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Five-Year Experience of the Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS) Clinical Laboratory, Burkina Faso, in Participating into an External Proficiency Testing (EPT) Programme [PDF]

open access: yesDiagnostics
Background: The clinical research laboratory plays a pivotal role in the execution of clinical studies. The accurate and consistent registration of patients is dependent on the competent use of laboratory equipment and manual techniques by technicians ...
Amidou Diarra   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Malariometric Indices in the Context of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Children Aged 1.5 to 12 Years during the Period of High Malaria Transmission in the Suburban Area of Banfora, Burkina Faso

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Continuous monitoring of malaria epidemiology is needed in malaria-endemic settings to inform malaria control and elimination strategies. This study aimed to compare the malariometric indices between the under-fives and school-age children.
San M. Ouattara   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stakeholder perceptions on the deployment of multiple first-line therapies for uncomplicated malaria: a qualitative study in the health district of Kaya, Burkina Faso

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2022
Background In Burkina Faso, malaria remains the first cause of medical consultation and hospitalization in health centres. First-line case management of malaria in the country’s health facilities is based on the use of artemisinin-based combination ...
Denise Hien   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Strategy Deploying Multiple First-Line Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies for Uncomplicated Malaria in the Health District of Kaya, Burkina Faso

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
(1) Background: Effective malaria case management relies on World Health Organization (WHO) recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), but partial resistance to artemisinin has emerged and is spreading, threatening malaria control and ...
Jean Moïse Tanga Kaboré   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospital-based surveillance of severe paediatric malaria in two malaria transmission ecological zones of Burkina Faso

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2023
Background In the current context of tailoring interventions to maximize impact, it is important that current data of clinical epidemiology guide public health programmes and health workers in the management of severe disease.
Alfred B. Tiono   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contribution of the Rapid LAMP-Based Diagnostic Test (RLDT) to the Evaluation of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and Shigella in Childhood Diarrhea in the Peri-Urban Area of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2023
The estimates of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and Shigella burden in developing countries are limited by the lack of rapid, accessible, and sensitive diagnostics and surveillance tools.
Alimatou Héma   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attitudes, practices, and determinants of community care-seeking behaviours for fever/malaria episodes in the context of the implementation of multiple first-line therapies for uncomplicated malaria in the health district of Kaya, Burkina Faso

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2022
Background Malaria case management relies on World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), and a continuous understanding of local community knowledge, attitudes, and practices may be a great support for the ...
Jean Moise Tanga Kaboré   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safety and immunogenicity of Vi-typhoid conjugate vaccine co-administration with routine 9-month vaccination in Burkina Faso: A randomized controlled phase 2 trial

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objectives: In 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) pre-qualified a single-dose typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) and identified TCV co-administration studies as a research priority.
Sodiomon B. Sirima   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safety and immunogenicity of co-administration of meningococcal type A and measles–rubella vaccines with typhoid conjugate vaccine in children aged 15–23 months in Burkina Faso

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objectives: The World Health Organization pre-qualified single-dose typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) and requested data on co-administration with routine vaccines.
Sodiomon B. Sirima   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

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