Valérie D'Acremont

Summary

Affiliation: University of Basel
Country: Switzerland

Publications

  1. ncbi Withholding antimalarials in febrile children who have a negative result for a rapid diagnostic test
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Clin Infect Dis 51:506-11. 2010
  2. ncbi Reduction in the proportion of fevers associated with Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in Africa: a systematic review
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 9:240. 2010
  3. ncbi Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled study
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 10:107. 2011
  4. ncbi Low quality of routine microscopy for malaria at different levels of the health system in Dar es Salaam
    Judith Kahama-Maro
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Socinstrasse 57, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 10:332. 2011
  5. ncbi Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    PLoS Med 6:e252. 2009
  6. ncbi Real-life versus package insert: a post-marketing study on adverse-event rates of the virosomal hepatitis A vaccine Epaxal® in healthy travellers
    Christoph Hatz
    Medical Department, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel, Switzerland
    Vaccine 29:5000-6. 2011
  7. ncbi Plasmodium vivax and mixed infections are associated with severe malaria in children: a prospective cohort study from Papua New Guinea
    Blaise Genton
    Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    PLoS Med 5:e127. 2008

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Publications7

  1. ncbi Withholding antimalarials in febrile children who have a negative result for a rapid diagnostic test
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Clin Infect Dis 51:506-11. 2010
    ..The objective of the present study was to evaluate the safety of withholding antimalarials in febrile children who have a negative test result...
  2. ncbi Reduction in the proportion of fevers associated with Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in Africa: a systematic review
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 9:240. 2010
    ..The objective of this systematic review was to estimate the change in the Proportion of Fevers associated with Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia (PFPf) over the past 20 years in sub-Saharan Africa...
  3. ncbi Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled study
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 10:107. 2011
    ..Presumptive treatment of all febrile patients with anti-malarials leads to massive over-treatment. The aim was to assess the effect of implementing malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) on prescription of anti-malarials in urban Tanzania...
  4. ncbi Low quality of routine microscopy for malaria at different levels of the health system in Dar es Salaam
    Judith Kahama-Maro
    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Socinstrasse 57, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 10:332. 2011
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  5. ncbi Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever
    Valérie D'Acremont
    Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    PLoS Med 6:e252. 2009
    ....
  6. ncbi Real-life versus package insert: a post-marketing study on adverse-event rates of the virosomal hepatitis A vaccine Epaxal® in healthy travellers
    Christoph Hatz
    Medical Department, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel, Switzerland
    Vaccine 29:5000-6. 2011
    ..Women reported higher rates of AEs than men. The results highlight the need for detailing the methods how vaccine tolerability was reported and assessed...
  7. ncbi Plasmodium vivax and mixed infections are associated with severe malaria in children: a prospective cohort study from Papua New Guinea
    Blaise Genton
    Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    PLoS Med 5:e127. 2008
    ..A large morbidity surveillance conducted in an area where the four species coexist allowed us to estimate rates of SM among patients infected with one or several species...