Effect of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on experimental carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6B in Blantyre, Malawi: a randomised controlled …

D Dula, B Morton, T Chikaonda, AE Chirwa… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The effect of childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementation in
Malawi is threatened by absence of herd effect. There is persistent vaccine-type …

A comparison of four epidemic waves of COVID-19 in Malawi; an observational cohort study

C Anscombe, S Lissauer, H Thole, J Rylance… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background Compared to the abundance of clinical and genomic information available on
patients hospitalised with COVID-19 disease from high-income countries, there is a paucity …

Immunologic and vascular biomarkers of mortality in critical COVID-19 in a South African cohort

JA Shaw, M Meiring, C Snyders, F Everson… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Biomarkers predicting mortality among critical Coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) patients provide insight into the underlying pathophysiology of fatal disease and …

Different clinical features in Malawian outpatients presenting with COVID-19 prior to and during Omicron variant dominance: A prospective observational study

MG Chibwana, HW Thole, C Anscombe… - PLOS Global Public …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has resulted in a high number of cases, but a relatively
low incidence of severe disease and deaths, compared to the pre-Omicron variants …

Circulation of SARS-CoV-2 and co-infection with Plasmodium falciparum in Equatorial Guinea

D López-Farfán, P Ncogo, C Oki, M Riloha, V Ondo… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
The impact of COVID-19 in Africa has been a big concern since the beginning of the
pandemic. However, low incidence of COVID-19 case severity and mortality has been …

Spatially resolved single-cell atlas of the lung in fatal Covid19 in an African population reveals a distinct cellular signature and an interferon gamma dominated …

J Nyirenda, O Hardy, J Da Silva Filho, V Herder… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Postmortem single-cell studies have transformed understanding of lower respiratory tract
diseases (LRTD) including Covid19 but there is almost no data from African settings where …

[HTML][HTML] Caractéristiques épidémiologiques de l'épidémie de Covid-19 entre 2020 et 2022 au Kongo central, RDC

EM AKINOCHO, M KASONGO… - … Tropicale et Santé …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conclusion Comme dans d'autres contextes africains, ce sont l'âge, les comorbidités, le
niveau socio-professionnel plus élevé et le fait d'habiter en milieu urbain, qui ont été les …

[PDF][PDF] Immunologic and vascular biomarkers of mortality in critical COVID-19 in a South African cohort

A Ronit, M Zacharias, PS Nyasulu, JA Shaw, M Meiring… - 2023 - academia.edu
Methods: We collected serum samples and corresponding clinical data from 87 patients with
critical COVID-19 on day 1 of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary hospital …

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GE Erhabor, F Okonofua - West African Journal of Medicine, 2023 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Postgraduate diploma in health systems management
(PDHSM) curriculum was designed and developed to equip medical doctors with the …