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Medical ResearchMedical 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 DiagnosticsMay 24, 2011The use of a mobile laboratory unit in support of patient management and epidemiological surveillance during the 2005 Marburg outbreak in Angola
Allen Grolla, Steven M. Jones, Lisa Fernando, James E. Strong, Ute Ströher, Peggy Möller, Janusz T. Paweska, Felicity Burt, Pedro Pablo Palma, Armand Sprecher, Pierre Formenty, Cathy Roth, Heinz Feldmann
May 12, 2011Viral load testing in a resource-limited setting: quality control is critical
Jane Greig, Philipp du Cros, Derryck Klarkowski, Clair Mills, Steffen Jorgensen, P Richard Harrigan, Daniel P O'Brien
April 19, 2011Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study
Catharina C Boehme, Mark P Nicol, Pamela Nabeta, Joy S Michael, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Rasim Tahirli, Ma Tarcela Gler, Robert Blakemore, William Worodria, Christen Gray, Laurence Huang, Tatiana Caceres, Rafail Mehdiyev, Lawrence Raymond, Andrew Whitelaw, Kalaiselvan Sagadevan, Heather Alexander, Heidi Albert, Frank Cobelens, Helen Cox, David Alland, Mark D Perkins
October 25, 2010New diagnostics for tuberculosis: fulfilling patient needs first
Jean-Francois Lemaire, Martina Casenghi
June 29, 2010Accuracy of MUAC in the detection of severe wasting with the new WHO growth standards
Miguel Ángel Luque Fernández, Pascale Delchevalerie, Michel van Herp
January 26, 2010Microscopy quality control in Médecins Sans Frontières programs in resource-limited settings
Derryck B Klarkowski, Juan Daniel Orozco
January 21, 2010Assessment of two malaria rapid diagnostic tests in children under five years of age, with follow-up of false-positive pLDH test results, in a hyperendemic falciparum malaria area, Sierra Leone
Sibylle Gerstl, Sophie Dunkley, Ahmed Mukhtar, Martin De Smet, Samuel Baker, Jacob Maikere
October 5, 2009Field evaluation of two rapid diagnostic tests for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A during the 2006 outbreak in Niger
Angela M. C. Rose, Sibylle Gerstl, Ali E-H Mahamane, Fati Sidikou, Saacou Djibo, Laurence Bonte, Dominique A. Caugant, Philippe J. Guerin, Suzanne Chanteau
September 1, 2009Evaluation of FASTPlaqueTB to diagnose smear-negative tuberculosis in a peripheral clinic in Kenya
M Bonnet, L Gagnidze, F Varaine, A Ramsay, W Githui, PJ Guerin
February 6, 2009The evaluation of a rapid in situ HIV confirmation test in a programme with a high failure rate of the WHO HIV two-test diagnostic algorithm
Derryck B. Klarkowski, Joseph M. Wazome, Kamalini M. Lokuge, Leslie Shanks, Clair F. Mills, Daniel P. O'Brien
June 1, 2008International meeting: New diagnostic tests are urgently needed to treat patients with Chagas disease
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières
January 15, 2008Symptomatic hyperlactatemia: Lessons learned using a point-of-care device in a health care center- and nurse-based antiretroviral program in Rwanda [letter]
Johan van Griensven, Edi F. Atté, Tony Reid
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