PLoS Negl Trop Dis
High cholera vaccination coverage following emergency campaign in Haiti: Results from a cluster survey in three rural Communes in the South Department, 2017.
Sharp A, Blake A, Backx J, Panunzi I, Barrais R, Nackers F, Luquero F, Deslouches YG, Cohuet S
Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) has increasingly been used as an outbreak control measure, but vaccine shortages limit its application. A two-dose OCV camp ...
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Source: PubMed
Health Secur
Improving Cross-Border Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learned from 3 Lassa Fever Outbreaks Across Benin, Nigeria, and Togo, 2017-2019.
Kakai CG, Okunromade OF, Dan-Nwafor CC, Chabi AIB, Martial GTP, Dalhat MM, Ward S, Tante O, Nguku PM, Hamadi A, Ilori E, Lokossou V, Brito C, Ojo OE, Kone I, Agbeko TT, Ihekweazu C, Merrill RD
Long-standing cultural, economic, and political relationships among Benin, Nigeria, and Togo contribute to the complexity of their cross-border connec ...
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Source: PubMed
Indian J Med Microbiol
Geographically distinct North-East Indian Helicobacter pylori strains are highly sensitive to clarithromycin but are levofloxacin resistant.
Mahant S, Sharma AK, Gehlot V, Mukhopadhyay AK, Chhawchharia A, Dutta S, Agarwal A, Som A, Das K, Das R
Helicobacter pylori causes various gastro-intestinal diseases. Antibiotic resistance to commonly used antibiotics for the treatment of H. pylori infec ...
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Source: PubMed
Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 2020 Jan 30
Molecular mechanism of sulfur chemolithotrophy in the betaproteobacterium Pusillimonas ginsengisoli SBSA.
Mandal S, Rameez MJ, Chatterjee S, Sarkar J, Pyne P, Bhattacharya S, Shaw R, Ghosh W
Chemolithotrophic sulfur oxidation represents a significant part of the biogeochemical cycling of this element. Due to its long evolutionary history, ...
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Source: PubMed
Cell Rep
Vibrio cholerae-Symbiont Interactions Inhibit Intestinal Repair in Drosophila.
Fast D, Petkau K, Ferguson M, Shin M, Galenza A, Kostiuk B, Pukatzki S, Foley E
Pathogen-mediated damage to the intestinal epithelium activates compensatory growth and differentiation repair programs in progenitor cells. Accelerat ...
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Source: PubMed
