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Concomitant splenic tuberculosis and Epstein–Barr virus-related T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in a 28-year-old pregnant woman in South Sudan

Wild HB, Aumuller J, Kuei J, Simon M, Palm A,  et al.
2025-06-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2025-06-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

This case report presents a rare instance of concomitant splenic tuberculosis (TB), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-related T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and malaria in a 28-year-old pregnant wo...

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Concomitant splenic tuberculosis and Epstein-Barr virus-related T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in a 28-year-old pregnant woman in South Sudan

Wild HB, Aumuller J, Kuei J, Simon M, Palm A,  et al.
2025-04-15 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2025-04-15 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

This case report presents a rare instance of concomitant splenic tuberculosis (TB), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-related T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and malaria in a 28-year-old pregnant wo...

Screening for K13-propeller mutations associated with artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in Yambio County (Western Equatoria State, South Sudan)

Molina-de la Fuente I, Sagrado Benito MJ, Ousley J, Gisbert FdB, García L,  et al.
2023-09-25 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2023-09-25 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Artemisinin-combined treatments are the recommended first-line treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, but they are being threatened by emerging artemisinin resistance. Mutations in ...

Reflections on participation in a trial on hydroxychloroquine as prevention for COVID-19 among health workers in Niger

Kabore Y, Vatrinet R, Guindo O, Moussa SH, Schilling WHK,  et al.
2023-09-06 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2023-09-06 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a rapidly emerging virus causing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, had no known effective prophylax...

Community-based surveillance to monitor mortality in a malaria-endemic and Ebola-epidemic setting in rural Guinea

Tiffany A, Moundekeno FP, Traore A, Haile M, Sterk E,  et al.
2016-10-03 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2016-10-03 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Multiple community-based approaches can aid in quantifying mortality in the absence of reliable health facility data. Community-based sentinel site surveillance that was used to document...

Quality of antimalarials at the epicenter of antimalarial drug resistance: results from an overt and mystery client survey in Cambodia

Yeung S, Lawford H, Tabernero P, Nguon C, van Wyk A,  et al.
2015-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2015-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Widespread availability of monotherapies and falsified antimalarials is thought to have contributed to the historical development of multidrug-resistant malaria in Cambodia. This study a...

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis in Terego county, Northern Uganda, 1996: a lot quality assurance sampling survey

Hutin Y, Legros D, Owini V, Brown V, Lee EC,  et al.
2004-04-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2004-04-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We estimated the pre-intervention prevalence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (Tbg) trypanosomiasis using the lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) methods in 14 parishes of Terego County...

"Kala-Azar is a Dishonest Disease": Community Perspectives on Access Barriers to Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar) Diagnosis and Care in Southern Gadarif, Sudan

Sunyoto T, Adam GK, Atia AM, Hamid Y, Babiker RA,  et al.
2018-02-22 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2018-02-22 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Early diagnosis and treatment is the principal strategy to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL), or kala-azar in East Africa. As VL strikes remote rural, sparsely populated areas, kala-az...

Clinical Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis in the Pokot Endemic Area of Uganda and Kenya

Mueller YK, Kolaczinski JH, Koech T, Lokwang P, Riongoita M,  et al.
2013-11-11 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2013-11-11 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Between 2000 and 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières diagnosed and treated 4,831 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Pokot region straddling the border between Uganda and Kenya. ...

Failure of an Innovative Low-Cost, Noninvasive Thermotherapy Device for Treating Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by in Pakistan

Kamink SS, Abdi AM, Kamau C, Ashraf S, Ansari MA,  et al.
2019-10-07 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2019-10-07 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), a neglected parasitic skin disease, is endemic in Pakistan, where Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major are the causative protozoan species. Standard trea...

Field evaluation of rK39 test and direct agglutination test for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in a population with high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus in Ethiopia

ter Horst R, Tefera T, Assefa G, Ebrahim AZ, Davidson RN,  et al.
2009-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2009-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Accuracy of an rK39 rapid diagnostic test (DiaMed-IT-Leish ) for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was compared with splenic aspiration and the direct agglutination test (DAT) in a population ...

Card Agglutination Test for Trypanosomiasis (CATT) end-dilution titer and cerebrospinal fluid cell count as predictors of human African Trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma brucei gambiense) Among Serologically Suspected Individuals in Southern Sudan

Chappuis F, Stivanello E, Adams K, Kidane S, Pittet A,  et al.
2004-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2004-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense relies on an initial serologic screening with the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CA...

High efficacy of two artemisinin-based combinations (artesunate + amodiaquine and artemether + lumefantrine) in Caala, Central Angola

Guthmann JP, Cohuet S, Rigutto C, Fortes F, Saraiva N,  et al.
2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-07-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In April 2004, 137 children 6-59 months of age with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria (Caala, Central Angola) were randomized to receive either artemether-lumefantrine (Co...

Dracunculiasis in South Sudan

Fabiansen C, Harboe ZB, Christensen VB
2010-05-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-05-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Sociocultural and Structural Factors Contributing to Delays in Treatment for Children with Severe Malaria: A Qualitative Study in Southwestern Uganda

Sundararajan R, Mwanga-Amumpaire J, Adrama H, Tumuhairwe J, Mbabazi S,  et al.
2015-03-23 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2015-03-23 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Malaria is a leading cause of pediatric mortality, and Uganda has the highest incidences in the world. Increased morbidity and mortality are associated with delays to care. This qualitat...

Development of a Prediction Model for Ebola Virus Disease: A Retrospective Study in Nzérékoré Ebola Treatment Center, Guinea

Loubet P, Palich R, Kojan R, Peyrouset O, Danel C,  et al.
2016-10-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2016-10-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The 2014 Ebola epidemic has shown the importance of accurate and rapid triage tools for patients with suspected Ebola virus disease (EVD). Our objective was to create a predictive score ...

Systematic, Point-of-Care Urine Lipoarabinomannan (Alere TB-LAM) Assay for Diagnosing Tuberculosis in Severely Immunocompromised HIV-Positive Ambulatory Patients

Huerga H, Cossa L, Manhiça I, Bastard M, Telnov A,  et al.
2020-03-05 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2020-03-05 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Point-of-care urine-lipoarabinomannan (LAM) Alere Determine TB-LAM assay has shown utility diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-positive, severely immunocompromised, TB-symptomatic patien...

Delivery of an Ebola virus-positive stillborn infant in a rural community health center, Sierra Leone, January 2015

Bower H, Grass JE, Veltus E, Brault AC, Campbell S,  et al.
2015-11-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2015-11-10 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We report the case of an Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA-negative pregnant woman who delivered an EBOV RNA-positive stillborn infant at a community health center in rural Sierra Leone, 1 month af...

Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter and multidrug resistance 1 genes: parasite risk factors that affect treatment outcomes for P. falciparum malaria after artemether-lumefantrine and artesunate-amodiaquine

Venkatesan M, Gadalla NB, Stepniewska K, Dahal P, Nsanzabana C,  et al.
2014-07-21 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2014-07-21 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Adequate clinical and parasitologic cure by artemisinin combination therapies relies on the artemisinin component and the partner drug. Polymorphisms in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroq...

High Prevalence of Shigella or Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli Carriage among Residents of an Internally Displaced Persons Camp in South Sudan

Bliss JR, Bouhenia M, Hale P, Couturier BA, Iyer AS,  et al.
2017-12-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2017-12-04 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Displaced persons living in camps are at an increased risk of diarrheal diseases. Subclinical carriage of pathogens may contribute to the spread of disease, especially for microbes that ...