Community-based mass treatment with azithromycin for the elimination of yaws in Ghana-Results of a pilot study.

Autor: Abdul Aziz Abdulai, Patrick Agana-Nsiire, Frank Biney, Cynthia Kwakye-Maclean, Sardick Kyei-Faried, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, Shirley Victoria Simpson, George Bonsu, Sally-Ann Ohene, William Kwabena Ampofo, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Kai-Hua Chi, Damien Danavall, Cheng Y Chen, Allan Pillay, Sergi Sanz, Ye Tun, Oriol Mitjà, Kingsley Bampoe Asiedu, Ronald C Ballard

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 3, p e0006303 (2018)

INTRODUCTION:The WHO yaws eradication strategy consists of one round of total community treatment (TCT) of single-dose azithromycin with coverage of > 90%.The efficacy of the strategy to reduce the levels on infection has been demonstrated previously

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Antibody Responses to Two Recombinant Treponemal Antigens (rp17 and TmpA) before and after Azithromycin Treatment for Yaws in Ghana and Papua New Guinea

Autor: Diana L. Martin, Cheng Y. Chen, Christian Bottomley, Nishanth Parameswaran, Michael Marks, Ronald C. Ballard, Sibauk Bieb, Kingsley Asiedu, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Allan Pillay, David Mabey, Wendy Houinei, Cynthia Kwakye, Anthony W. Solomon, Kai-Hua Chi, Damien Danavall, Oriol Mitjà

Publikováno v: J Clin Microbiol
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
r-IGTP. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Germans Trias i Pujol
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WHO and its partners aim to interrupt yaws transmission in countries of endemicity and to certify others as being yaws-free. Transmission can be assessed using rapid plasma reagin (RPR) tests, reflecting current or recent infection, but RPR is operat

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33568467

Increased Discrimination of Treponema pallidum Strains by Subtyping With a 4-Component System Incorporating a Mononucleotide Tandem Repeat in rpsA

Autor: Tom Slezak, Cheng Y. Chen, Susan S. Philip, Allan Pillay, Muhammad Morshed, Ronald C. Ballard, Kai-Hua Chi, Yongcheng Sun, Samantha S. Katz, Min-Kuang Lee

Publikováno v: Sexually transmitted diseases. 46(4)

A guanine mononucleotide repeat in the rpsA (tp0279) gene was evaluated for improved strain discrimination using 72 Treponema pallidum-positive specimens. The tandem repeat combined with the enhanced Centers for Disease Control and Prevention typing

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30720673

Community-based mass treatment with azithromycin for the elimination of yaws in Ghana-Results of a pilot study

Autor: Damien Danavall, Shirley Victoria Simpson, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Oriol Mitjà, Sergi Sanz, Kai-Hua Chi, Abdul Aziz Abdulai, Kingsley Asiedu, Sardick Kyei-Faried, Ronald C. Ballard, George Bonsu, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, Ye Tun, Patrick Agana-Nsiire, William Ampofo, Frank Biney, Cynthia Kwakye-Maclean, Cheng Y. Chen, Sally-Ann Ohene, Allan Pillay, Kennedy Kwasi Addo

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 3, p e0006303 (2018)
Dipòsit Digital de la UB
Universidad de Barcelona
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Introduction The WHO yaws eradication strategy consists of one round of total community treatment (TCT) of single-dose azithromycin with coverage of > 90%.The efficacy of the strategy to reduce the levels on infection has been demonstrated previously

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http://hdl.handle.net/2445/134611

Complete Genome Sequences of 11 Haemophilus ducreyi Isolates from Children with Cutaneous Lesions in Vanuatu and Ghana

Autor: Dhwani Batra, Fasihah Taleo, Allan Pillay, Ronald C. Ballard, Monica M Lahra, Shirley Victoria Simpson, Samantha S. Katz, Kingsley Asiedu, Lori A. Rowe, Cheng-Yen Chen, A. Jeanine Abrams, David L. Trees

Publikováno v: Genome Announcements

Haemophilus ducreyi causes chancroid and has recently been shown to be a significant cause of cutaneous lesions in tropical or subtropical regions where yaws is endemic. Here, we report the draft genome assemblies for 11 cutaneous strains of Haemophi

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27389258