Publications

In refugee settings, the use of cholera vaccines is controversial since a mass vaccination campaign might disrupt other priority interventions.

BACKGROUND: An Expanded Programme on Immunization was started in late 1987 in Niger, including vaccination against measles with one dose of standard titer Schwarz vaccine given to infants after 9 months of age.

An outbreak of 538 cases of trichinellosis occurred in France in December 1993. Seven cases developed neurotrichinosis and 23 had cardiologic complications. No deaths were recorded.

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.