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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 Meningitis

October 5, 2009

Field 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
PLoS ONE 2009;4(10):e7326. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007326)

Diagnostics, Meningitis, Niger

July 1, 2009

Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia with cryptococcal meningitis: First case report from Cambodia

Esdras Augusto, Marie-Eve Raguenaud, Chindamony Kim, Mam Mony, Petros Isaakidis
Tropical Doctor 2009;39:176-177. (doi: 10.1258/td.2008.080340)

Cambodia, Meningitis

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

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

June 1, 2007

Serogroup X in meningococcal disease, Western Kenya

Sadiki Materu, Helen S. Cox, Petros Isaakidis, Bienvenu Baruani, Thomas Ogaro, Dominique A. Caugant
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007;13:944-945.

Kenya, Meningitis

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