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| Philippe J GuerinSummaryAffiliation: Norwegian Institute of Public Health Country: Norway Publications
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Malaria: current status of control, diagnosis, treatment, and a proposed agenda for research and developmentPhilippe J Guerin
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Lancet Infect Dis 2:564-73. 2002..Evidence on these approaches should provide national governments and international donors with the cost-benefit information that would justify much-needed increases in global support for appropriate and effective malaria control...- Pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in 2-19-year-old individuals in UgandaDominique A Caugant
Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, Oslo, Norway
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100:1159-63. 2006..Our study further demonstrates the geographical spread of serogroup W135 ST-11 strain and thus the potential epidemic risk... - Emergence of new Salmonella Enteritidis phage types in Europe? Surveillance of infections in returning travellersKarin Nygard
European Programme of Intervention Epidemiology Training, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, 171 82 Solna, Sweden
BMC Med 2:32. 2004..This is reflected in Salmonella infections among Swedish travellers returning from abroad. However, there are differences in phage type distribution between the countries, and this has also changed over time... - Gastro-enteritis outbreak among Nordic patients with psoriasis in a health centre in Gran Canaria, Spain: a cohort studyHanne M Eriksen
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, Stocholm, Sweden
BMC Infect Dis 4:45. 2004..Patient original came from Norway, Sweden and Finland. The patient group was scheduled to stay until 8 November. A new group of patients were due to arrive from 7 November... - Using European travellers as an early alert to detect emerging pathogens in countries with limited laboratory resourcesPhilippe J Guerin
Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
BMC Public Health 7:8. 2007..We present the results of a case study using reported cases of Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 (Sd1) in European travellers to detect "events" of Sd1, related to either epidemic cases or endemic cases in developing countries... - Visceral leishmaniasis: current status of control, diagnosis, and treatment, and a proposed research and development agendaPhilippe J Guerin
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Lancet Infect Dis 2:494-501. 2002..This article reviews the current situation and perspectives for diagnosis, treatment, and control of visceral leishmaniasis, and lists some priorities for research and development... - Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 in west Africa: intervention strategy for an outbreak in Sierra LeonePhilippe J Guerin
Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Lancet 362:705-6. 2003..9%. A 5-day ciprofloxacin regimen, targeted to the most severe cases of bloody diarrhoea, was highly effective. This is the first time a large outbreak caused by Sd1 has been reported in west Africa... - Operational response to malaria epidemics: are rapid diagnostic tests cost-effective?Estelle Rolland
Epicentre, Paris, France
Trop Med Int Health 11:398-408. 2006..A tolerated incremental cost of 1 euro is probably justified given overall public health and financial benefits. The RDTs should be considered for malaria epidemics if logistics and human resources allow... - Effectiveness of mass oral cholera vaccination in Beira, MozambiqueMarcelino E S Lucas
Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique
N Engl J Med 352:757-67. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The rBS-WC vaccine was highly effective against clinically significant cholera in an urban sub-Saharan African population with a high prevalence of HIV infection... - Meningitis serogroup W135 outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002Nicolas Nathan
Epicentre, Paris, France
Emerg Infect Dis 13:920-3. 2007..The highest attack rate was in children <5 years of age. We describe cases from 1 district and evaluate the performance of the Pastorex test, which had good sensitivity (84%) and specificity (89%) compared with culture or PCR... - Clonal reconquest of antibiotic-susceptible Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi in Son La Province, VietnamFrancois Xavier Weill
Centre national de référence des Salmonella, Centre Collaborateur OMS de Référence et de Recherche pour les Salmonella, Unité de Biodiversité des Bactéries Pathogènes Emergentes, INSERM U389, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:1174-81. 2007.... - World Antimalarial Resistance Network I: clinical efficacy of antimalarial drugsRic N Price
International Health Program, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Malar J 6:119. 2007..This resource will help guide rational drug policies that optimize antimalarial drug use, in the hope that the emergence and spread of resistance to new drugs can be, if not prevented, at least delayed... - The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan AfricaMatthew J Ferrari
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Nature 451:679-84. 2008..Such erratic dynamics emphasize the importance both of control strategies that address build-up of susceptible individuals and efforts to mitigate the impact of large outbreaks when they occur... - Research in complex humanitarian emergencies: the Médecins Sans Frontières/Epicentre experienceVincent Brown
Epicentre, Paris, France
PLoS Med 5:e89. 2008