Elizabeth Chizema-Kawesha
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Recent Articles
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Yamba K, Mpabalwani E, Nakazwe R, Mulendele E, Weldegebriel G, Mwenda J, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2021 Sep;
224(12 Suppl 2):S275-S284.
PMID: 34469553
Background: Despite the availability of vaccines, invasive bacterial diseases remain a public health concern and cause childhood morbidity and mortality. We investigated the characteristics of etiological agents causing bacterial meningitis...
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Sitali L, Mwenda M, Miller J, Bridges D, Hawela M, Hamainza B, et al.
Data Brief
. 2020 Dec;
34:106650.
PMID: 33364273
This article describes data on selected resistance markers for antimalarial drugs used in Zambia. Antimalarial drug resistance has hindered the progress in the control and elimination of malaria. Blood samples...
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Sitali L, Mwenda M, Miller J, Bridges D, Hawela M, Hamainza B, et al.
Acta Trop
. 2020 Oct;
212:105704.
PMID: 33002448
Antimalarial resistance is an inevitable feature of control efforts and a key threat to achieving malaria elimination. Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of several species causing human malaria, has developed resistance...
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Chishimba S, Mwenda M, Mambwe B, Mulube C, Chalwe V, Moonga H, et al.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2020 Jul;
103(2_Suppl):82-89.
PMID: 32618252
Malaria burden in Zambia has significantly declined over the last decade because of improved coverage of several key malaria interventions (e.g., vector control, case management, bed net distributions, and enhanced...
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Siddiqi O, Kapina M, Kumar R, Moraes A, Kabwe P, Mazaba M, et al.
Neurology
. 2020 Mar;
94(14):e1495-e1501.
PMID: 32127386
Objective: To identify the etiology of an outbreak of spastic paraparesis among women and children in the Western Province of Zambia suspected to be konzo. Methods: We conducted an outbreak...
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Sitali L, Mwenda M, Miller J, Bridges D, Hawela M, Chizema-Kawesha E, et al.
Malar J
. 2019 Dec;
18(1):391.
PMID: 31796087
Background: Anti-malarial resistance is, and continues to be a significant challenge in the fight against malaria and a threat to achieving malaria elimination. In Zambia, chloroquine (CQ), a safe, affordable...
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Ferreras E, Matapo B, Chizema-Kawesha E, Chewe O, Mzyece H, Blake A, et al.
PLoS One
. 2019 Aug;
14(8):e0219040.
PMID: 31469853
Background: In April 2016, an emergency vaccination campaign using one dose of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was organized in response to a cholera outbreak that started in Lusaka in February...
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Sitali L, Miller J, Mwenda M, Bridges D, Hawela M, Hamainza B, et al.
Malar J
. 2019 Apr;
18(1):130.
PMID: 30971231
Background: Zambia continues to make strides in reducing malaria burden through the use of proven malaria interventions and has recently pledged to eliminate malaria by 2021. Case management services have...
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Ferreras E, Chizema-Kawesha E, Blake A, Chewe O, Mwaba J, Zulu G, et al.
N Engl J Med
. 2018 Feb;
378(6):577-579.
PMID: 29414267
No abstract available.
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Kapata N, Chanda-Kapata P, Ngosa W, Metitiri M, Klinkenberg E, Kalisvaart N, et al.
PLoS One
. 2016 Jan;
11(1):e0146392.
PMID: 26771588
Background: Tuberculosis in Zambia is a major public health problem, however the country does not have reliable baseline data on the TB prevalence for impact measurement; therefore it was among...