A preliminary investigation of the genetic biodiversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains in Cameroon, a country with a high prevalence of tuberculosis, described a group of closely related M. tuberculosis strains (the Cameroon family) currently responsible for more than 40% of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases. Here, we used various molecular methods to study the genetic ...

Many African countries lack conventional data sources for systematic assessment of adult mortality. Studies of mortality in Cameroon have mainly been concerned with infant and child survival, while levels and structure of adult mortality have rarely been investigated. This paper employs the Generalized Growth Balance method to estimate adult mortality in Cameroon using data from 1976 and 1987 c...

The objective of this study is to better understand the complexity of deforestation processes in southern Cameroon by testing a multivariate, spatial model of land-cover change trajectories associated with deforestation. The spatial model integrates a spectrum of independent variables that characterize land rent on a spatially explicit basis. The use of a time series of high-spatialresolution r...

We examine the legacy of French colonial medical campaigns for trust in modern medicine. Between 1921 and 1958, the French military organized medical campaigns focused on treating and preventing sleeping sickness. The campaigns forced individuals to participate and used medications with harsh, sometimes fatal, side effects. We digitized over thirty years of French colonial records that document...

In order to gain a better understanding of the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis isolates in Cameroon, 75 isolates of M. bovis collected in three provinces of northern Cameroon were studied by spoligotyping. For 65 of these isolates, typing was also carried out by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with DraI, and 18 of the isolates were also typed by restriction fragment length...

BACKGROUND To assess the acceptability of intrapartum HIV testing and determine the prevalence of HIV among labouring women with unknown HIV status in Cameroon. METHOD The study was conducted in four hospitals (two referral and two districts hospitals) in Cameroon. Labouring women with unknown HIV status were counselled and those who accepted were tested for HIV. RESULTS A total of 2413 wom...

The aim of this review was to assess all the studies on rotavirus G and P characterization during the pre-vaccine period (1999-2013) in Cameroon to have a better basis for post-vaccine introduction evaluations. A retrospective study was done through a comprehensive review of published (PubMed, Google Scholar) and accessible unpublished data on rotavirus G and P genotypes circulating in five reg...

PROBLEM Cameroon has a severe shortage of human resources for health (HRH) and those that are available are concentrated in urban areas. APPROACH As the result of a national emergency plan for the years 2006-2008, innovative strategies and a multisectoral partnership - led by the Ministry of Public Health and supported by diverse national and international organizations - were developed to ad...

7 1. Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United 8 States 9 2. Department of Immunology and Applied Biotechnology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 10 Rome, Italy 11 3. “Chantal Biya” International Reference Center, Sequencing Unit, Yaounde, Cameroon 12 4. Faculty of Sciences, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon 13 5. Serology Unit, Medical Diagno...

BACKGROUND Cameroon is endemic for Buruli ulcer (BU) and organised institutional BU control began in 2002. The objective was to describe the evolution, achievements and challenges of the national BU control programme (NBUCP) and to make suggestions for scaling up the programme. METHODS We analysed collated data on BU from 2001 to 2014 and reviewed activity reports NBUCP in Cameroon. Case-dete...