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List of works by Richard Adebayo Adegbola

A decline in the incidence of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella infection in The Gambia temporally associated with a decline in malaria infection

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A novel Campylobacter jejuni sequence type from a culture-negative patient in the Gambia

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Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case-control study

scientific article published on March 2009

Antibody Persistence 1-5 Years Following Vaccination With MenAfriVac in African Children Vaccinated at 12-23 Months of Age.

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Antibody Persistence at 1 and 4 Years Following a Single Dose of MenAfriVac or Quadrivalent Polysaccharide Vaccine in Healthy Subjects Aged 2-29 Years

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Antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes of non-typhoidal Salmonella isolates in The Gambia and Senegal ⬇️

scientific article published on November 15, 2011

Antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance patterns among Helicobacter pylori strains from The Gambia, West Africa.

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Association of serotype with risk of death due to pneumococcal pneumonia: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on September 2010

Bacteraemia in patients admitted to an urban hospital in West Africa

scientific article published on 26 January 2007

Bacterial infection and trachoma in the gambia: a case control study

scientific article published on October 2007

Bacterial infections--a major cause of death among children in Africa

scientific article published in January 2005

Beyond good intentions: lessons on equipment donation from an African hospital

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Burden and aetiology of diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children in developing countries (the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS): a prospective, case-control study

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C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in the evaluation of the efficacy of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Gambian children

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Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other respiratory bacterial pathogens in low and lower-middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Childhood Pneumonia as a Global Health Priority and the Strategic Interest of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Clinical predictors of bacterial meningitis in infants and young children in The Gambia

scientific article published in September 2002

Clonal differences between Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) recovered from children and animals living in close contact in the Gambia

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Colonization factors among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates from children with moderate-to-severe diarrhea and from matched controls in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS)

Colostrum obtained from women vaccinated with pneumococcal vaccine during pregnancy inhibits epithelial adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Commercial interferon gamma release assays compared to the tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in childhood contacts in the Gambia

scientific article published in May 2010

Community acquired bacteremia in young children from central Nigeria--a pilot study ⬇️

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Comparative evaluation of BACTEC MGIT 960 with BACTEC 9000 MB and LJ for isolation of mycobacteria in The Gambia

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Comparative phylogenomics of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from invasive disease and nasopharyngeal carriage from West Africans

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Comparison of enzyme-linked immunospot assay and tuberculin skin test in healthy children exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on May 2006

Comparison of two interferon gamma release assays in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in The Gambia

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Conjunctival expression of matrix metalloproteinase and proinflammatory cytokine genes after trichiasis surgery

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Correction: Interleukin 12B (IL12B) Genetic Variation and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Study of Cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Correction: Interleukin 12B (IL12B) Genetic Variation and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Study of Cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina

Correction: Interleukin 12B (IL12B) Genetic Variation and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Study of Cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina

Cytological and transcript analyses reveal fat and lazy persister-like bacilli in tuberculous sputum

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Decay kinetics of an interferon gamma release assay with anti-tuberculosis therapy in newly diagnosed tuberculosis cases

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Differences between tuberculosis cases infected with Mycobacterium africanum, West African type 2, relative to Euro-American Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an update

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Differential effects of frozen storage on the molecular detection of bacterial taxa that inhabit the nasopharynx

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Discovery and validation of biomarkers to guide clinical management of pneumonia in African children

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ESAT-6/CFP-10 fusion protein and peptides for optimal diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by ex vivo enzyme-linked immunospot assay in the Gambia

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Early acquisition and high nasopharyngeal co-colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae and three respiratory pathogens amongst Gambian new-borns and infants

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Early clinical trials with a new tuberculosis vaccine, MVA85A, in tuberculosis-endemic countries: issues in study design

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Effect of the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on invasive pneumococcal disease in The Gambia: a population-based surveillance study

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Effectiveness of an early supplementation scheme of high-dose vitamin A versus standard WHO protocol in Gambian mothers and infants: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on June 2007

Effects of Community-Wide Vaccination with PCV-7 on Pneumococcal Nasopharyngeal Carriage in The Gambia: A Cluster-Randomized Trial ⬇️

scientific article published on October 18, 2011

Elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease from The Gambia after the introduction of routine immunisation with a Hib conjugate vaccine: a prospective study

scientific article published in July 2005

Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of community-acquired invasive bacterial infections in children aged 2-29 months in The Gambia

scientific article published in August 2006

Epidemiology and clinical features of pneumonia according to radiographic findings in Gambian children

scientific article published in November 2007

Erratum: Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Ethical Challenges and Lessons Learned During the Clinical Development of a Group A Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine

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Etiology of severe childhood pneumonia in the Gambia, West Africa, determined by conventional and molecular microbiological analyses of lung and pleural aspirate samples

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Evaluation of sequential multiplex PCR for direct detection of multiple serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae from nasopharyngeal secretions

scientific article published in March 2009

Evaluation of the contribution of major T cell subsets to IFN-gamma production in TB infection by ELISPOT.

scientific article published in January 2009

Exogenous re-infection by a novel Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 as a cause of recurrent meningitis in a child from The Gambia

scientific article published on 20 January 2009

Exploring Household Economic Impacts of Childhood Diarrheal Illnesses in 3 African Settings ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Genome analysis of a highly virulent serotype 1 strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae from West Africa

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Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2.

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Health seeking behaviour, health system experience and tuberculosis case finding in Gambians with cough

scientific article published on 5 June 2006

High genetic diversity of Staphylococcus aureus strains colonising the nasopharynx of Gambian villagers before widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.

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High granulocyte/lymphocyte ratio and paucity of NKT cells defines TB disease in a TB-endemic setting

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Household concentrations and exposure of children to particulate matter from biomass fuels in The Gambia

scientific article published on 29 February 2012

Identification of Subsets of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Associated with Diarrheal Disease among Under 5-Year-Old Children from Rural Gambia

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Identification of probable early-onset biomarkers for tuberculosis disease progression

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Identifying recent adaptations in large-scale genomic data

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Immunogenicity and efficacy of influenza immunization during pregnancy: recent and ongoing studies ⬇️

scientific article published on July 11, 2012

Immunogenicity and safety of a meningococcal A conjugate vaccine in Africans

scientific article published in June 2011

Immunogenicity of antigens from the TbD1 region present in M. africanum and missing from "modern" M. tuberculosis: a cross- sectional study

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Immunogenicity of novel DosR regulon-encoded candidate antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in three high-burden populations in Africa

scientific article published on 24 June 2009

Immunogenicity of the Tuberculosis Vaccine MVA85A Is Reduced by Coadministration with EPI Vaccines in a Randomized Controlled Trial in Gambian Infants

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Impact of the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on pneumonia in The Gambia: population-based surveillance and case-control studies

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Incidence of Haemophilus influenzae Type b Disease in The Gambia 14 Years after Introduction of Routine Haemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine Immunization ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2013

Incidence of tuberculosis and survival after its diagnosis in patients infected with HIV-1 and HIV-2.

scientific article published on September 2004

Incidence of tuberculosis and the predictive value of ELISPOT and Mantoux tests in Gambian case contacts

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Indirect effect of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal carriage in newborns in rural Gambia: a randomised controlled trial

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Infection with Helicobacter pylori is associated with protection against tuberculosis

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Interferon-γ ELISPOT as a biomarker of treatment efficacy in latent tuberculosis infection: a clinical trial

scientific article published on 6 December 2012

Interleukin 12B (IL12B) genetic variation and pulmonary tuberculosis: a study of cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina

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Intracellular lipophilic inclusions of mycobacteria in vitro and in sputum

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Large-scale evaluation of enzyme-linked immunospot assay and skin test for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection against a gradient of exposure in The Gambia

scientific article published on 16 March 2004

Leprosy and the adaptation of human toll-like receptor 1.

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Longitudinal assessment of an ELISPOT test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

scientific article published in June 2007

MCP1 SNPs and pulmonary tuberculosis in cohorts from West Africa, the USA and Argentina: lack of association or epistasis with IL12B polymorphisms

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Measuring the Exposure of Infants and Children to Indoor Air Pollution From Biomass Fuels in the Gambia

scholarly article by Kathie Dionisio et al published January 2011 in Epidemiology

Meeting oxygen needs in Africa: an options analysis from the Gambia

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

Meningococcal Group C and W135 Immunological Hyporesponsiveness in African Toddlers ⬇️

scientific article published on July 13, 2011

Migration of health professionals.

scientific article published in July 2005

Mixed infection with cagA positive and cagA negative strains of Helicobacter pylori lowers disease burden in The Gambia

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Molecular epidemiology of community-acquired invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella among children aged 2 29 months in rural Gambia and discovery of a new serovar, Salmonella enterica Dingiri

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Molecular epidemiology of pneumococci obtained from Gambian children aged 2-29 months with invasive pneumococcal disease during a trial of a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

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Monitoring the Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines into West Africa: Design and Implementation of a Population-Based Surveillance System ⬇️

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

Mycobacterial T cell responses in HIV-infected patients with advanced immunosuppression.

scientific article published in January 2008

Mycobacterium africanum elicits an attenuated T cell response to early secreted antigenic target, 6 kDa, in patients with tuberculosis and their household contacts.

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Mycobacterium africanum: a new opportunistic pathogen in HIV infection?

scientific article published in October 2005

Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Gambian children who participated in a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial and in their younger siblings.

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Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Gambian infants: a longitudinal study

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Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Gambian villagers

scientific article published on 04 August 2006

Nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci four years after community-wide vaccination with PCV-7 in The Gambia: long-term evaluation of a cluster randomized trial

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Novel 180- and 480-base-pair insertions in African and African-American strains of Helicobacter pylori

scientific article published on December 2004

PCR-based genotyping of Helicobacter pylori of Gambian children and adults directly from biopsy specimens and bacterial cultures

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PTX3 genetic variation and dizygotic twinning in the Gambia: could pleiotropy with innate immunity explain common dizygotic twinning in Africa?

scientific article published on 27 July 2012

Pattern and diversity of cytokine production differentiates between Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease

scientific article published in March 2009

Pneumococcal Antibody Concentrations and Carriage of Pneumococci more than 3 Years after Infant Immunization with a Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine ⬇️

scientific article published on February 20, 2012

Pneumococcal Antibody Concentrations of Subjects in Communities Fully or Partially Vaccinated with a Seven-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine ⬇️

scientific article published on August 14, 2012

Pneumococcal carriage in sub-Saharan Africa--a systematic review

scientific article published on 20 January 2014

Pneumococcal vaccination in developing countries

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Pneumonia and child mortality

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Polyfunctional CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell responses to tuberculosis antigens in HIV-1-infected patients before and after anti-retroviral treatment

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Population Biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in West Africa: Multilocus Sequence Typing of Serotypes That Exhibit Different Predisposition to Invasive Disease and Carriage ⬇️

scientific article published on January 16, 2013

Population genetic analyses of Helicobacter pylori isolates from Gambian adults and children

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Pre-vaccination nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in a Nigerian population: epidemiology and population biology

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Predicting the impact of new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines: serotype composition is not enough

scientific article published on 30 September 2014

Preventive measures in infancy to reduce under-five mortality: a case-control study in The Gambia

scientific article published on 20 January 2009

Progression to active tuberculosis, but not transmission, varies by Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage in The Gambia

scientific article published on October 2008

Prospects and challenges with introduction of a mono-valent meningococcal conjugate vaccine in Africa

scientific article published on 16 December 2008

Public health impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine infant immunization programs: assessment of invasive pneumococcal disease burden and serotype distribution

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Quantitative T cell assay reflects infectious load of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an endemic case contact model

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Rapid replacement by non-vaccine pneumococcal serotypes may mitigate the impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on nasopharyngeal bacterial ecology

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Rationale and expectations of the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Re-emergence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease in The Gambia following successful elimination with conjugate Hib vaccine

scientific article published on 29 June 2007

Reversion of the ELISPOT test after treatment in Gambian tuberculosis cases

scientific article published on 30 March 2006

Risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis: a clinic-based case control study in The Gambia

scientific article published on 19 June 2006

Safety and immunogenicity of the candidate tuberculosis vaccine MVA85A in West Africa

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Screening for tuberculosis among 2381 household contacts of sputum-smear-positive cases in The Gambia

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Seasonality and outbreak of a predominant Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 clone from The Gambia: expansion of ST217 hypervirulent clonal complex in West Africa

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Sequence and functional analyses of Haemophilus spp. genomic islands

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Serotype and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in The Gambia 1996-2003

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Serotype-related variation in susceptibility to complement deposition and opsonophagocytosis among clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Serotype-specific pneumococcal antibodies in breast milk of Gambian women immunized with a pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine during pregnancy

scientific article published in November 2004

Severe pneumonia research and the problem of case definition: the example of zinc trials

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Shigella isolates from the global enteric multicenter study inform vaccine development

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Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Children of Rural Areas of The Gambia, 2008-2015

scholarly article by Aderonke Odutola et al published April 2019 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Surprisingly high specificity of the PPD skin test for M. tuberculosis infection from recent exposure in The Gambia

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Sustaining Vaccine Confidence in the 21st Century

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T cell memory response to pneumococcal protein antigens in an area of high pneumococcal carriage and disease

scientific article published in September 2009

Temporal changes in nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 genotypes in healthy Gambians before and after the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

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The Burden of Cryptosporidium Diarrheal Disease among Children < 24 Months of Age in Moderate/High Mortality Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, Utilizing Data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS)

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The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) of Diarrheal Disease in Infants and Young Children in Developing Countries: Epidemiologic and Clinical Methods of the Case/Control Study ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

The effect of tuberculin skin test and BCG vaccination on the expansion of PPD-specific IFN-γ producing cells ex vivo

scientific article published on 31 October 2007

The effectiveness of conjugate Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine in The Gambia 14 years after introduction

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

The emerging threat of pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in West Africa: preparing for large-scale tuberculosis research and drug resistance surveillance

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The exposure of infants and children to carbon monoxide from biomass fuels in The Gambia: a measurement and modeling study

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

The genome of Mycobacterium africanum West African 2 reveals a lineage-specific locus and genome erosion common to the M. tuberculosis complex

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

The immunogenicity and impact on nasopharyngeal carriage of fewer doses of conjugate pneumococcal vaccine immunization schedule

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The impact of vaccines on pneumonia: key lessons from Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccines

scientific article published on June 2008

The long-term natural history of trachomatous trichiasis in the Gambia

scientific article published on March 2006

The pneumococcus: carriage, disease and conjugate vaccines

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The role of Chlamydia pneumoniae in acute respiratory tract infections in young children in The Gambia, West Africa

scientific article published on June 2006

Translating vaccine policy into action: a report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Consultation on the prevention of maternal and early infant influenza in resource-limited settings

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Transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in rural Gambian villages: a longitudinal study

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Use of spoligotyping and large sequence polymorphisms to study the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a cohort study of consecutive smear-positive tuberculosis cases in The Gambia

scientific article published on 04 February 2009

Using ELISPOT to expose false positive skin test conversion in tuberculosis contacts

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Zinc as an adjunct therapy in the management of severe pneumonia among Gambian children: randomized controlled trial

scientific article published in June 2018

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