FEAD: The Field Epidemiology Abstract Database

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    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
    • Uganda

    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
    • Angola

    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
    • Angola

    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)
    • Belize

    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
    • Pakistan

    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)
    • Water or foodborne
    • United States of America

    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
    • Ghana

    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
    • Republic of Tanzania

    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
    • Ghana

    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
    • Rwanda

    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
    • Ghana

    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)
    • Animal health
    • Zoonotic
    • Uganda

    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
    • Namibia

    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)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Philippines

    Measles Outbreak Investigation in Ginnir District of Bale Zone, Oromia Region, Southeast Ethiopia, May 2019

    Falaho Kalil, Desta Gemeda
    Background:
    Measles is vaccine-preventable viral infection of humans, primarily affecting children<5 years. During early 2019, outbreak of measles occurred in Ginnir district of Bale zone,...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Ethiopia

    Measles Outbreak in a Highly Urbanized City, Davao City, Philippines, 2018

    Farah May Clamor, Alethea De Guzman, Vikki Carr de los Reyes, Nemia Sucaldito, Ferchito Avelino
    Background:
    On December 27, 2017, the Epidemiology Bureau received report of measles cases with two deaths in Davao City. An FETP team was sent to profile cases, determine existence of outbreak,...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Philippines

    Analysis of Measles surveillance data- Bangladesh, 2013-2017

    Farzana Islam Khan, Mallick Masum Billah, Priyakanta Nayak, Sultan Md. Shamsuzzaman, Meerjady Sabrina Flora
    Background:
    Bangladesh targets to eliminate measles by year 2020. Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Bangladesh provides two doses of measles-rubella (MR) vaccine routinely at nine months...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Bangladesh

    Evaluation of surveillance system for measles – Morocco, 2017

    Fatima Zahra Befouila, Fatima Zahra Meski, Ahmed Rguig, Bouchra Assarag, Abdelmounim Belalia, Hicham Nejmi
    Background:
    Measles is one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of five years in developing countries. The epidemiological surveillance has been strengthened in Morocco...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Morocco

    Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance System Evaluation, Boke region, Guinea, 2019

    Fatoumata Doumbouya, Jolie Kasongo Kayembe, Salomon Corvil, Claude Ngona Mandro, Sakoba Keita
    Background:
    In 2014, following the West Africa’s Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, WHO declared EVD as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Guinea has established a surveillance...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Public health surveillance
    • Guinea-Bissau

    Evaluation of the HIV Viral Load laboratory based Surveillance System and characterisation of Viral Suppression in a rural County - Kenya, 2015–2018

    Festus Kigen, Maurice Owiny, Moses Melita, Hosea Serech, Zeinab Gura
    Background:
    Key among UNAIDS global targets to accelerate efforts towards control of HIV pandemic is viral suppression of 90% among patients on antiretroviral therapy. Viral suppression is...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Viral hepatitis and HIV
    • Kenya

    An institution-based study on risk factors associated with mortality in children under five years old with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Limpopo Province-South Africa, 2014-2018

    Fhatuwani Gavhi, Vilyen Motaze, Lazarus Kuonza
    Background:
    Mortality in children <5 with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) reaches up to 30% in South Africa despite the im- plementation of the World Health Organization SAM management...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Maternal and child health
    • South Africa

    Tuberculosis Mortality in Lusaka, Zambia, 2016; Old Age, Health Facility Type and HIV Co-Infection as Associated Factors

    Francis Nanzalauka, Slyvia Chibuye, Clara Kasapo, Nelia Mulambya
    Background:
    Lusaka is among the districts with high Tuberculosis (TB) notifications in Zambia, and the mortality proportion (6%) was exceeding the national target of less than 5% in the year 2015...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Viral hepatitis and HIV
    • Zambia

    Epidemic Cholera in Urban Lusaka, Zambia, 2017: Groundwater and Contact with Patients as Risks

    Francis Nanzaluka, William Davis, Lwito Mutale, Fred Kapaya, Patrick Sakubita, Nelia Langa, Angela Gama, Hammad S N’cho, Jennifer Murphy, Anna Blackstock, Eric Mintz, Margaret Riggs, Victor Mukonka, Nyambe Sinyange, Ellen Yard, Joan Brunkard
    Background: On October 6, 2017, the Zambia Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in Lusaka. By early December, 1,462 cases and 38 deaths had occurred (case fatality rate, 2.6%). We conducted...
    Conference: FETP International Night (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Zambia

    Anthrax Outbreaks among Domestic Ruminants Associated with Butchering Infected Livestock and Improper Carcass Disposal: Three Districts, Uganda, 2016-2018

    Fred Monje, Esther Kisaakye, Daniel Eurien, Vivian Ntono, Benon Kwesiga, Daniel Kadobera, Deo Birungi Ndumu, Alex Riolexus Ario, Bao-Ping Zhu
    Background:
    During 2017-2018, human anthrax outbreaks (mostly cutaneous type) occurred in Arua, Kween and Kiruhura districts, Uganda, which were associated with eating and handling meat from...
    Conference: 10th TEPHINET Global (2019, USA)
    • Water or foodborne
    • Uganda

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