• Effectiveness of One Dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine in Response to an Outbreak: A Case-cohort Study 

      Azman, Andrew S.; Parker, Lucy A; Rumunu, John; Tadesse, Fisseha; Grandesso, Francesco; Deng, Lul L.; Lino, Richard Laku; Bior, Bior K.; Lasuba, Michael; Page, Anne-Laure; Ontweka, Lameck; Llosa, Augusto E.; Cohuet, Sandra; Pezzoli, Lorenzo; Sodjinou, Dossou Vincent; Abubakar, Abdinasir; Debes, Amanda K.; Mpairwe, Allan M.; Wamala, Joseph F.; Jamet, Christine; Lessler, Justin; Sack, David A.; Quilici, Marie-Laure; Ciglenecki, Iza; Luquero, Francisco J. (Elsevier Ltd., 2016-11)
      Background Oral cholera vaccines represent a new eff ective tool to fi ght cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2–4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies suggests that a single dose of oral ...
    • Simplified PCR for Detection of Haemophilus ducreyi and Diagnosis of Chancroid 

      West, Beryl; Wilson, Stuart M.; Changalucha, John; Patel, Shobhna; Mayaud, Phillippe; Ballard, Ronald C.; Mabey, David (1995-04)
      A simplified PCR was developed for detection of Haemophilus ducreyi in samples from chancroid patients. The strategy included a straightforward chloroform extraction sample preparation method, a one-tube nested PCR to ...