There was an outbreak of dysentery caused by type I Shigella dysenteriae among Rwandan refugees at Goma, in what was then Zaire, in 1994. The causal organism was resistant to all antibiotics available from the public health authorities.
Very little research has been devoted to the design of epidemiological tools for the monitoring and evaluation of National Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) Control Programmes and daily management decisions are made in the absence of accurate knowled
We analysed the chimio-sensitivity to antibiotics of endemic strains of Shigella isolated in Mbarara district, southwest Uganda.
CONTEXT: There is significant controversy about how best to control cholera epidemics in refugee settings.
Neisseria meningitidis is responsible for high levels of morbidity and mortality in the developing countries of the African meningitis belt.
Microhematocrit centrifugation (Woo test) and miniature anion exchange are the most widely used techniques for routine detection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in endemic areas.
Monkeypox is an orthopoxvirus with enzootic circulation in the rainforests of central and western Africa; the virus can be transmitted to humans and cause a syndrome clinically similar to smallpox (e.g., pustular rash, fever, respiratory symptoms, and
