Publications by authors named "S Merle"
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- * Using a capture-recapture method and data from various sources, researchers found 287 cases of drug use, predominantly among males, with crack cocaine being the most commonly used substance.
- * The estimated prevalence of problematic drug use in Martinique is 1.936 per 380,863 inhabitants, translating to 5.0 per thousand overall and 7.7 per thousand among those aged 15-64 years.
Resistance in to tetracycline is rare. We describe the case of an strain with a high level of resistance to tetracycline (minimum inhibitory concentration = 12 mg/L). However, despite tetracycline resistance, bismuth quadritherapy was effective.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The Caribbean has seen a dramatic shift in the obesity and chronic disease prevalence over the past decades, suggesting a nutrition transition. Simultaneously, Martinique has faced a demographic transition marked by significant population ageing. We aimed to differentiate the contribution of changes in health status and dietary intakes due to shifts in demographic and socio-economic characteristics (DSEC) from that due to unobserved factors.
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