Badu Sarkodie
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Sylverken A, Owusu M, Agbavor B, Kwarteng A, Ayisi-Boateng N, Ofori P, et al.
PLoS One
. 2022 Nov;
17(11):e0277057.
PMID: 36318579
Background: The declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11 2020, by the World Health Organisation prompted the need for a sustained and a rapid international response. In a...
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Sarkodie B, Asiedu-Bekoe F, Laryea D, Ampofo W, Phillips R, Samba A, et al.
Ghana Med J
. 2022 Mar;
55(2 Suppl):38-47.
PMID: 35233113
Funding: None declared.
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Glover-Addy H, Ansong D, Enweronu-Laryea C, Tate J, Amponsa-Achiano K, Sarkodie B, et al.
Pan Afr Med J
. 2021 Sep;
39(Suppl 1):8.
PMID: 34548900
Introduction: we examined the epidemiology, clinical and demographic characteristics of intussusception in Ghanaian infants. Methods: active sentinel surveillance for pediatric intussusception was conducted at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi...
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Dongdem A, Alhassan E, Opare D, Boateng G, Bonsu G, Amponsa-Achiano K, et al.
Pan Afr Med J
. 2021 Sep;
39:132.
PMID: 34527148
Introduction: rubella is vaccine-preventable and vaccination is the most cost-effective approach to control the disease and avoid the management of congenital rubella syndrome cases. Ghana introduced the rubella vaccine into...
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Blackburn J, Kenu E, Asiedu-Bekoe F, Sarkodie B, Kracalik I, Bower W, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2021 Mar;
27(4):1216-1219.
PMID: 33754993
The human cutaneous anthrax case-fatality rate is ≈1% when treated, 5%-20% when untreated. We report high case-fatality rates (median 35.0%; 95% CI 21.1%-66.7%) during 2005-2016 linked to livestock handling in...
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Fernandez K, Lingani C, Aderinola O, Goumbi K, Bicaba B, Edea Z, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2019 Nov;
220(220 Suppl 4):S225-S232.
PMID: 31671449
Background: In 2010-2017, meningococcal serogroup A conjugate vaccine (MACV) was introduced in 21 African meningitis belt countries. Neisseria meningitidis A epidemics have been eliminated here; however, non-A serogroup epidemics continue....
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Bonney J, Hayashi T, Dadzie S, Agbosu E, Pratt D, Nyarko S, et al.
PLoS One
. 2018 Dec;
13(12):e0208907.
PMID: 30566466
Dengue fever is known to be one of the most common arthropod-borne viral infectious diseases of public health importance. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in...
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Bonney J, Nyarko E, Ohene S, Amankwa J, Ametepi R, Nimo-Paintsil S, et al.
Afr J Lab Med
. 2017 Sep;
5(1):288.
PMID: 28879105
Background: Recent reports have shown an expansion of Lassa virus from the area where it was first isolated in Nigeria to other areas of West Africa. Two Ghanaian soldiers on...
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Kwambana-Adams B, Asiedu-Bekoe F, Sarkodie B, Afreh O, Kuma G, Owusu-Okyere G, et al.
BMC Infect Dis
. 2016 Oct;
16(1):575.
PMID: 27756235
Background: An outbreak of pneumococcal meningitis among non-infant children and adults occurred in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana between December 2015 and April 2016 despite the recent nationwide implementation of...
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Odoom J, Ntim N, Sarkodie B, Addo J, Minta-Asare K, Obodai E, et al.
BMC Public Health
. 2014 Jul;
14:687.
PMID: 24996415
Background: Ghana recorded the last case of indigenous wild poliovirus in 1999 but suffered two more outbreaks in 2003 and 2008. Following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, transmission was...