Willingness to use a rapid diagnostic test for malaria in a rural area of central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Malaria mortality is mainly a direct consequence of inadequate and/or delayed diagnosis and case management. Some important control interventions (e.g. long-lasting insecticidal
Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Presumptive treatment of all febrile patients with anti-malarials leads to massive over-treatment. The aim was to assess the effect of implementing malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) o
A novel approach for measuring the burden of uncomplicated <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria: application to data from Zambia (Publications)
Measurement of malaria burden is fraught with complexity, due to the natural history of the disease, delays in seeking treatment or failure of case management. Attempts to establish an appropriate cas
<em>Mycobacterium africanum</em>: review of an important cause of human tuberculosis in West Africa (Publications)
Mycobacterium africanum consists of two phylogenetically distinct lineages within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, known as M. africanum West African 1 and M. africanum West African 2. These li