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Medical Research

Medical data and research from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field operations are regularly published in the peer-reviewed literature.

Below is a selection of recently published MSF medical research articles. For copies or to search all MSF research publications, please visit the MSF Field Research website, or contact Dr. Patricia Kahn, Medical Editor, patricia.kahn[at]newyork.msf.org.

MSF research articles on Vaccination Campaign

September 1, 2009

Burden of disease and circulating serotypes of rotavirus infection in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis

Elisabeth Sanchez-Padilla, Rebecca F Grais, Philippe J Guerin, Andrew D Steele, Marie-Eve Burny, Francisco J Luquero
Lancet Infect Dis 2009;9(9):567-76.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Diarrhoeal Disease, Vaccination Campaign

December 2, 2008

Immunogenicity of fractional doses of tetravalent A/C/Y/W135 meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine: Results from a randomized non-inferiority controlled trial in Uganda

Philippe J. Guerin, Lisbeth M. Næss, Carole Fogg, Einar Rosenqvist, Loretxu Pinoges, Francis Bajunirwe, Carolyn Nabasumba, Ray Borrow, Leif O. Frøholm, Salah Ghabri, Vincent Batwala, Rogers Twesigye, Ingeborg S. Aaberge, John-Arne Røttingen, Patrice Piola, Dominique A. Caugant
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2008;2:e342. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000342)

Meningitis, Uganda, Vaccination Campaign

February 26, 2008

Treatment of Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers: A strategy for testing new drugs and vaccines under outbreak conditions

Daniel G. Bausch, A.G. Sprecher, Benjamin Jeffs, Paul Boumandouki
Antiviral Research 2008;78:150–161. (doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2008.01.152)

Ebola, Marburg, Marburg, Vaccination Campaign

February 7, 2008

The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan Africa

Matthew J. Ferrari, Rebecca F. Grais, Nita Bharti, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Lara J. Wolfson, Philippe J. Guerin, Ali Djibo, Bryan T. Grenfell
Nature 2008;451(7179):679-84.
Nature

Measles, Niger, Vaccination Campaign

January 6, 2008

Time is of the essence: Exploring a measles outbreak response vaccination in Niamey, Niger

RF Grais, AJK Conlan, MJ Ferrari, A Djibo, A Le Menach, ON Bjørnstad, BT Grenfell
J R Soc Interface 2008;5(18):67-74.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Measles, Niger, Vaccination Campaign

November 15, 2007

The Médecins Sans Frontières intervention in the Marburg hemorrhagic fever epidemic, Uige, Angola, 2005. I. Lessons learned in the hospital

Benjamin Jeffs et al.
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2007;196:S154–S161. (doi: 10.1086/520548)

Angola, Marburg, Marburg, Vaccination Campaign

October 1, 2007

Population differences in death rates in HIV-positive patients with tuberculosis

I Ciglenecki, JR Glynn, A Mwinga, B Ngwira, A Zumla, PEM Fine, A Nunn
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2007;11:1121-1128.

HIV/AIDS, Malawi, Tuberculosis, Vaccination Campaign, Zambia

July 16, 2007

Vector control in a malaria epidemic occurring within a complex emergency situation in Burundi: A case study

Natacha Protopopoff, Michel Van Herp, Peter Maes, Tony Reid, Dismas Baza, et al.
Malaria Journal 2007;6:93. (doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-93)

Burundi, Malaria, Vaccination Campaign

June 1, 2007

Meningitis serogroup W135 outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002

Nicolas Nathan, Angela M.C. Rose, Dominique Legros, Sylvestre R.M. Tiendrebeogo, Catherine Bachy, Egil Bjørløw, Peter Firmenich, Philippe J. Guerin, Dominique A. Caugant
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007;13:920-923.

Burkina Faso, Meningitis, Vaccination Campaign

January 2, 2007

Unacceptably high mortality related to measles epidemics in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad

Rebecca F. Grais et al.
PLoS Medicine 2007;4:e16. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040016)

Chad, Measles, Niger, Nigeria, Vaccination Campaign

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