Publications by authors named "J F Gomis"

Background: Drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum is a major threat to malaria control efforts. Pathogen genomic surveillance could be invaluable for monitoring current and emerging parasite drug resistance.

Methods: Data from two decades (2000-2020) of continuous molecular surveillance of P.

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Listeriosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria ivanovii. The genus Listeria currently includes 27 recognized species and is found throughout the environment. The number of systematic studies on antimicrobial resistance in L.

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Background: Following WHO guidelines, microscopy is the gold standard for malaria diagnosis in endemic countries. The Parasitology-Mycology laboratory (LPM) is the National Reference Laboratory and is currently undergoing ISO 15189 accreditation. In this context, we assessed the performance of the laboratory by confirming the reliability and the accuracy of results obtained in accordance with the requirements of the ISO 15189 standards.

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Article Synopsis
  • Genetic surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum can help National Malaria Control Programmes estimate parasite transmission using metrics like multi-strain infections and infection complexity, despite uncertainties about their ability to directly predict clinical incidence.
  • In a study involving 3,147 clinical infections across Senegal from 2012-2020, researchers used genetic analysis to correlate genetic metrics with malaria incidence at different clinic sites.
  • Results indicated that genetic metrics reliably predicted incidence when transmission was high (over 10 cases per 1,000 annually), but showed reversed correlations at lower transmission levels, suggesting a limit to the use of genetics in estimating incidence during low transmission periods.
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Q fever is a worldwide zoonotic disease which domestic ruminants are the main source of infection for humans. This scoping review summarizes the control measures currently available to reduce () infection in naturally infected sheep, goat and cattle herds. A total of 28 articles were included in the review.

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