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Alhaffar BA, Islam S, Hoq MI, Das A, Shibloo SM, et al.

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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Rasti R, Kumbakumba E, Nanjebe D, Mlotshwa P, Nassejje M, et al.

2025-03-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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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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Chandna A, Koshiaris C, Mahajan R, Ahmad RA, Anh DTV, et al.

2025-02-05 • medRxiv

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Circulating markers of immune and endothelial activation risk stratify infection syndromes agnostic to disease aetiology. However, their utility in c...

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Elin Hoffmann Dahl, Prof Placide Mbala, Sylvain Juchet, Prof Abdoulaye Touré, Alice Montoyo, et al.

2024-09-10 • The Lancet Healthy Longevity

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Al Kady C, Moussally K, Chreif W, Farra A, Caluwaerts S, et al.

2024-06-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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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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Monk EJM, Jones TPW, Bongomin F, Kibone W, Nsubuga Y, et al.

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...

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Olubiyo R, Chukwumeze F, Lawal AM, Oloruntuyi G, Musoka H, et al.

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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Jacquier H, Assao B, Chau F, Guindo O, Condamine B, et al.

2023-06-25 • Journal of Infection

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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...

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Langendorf C

2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023

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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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Langendorf C

2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023

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Monk E, van Zandvoort K, Rao B

2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023

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Clarke J

2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022

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Polonsky JA, Martinez-Pino I, Nackers F, Chonzi P, Manangazira P, et al.

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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Moons P, Thallinger M

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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Rick F, Niyibizi AA, Shroufi A, Onami K, Steele SJ, et al.

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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Bhullar N, Maikere J, Grais RF

2010-08-11 • Parasites and Vectors

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis relies on mass drug administration (MDA) of two drugs annually for 4 to 6 years...

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Azman AS, Ciglenecki I, Wamala JF, Lynch JA, Aggarwal R, et al.

2019-07-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Roddy P, Dalrymple U, Jensen TO, Dittrich S, Rao VB, et al.

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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Berthet N, Nakoune E, Whist E, Selekon B, Burguiere AM, et al.

2011-10-08 • Lancet

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Kimathi D, Aitana J, Bejon P, Grais RF, Warimwe GM, et al.

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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High caseload of Scabies amongst Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: a retrospective analysis of the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of cases, July 2022 to November 2023

Clinical utility of the FilmArray® meningitis/encephalitis panel in children with suspected central nervous system infection in a low-resource setting – a prospective study in southwestern Uganda

Risk stratification of childhood infection using host markers of immune and endothelial activation: A multi-country prospective cohort study in Asia (Spot Sepsis)

Improving Ebola virus disease outbreak control through targeted post-exposure prophylaxis

Overuse of antibiotics for urinary tract infections in pregnant refugees, Lebanon

Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial wound, skin, soft tissue and surgical site infections in Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Retrospective analysis of fungemia among children in Anka General Hospital, Nigeria, from October 2018 to November 2021: a case series

Faecal carriage of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in a remote region of Niger

Invasive bacterial infections in patients with advanced HIV disease in Kinshasa: prevalence, antibiotic resistance and treatment

Invasive bacterial infections in patients with advanced HIV disease in Kinshasa: prevalence, antibiotic resistance and treatment

Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial wound, surgical site, skin, and soft tissue infections in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis

'With a little help from my friends': Managing a complex case of suspected recurrent infection in a 7-year-old girl in Herat, Afghanistan

Descriptive Epidemiology of Typhoid Fever during an Epidemic in Harare, Zimbabwe, 2012

High incidence of subcutaneous emphysema in children in a Somali refugee cAMP during measles outbreak

Cryptococcal antigen screening by lay cadres using a rapid test at the point of care: A feasibility study in rural Lesotho

Challenges in mass drug administration for treating lymphatic filariasis in Papua, Indonesia

Hepatitis E should be considered a neglected tropical disease

Quantifying the incidence of severe-febrile-illness hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa

Maculopapular lesions in the Central African Republic

Randomized, double-blinded, controlled non-inferiority trials evaluating the immunogenicity and safety of fractional doses of Yellow Fever vaccines in Kenya and Uganda