical stage 3 or 4 and/or CD4<200, have a high risk of death. One common cause of death is invasive bacterial i...
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2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
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2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
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2013-07-30 • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
2013-07-30 • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
During an outbreak of measles in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, 9 patients (age range 4 months to 18 years) were diagnosed with subcutaneous emphysema. Incidence of this rare complication o...
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2014-12-08 • PLOS One
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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2020-04-14 • BMJ Global Health
2020-04-14 • BMJ Global Health
BACKGROUND
Noma, a rapidly progressing infection of the oral cavity, mainly affects children. The true burden is unknown. This study reports estimated noma prevalence in children in ...
Noma, a rapidly progressing infection of the oral cavity, mainly affects children. The true burden is unknown. This study reports estimated noma prevalence in children in ...
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2019-07-25 • PLOS One
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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2018-12-01 • Epidemics
2018-12-01 • Epidemics
Although patterns of social contacts are believed to be an important determinant of infectious disease transmission, it remains unclear how the frequency and nature of human interactions...
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2017-09-06 • PLOS One
2017-09-06 • PLOS One
Cryptococcal meningitis is one of the leading causes of death among people with HIV in Africa, primarily due to delayed presentation, poor availability and high cost of treatment. Routin...
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2019-11-20 • BMJ Global Health
2019-11-20 • BMJ Global Health
Introduction: Yellow fever is endemic in specific regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas, with recent epidemics occurring on both continents. The yellow fever vaccine is effectiv...
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2022-05-13 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2022-05-13 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Implementing and monitoring infection prevention and control (IPC) measures at immigration points of entry (PoEs) is key to preventing infections, reducing excessive use of antimicrobial...