Lancet (London, England) 1997 Apr 05; 349(9057); 1031-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)62939-X. Epub 1997 04 30
Publications
Lancet (London, England) 1997 Jan 18; 349(9046); 212. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)60959-2. Epub 1997 05 13
Meningitis outbreaks and vaccination strategy.
Abstract
Three outbreaks of meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A (subgroup III) are described: Niger (1991), Burundi (1992), and Guinea (1993).
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ; 91(1); 3-7. doi: . Epub 1997 04 17
Epidemics of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis of subgroup III in Africa, 1989-94.
Abstract
A total of 125 strains of Neisseria meningitidis recovered in the course of outbreaks from patients with systemic disease in 11 African countries between 1989 and 1994 were analysed by serogrouping, serotyping and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis.
Epidemiology and infection 1996 Apr ; 116(2); 115-20. doi: . Epub 1996 06 18
Public health impact of Rwandan refugee crisis: what happened in Goma, Zaire, in July, 1994? Goma Epidemiology Group.
Abstract
The flight of 500,000-800,000 Rwandan refugees into the North Kivu region of Zaire in July, 1994, overwhelmed the world's response capacity.
Lancet (London, England) 1995 Feb 11; 345(8946); 339-44. doi: . Epub 1995 03 03
Health status of displaced persons following Civil War--Burundi, December 1993-January 1994.
Abstract
In Burundi (1990 population: 5.7 million), located in central-east Africa, seasonal epidemics of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1) have been documented each year since 1980.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 1994 Sep 30; 43(38); 701-3. doi: . Epub 1994 10 13
[An outbreak of Heliotrope food poisoning, Tadjikistan, November 1992-March 1993].
Abstract
The seeds and roots of Heliotropium lasocarpium, contain a pyrrolizidine alkaloid which causes toxic liver injury and veno-occlusive disease (VOD), characterised by an occlusive lesion of the centrolobular veins of the liver, when consumed by humans.
Sante (Montrouge, France) ; 4(4); 263-8. doi: . Epub 1994 11 21
[2 epidemics of arsenical encephalopathy in the treatment of trypanosomiasis, Uganda, 1992-1993].
Abstract
Since 1988, the french non-governmental organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is running a control program of human african trypanosomiasis in the district of Moyo, North-Uganda.
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) 1994 ; 87(5); 341-6. doi: . Epub 1996 01 17