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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 Angola

May 24, 2011

The 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
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2011;5(5):e1183
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Angola, Diagnostics, Marburg, Marburg

May 4, 2010

Factors associated with Marburg hemorrhagic fever: analysis of patient data from Uige, Angola

Paul Roddy, Sara L. Thomas, Benjamin Jeffs, Pascoal Nascimento Folo, Pedro Pablo Palma, Bengi Moco Henrique, Luis Villa, Fernando Paixao Damiao Machado, Oscar Bernal, Steven M. Jones, James E. Strong, Heinz Feldmann, Matthias Borchert
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2010;201(12):1909-18. (doi: 10.1086/652748)

Angola, Marburg, Marburg

October 5, 2008

Decreased peripheral health service utilisation during an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, Uíge, Angola, 2005

P Roddy, A Marchiol, B Jeffs, PP Palma, O Bernal, O de la Rosa, M Borchert
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2009;103:200-202. (doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.09.001)

Angola, Marburg, Marburg

February 1, 2008

Eflornithine is a cost-effective alternative to melarsoprol for the treatment of second-stage human West African trypanosomiasis in Caxito, Angola

J Robays, ME Raguenaud, T Josenando, M Boelaert
Tropical Medicine & International Health 2008;13:265-271. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01999.x)

Angola, Neglected Diseases, Sleeping Sickness

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

September 1, 2007

Whole blood NAD and NADP concentrations are not depressed in subjects with clinical pellagra

Paul I. Creeke, Filippo Dibari, Edith Cheung, Tina van den Briel, Eustace Kyroussis, Andrew J. Seal
J Nutr 2007;137(9):2013-7.
Journal of Nutrition

Angola, Malnutrition, Pellagra

May 1, 2007

Mental health in HIV-positive pregnant women: Results from Angola

S Bernatsky, R Souza, K de Jong
AIDS Care 2007;19:674-6

Angola, HIV/AIDS, Mental Health

January 1, 2007

Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola

Andrew J Seal, Paul I Creeke, Filippo Dibari, Edith Cheung, Eustace Kyroussis, Paulina Semedo, Tina van den Briel
Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85(1):218-24.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Angola, Malnutrition, Pellagra

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