Publications

Measles outbreak response immunization is context-specific: insight from the recent experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.

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Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology.

Minetti A Bopp C Fermon F François G Grais RF Grout L Hurtado N Luquero FJ Porten K Sury L Terzian M
PLoS medicine 2013 Nov ; 10(11); e1001544. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001544. Epub 2013 11 05

The value of and challenges for cholera vaccines in Africa.

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The 21st century saw a shift in the cholera burden from Asia to Africa.

von Seidlein L Jiddawi M Grais RF Luquero F Lucas M Deen J
The Journal of infectious diseases 2013 Nov 01; 208 Suppl 1 S8-14. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jit194. Epub 2013 12 12
Africa OCV cholera review vaccine

Paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa: clinical presentation and 2-year outcomes stratified by age group.

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OBJECTIVES: To examine age differences in mortality and programme attrition amongst paediatric patients treated in four African HIV programmes.

Ben-Farhat J Gale M Szumilin E Balkan S Poulet E Pujades-Rodríguez M
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2013 Sep ; 18(9); 1065-1074. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12142. Epub 2013 06 20
Africa HIV antiretroviral treatment children outcome assessment

Multidrug- and isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in three high HIV burden African regions.

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SETTING: Despite major progress in the surveillance of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), data are lacking for many low-resource countries.

Sanchez-Padilla E Ardizzoni E Sauvageot D Ahoua L Martin A Varaine F Adatu-Engwau F Akeche G Salaniponi F Bonnet M
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2013 Aug ; 17(8); 1036-42. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.12.0842. Epub 2014 02 10

Tolerability and safety of artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine fixed dose combinations for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: two open-label, randomized trials in Nimba County, Liberia.

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BACKGROUND: Safety surveillance of widely used artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is essential, but tolerability data in the over five years age group are largely anecdotal.

Schramm B Valeh P Baudin E Mazinda CS Smith R Pinoges L Sundaygar T Zolia YM Jones JJ Comte E Bruneel A Branger M Jullien V Carn G Kiechel JR Ashley EA Guérin PJ
Malaria journal 2013 Jul 17; 12 250. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-250. Epub 2013 07 17
Schramm B Valeh P Baudin E Mazinda CS Smith R Pinoges L Dhorda M Boum Y Sundaygar T Zolia YM Jones JJ Comte E Houzé P Jullien V Carn G Kiechel JR Ashley EA Guérin PJ
Malaria journal 2013 Jul 17; 12 251. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-251. Epub 2013 07 17

Use of colorimetric culture methods for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from sputum samples in resource-limited settings.

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Despite recent advances, tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis remains imperfect in resource-limited settings due to its complexity and costs, poor sensitivity of available tests, or long times to reporting.

Boum Y Orikiriza P Rojas-Ponce G Riera-Montes M Atwine D Nansumba M Bazira J Tuyakira E De Beaudrap P Bonnet M Page AL
Journal of clinical microbiology 2013 Jul ; 51(7); 2273-9. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00749-13. Epub 2013 05 08

Incidence of paradoxical tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and impact on patient outcome.

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OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN: We used data from a randomized trial of HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients in Mozambique to determine the incidence and predictors of paradoxical tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory synd

Bonnet M Baudin E Jani IV Nunes E Verhoustraten F Calmy A Bastos R Bhatt NB Michon C
PloS one 2013 ; 8(12); e84585. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084585. Epub 2013 12 18

Cholera in pregnancy: outcomes from a specialized cholera treatment unit for pregnant women in Léogâne, Haiti.

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BACKGROUND: The association between cholera in pregnancy and negative fetal outcome has been described since the 19(th) century. However, there is limited published literature on the subject.

Ciglenecki I Bichet M Tena J Mondesir E Bastard M Tran NT Antierens A Staderini N
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2013 ; 7(8); e2368. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002368. Epub 2013 08 15