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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 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025

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

2025-02-05 • MSF Scientific Days International 2025

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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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Cwinyaai N, Opio D, Kajumbula H, Zalwango JF, Akunzirwe R, et al.

2024-09-06 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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Blood transfusion services play a key role in modern healthcare delivery. In 2022, approximately 118.5 million blood donations were collected globall...

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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...

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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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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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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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Farley ES, Oyemakinde MJ, Schuurmans J, Ariti C, Saleh F, et al.

2020-04-14 • BMJ Global Health

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Noma, a rapidly progressing infection of the oral cavity, mainly affects children. The true burden is unknown. This study reports estimated noma prevalence in children in ...

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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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le Polain de Waroux O, Flasche S, Kucharski AJ, Langendorf C, Ndazima D, et al.

2018-12-01 • Epidemics

Although patterns of social contacts are believed to be an important determinant of infectious disease transmission, it remains unclear how the frequency and nature of human interactions...

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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

Derivation and validation of prognostic models for the risk stratification of childhood infection: a multi-country prospective cohort study in Asia (Spot-Sepsis)

Derivation and validation of prognostic models for the risk stratification of childhood infection: a multi-country prospective cohort study in Asia (Spot-Sepsis)

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

Prevalence and factors associated with transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors in Arua regional blood bank, Uganda

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

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

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

The prevalence of noma in northwest Nigeria

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

Identifying human encounters that shape transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other acute respiratory infections