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Smartphone-Based Ophthalmic Imaging Compared to Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Assessment of Vertical Cup-to-Disc Ratio among Adults in Southwestern Uganda.

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PRCIS: Using optical coherence tomography measurements as a reference standard for vertical cup-to-disc ratio (vCDR), a smartphone-based ophthalmic camera has a sensitivity of 67.7% and specificity of 96.7% to detect a vCDR greater tha

Idriss BR Tran TM Atwine D Chang RT Myung D Onyango J
Journal of glaucoma 2020 Dec 29; Publish Ahead of Print doi: 10.1097/IJG.0000000000001779. Epub 2020 12 29

Urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) testing for all HIV patients hospitalized in the medical wards identifies a large proportion of patients with tuberculosis at risk of death.

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BACKGROUND: Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB), the leading cause of death in people with HIV, remains a challenge in resource-limited countries.

Helena Huerga Sekai Chenai Mathabire Rucker Mathieu Bastard James Mpunga Isabel Amoros Quiles Chimwemwe Kabaghe Laura Sannino Elisabeth Szumilin
Open Forum Infectious Diseases; ofaa639; https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa639; 23 December 2020
Inpatients CD4 lymphocyte count Point-of-Care testing Death Low-income countries

Feasibility of satellite image and GIS sampling for population representative surveys: a case study from rural Guatemala.

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BACKGROUND: Population-representative household survey methods require up-to-date sampling frames and sample designs that minimize time and cost of fieldwork especially in low- and middle-income countries.

Miller AC Rohloff P Blake A Dhaenens E Shaw L Tuiz E Grandesso F Mendoza Montano C Thomson DR
International journal of health geographics 2020 Dec 05; 19(1); 56. doi: 10.1186/s12942-020-00250-0. Epub 2020 12 05
Guatemala Population-representative study Sample selection Sampling frame Simple random sample

Successive epidemic waves of cholera in South Sudan between 2014 and 2017: a descriptive epidemiological study.

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BACKGROUND: Between 2014 and 2017, successive cholera epidemics occurred in South Sudan within the context of civil war, population displacement, flooding, and drought.

Jones FK Wamala JF Rumunu J Mawien PN Kol MT Wohl S Deng L Pezzoli L Omar LH Lessler J Quilici ML Luquero FJ Azman AS
The Lancet. Planetary health 2020 Dec ; 4(12); e577-e587. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30255-2. Epub 2020 12 24

A telephone based assessment of the health situation in the far north region of Cameroon.

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BACKGROUND: In 2017, Field access was considerably limited in the Far North region of Cameroon due to the conflict.

Gignoux EMH Donfack Sontsa OT Mudasiru A Eyong J Ntone R Tamakloe Koku M Adji DM Etoundi A Boum Y Jamet C Cabrol JC Porten K
Conflict and health 2020 Nov 30; 14(1); 82. doi: 10.1186/s13031-020-00327-4. Epub 2020 11 30
Conflict Healthcare Mortality Telephone

MDR M. tuberculosis outbreak clone in Eswatini missed by Xpert has elevated bedaquiline resistance dated to the pre-treatment era.

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BACKGROUND: Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains not detected by commercial molecular drug susceptibility testing (mDST) assays due to the RpoB I491F resistance mutation are threatening the control of MD

Beckert P Sanchez-Padilla E Merker M Dreyer V Kohl TA Utpatel C Köser CU Barilar I Ismail N Omar SV Klopper M Warren RM Hoffmann H Maphalala G Ardizzoni E de Jong BC Kerschberger B Schramm B Andres S Kranzer K Maurer FP Bonnet M Niemann S
Genome medicine 2020 Nov 25; 12(1); 104. doi: 10.1186/s13073-020-00793-8. Epub 2020 11 25
Diagnostice escape MDR outbreak strains Multidrug resistance Resistance evolution Treatment escape Treatment failure Tuberculosis

Evaluating Ten Commercially-Available SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Serological Tests Using the STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) Method.

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Numerous SARS-CoV-2 rapid serological tests have been developed, but their accuracy has usually been assessed using very few samples, and rigorous comparisons between these tests are scarce.

Dortet L Ronat JB Vauloup-Fellous C Langendorf C Mendels DA Emeraud C Oueslati S Girlich D Chauvin A Afdjei A Bernabeu S Le Pape S Kallala R Rochard A Verstuyft C Fortineau N Roque-Afonso AM Naas T
Journal of clinical microbiology 2020 Nov 25; doi: 10.1128/JCM.02342-20. Epub 2020 11 25

Integration of Traditional Healers in Human African Trypanosomiasis Case Finding in Central Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

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BACKGROUND: Based on the premise that Africans in rural areas seek health care from traditional healers, this study investigated a collaborative model between traditional healers and the national Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) pro

Kwedi Nolna S Ntonè R Fouda Mbarga N Mbainda S Mutangala W Boua B Niba M Okoko A
Tropical medicine and infectious disease 2020 Nov 17; 5(4); doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5040172. Epub 2020 11 17
Trypanosomiasis case finding screening sleeping sickness, case finding, screening, traditional healer traditional healer