Publications by authors named "Michel Kasereka Tosalisana"
A community-based contact isolation strategy to reduce the spread of Ebola virus disease: an analysis of the 2018-2020 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
BMJ Glob Health
June 2023
Introduction: Despite tremendous progress in the development of diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics for Ebola virus disease (EVD), challenges remain in the implementation of holistic strategies to rapidly curtail outbreaks. We investigated the effectiveness of a community-based contact isolation strategy to limit the spread of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Methods: We did a quasi-experimental comparison study.
Investigation of and Strategies to Control the Final Cluster of the 2018-2020 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Open Forum Infect Dis
September 2022
Article Synopsis
- * The study identified eight cases linked to the outbreak, tracing all infections back to a single cluster, with genetic analysis showing a close relation to a previous case from July 2019.
- * The findings highlight the ongoing risk of Ebola re-emerging even as outbreaks are declared under control, emphasizing the need for continuous surveillance and prompt responses to any new cases.
The 10th and largest Ebola virus disease epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared in North Kivu Province in August 2018 and ended in June 2020. We describe and evaluate an Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS) implemented in the Beni health zone of DRC during August 5, 2018-June 30, 2020. During this period, 194,768 alerts were received, of which 30,728 (15.
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