Prevalence of Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis in four sentinel sites, The Gambia 2018.
Ceesay Sainey, Mamadou M Jallow, Annah Jammeh, Peter Adewuyi, Sana Sambou, Ignatius Baldeh, Bakary Sanneh, Musa Jallow, Amadou Jallow, Ndey Binta Bah
Background:
Multidrug-resistant or Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) remains a threat to TB control and it is be- coming increasingly difficult to treat in some countries. In 2015, WHO...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Anti-microbial resistance
Immunization Coverage and Factors Associated with the Non-Vaccination of children aged 12 to 23 months - Goulfey Health district, Far North region Cameroon 2018
Céline Mairousgou Tchida, Athanase ATEBA ABINA, Ndode Corlins, Armel Evouna, Georges Alain ETOUNDI MBALLA, Dickson SHEY NSAGHA
Background:
Cameroon has set targets for immunization coverage for at least 90% for Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Between 2014 and 2016 only the Goulfey health district (HD) did not meet...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Vaccine preventable diseases
Early exposure to influenza A(H3N2) viruses and vaccine effectiveness against A(H3N2)-associated illness in U.S. children <18 years, 2016–18
Chandresh Ladva, Jessie Chung, Dr. Edward Belongia, Dr. Huong McLean, Dr. Arnold Monto, Dr. Emily Martin, Dr. Manjusha Gaglani, Dr. Michael Reis, Dr. Michael Jackson, Dr. Lisa Jackson, Richard Zimmerman, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Manish Patel, Alicia Fry, Brendan Flannery
Background:
During 2017–18, influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) against A(H3N2) illness was highest among children <5 years compared to all other ages. The emergence of antigenically distinct...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Vaccine preventable diseases
Unprecedented Upsurge of Lassa fever cases in Nigeria, January to March 2018: a glimpse of hope
Chioma Dan- Nwafor, Elsie Ilori, Christina Frank, Oladipupo Ipadeola, Winifred Ukponu, Womi Eteng, Muhammad Shakir Balogun, Patrick Nguku, Chikwe Ihekweazu
Background:
Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) endemic in Nigeria. The 2018 massive wave of confirmed cases of Lassa fever in Nigeria raised the important question, whether the...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
Person-to-person Hantavirus Outbreak – Epuyén, Chubut province, Argentina. 2018.
Concepcion Esmeralda Barrera, Nadia Competiello, Victor Calvo, Gabriela Larco, Marisa Rodriguez, Paula Leon, Velen Pennini, Sofia Armendariz, Pilar Barcena Barbeira, Camila Dominguez, Emiliano Biondo, Jorge Diaz, Carolina Betancourt, Malen Torres, Vanesa Serrat, Analia Iturra, Julieta Levite, Maria Laura Recoder, Teresa Strella, Patricia Angeleri, Jorge Elías, Pablo Noveau
Background:
Between November and first days of December 2018, 5 cases of Andes Hantavirus were reported, one of them deceased. On December 5, an outbreak was declared, when an epidemiological link...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
Foodborne Disease of Undetermined Etiology among Patrons of a Local Eatery, Bibiani Township, Western Region of Ghana-2018
Daniel Agudey, Jacob Mahama, Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Samuel Sackey, Christabel Ayepah, Safiatu Abdullai Tarl. Vida Naana Kwofie, Irene Amedzro, Michael Adjabeng, Edwin Afari
Background: Foodborne diseases (FBD) remain a major health security threat; particularly in resource-limited settings where capacity to identify their etiology for adequate control is limited. On...
Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
Epidemiological Characteristics of human sporotrichosis - João Pessoa, Brazil, 2019
Danielle Lucena, Daniel Batista, Alecsandra Bezerra Monteiro de Oliveira, Martha Helena Cezar
Background:
Sporotrichosis is a zoonosis caused by the fungus Sporothrix spp. In Brazil, transmission occurs mainly with felines. The observed complications are frequent in patients infected with...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
Assessment of the biorisk management of a Public Health Reference Laboratory, Northern Region, Ghana-2018
Daron Davies Atsu-Agbo Agboyie, Irene Amedzro, Dr. Donne Ameme, Ms. Delia Bandoh, Dr. David Opare, Dr. Gifty Boateng, Samuel Sackey, Jacob Arthur Quarm, Ernest Kenu, Edwin Afari
Background:
Biosafety and biosecurity remain critical in ensuring global health security. Laboratory bio-risk management is key in ensuring biosafety, biosecurity and biocontainment of biological...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Public health surveillance
Foodborne Outbreaks During Trauma Healing Program for Earthquake Victims in Mapin Rea Village, West Sumbawa Regency, Indonesia 2018
Debri Rizki Faisa, Syahrizal Syarif, Rusli Rusli
Background:
On September 9th 2018, at 3:30 p.m. The police wives association (Bhayangkari) held trauma healing program for children victims of earthquake in Mapin Rea village. 130 packages of rice...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
An ecological assessment of the impact of funded cocoon and maternal pertussis vaccination strategies on pertussis epidemiology in young infants - Australia, 2000–2017
Dharshi Thangarajah, Jonathan Malo, Emma Field, Stephen Lambert
Background:
Despite the availability of pertussis-containing vaccines and high vaccination rates in children, pertussis (whooping cough) remains one of the most commonly notified vaccine-...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Vaccine preventable diseases
Treatment outcomes of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and associated factors among patients at Iganga and Mbale treatment centres - Uganda: A retrospective cohort study
Diana Zemei, Esther Buregyeya, Stevens Kisaka
Background:
In 2018, the Ministry of Health Uganda, reported an increase in MDR-TB patients from 600 in 2015 to 1900 in 2016. The emergence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) threatens...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Anti-microbial resistance
Investigation of the public health event in the Cafunfu town, Lunda-norte, Angola in December 2017
Dilunvuide POde, Regina António, Arieth Cruz, Roygue Alfredo, Maria Nsuka, Maria Pambasange, João Pires
Background:
On November 22nd , 2017, the people from Cafunfu municipality in Lunda-Norte Province, alerted through the media, “the occurrence of unidentified disease, manifested mainly by high...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Public health surveillance
- Vector-borne
Factors associated with neonatal deaths among neonates admitted to the David Bernardino Pediatric Hospital, 2017-2018, Luanda, Angola
Dora Victorino, Joaquim Dias, Balbina Felix, João Pires
Background:
In 2016, WHO estimated that 2.6 million deaths, or roughly 46% of all under-five deaths, occurred during the neona- tal period. UNICEF estimates that 29 neonates die in every 1,000...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Maternal and child health
Descriptive Study on Suicides in Belize, 2014 – 2018
Edgar Nah, Lorna Perez, Russell Manzanero
Background:
Suicide is preventable with appropriate interventions and there exist many identifiable risk factors, the biggest being a prior suicide attempt. Suicide is the second leading cause of...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
An Outbreak of Fever and Death in a Training Camp for Young Men – Kohat, Pakistan 2018
Eisha Mansur, Nalia Azam, Tariq Bashir, Mansoor Tariq, Tahir Butt
Background:
On 1st June 2018, an 18-year-old from a males’ training camp in Kohat developed fever which rapidly progressed to coagulopathy, respiratory distress, and death. Three days later,...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Occupational and environmental health
Norovirus GII.P16-GII.4 Sydney outbreak among wildfire evacuation shelter populations — Butte County, California, November 2018
Ellora Karmarkar, Seema Jain, Jeffrey Higa, Jazmin Fontenot, Regina Gallick Bertolucci, Thalia Huynh, Gwendolyn Hammer, Alice Brodkin, May Thao, Blake Brousseau, Danielle Hopkins, Emily Kelly, Madison Jablonski-Sheffield, Sandy Henley, Holly Whittaker, Chao-Yang Pan, Alice Chen, Janice Kim, Lori Schaumleffel, Erin Epson, Shua Chai, Debra Wadford, Duc Vugia, Linda Schultz-Lewis
Background:
On November 8, 2018, Camp Fire, California’s largest wildfire to date, displaced ~52,000 persons, with >1,100 evacuated to 9 shelters in Butte and surrounding counties. Before the...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
Investigation of maternal death, Manhyia North Sub Metropolis, Ashanti Region, Ghana - 2019
Elsie Kissi-Appiah, Magdalene Akos Odikro, Delia Bandoh, Joseph Asamoah Frimpong, Lenox Goulbourne, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu
Background:
Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high as a major public health problem globally. Approximately 830 women die daily from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth....
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Maternal and child health
Loss to Follow Up and Associated Factors among Women Enrolled in PMTCT Program in Mbeya Region, Tanzania, 2017
Emmanuel Mwakapasa, Ahmed Abade, Elia Mmbaga
Background:
More than half of people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa are women. Approximately 1.4 million become pregnant each year; effective implementation of Prevention of Mother to Child...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Public health surveillance
- Viral hepatitis and HIV
- Maternal and child health
Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 outbreak in a correctional facility, Central Region, Ghana, July-August, 2018
Ernest Akyereko, Franklin Asiedu-Bokoe, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Adwin Afari
Background: Influenza, a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses, usually leads to outbreaks among unvaccinated populations and in confined settings. On July, 30 2018 the Central...
Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
- Vaccine preventable diseases
Risk Factors Associated with Stillbirths in Kibogora District Hospital, Rwanda, 2015
Esperance Niragire, Laurence Rugema, Ladislas Nshimiyamana, Jared Omolo, Joseph Ntaganira
Background:
Stillbirths remain a major challenge in Kibogora district hospital (DH) catchment area, a largely rural setting of 240,000 people. Among 124 perinatal deaths reported in 2014-2015 in...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Maternal and child health
Occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Escherichia coli isolates from raw meat in Ghana-2019
Esther Dsani, Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Dr. Samuel Sackey, Beverly Egyir, Edwin Afari
Background:
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health and more critical in zoonosis. Food producing animals (FPA) are major reservoirs for food-borne pathogens which may be...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Anti-microbial resistance
Outbreak of Human Anthrax Associated with Handling and Eating Meat from a Cow that Died from Unknown Causes: Kween District, Uganda, April 2018
Esther Kisaakye, Kenneth Bainomugisha, Lilian Bulage, Musa Sekamatte, Bernard Lubwama, Dan Tumusiime, Alex Riolexus Ario, Bao-Ping Zhu
Background: On 20 April 2018, District health officials in Kween District, Uganda reported to the Ministry of Health 7 suspected cases of cutaneous anthrax among persons who had handled and eaten...
Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
Trends of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis at Oshakati Namibia 2012-2016
Esther Mukete-Hilundutah, Kofi Nyarko
Background:
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) poses serious challenges for tuberculosis control. Worldwide, about 3% of all newly diagnosed patients have DR-TB. Namibia reported an increase in...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
- Anti-microbial resistance
Cholera Outbreak in Sinapangan Village, Libungan, North Cotabato, Philippines, July 17-20, 2018
Eugenia Mercedes Cañal, Ivy Rozeth Saavedra-Iturralde, Alethea De Guzman, Nemia Sucaldito, Ferchito Avelino
Background:
On July 2018, we received a report on increasing diarrhea cases in Sinapangan Village, Libungan, North Cotabato. An FETP team was sent to determine existence of an outbreak, source and...
Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)