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Sana Mahtab

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Articles 37
Citations 254
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Related Specialties
Infectious Diseases
General Medicine
Public Health
Top 10 Co-Authors
Shams El Arifeen
Emily S Gurley
Inacio Mandomando
Dianna M Blau
Quique Bassat
Nega Assefa
Cynthia G Whitney
Karen L Kotloff
Lola Madrid
Dickens Onyango
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Clin Infect Dis
JAMA Netw Open
PLOS Glob Public Health
J Infect
J Int AIDS Soc
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Recent Articles
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Investigating the role of cytomegalovirus as a cause of stillbirths and child deaths in low and middle-income countries through postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling
Velaphi S, Madewell Z, Tippett-Barr B, Blau D, Lala S, Mahtab S, et al.
Clin Infect Dis . 2025 Mar; PMID: 40059623
Background: There is paucity of information on the role of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection as a cause of stillbirths or childhood deaths in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). We investigated attribution of...
2.
Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Madewell Z, Keita A, Das P, Mehta A, Akelo V, Oluoch O, et al.
BMJ Glob Health . 2024 Dec; 9(12). PMID: 39638608
Introduction: Malnutrition contributes to 45% of all childhood deaths globally, but these modelled estimates lack direct measurements in countries with high malnutrition and under-5 mortality rates. We investigated malnutrition's role...
3.
Etiologies and comorbidities of meningitis deaths in children under 5 years in high-mortality settings: Insights from the CHAMPS Network in the post-pneumococcal vaccine era
Mahtab S, Madewell Z, Baillie V, Dangor Z, Lala S, Assefa N, et al.
J Infect . 2024 Nov; 89(6):106341. PMID: 39521254
Background: The role of meningitis in causing deaths and in children under 5 is unclear, especially since widespread use of vaccines to prevent common causes of meningitis. Child Health and...
4.
Neurological Symptoms and Cause of Death Among Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Ajanovic S, Madewell Z, El Arifeen S, Gurley E, Hossain M, Islam K, et al.
JAMA Netw Open . 2024 Sep; 7(9):e2431512. PMID: 39226053
Importance: The emergence of acute neurological symptoms in children necessitates immediate intervention. Although low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the highest burden of neurological diseases, there is a scarcity of...
5.
Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling
Assefa N, Scott A, Madrid L, Dheresa M, Mengesha G, Mahdi S, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Jul; 4(7):e0003065. PMID: 39074089
In resource-limited settings where vital registration and medical death certificates are unavailable or incomplete, verbal autopsy (VA) is often used to attribute causes of death (CoD) and prioritize resource allocation...
6.
Clinicopathological discrepancies in the diagnoses of childhood causes of death in the CHAMPS network: An analysis of antemortem diagnostic inaccuracies
Leulseged H, Bethencourt C, Igunza K, Akelo V, Onyango D, Omore R, et al.
BMJ Paediatr Open . 2024 Jul; 8(1). PMID: 39032935
Introduction: Determining aetiology of severe illness can be difficult, especially in settings with limited diagnostic resources, yet critical for providing life-saving care. Our objective was to describe the accuracy of...
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Factors affecting antenatal care attendance in Soweto, Johannesburg: The three-delay model
Myburgh N, Qwabi T, Shivambo L, Ntsie L, Sokani A, Maixenchs M, et al.
Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med . 2024 Jul; 16(1):e1-e9. PMID: 38949438
Background:  Antenatal care remains critical for identifying and managing complications contributing to maternal and infant mortality, yet attendance among women in South Africa persists as a challenge. Aim:  This study...
8.
Identifying delays in healthcare seeking and provision: The Three Delays-in-Healthcare and mortality among infants and children aged 1-59 months
Garcia Gomez E, Igunza K, Madewell Z, Akelo V, Onyango D, El Arifeen S, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Feb; 4(2):e0002494. PMID: 38329969
Delays in illness recognition, healthcare seeking, and in the provision of appropriate clinical care are common in resource-limited settings. Our objective was to determine the frequency of delays in the...
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Burden of child mortality from malaria in high endemic areas: Results from the CHAMPS network using minimally invasive tissue sampling
Ogbuanu I, Otieno K, Varo R, Sow S, Ojulong J, Duduyemi B, et al.
J Infect . 2024 Jan; 88(3):106107. PMID: 38290664
Background: Malaria is a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide. However, accurate estimates of malaria prevalence and causality among patients who die at the country level are lacking due to...
10.
Post-mortem investigation of deaths due to pneumonia in children aged 1-59 months in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia from 2016 to 2022: an observational study
Mahtab S, Blau D, Madewell Z, Ogbuanu I, Ojulong J, Lako S, et al.
Lancet Child Adolesc Health . 2024 Jan; 8(3):201-213. PMID: 38281495
Background: The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network programme undertakes post-mortem minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS), together with collection of ante-mortem clinical information, to investigate causes of childhood...