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2025-05-22 • PLOS One
2025-05-22 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
The management of post-meningitis sequelae is a priority in the WHO Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030. Nonetheless, the prevalence of sequelae in ...
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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 ...
Conference Material
|Poster
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
2024-05-23 • Epicentre Scientific Day 2024
Conference Material
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
INTRODUCTION
MSF supported Niger’s Ministry of Health (MoH) in responding to a serogroup C meningococcal meningitis epidemic in Magaria and Dungass Districts in 2022. WHO’s global ro...
MSF supported Niger’s Ministry of Health (MoH) in responding to a serogroup C meningococcal meningitis epidemic in Magaria and Dungass Districts in 2022. WHO’s global ro...
Conference Material
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
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2023-02-09 • Journal of Medical Case Reports
2023-02-09 • Journal of Medical Case Reports
BACKGROUND
Gram-negative bacillary meningitis remains a rare occurrence, even in patients with human immunodeficiency virus. Current literature only describes anecdotal cases of spon...
Gram-negative bacillary meningitis remains a rare occurrence, even in patients with human immunodeficiency virus. Current literature only describes anecdotal cases of spon...
Journal Article
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2022-08-29 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2022-08-29 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for 1 in 5 AIDS-related deaths globally. World Health Organization guidelines strongly recommend a single high dose of liposomal amphotericin B as part o...
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2010-06-11 • PLOS One
2010-06-11 • PLOS One
Meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur every year during the dry season in the "meningitis belt" of sub-Saharan Africa. Identification of the causative strain is crucial before launchi...
Journal Article
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2014-01-01 • Pathogens and Global Health
2014-01-01 • Pathogens and Global Health
A number of countries now include meningococcal vaccines in their routine immunization programs. This review focuses on different approaches to including meningococcal vaccines in countr...
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2011-10-05 • Epidemiology and Infection
2011-10-05 • Epidemiology and Infection
Throughout the African meningitis belt, meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur only during the dry season. Measles in Niger exhibits similar seasonality, where increased population den...
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2009-10-05 • PLOS One
2009-10-05 • PLOS One
The Pastorex((R)) (BioRad) rapid agglutination test is one of the main rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for meningococcal disease currently in use in the "meningitis belt". Earlier evaluati...
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2017-07-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2017-07-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
The UK introduced 4CMenB-a multicomponent vaccine against serogroup B meningococcal disease-into the national infant immunisation programme in September, 2015. The Meningo...
The UK introduced 4CMenB-a multicomponent vaccine against serogroup B meningococcal disease-into the national infant immunisation programme in September, 2015. The Meningo...
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2018-10-18 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2018-10-18 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
In 2018, WHO issued guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of HIV-related cryptococcal disease. Two strategies are recommended to reduce the high mortality associated w...
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2017-06-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2017-06-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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2014-12-29 • PLoS Currents
2014-12-29 • PLoS Currents
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has committed to eliminate measles by 2020. In 2013, in response to a large outbreak, Médecins Sans Frontières conducted a mass vaccination campaig...
Journal Article
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2015-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2015-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
In 2011, vaccination with a serogroup A meningococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine was implemented in 3 of 23 regions in Chad. Cases of meningitis declined dramatically in vaccinated...
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2012-03-14 • South African Medical Journal
2012-03-14 • South African Medical Journal
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2021-09-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2021-09-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
The meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa has traditionally experienced large outbreaks of meningitis mainly caused by Neisseria meningitidis. More recently, Streptococcus...
The meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa has traditionally experienced large outbreaks of meningitis mainly caused by Neisseria meningitidis. More recently, Streptococcus...
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1991-10-05 • Lancet
1991-10-05 • Lancet
In most developing countries, bacterial meningitis (BM) is associated with a high case-fatality rate. The search for a simple, convenient, and inexpensive antibiotic treatment remains a ...
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2018-10-19 • Wellcome Open Research
2018-10-19 • Wellcome Open Research
A high incidence of bacterial meningitis was observed in the Central African Republic (CAR) from December 2015 to May 2017 in three hospitals in the northwest of the country that are wit...