Bleach sedimentation: an opportunity to optimize smear microscopy for tuberculosis diagnosis in settings of high prevalence of HIVMaryline Bonnet
Epicentre, Paris, France
Clin Infect Dis 46:1710-6. 2008
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- Efficacy of artesunate-amodiaquine for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-centre analysis
Julien Zwang
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mae Sot, Thailand
Malar J 8:203. 2009
..It was necessary to evaluate the efficacy of ACT, recently adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and deployed over 80 countries, in order to make an evidence-based drug policy...
- Direct microscopy versus sputum cytology analysis and bleach sedimentation for diagnosis of tuberculosis: a prospective diagnostic study
Pamela Hepple
Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières UK, 67 74 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8QX, UK
BMC Infect Dis 10:276. 2010
..We investigated whether bleach concentration by sedimentation and sputum cytology analysis (SCA) increased the positivity rate of smear microscopy for smear-positive tuberculosis...
- Does one size fit all? Drug resistance and standard treatments: results of six tuberculosis programmes in former Soviet countries
M Bonnet
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Paris, France
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 9:1147-54. 2005
..After the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries in the region faced a dramatic increase in tuberculosis cases and the emergence of drug resistance...
- Treatment of tuberculosis in a region with high drug resistance: outcomes, drug resistance amplification and re-infection
Maryline Bonnet
Clinical Research Department, Epicentre, Geneva, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 6:e23081. 2011
..Emerging antituberculosis drug resistance is a serious threat for tuberculosis (TB) control, especially in Eastern European countries...
- Evaluation of combined LED-fluorescence microscopy and bleach sedimentation for diagnosis of tuberculosis at peripheral health service level
Maryline Bonnet
Epicentre, Paris, France
PLoS ONE 6:e20175. 2011
..This study aimed to evaluate the performance of combined LED-FM and NaOCl sputum sedimentation for TB detection at peripheral level of health services...
- Performance of LED-based fluorescence microscopy to diagnose tuberculosis in a peripheral health centre in Nairobi
Maryline Bonnet
Epicentre, Paris, France
PLoS ONE 6:e17214. 2011
..The study aimed to compare the performance of LED-FM versus Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) microscopy and to assess feasibility of LED-FM at a low level of care in a high HIV prevalence country...
- Added value of bleach sedimentation microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis: a cost-effectiveness study
M Bonnet
Epicentre, Paris, France
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 14:571-7. 2010
..Bleach sedimentation is a method used to increase the diagnostic yield of sputum microscopy for countries with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and limited resources...
- Evaluation of FASTPlaqueTB to diagnose smear-negative tuberculosis in a peripheral clinic in Kenya
M Bonnet
Epicentre, Paris, France
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 13:1112-8. 2009
..To evaluate the performance and feasibility of FASTPlaqueTB in smear-negative tuberculosis (TB) suspects in a peripheral clinic after laboratory upgrading...
- Varying efficacy of artesunate+amodiaquine and artesunate+sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a report of two in-vivo studies
Maryline Bonnet
Epicentre, Geneva 21, Switzerland
Malar J 8:192. 2009
..Very few data on anti-malarial efficacy are available from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC changed its anti-malarial treatment policy to amodiaquine (AQ) and artesunate (AS) in 2005...
- Reducing the number of sputum samples examined and thresholds for positivity: an opportunity to optimise smear microscopy
M Bonnet
Epicentre, Paris, France
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 11:953-8. 2007
..Urban health clinic, Nairobi...
- Efficacy of antimalarial treatment in Guinea: in vivo study of two artemisinin combination therapies in Dabola and molecular markers of resistance to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in N'Zérékoré
Maryline Bonnet
Epicentre, 8, Paris, France
Malar J 6:54. 2007
..Two studies were conducted in 2004/2005 in programmes supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres, when chloroquine was still national policy, but artesunate (AS)/sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) had been used in refugee camps for two years...
- Tuberculosis after HAART initiation in HIV-positive patients from five countries with a high tuberculosis burden
Maryline M B Bonnet
MSF Epicentre, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Paris, France
AIDS 20:1275-9. 2006
..HAART reduces tuberculosis (TB) incidence in people living with HIV/AIDS but those starting HAART may develop active TB or subclinical TB may become apparent in the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome...
- [New diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in southern countries: from theory to practice in southern countries]
M Bonnet
Epicentre, Medecins Sans Frontieres, 78 rue de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
Rev Mal Respir 28:1310-21. 2011
..In high burden countries sputum smear-microscopy diagnoses only half of the cases of pulmonary TB. It is unlikely that a new test will replace smear-microscopy in peripheral services in the short term...
- Tuberculosis treatment in a refugee and migrant population: 20 years of experience on the Thai-Burmese border
A Minetti
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Paris, France
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 14:1589-95. 2010
..Although tuberculosis (TB) is a curable disease, it remains a major global health problem and an important cause of morbidity and mortality among vulnerable populations, including refugees and migrants...
