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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.

Research article

The use of a mobile laboratory unit in support of patient management and epidemiological surveillance during the 2005 Marburg outbreak in Angola

May 24, 2011

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

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Viral load testing in a resource-limited setting: quality control is critical

May 12, 2011

Jane Greig, Philipp du Cros, Derryck Klarkowski, Clair Mills, Steffen Jorgensen, P Richard Harrigan, Daniel P O'Brien
J Int AIDS Soc 2011;14:23
Journal of the International AIDS Society 

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Research article

Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study

April 18, 2011

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
Lancet 2011;377:1495-505
Research article

New diagnostics for tuberculosis: fulfilling patient needs first

October 25, 2010

Jean-Francois Lemaire, Martina Casenghi
J Int AIDS Soc 2010;13:40
Journal of the International AIDS Society

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Research article

Accuracy of MUAC in the detection of severe wasting with the new WHO growth standards

June 28, 2010

Miguel Ángel Luque Fernández, Pascale Delchevalerie, Michel van Herp
Pediatrics 2010;126(1):e195-201.
Pediatrics

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Research article

Microscopy quality control in Médecins Sans Frontières programs in resource-limited settings

January 26, 2010

Derryck B Klarkowski, Juan Daniel Orozco
PLoS Medicine 2010;7(1):e1000206. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000206)

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Research article

Assessment 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

January 21, 2010

Sibylle Gerstl, Sophie Dunkley, Ahmed Mukhtar, Martin De Smet, Samuel Baker, Jacob Maikere
Malaria Journal 2010;9(1):28. (doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-28)

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Research article

Field evaluation of two rapid diagnostic tests for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A during the 2006 outbreak in Niger

October 04, 2009

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)

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Research article

Evaluation of FASTPlaqueTB to diagnose smear-negative tuberculosis in a peripheral clinic in Kenya

August 31, 2009

M Bonnet, L Gagnidze, F Varaine, A Ramsay, W Githui, PJ Guerin
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2009;13:1112-8.

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Research article

The 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

February 05, 2009

Derryck B. Klarkowski, Joseph M. Wazome, Kamalini M. Lokuge, Leslie Shanks, Clair F. Mills, Daniel P. O'Brien
PLoS ONE 2009;4:e4351. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004351)

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