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Improving the measurement of adult mortality Open

Ashira Menashe‐Oren, Martin Nyahoda, Romesh Silva, Martin W. Bratschi, Ruxana Jina , et al. · 2025

Are cause of death data for Shanghai fit for purpose? A retrospective study of medical records Open

Lei Chen, Tian Xia, Zhengan Yuan, Rasika Rampatige, Jun Chen , et al. · 2022

Objectives To assess the quality of cause of death reporting in Shanghai for both hospital and home deaths. Design and setting Medical records review (MRR) to independently establish a reference data set against which to compare original a…

Rapid Mortality Surveillance of COVID-19 Using Verbal Autopsy Open

Amaro Nunes Duarte‐Neto, Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza, Lúcia Pereira Barroso, Carmen Diva Saldiva de André, Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva , et al. · 2021

Amaro N. Duarte-Neto1Maria de Fátima Marinho2Lucia P. Barroso3Carmen D. Saldiva de André3*Luiz Fernando F. da Silva1Marisa Dolhnikoff1Paulo Afonso de André1Catia M. Minto4Catia S. de Moura1Thábata F. Leite1Jair Theodoro Filho1Renata Aparec…

Improving quality of medical certification of causes of death in health facilities in Tanzania 2014–2019 Open

Trust Nyondo, Gisbert Msigwa, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Gregory Kabadi, Tumaniel Macha , et al. · 2021

Background Monitoring medically certified causes of death is essential to shape national health policies, track progress to Sustainable Development Goals, and gauge responses to epidemic and pandemic disease. The combination of electronic …

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Civil Registration of Births and Deaths and on Availability and Utility of Vital Events Data Open

Carla AbouZahr, Martin W. Bratschi, Emily Cercone, Anushka Mangharam, Don de Savigny , et al. · 2021

The complex and evolving picture of COVID-19–related mortality highlights the need for data to guide the response. Yet many countries are struggling to maintain their data systems, including the civil registration system, which is the foun…

Additional file 3 of Improving quality of medical certification of causes of death in health facilities in Tanzania 2014–2019 Open

Trust Nyondo, Gisbert Msigwa, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Gregory Kabadi, Tumaniel Macha , et al. · 2021

Additional file 3. Tanzania ANACONDA *.mqr files for 2014–2019.

Introduction of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease in the Bankim Health District of Cameroon follows damming of the Mapé River Open

Koen Vandelannoote, Gerd Pluschke, Miriam Bolz, Martin W. Bratschi, Sarah Kerber , et al. · 2020

Buruli ulcer (BU) is an emerging ulcerative skin disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. Efforts to control its spread have been hampered by our limited understanding of M. ulcerans reservoirs and transmission, and the fac…

Mortality surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic Open

Philip Setel, Carla AbouZahr, Emily Atuheire, Martin W. Bratschi, Emily Cercone , et al. · 2020

Verbal Autopsy in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: The\n Symptom-Cause Information Archive Open

Samuel J. Clark, Martin W. Bratschi, Philip Setel, Carla AbouZahr, Don de Savigny , et al. · 2019

The burden of disease is fundamental to understanding, prioritizing, and\nmonitoring public health interventions. Cause of death is required to calculate\nthe burden of disease, but in many parts of the developing world deaths are\nneither…

Verbal Autopsy in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: The Symptom-Cause Information Archive Open

Samuel J. Clark, Martin W. Bratschi, Philip Setel, Carla AbouZahr, Don de Savigny , et al. · 2019

The burden of disease is fundamental to understanding, prioritizing, and monitoring public health interventions. Cause of death is required to calculate the burden of disease, but in many parts of the developing world deaths are neither de…

Improving coverage of civil registration and vital statistics, Bangladesh Open

Moyeen Uddin, Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi, Abul Kalam Azad, Anir Chowdhury, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury , et al. · 2019

Training community-based health workers, physicians and coders were successful approaches to improve death registration completeness and availability of cause-of-death data.

Immunization programmes and notifications of vital events Open

Gustavo Caetano Correa, Philippe Verstraete, Riswana Soundardjee, Manjari Shankar, Colin R. Paterson , et al. · 2019

Lições aprendidas sobre reforma legal e notificação de eventos vitais: experiências da Iniciativa Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Open

Philip Setel, J. S. G. Thomas, Martin W. Bratschi · 2019

Transmission of Hepatitis B and D Viruses in an African Rural Community Open

Carlos Augusto Pinho‐Nascimento, Martin W. Bratschi, René Höfer, Caroline C. Soares, Louisa Warryn , et al. · 2018

This study revealed that the prevalence of HBV and HDV in a rural area of Cameroon is extremely high, underlining the pressing need for the improvement of control strategies. Systematic serological and phylogenetic analyses of HBV sequence…

How can we accelerate progress on civil registration and vital statistics? Open

Carla AbouZahr, Martin W. Bratschi, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Romain Santon, Nicola Richards , et al. · 2018

Susceptibility to Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease (Buruli ulcer) Is Associated with IFNG and iNOS Gene Polymorphisms Open

Stéphanie Bibert, Martin W. Bratschi, Samuel Yaw Aboagye, Emilie Collinet, Nicole Scherr , et al. · 2017

Buruli ulcer (BU) is a chronic necrotizing disease of the skin and subcutaneous fat tissue. The causative agent, Mycobacterium ulcerans, produces mycolactone, a macrolide toxin, which causes apoptosis of mammalian cells. Only a smal…

Correction: The Burden of Leprosy in Cameroon: Fifteen Years into the Post-elimination Era Open

Earnest Njih Tabah, Dickson Shey Nsagha, Anne‐Cécile Zoung‐Kanyi Bissek, Martin W. Bratschi, Theophilus Ngeh Njamnshi , et al. · 2017

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005012.].

How can patients and their physicians contribute to an outbreak investigation? Experiences from a nationwide listeriosis outbreak in Switzerland Open

Sabine Kiefer, Kerstin Kling, Roger Stephan, Martin W. Bratschi, Marianne Jost , et al. · 2016

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY/PRINCIPLES: Gathering patient information to contain an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes is difficult because of the patients’ severe illness or death. Extending the range of interviewees to acquire epidemiological …

Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (LPEP) programme: study protocol for evaluating the feasibility and impact on case detection rates of contact tracing and single dose rifampicin Open

Tanja Barth‐Jaeggi, Peter Steinmann, Liesbeth Mieras, Wim H. van Brakel, Jan Hendrik Richardus , et al. · 2016

Introduction The reported number of new leprosy patients has barely changed in recent years. Thus, additional approaches or modifications to the current standard of passive case detection are needed to interrupt leprosy transmission. Large…

The Burden of Leprosy in Cameroon: Fifteen Years into the Post-elimination Era Open

Earnest Njih Tabah, Dickson Shey Nsagha, Anne‐Cécile Zoung‐Kanyi Bissek, Martin W. Bratschi, Theophilus Ngeh Njamnshi , et al. · 2016

The leprosy prevalence and detection rates as well as the overall leprosy burden in Cameroon have dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. However, a good number of health districts remain high-leprosy-burdened. The National Leprosy Co…

Spatial Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli Ulcer Lesions: Implications for Laboratory Diagnosis Open

Marie‐Thérèse Ruf, Miriam Bolz, Moritz Vogel, Pierre Franklin Bayi, Martin W. Bratschi , et al. · 2016

Our data show that M. ulcerans bacteria are primarily located in the subcutis of BU lesions, making the retrieval of the deep subcutis mandatory for examination of tissue samples for AFB. When laboratory diagnosis is based on the recommend…

Negligible risk of inducing resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with single-dose rifampicin as post-exposure prophylaxis for leprosy Open

Liesbeth Mieras, Richard Anthony, Wim H. van Brakel, Martin W. Bratschi, J. Van Den Broek , et al. · 2016

Buruli Ulcer in Cameroon: The Development and Impact of the National Control Programme Open

Earnest Njih Tabah, Dickson Shey Nsagha, Anne‐Cécile Zoung‐Kanyi Bissek, Alfred K. Njamnshi, Martin W. Bratschi , et al. · 2016

Although institutional BU control Cameroon only began 30 years after the first cases were reported in 1969, a number of milestones have been attained. These would serve as stepping stones for charting the way forward and improving upon con…

Complete Healing of a Laboratory-Confirmed Buruli Ulcer Lesion after Receiving Only Herbal Household Remedies Open

Arianna Andreoli, Ferdinand Mou, Jacques C. Minyem, Fidèle G. Wantong, Djeunga Noumen , et al. · 2015

On March 7, 2011, an 11-year-old boy from the town of Bankim in the Adamaoua Region of Cameroon-a known endemic focus of Buruli ulcer (BU) [1]-was accompanied by his father to the district hospital in Bankim.The patient presented with a BU…

Erratum to: Diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases among patients with persistent digestive disorders (diarrhoea and/or abdominal pain ≥14 days): a multi-country, prospective, non-experimental case–control study Open

Katja Polman, Sören L. Becker, Emilie Alirol, Nisha K. Bhatta, Narayan Raj Bhattarai , et al. · 2015

Unfortunately the original article [1] contained a typo in the title. Instead of “Diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases among patients with persistent digestive disorders (diarrhoea and/or abdominal pain ≥14 days): a multi-country, pros…

Local Heat Application for the Treatment of Buruli Ulcer: Results of a Phase II Open Label Single Center Non Comparative Clinical Trial Open

Moritz Vogel, Pierre Franklin Bayi, Marie‐Thérèse Ruf, Martin W. Bratschi, Miriam Bolz , et al. · 2015

ISRCT 72102977.

Symposium Report: Developing Strategies to Block the Transmission of Leprosy Open

Deborah Mensah-Awere, Martin W. Bratschi, Peter Steinmann, Jessica K. Fairley, Thomas P. Gillis · 2015

Diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases among patients with persistent digestive disorders (diarrhoea and/or abdominal pain ≥14 days): a multi-country, prospective, non-experimental case–control study Open

Katja Polman, Sören L. Becker, Emilie Alirol, Nisha K. Bhatta, Narayan Raj Bhattarai , et al. · 2015

Locally Confined Clonal Complexes of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Two Buruli Ulcer Endemic Regions of Cameroon Open

Miriam Bolz, Martin W. Bratschi, Sarah Kerber, Jacques C. Minyem, Alphonse Um Boock , et al. · 2015

Our comparative genomic analysis revealed that M. ulcerans clones diversify locally by the accumulation of SNPs. Case isolates coming from more recently emerging BU endemic areas, such as the Mapé river basin, may be less diverse than popu…

Current knowledge on Mycobacterium leprae transmission: a systematic literature review Open

Martin W. Bratschi, Peter Steinmann, Anna Wickenden, Thomas P. Gillis · 2015

No study has unequivocally demonstrated the mechanisms by which M. leprae bacteria travel from one case of leprosy to another.

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